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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1917
Page
3
The report describes harsh jungle terrain and dangerous climbs as troops bridge the Ruvu and blast a mountainside to open a road. The general commends the troops for endurance under tropical weariness and mental languor. A Brooklyn Robins vs New York Yankees three game series is slated to start April 7 in Brooklyn.
Washington obtained Crane from Baltimore as a new shortstop for 6000 dollars in cash and players.
Knoxville Tenn February 17 The minimum price the special master shall receive for the Tennessee Central Railroad was fixed at 700000 instead of 1250000 by Judge B E Sanford U S District Court. Sale adjourned to April Decree of sale modified and amended so bidder deposit is 10000 instead of 50000 Receivers may borrow 25000 pledging Tennessee Central income for the loan period Receivers close accounts at midnight March 31.
In case war is declared, several minor leagues will be reluctant to risk competition with the world’s game in the upcoming season.
Word from St. Louis says manager Fielder Jones will lead a mass roster reshuffle for the Browns with half a dozen or more players to be traded.
A fragment discusses a male sleepwalker who wanders unseen at night and may vanish his soul in a martial air. He is awakened by a barking dog or howling vehicle and slips away to his lodgings, suggesting a possible sleepwalking condition.
Public auction at the Court House door in New Hanover County NC on March 5 1917 at 12 o clock noon for cash of two tracts of land described in mortgage deed dated October 20 1915 by T A Watson and Ruby V Watson to Cape Fear Building and Loan Association. The parcels lie within New Hanover County and are part of larger tracts conveyed by local parties. The notice is dated February 2 1917.
A narrator recalls sleeping wanderers including a boy who left his home with dog along a street and nearly drowned after a fall from a boat. Another youth dressed, fed a horse, watered it and slept again without waking, later drowning on a boat. The piece ponders nocturnal serenades, a mockingbird’s songs, a tale of Baalims air, Irish anecdotes, and ends with a rhythmic, police beat image at the City Hall.
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