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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1917
Page
4
A Wilmington 1917 column mixs humor and commentary on strikes, ballots, liquor influence, cigarette comparisons, and peace rhetoric. It riffs on gender votes, Australian ballot bills, Wall Street, and foreign conflict while noting Charleston Post and Palmetto State opinions.
The Dispatch ends a circulation contest with over five thousand paid subscribers in Wilmington and vicinity. The milestone reflects paper popularity and advertiser value. National Circulation Company and Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Long led the effort with a capable support team.
The event commemorates donor Samuel Bear with a tablet unveiling at Isaac Bear Memorial School in Wilmington. Bear, a compassionate philanthropist, funded the building and equipment including playgrounds, seeking lasting benefit for children and future generations. He supported humane causes with unostentatious generosity.
The article argues for a robust prohibition bill in North Carolina, condemning weak regulation and urging legislators to enact real prohibition. It criticizes compromise proposals, cites the Webb Kenyon decision, and credits the Anti-Saloon League with pushing for stricter measures against whiskey shipments and advertising.
The leak inquiry shifts to postnote timing and Germany while denying White House sources. Lawson accuses von Bernstorff of stock gains, an allegation denied as false. The piece also contrasts Civil Service postmaster reform with patronage politics and its impact on re nominations and elections. A courtroom joke closes the item.
Cape Fear Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy aims to preserve Civil War history by collecting veterans’ experiences including wounds and unit details. It also seeks Wilmington women’s wartime stories to illuminate local history for posterity.
A column lists anniversaries from 1817 to 1892 noting Pope Pius VII edicts against Bible societies, Russian settlers leaving California in 1842, the Nelson column completed in Trafalgar Square in 1867, and the death of Charles H. Spurgeon in 1892 at Menton France. Born in England on June 10, 1834.
Nathan Straus and Henry A. Wiley lead a list of prominent figures born on this date. Irvine Lenroot, William Atterbury, Zane Grey, George W. Perkins, Theodore W. Richards, and Bishop Richard J. Cooke are noted as born in earlier years with ages ranging from 42 to 69. Each figure hails from diverse states and professions.
A year ago today in the war report says Russians claimed capture of a Turkish fortified line forty miles long. Allied artillery shattered German works in France and Belgium. Italians renewed heavy fighting on the Isonzo. A single Zeppelin attempted a raid on Paris but withdrew without damage.
Albany reports a new compulsory education and child labor law takes effect tomorrow. It makes it harder for under fifteen to work by requiring a graduation diploma from an elementary level school, replacing the prior rule that a sixth grade finish sufficed for a work certificate.
Under court authority the commissioner will sell at the courthouse door in Wilmington on February 5 1917 at noon the land described as all of Block No 1 and Block No 534 including land between Surry Street and Cape Fear river. The sale is cash to the highest bidder.
The Atlantic Coast Line promotes excursion rates for two events. New Orleans trips to the Western Fruité Jobbers Association meet are $38.10 with ticket sales Jan 27 and 28 and return limit Feb 5. Tampa trips for the Gasparilla Carnival are $22.45 with sales Jan 31 to Feb 5 and return to Feb 20. extension possible to March 3 for $1 and deposit with the joint agent.
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