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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1917
Page
8
A public address extols a state college as an instrument for rural leadership and industrial democracy. It calls for broad liberal training in agriculture and textiles, engineering and chemistry, and expansion through extension services, extension courses, and practical outreach to all citizens.
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company finds 71 152 people ill in North Carolina across 11 11K families surveyed, with 26.5 to 37.4 per 1000 sickness rates by district. Rheumatism pneumonia grippe tuberculosis malaria pellagra and nervous diseases are leading causes with large economic losses from days of work lost.opperative figures estimate millions in days of productivity lost and earnings impact.
A boxing match featuring two fairies as principals opens the season's major musical show. The pair are skilled boxers and their bout is conducted in strict accordance with boxing science.
Four hockey teams of University of Minnesota women students will compete in a season end tournament. It will be the first event of its kind ever held at the university.
Miss Mabel McConnell a Northwestern University coed and star athlete did no training for the Evanston athletic meet yet broke a world hurdling record during the competition.
The passage urges working together at home to achieve a common end. It compares household harmony to an orchestra, praising coordinated effort and cooperation led by organized home life. The author credits a well ordered home for public success and stresses everyone’s part in building a vital, useful foundation.
The narrator recalls crossing a crowded bridge from Brooklyn to New York at night watching lights on the river. He notes that what seemed stationary may move when viewed without bias, comparing it to aims in life as sometimes elusive goals. The Statue of Liberty's torch stands distant as a symbol.
Special Dispatch reports New York critics contend that interpretive dance may replace the fox trot in social life. Proponents cite dancing as building strength, grace, carriage, and personal expression beyond ballroom styles in America.
A column recalls events from 1817 to twenty-five years past, noting births, deaths, and battles. It then features an extended interview with Louise H Chalif on interpretive dance, its technique, and its value, including views on arm placement and expression and references to prominent families and studios.
Karen Sonnino, Italy's Foreign Minister since a ministry reorganization, born in Pisa 70 years ago today. Dorothy Gish, sister of Lillian, born in Osington Ohio 16 years ago today. Al Reich, once a notable heavyweight boxer, born in New York City 27 years ago today.
In Charleston district 21 of the United Mine Workers signals a demand for a ten and seven tenths percent raise and an eight hour day for next year. The scale committee will meet with the Coal Operators Association on March 14 to set prices and hours.
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