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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1918
Page
8
In New Bern the long standing ordinance banning hogs within city limits remains in force. Aldermen rejected a petition to allow swine in sections of town citing public health and welfare. The report also notes heavy fertilizer shipments by rail and water, and a city inquiry into German aliens with no matches found.
In Winston-Salem North Carolina A W Hawley was jailed on espionage charges after a hearing before Federal Commissioner Beckerdite He allegedly tried to sell Pastor Russell literature and claimed Liberty bonds could fail He stated ministers decoy youths to their deaths and refused to post bond, as federal officers investigated.
The first wedding at the University Place Presbyterian Church on Tenth street in New York is planned for tomorrow, within the Rockefeller family, marking a notable social event in the city.
The piece notes sugarless candy using corn syrup as a sugar substitute, showing three children and two adults teasing Kaiser Wilhelm II. It mentions the Women’s Council of National Defense in Chicago hosting a Candy Contest and invites public participation, with no patent on the idea.
The Canadian Pacific demonstration farm highlights youth involvement in farming with a moving Farm School on Wheels offering livestock, dairying, agronomy, and poultry courses. A Calgary event drew 38 boys and 15 girls competing for 14 prizes, underlining baby beef as a growing Western Canada industry.
Modern practice requires surgeons and staff to wash hands four times before operations. Each wash lasts five minutes with warm water and soap, then alcohol, then a final wash with corrosive sublimate for sterilisation. Rural England holds a belief about curing whooping cough by placing a cut hair into a mountain ash bark hole. Australians discuss naming the Commonwealth capital Shakespeare. The famed British soldier "Top Atkins" is widely known outside the army.
The article estimates that the gold placed in the teeth of Londoners each year is worth about two hundred thousand dollars. This figure reflects the scale of dental gold used in the city annually.
By virtue of two deeds of mortgage recorded in Book 682 and Book 589 in New Hanover County, the attorneys for the mortgagee will offer at public auction on February 15 1915 at 12 o’clock noon at the county courthouse the described land parcels in Wilmington City. The sale is to satisfy defaults under the mortgage terms and provisions, with the proceeds to the mortgagees.
Notice states a foreclosure sale under a 1914 mortgage by E. T. Mason. The sale is March 1, 1918 at noon at the New Hanover county courthouse, Wilmington, for Lots 5 and 6 in block 64 in the official city plan, bounded by Third and Queen Streets. Attorney for the mortgagee is Woduslum.
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