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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1918
Page
3
A large soldier invited to play in a Camp Jackson company baseball game pitched for his team. He struck out batters, allowed only one hit, and hit a home run in the second inning. After the game he revealed he was Rube Benton, a New York National League pitcher.
A playful feature pairs homemaking tips with a fashion column. It touts an attractive apron design in dotted percale with pockets and teal accents, then turns to a word puzzle game about cur and currier related terms. It also notes turquoise and apricot sweater shades and chic smocked frocks.
Mabel Normand stars as a copy girl in a busy newspaper office who is saved from a discharge. Patricia O Rourke gets her first assignment with a promised wait. Robberies by crooks with inside knowledge lead police to Hunter Mason and a settlement house where the plot unfolds.
The Garden of Allah coming to the Grand next Monday and Tuesday features an elaborate stage and film production famed for a desert sandstorm scene. A half ton of machinery and a simulated infernal device recreate the dust, noise and caravan peril, costing a half million dollars in the Wilmington presentation.
Greenfield Park Development Company schedules a public auction for June 2 1918 at noon at the Wilmington courthouse door to sell ten Mullen rowboats seven Michigan towboats two Old Town canoes and a Dixie gasoline launch plus associated oars and fittings. The property is located at Greenfield Lake and was mortgaged by J H Johnson and J P Cresley in New Hanover NC. The sale is by cash bid under a North Carolina chattel mortgage recorded in book 83 page 333.
May 1918 saw 197 274 gross tons of merchant tonnage completed in UK yards and entered for service, the highest monthly total in the past year. The note adds that the first rifling of a gun in America occurred at the Alger iron foundry in South Boston in 1834.
The text cites Washington's instructions to officers urging discipline and worship. It notes that gaming is forbidden while games of exercise for amusement may be encouraged as a healthy form of recreation for soldiers.
Two properties in Wilmington, North Carolina, face public sale under mortgage deeds by Lottie Dinkins to W. M. Cummings, dated May 1 and March 12, 1916, with bids set for July 9, 1918 at 12 o'clock noon. The first describes land along Ninth Street and Castle Street in block 35, the second part of block 95, per official city plans.
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