Campaign to raise votes ends tonight with big prizes
The Dispatch urges rapid subscriptions by 10 p.m. to qualify for the starting opportunity offer of 12 dollars in subscriptions. Participants can win prizes such as a Studebaker Six or a Victor Victrola plus sewing machines and watches as the campaign intensifies outside Wilmington.
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New Era
Mailmass Post Office
Wilmington Dispatch
Wilmington
Studebaker
Chevrolet
Singer Sewing Machine Company
Second largest wheat crop in our history
Washington forecast a total of 931,000,000 bushels of winter and spring wheat for this year, just shy of a 1,000,000,000 bushel target amid ideal growing conditions. The June 1 report also estimates oats at 1.5 billion bushels and barley at 235 million, with various crop conditions and acreages provided.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Rge
French ship clashing with submarine near Virginia capes
A French armed merchant ship, entering an Atlantic port, reported an encounter with a German submarine off the Virginia capes. The clash occurred shortly outside the capes. damage to the merchantman is not known.
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Atlantic
Virginia Capes
Capes
Record Flight Sets 109 Loops at Miami Marine School
Lieutenant Lifleer at the local marine flying school soared and completed 109 successive loops in the morning, then descended. The stunt is believed to establish a new military aviation record, inspired by the American marines advances at Chateau Thierry on the Marne front.
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Miami
Fla
Chateau Thierry
Marne Battlefront
Lifleer
Marine
Two Aviators Killed in Lake Charles Collision
Lieu tenants John L. Hegarty and Travers Lee Halton were killed near Gerstner Field during battle practice when their planes collided. Halton hailed from San Antonio Texas and Hegarty was reported to be from New Jersey.
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John L. Hegarty
Travers Lee Halton
Gerstner Field
Halton
San Antonio
Texas
Hegarty
New Jersey
Danish Steamer Rescues Aviators Near Atlantic Port
A Danish steamer arrived with two aviators rescued Wednesday thirty five miles offshore. Ensign J. R. Clements served as pilot and Chief Gunner's Mate V. E. Stevens as observer, both stationed in Miami Florida.
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J. R. Clements
V. E. Stevens
Miami
Fla
Red Sox Edge Indians Twice in Three Games
The Red Sox swept most AL teams with Cleveland the only exception as the Indians beat Boston twice in a three game set.
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Cleveland
Indians
Sox
South Carolinacampaign opens June 18 for county races
Special to The Dispatch from Columbia South Carolina reports the county-to-county campaign opens June 18 with races from U S senator to coroner. Leading contests include the senate governor and numerous state offices. Several candidates including Tillman Blease Lever Dial McLaurin Peeples Richards Cooper Bethea Stackey and others are named amid party maneuvering and health concerns. The piece also notes cold facts about the ongoing French war and local issues such as ice shortages and the unresolved McLoughlin murder case.
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South Carolina
United States
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Senate
Tillman
A. F. Ley
Congressman Lever
Blease
Dial
Andrew J. Bethea
Robert A. Cooper
Laurens
Thomas H. Peeples
France
Camp Jackson
Court of General Sessions
James McLoughlin
Eagles Club
Main Street
State Capitol
McLoughlin
Augusta
Dreeson Called Upon to Resign Over Pro German Sentiments
Savannah Ga June 7 Henry E Dreeson chairman of the county board of tax equalizers was asked by county commissioners to resign his office on account of his pro German sentiments General Dreeson heads the uniform rank of the Knights of Pythias in the state.
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Savannah
Henry E. Dreeson
County Board of Tax Equalizers
Knights of Pythias
Braves Defy Dope With Big League Table Tilt
A costly table of figures labeled the 16 big league teams places the Braves as the worst, but they shattered the projection by storming to a decisive win.
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Braves
Allen's Feet-Health Aid Ad Promotes Shoe Comfort
An old advertisement promotes the Ameri and Allen's Feet-Health product for shoe comfort. Claims relieve corns bunions and sweating and offer relief for tired feet and calluses. The promotion urges use of the product to break in new shoes and includes an address.
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Calleas
Hall's Catarrh Medicine and Family Pills Ad
Catarrh cannot be cured with local applications must be treated internally Hall's Catarrh Medicine is taken by mouth and acts through the blood on mucous surfaces It was prescribed by leading physicians and contains tonics and blood purifiers Hall's Family Pills aid constipation Toledo Ohio makers F J Cheney Co All druggists 75
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F. J. Cheney & CO
Props
Toledo
Ohio
Mortgage Sale of Wilmington Property Under 1916 Deed
By virtue of a mortgage dated May 1 1916 and recorded in book 80 page 224, Lettie Dinkins of Wilmington sells at public auction to the highest bidder for cash on Tuesday July 9 1918 at 12 o clock noon. Property lies on Ninth Street in Wilmington described as part of lot 5 block 95 bounded by Ninth and Castle streets. W M Cumming.
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Lettie Dinkins
Wilmington
N. C
W. M. Cumming
New Hanover County
Foreclosure Sale Of Personal Boats In North Carolina
Mortgagee will sell at the courthouse door in Wilmington on June 28 1918 at 12 pm for cash the personal property of J H Johnson and J P Crelley including ten steel Mullen rowboats seven Michigan rowboats two Old Town canoes sixteen foot Dixie launch with oars locks and fixtures at Greenfield lidated May 30 1918 by Greenfield Dark Development Company.
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J. P. Crelley
New Hanover County
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Wilmington
N. C
Isa
Mullen
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Old Town Canoe Co
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