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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1917
Page
2
Digestive aromatics with Mivar mineral water and ginger claim to clarify and add roses to sallow cheeks. Sold at grocers and druggists with satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. Bottled and guaranteed by Shivar Mineral Spring Shel ton South Carolina. If regular supply fails, call Crescent Candy Co.
Bulletin lists many routes with prices from Wilmington to Washington Baltimore Philadelphia New York and cities in North Carolina Tennessee and Ohio. Dates show sale days and final limits with ranges from mid to late July 1917 and October return options. Provisions include temporary extensions and intermediate point fares with reservations via phone and agent names GC White and W J Craig in Wilmington North Carolina.
The Coast Line inaugurates a through sleeping car service from Wilmington to Asheville via Florence Sumter and Columbia starting Sunday July 8. Timetable shows Wilmington 3 45 PM Chadbourn 5 30 PM Florence 7 30 PM Sumter 9 25 PM Columbia 10 50 PM and arrival Asheville 7 00 AM with connections via Augusta and extended options to Chicago Cincinnati and St Louis. Sleeping car service runs until Sept 16 with Union Depot access for rests.
Mr George L Burks of Peerless Tonic extols Peplac at Elvinston Dependable Drug, claiming vegetable ingredients and a large US South lab backing its powers. Endorsements from Baltimore figures praise relief from indigestion, appetite return, weight gain, and better sleep, with one speaker inviting talks at Elvington's Drug store.
Shirley Mason stars in an Edison release Light In Darkness showing at the Grand tomorrow. The film follows two men unjustly imprisoned for five years as they seek happiness and reform, offering a humane portrayal of prison life and innocence.
The Royal opens Monday for a two day run featuring William Farnum in a dual role in a Fox production. Charles Dickens’s La Guillotine is described as a dominating motif in this photodrama with sweeping, provocative imagery.
Mrs W G Hatch becomes section leader of South Wilmington covering six districts from Castle to Third Street. Mrs J Wallace West leads Brooklyn unit and will collect from Black Messengers by Tuesday noon for Wednesday meeting. The Brooklyn unit lacks a fixed meeting place and may sew weekly. Mrs Cameron, canning chair, plans to sell surplus cans at 5 12 cents to fund wool for sailors aboard the North Carolina. The Special Aid canner operates near William Hooper school. 129 quarts of tomatoes were canned Tuesday from neighbor efforts. A fall canvass by Block Messengers will quantify totals. a Times article on a block system by the Patriotic League is noted. Names of Black Messengers to be published Sunday.
Jacques Fournier former White Sox player now with Los Angeles hits well over .300 in the Pacific Coast League establishing himself as a rising star with strong hitting and steady defense.
A Mexico City conference of eleven renominations with Y M C A and Bible Society aims to reform mission work. The plan calls for a Mexican evangelical university, united normal schools, a national publishing house and church paper, interdenominational hospitals, and a standardized Mexican Evangelical Church to foster unity and efficiency. The movement signals stronger Latino American cooperation and American missionary influence in Mexico.
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