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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1917
Page
4
The Wilmington Daily Dispatch announces subscription rates and mailing details, including Daily and Sunday options and carrier delivery. The page also contains social commentary and wartime rhetoric referencing Hoover, Vrooman, von Hindenburg, and Haig, plus light editorial quips and a Smithsonian joke about a corkscrew.
Carranza urges Mexicans to increase planting efforts amid debate over current agricultural practice. Critics note worries about overplanting and prior burying of crops, suggesting tensions between policy aims and on the ground actions.
The piece notes General Wood as a sturdy fearless figure tied to the cant word cantonment. It claims America saved the British from starving and suggests it should also rescue Americans from similar fates. Filipinos offer to serve in the American army and a comment on a watermelon scene adds satirical tone.
Reported Austrian soldiers arrived in Russia claiming to be peace delegates but were immediately taken prisoner. The disguise failed to mask their true intent as a betrayal exposed their role.
German opinion of the United States is dismissed as inconsequential in war talk while General Pershing learns French and Elihu Root studies Russian names. A female speaker will respond to the convention address as several women join the program, signaling expanding roles for women beyond old habits.
A Missouri editorial argues mobs jeopardize justice after the Keet baby kidnapping. It urges capital punishment for kidnappers as the strongest deterrent, noting the parent trauma and the need for lawful process over mob action.
The Trainor warns there are many ways to aid an enemy beyond leaking military data. Citizens must expose individuals who stir division and discontent to undermine national unity. Honest opinion remains vital, but traitorous actions must be condemned and expelled from loyal society.
The Launderers' Association of the Carolinas and Georgia begins its season early at Wrightsville Beach with a large gathering. The Wilmington welcome reflects the group's importance, highlighting sanitation and health in laundry work along with its scientific role and hygienic practices.
The editor urges the superintendent to press for higher teacher salaries as just and necessary and notes the paper’s long support for raises. It warns those who failed to register for the draft they face court, possible prison, and later conscription, while bearing the stigma of being a slacker.
The President should name E L Travis of North Carolina to the Interstate Commerce Commission. He is a skilled lawyer and economist, head of the North Carolina Corporation Commission, fearless and independent, fit to fill the two new Congress created seats to meet the country’s urgent needs.
Eight boxes prepared by the Wilmington Red Cross Chapter were sent to France yesterday. The effort reflects a broader Wilmington contribution with 500 women engaged in patriotic work, producing supplies through hard labor at the chapter headquarters.
Wellesley Mass June 12 The commencement week at Wellesley College begins with a Spartan program due to the war economy. By unanimous agreement the senior play garden party and other social functions have been cut from the schedule.
The Senate Judiciary Committee favorably reports a national prohibition constitutional amendment proposed by Senator Sheppard of Texas with amendments. A similar resolution failed to enact at the previous session of Congress.
Official reports from June describe Austrian counter offensives on the Italian front as broken. Italian forces repelled furious assaults on Faite and Jamaiano, holding positions and stopping the enemy advance at the Timavo river with heavy Austrian losses.
Mrs George W Vanderbilt has donated the Biltmore Herbarium from her estate near Asheville North Carolina to the United States National Museum. The gift adds a famed collection of plant specimens and related material to the Smithsonian institution.
The schedule lists suburban trains from Wilmington to Beach with freight runs and station stops. Freight Depot operates daily except Sunday from 8 00 A M to 1 00 P M and again 2 00 P M to 7 00 P M with telephone 96. Local trains stop at all stations on request and depart from Center Lumina at listed times.
Freight Depot opens 10 to 11 A M. Sunday afternoons and during heavy travel periods express trains run between Wilmington and Lumina Beach stopping only at 7th and 9th streets Wilmington and all Beach stations.
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