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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1917
Page
7
The Wilmington Dispatch touts its daily want ads as an effective direct-to-reader tool. It promotes help wanted, positions, items for sale, rentals, real estate, and found articles, urging phone 176 for more information.
Hardware convention delegates, including wives and daughters, gathered at the Seashore Hotel with 44 firms elected to membership. Acker of Baltimore to address bankers at 11 tomorrow, as sessions plan joint discussions with financial firms on Harbor Island.
In a capital hearing Hoover argues the food administration would organize resources to aid Allies and Americans, limit middlemen profits, and prevent extortion. He says sugar and flour prices could drop with cooperation among refiners, Cuban producers, and allied purchasers, while denying a food dictatorship.
Miss Consuelo La Rue, who aided the Ruth Cruger murder inquiry, said two men attacked her at her apartment after she provided information leading to the discovery of the 18 year old Ruth Cruger’s body. A dark gray chauffeur uniform was found buried in the tunnel near the crime scene.
Copenhagen via London reports a Polish revolt in the Austrian Parliament creating a crisis for Premier Clamnić Martinic and Foreign Minister Czernin. Vienna government hopes to calm by sharing posts, while the Poles threaten to vote against the budget signaling possible independence angles.
Special to The Dispatch White Oak Community in Bladen county becomes the State Bureau of Community Service’s forty sixth registered community joining Sampson in organized effort. Officers named include Dr. W. H. Lucas president C. R. Jordan vice president and R. T. Melvin secretary treasurer with committees covering Education Farm Progress Co operative Marketing Health and Social Life.
A warrant was issued for Captain Dr. William J. Condon of the Army Medical Corps in Chattanooga in connection with the murder of John V. Piper, a University of Vermont graduate, whose body was found with a breast wound near Spotswood New Jersey last Saturday.
Atlanta June 19 delegates opened the eighth annual meeting of the International Association of Rotary Clubs. Topics covered included community building civic improvement and Rotary service in municipal development. Jas A McDonald publisher of the Toronto Globe spoke on Service a World Force. A Mardi Gras themed parade titled Mother of Mystics will be staged by Alabama Rotary Clubs followed by the president's ball at the Auditorium Armory. Hon Max Gardner to speak at Harbor Island Auditorium tonight at 9.00. Express trains from Center will stop at Auditorium at 8 and 8:30.
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