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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1917
Page
6
Mrs J M Elam of Wise Virginia writes that fourteen years of debilitating pain backache nervousness and poor appetite improved after taking Cardus. She reports stronger back less pain better appetite and ability to work again within weeks and urges others with similar troubles to try Cardus.
John Warren son of Mr and Mrs R D Warren of this city has completed ten years at school without tardiness or absence. He tops a list of long attendance followed by Margaret Williams Mary Warren and others as read at the High school commencement. A new committee to manage next fall’s combined Wilmington Corn Show and Livestock Exposition is named by the Chamber of Commerce with representatives from Rotary Truckers Officials Sorosis Housewife and Farm groups among others.
The column lists numerous social visitors and residents from Lumberton, Wallace, Magnolia, Southport, Chadbourn, Sanford, Raleigh, New Bern, and other nearby towns. It notes church events, classes at the YWCA, travel plans, and upcoming weddings including the Wilmington heiress Miss Elsie Welsh Saltus betrothed to J Theus Munds of New York.
Society notes announce Miss Kate McKimmon traveling to Wilmington to visit Mrs Herbert Y Thompson. Play and Story Hour set for tomorrow at 4 30 PM under the Child's Conservation League with leaders Mrs Thomas Lawther Mrs J C King Miss Virginia Walsh and others guiding activities.
Wilmington Chamber of Commerce executive committee adopts resolutions urging Congress to pass the pending Rivers and Harbors bill to fund continued waterways work. Copies will be mailed to the North Carolina delegation, stressing waterways over rail systems to meet wartime needs.
Wilmington Shoe Co advertisement announces special bargains on Saturday and throughout the following week, highlighting discounted footwear and limited-time offers for shoppers.
J O Browne appointed chairman of the labor committee of the New Hanover Food Conservation Commission during Chairman Odis B Hinnants absence. Farmers seeking labor or employment should contact Browne. Officials stress need for funds to educate the public in thrift and economy and urge a $1 membership to support conservation and expanded food and feed crop acreage.
An advertisement notes that soldiers stationed at bridges along the line would appreciate the paper read on the train, urging passengers to share the issue with them.
Mrs. Cuthbert Martin of the Wilmington Red Cross reports a $1 600 donation from Henry Walters of New York to buy and run a Red Cross ambulance in France for one year. The ambulance will bear the label Red Cross Ambulance Wilmington N C and not be named after Walters. Wilmington boys may contact Mrs. Martin to join the effort.
Judgments totaling 1694 against C F Howell Co Inc lumber dealers at Chestnut street were returned in a justice court. Deputy Sheriff Kelly under Sheriff Jackson levy the company stock and closed the business. All but one judgment favor the American Bank and Trust Company. the lone exception is 145 owed to John Carter.
Judge W. M. Bond heard motions in Superior Court with no cases tried. Annie M. Thompson sued H. M. Chase and others and the jury returned a verdict favoring Thompson, awarding fourteen acres near the golf links.
The excerpt proclaims "America for Humanity" as a war cry and notes a world population of about 2,000,000,000 divided into roughly four great nations. It reflects a grandiose, propagandistic framing of global unity and national purpose.
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