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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1918
Page
3
A wartime column urges housewives to harmonize shopping and cooking with national needs. It stresses coordinating menus, recipes, and meals to support fighters, recommending practical calendars and clear daily duties to awaken families for rationed meals.
The Food Administration urges households to use packaged foods for safety and efficiency. Emphasizes cleanliness in handling, level measurements in recipes, and standardized menus to prevent waste and support national morale.
A spring morning mood guides simple or elaborate breakfasts with a focus on harmony at home. The piece promotes fish as brain food and offers methods for preparing fresh and canned fish, sauces, and a fish dinner centerpiece. It also urges garden planning and mutton eating as wartime efficiency.
Creamed Tuna on rice with warm tuna and cream sauce. Salmon a la Creole layers salmon with breadcrumbs and tomato sauce, seasoned with onion or pepper. Side dishes include planked fish, baked fish with tartar sauce, hollandaise alternatives, croquettes, timbales, and salmon potages. Desserts feature grape jelly gelatin molds and fruit salad with evaporated milk.
Detailed instructions for planked lamb chops with mashed potatoes and asparagus, including a decorative arrangement and oiled pan technique. Also explains a lamb forequarter roast shaped to resemble a duck, mint or currant sauce, plus methods for lamb stew and lamb pie using leftovers and stock.
A high school feature mixes a streetwise tale of a purse sale sting with vivid street market scenes. A young buyer and a sly salesman clash over a pocket book priced low as selling out. The second scene sketches Abraham Lincoln White, a striking market figure with a patched wagon and improvised gear.
A hot August day on a dusty field with a small red mule pulling a plow. A weary man with a wide sun hat works the lines, then rests under a large tree as Ruth Wiloughby signs the scene.
A mother asks James to fetch thread while he prefers finishing his kite. He hesitates steering sister to go instead. Their father proposes a comic detour watching a man pull autos with his teeth before James, warned by money, hurries to fetch thread.
A snapshot of a horse race where two Black horses run neck and neck through three laps. The crowd sees the magnificent Black with a white forehead edge ahead in a strenuous final sprint by two inches, Saunders Williams noted as Sophomore One.
A sunny day shower echoed with cries from the yard as neighbors found a frightened drenched child in the back area. The waterlogged child wore a tear stained face, while a negro cook peered from a window holding an empty dishpan, adding a grimly comic note.
A student recounts a morning scene as Jip the dog stalks Pussy the cat. Jip taps Pussy ear, she naps, then escapes up a tree prompting barks and chase. Pussy finally climbs away, looking back as Jip barks below and runs after.
A crowd gathers as a man struggles up a smooth building wall and barely regains footing. Gasps rise while he clings and resists a dangerous fall, drawing relief from onlookers.
In a tense fourth quarter on Thanksgiving, a fearless captain driving a last drive plunges through the defense. He scores the winning touchdown just across the goal line, collapses, and is taken from the field as the crowd roars. Walter Hannah, English Soph. It.
A frazzled boy sits astride a broken fence surrounding Uncle Jim's yard. The old man, puffing a corn cob pipe, tells the child to run along and let him finish reading his paper. The boy asks if the leg was run over and is told it was not.
Multiple Bladen Street Fifth and Bladen streets churches offer 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. services. Subjects include Patience and Perseverance in Service, Mans Greatest Need, The Independent and the Dependent Light, The Two Kingdoms, Essentials for Such a Time as This, and The Fifth Commandment. Sunday schools at 3:30 p.m. Special events include Epworth League, vocal solo, and Lenten services. Visitors cordially invited.
Rev J E Reynolds preaches at 11 a m and 7 30 p m on Dock Street with the sermon The Kind of Letter to Write the Soldier in Camp. Sunday school at 9 45 a m. Junior Endeavor 3 30 p m. Christian Endeavor 6 45 p m. prayer Wednesday 8 p m. Advent church at South Fourth and Church with 11 a m sermon The Word of Christ Its Truths and Power of Transformation and 7 30 p m sermon The Certainty of the Fulfillment of Bible Prophecies. Mid week prayer Wednesday 7 30 in annex. Public invited.
Passion Sunday services listed for St Pauls at 7:30 holy communion and 11 am sermon by rector D L Gwathmey with 8 pm evening prayer. St James with 8 am holy communion 11 am sermon and 5 pm evening prayer includes 7 45 pm sermon on The Camouflage of Sin and Redemption and a Shelly Hecessional. All seats are free and the public is welcome.
The Church of the Covenant at Market and Fifteenth streets offers Sunday services at 11 o clock led by Rev. Marion S Huske. Sunday school is at 3 30 with a Wednesday mid week prayer meeting at 6 o clock. No Sunday night service. Strangers and visitors are invited.
Calvary Baptist Church led by Rev J A Sullivan holds services at 11 a m and 7 30 p m with morning sermon A Spectacular Performance and night sermon A More Excellent Way Sunday school at 9 45 led by J W Hollis Junior B Y P U at 6 45 p m Sunbeams Monday 3 30 and prayer meeting Wednesday. First Baptist at Fifth and Market led by Rev John Jeter Hurt with morning Christ's Prayer for Oneness and evening Is It Sin to Lie That Good May Result Sunday school at 9 45 Young People’s Union at 6 30. Stranger welcome.
Rev F B Clausen pastor of St Pauls Market and Sixth streets conducts an 11 oclock service on The Mystery of Unbelief Exploded. Public examination of catechumens occurs at this service with an evening meeting to follow.
An excerpt from a dialogue shows a boy asking a man about losing a body part in war. The elder, Loaula Woody this line, responds with evasive humor and exits as the boy remains puzzled after a stretch of questions.
The Christian Science Society invites the public to Sunday services at 11 a.m. and Sunday school at 12 15 p m. Wednesday evening services are at 8 p m. The Reading Room next to the church is open Tuesday Thursday and Saturday 4 to 6 30 p m with free circulating library of Mary Baker Eddy works.
California boxing fans advocate a law to allow longer than four round bouts and a fuller show. Coast crowds demand speed in sport but also a fair chance to earn value from tickets and entertainment.
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