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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1918
Page
6
Kipling lines frame a column note listing visitors in Southport and surroundings. The page reports Mrs. Barner Bussells visiting in Orange Street, plus numerous social calls, church events, meetings, and upcoming weddings with dates and locations across Southport and nearby towns.
X% Mrs Cluis from the National Red Cross arrives to lead surgical dressing classes for ladies in the city. The first session is today at 4 PM on the eighth floor of Murchison National Bank Building with limited enrollment from the Red Cross chapter and the National Special Aid secret group.
Mr. W. D. Davis spent the weekend with his family at Southport. Friends of Mr. Nelson MacRae now in the aviation service at Austin Texas will be glad to hear he has been promoted from first lieutenant in the O R C to captain of ordnance in the National Army. Mr. Alfred Sternberger of Wilmington, former Eastman Business College student at Poughkeepsie New York, recently enlisted in the aviation section of the signal corps.
Kenneth McKenzie Murchison, now at Fort Slocum N Y, has received a commission as captain in the American Army in tarapaid Corps and is placed in charge of all the temporary buildings in Washington.
The Wallace Red Cross Chapter hosted a Tuesday evening talk by Mrs. L F Tillery of Rocky Mount at the Methodist church. She described Belgium prewar and shared European insights, then showed a later Clinton stop before upcoming Wilmington engagements. A separate Red Cross session featured a War bread demo and knit and bandage making with Local volunteers and students.
London reports an early morning hostile raiding party was repulsed east of Armentieres with loss. Allied lines show enemy artillery activity southwest of Cambrai and in the Messines sector as the war continues.
Hixson Tennessee Mrs J B Gadd details improvement after Cardus trial for left side pain swollen feet and fatigue with a final cure after more Cardui usage. Also describes Valentine party by Masonic Lodge Eastern Star with cake walk fortune telling mock marriage and a sixteenth birthday celebration with elaborate decor and social events.
In Peking on February 20 authorities exposed a conspiracy to kill General Tuan Chi fui former premier and war commissioner. Several arrests including three Japanese were made, with monarchists said to back the plot to avenge General Chang Hsun who led the Manchu restoration last July.
An officer from the British and Canadian Recruiting Mission extols the British Army’s current strength, feeding and equipping well, holding front lines in France Belgium and Palestine, and ready to repel German attacks. He urges immediate volunteer service as U S and Canadian forces support the fight.
The Carnation Milk Products Company in Seattle, United States, is noted in this entry as a major dairy product firm with significant regional operations and branding across the Pacific Northwest.
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