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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1917
Page
2
Yale University marks a wartime style commencement with minimal ceremony. Academic and Sheffield seniors stayed away from campuses, banners scarce, and ivy planting the only visible nod to class day traditions.
Special Correspondent reports on jail warden Hanley unsettled by a mysterious silk hat caller while court hears a peculiar alimony case. The article also provides daytime train schedules for Center and Beach lines with frequent departures and freight depot hours.
Kansas City June 19 The National Association of Credit Men opens its annual convention with focus on war conditions. Strong measures against hoarding necessities and price gambling in commodities and credits will be advocated.
A New York Tribune anecdote cites a reader saying coal costs rise for winter, recognizing hardship for coal users but noting steam heat makes it tolerable. She warns that if food prices climb, they may be forced to eat out.
At 11 00 A M freight depot opens 10 to 11 A M Sunday afternoons and during heavy travel periods express trains run Wilmington Lumina stopping only at 5th 7th and 9th streets Wilmington and all Beach stations
A dispute at Rector's ends with sailors clashing with waiters and patrons. Four hundred diners are shepherded to the street as flying wedges of staff clash with the crowd. The orchestra plays a patriotic song as chaos erupts.
The Seaboard Air Line Railway issues a 1916 timetable effective 17th, detailing departure No. 15 at 8:55 PM to Charlotte with parlor car, late No. 19 at 5:00 PM to Charlotte, sleeping cars between Wilmington and Charlotte, and arrivals of trains from Charlotte to Wilmington. Passengers may remain in the sleeper until 7:00. Local agents in Raleigh and Wilmington available for details.
A horse hitched to a small express wagon stands before a Broadway hotel in a downpour. The weary animal wears a purple blanket, recalling a Burgess line about purple cows, remarking on the odd sight in rainy weather.
Nantucket residents expect a possible early visit by President and Mrs. Wilson to the Siasconset bungalow leased by Professor and Mrs. Francis B. Sayre for the season. The President has told his daughter he and Mrs. Wilson hope to visit if duties allow, during the summer on Nantucket.
Wisconsin G A R opens its fifty first encampment in Kenosha with a hearty welcome for returning Civil War veterans known as the boys in blue. The gathering began today and runs through Friday in this city that served as a wartime concentration point.
The medal first created to honor British non commissioned officers and men for bravery in battle is now awarded to nurses and other women who have shown conspicuous courage and composure under fire.
Thomas Payne and wife and Charles Payne as mortgagors default on the Wilmington Homestead and Loan Association loan. The sale will be at the Court House door Wilmington for cash to the highest bidder on July 12 1917 at noon. Property begins 33 feet south of Bladen Street on Sixth Street runs 33 feet south 165 feet east 33 feet north 165 feet west to the beginning. Notice dated June 11 1917 from Wilmington Homestead and Loan Association through attorneys John D Bellamy & Son.
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