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Wilmington Dispatch

Location

Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America

Date

Mar 12, 1918

Page

4

Governor signs 28 more Acts and prepares travel plan

Columbia reports Governor signs 28 additional acts at the General Assembly session leaving 28 unsigned acts. He will travel to Washington and New York, plan to approve remaining measures on return, and set a public hearing on a five cent fare between Columbia and Camp Jackson. He will confer with President Wilson and discuss state highway transfer fees to new vehicle owners.

Enor Gove Washington Columbia D. C Yaming General Assembly New York Alumbia Camp Jackson Wilson State Highway Department

State allows suit over Lone Star typhoid serum deaths

Thelma and Minnie Sandel estates may sue the state for damages from deaths at Lone Star in 1915 after anti typhoid serum injections by the State Board of Health. Other recipients reportedly fell ill from the same serum. Suit filed in Richland County Common Pleas under the new act signed by Governor Manning.

Columbia S. C Thelma Sandel Minnie Sandel Lone Star State Board of Health Manning Court of Common Pleas Richland

Mess Hall Burns at Camp Sevier During Early Morning Fire

March 12. The mess shack of the headquarters company 117th Infantry at Camp Sevier Greenville S C was consumed by fire. Fire from the stove likely started the blaze with a shallow dirt barrier. Fire detachments saved two adjoining shacks. Headquarters company is led by Captain Hedge of Knoxville.

Camp Sevier Greenville S. C 117Th Infantry Hedge Knoxville

Act Requires Disclosure of Proprietor Names in Businesses

Columbia South Carolina March 12 by an act of the last session of the General Assembly all mercantile and industrial establishments other than corporations must disclose the names and addresses of their proprietors. Violations carry a misdemeanor charge and a ten dollar fine or up to five days imprisonment for each establishment. The governor signed the act and it takes effect July 1, 1918.

Columbia S. C General Assembly

Nashville Miss Passes Bar Exam for Tennessee State Bar

Gertrude Dale, a Poly 22 year old Nashville resident, has passed the examination for admission to the Tennessee State bar.

Gertrude Dale Nashville Poly Tennessee State Bar

Acid Iron Mineral praised as rheumatism remedy by Salem shoemaker

J D Sears of Salem Virginia, a seventy five year old shoemaker, endorses Acid Iron Mineral for rheumatism claiming two bottles cured him years ago. He warns against alcoholic tonics for the elderly and notes the product is a mineral preparation from a Mississippi ore, tested and shipped to Roanoke Virginia. Separately a Wilmington act Dreamo and White's College Belles headlined Royal shows with juggling feats and vaudeville stars.

J.D. Sears Salem Sears Mississippi Roanoke Wilmington Dreamo and White College Belles Company the Royal Farrier Drew Dreano John Moore White and Goodwin

My Soldier Girl at the Academy of Music March 14

Gudrun Walberg stars as a soubrette in My Soldier Girl at the Academy of Music with matinee and evening shows on March 14. The dancer declined a larger studio offer to stay with her current producer. Prices range 50c to 1.50 with seats at Elvington's Drug Store. The piece features Walberg’s celebrated dancing and a vivid stage spectacle.

Gudrun Wailberg Harrison Academy of Music Miss Walberg America

Beautiful Russian Artist Promises Thrilling Grand Show

Sonia Markova stars in a six reel Fox super-production A Heart's Revélige at the Grand tomorrow. The film features an Oriental atmosphere, a daring deception plot, motor boat chase thrills, war era mood, and a Chinese doctor with a Chinese girl adding drama.

Sonia Markova Wiliam Fox

Emmett Dalton to Speak at Bijou on Coffieyville Robbery

Emmett Dalton, sole survivor of the Dalton brothers gang, will lecture at the Bijou tomorrow and show a motion picture about the 1892 Coffeyville Kansas bank robbery. The raid left most of the gang dead and Dalton badly wounded.

Emmett Dalton Dalton Brothers Bob Grant Emmett Bijou Coffeyville Kansas Daltons Cap

My Soldier Girl Excites Columbia Audiences at Academy

The Columbia State reports the musical comedy My Soldier Girl drew strong applause from curtain rise to final act at the Academy of Music. Miss Gudrun Walberg impressed as the heroine while William Moore scored with clever jokes and a patriotic vein. The musical, popular on tour, blends wartime spirit with spectacle and ends with the Stars and Stripes triumph scene.

Columbia S. C Academy of Music Talen Gudrun Walberg William Moore France Europe Germany New York

German ice breaker Hin denburg sinks after mine blast

Copenhagen reports the German ice breaker Hin denburg was struck by a mine south of the Aland Islands on Saturday and sank. Several crew members were drowned.

Copenhagen Aland Islands

Japanese Women Drive Taxis in Tokio

Japanese women are now driving taxis in Tokio marking a shift in urban transport roles. The move highlights expanding gender participation in the workforce and changes in city taxi services.

Tokio

La Creole Hair Dressing Restores Gray Hair Color

An advertisement promotes La Creole Hair Dressing as a treatment to restore natural color to gray or premature gray hair. It claims the product revives color glands, stops dandruff and hair loss, and makes hair soft and evenly dark. Sold by Jarman and Futrelle, Wilmington, N C, price $1.20 with money back guarantee.

la Creole Jarman An Futrelle Wilmington N.C Adv

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Carolina News Salem Shoemaker Indorses A-I-M Kansas State Edward Wallace Hock Dalton Boys Columbia State William Fox Fox Lecomte & Flesher Elvington’s Revenge Dreano and White Keith and Orpheum College Belles Goodwin Josh Dreano Chelsea York Cave Hotel Chelsea Pennsylvania Station 7Th Avenue 23Rd Street Grand Central 4Th Avenue Lackawanna Iie Reading Baltimore and Ohio Jersey Central Lehigh Valley R. R Dalton Eemett Dalton Dourself Charlotte N. C Care Broadway Theatre Capitol Park Washington D.C Capitol Union Station W. T. Knight Masager Ingham Frank Kimble Afst.i Herald Square Hotel Mth Exer Broadway R. R Bath J. Fred Seyers Eckman
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