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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1918
Page
10
The Guaranty Trust Company of New York presents a review of global postwar conditions. Nations plan immediate peace work, demobilization, and reconstruction, while America seeks to leverage a strong gold reserve and an ideal banking system to aid itself and foreign partners.
On Founders Day at Coker College Major Allern of the French army praised the Allied effort. The General Education Board of New York offered $40,000 with a matching $110,000 required from trustees. Maj. James L. Coker contributed $100,000, leaving $10,000 to raise. The $150,000 endowment boosts Coker’s permanent fund to over $400,000.
Word arrives that C. B. Thomas and Robert Harrell, Mullins youths who enlisted in February, have reached France with Co. D, 8th Battalion of the 20th Engineers. Thomas was Mullins school principal and Harrell held a key position at Mullins Lumber Company before enlisting. local friends will welcome the news.
New York reports a failed costless revue mocked as Hooverism dressed for show girls. Spring egg drops enchant curb brokers while oil stocks surge. State police visit Sing Sing. Jersey workers urged to toil. a reporter earns $200 for a story, and hotel policies bar women in army relief uniforms from drinks.
Chesterfield S C March 23 The Manning designation sets March 30 at 11 30 AM for the hearing on the five cents car fare act. The measure would cut fares between Columbia and Camp Jackson from 10 to 5 cents as passed by the recent general assembly.
The United Stock Company visits the Royal Theatre for a limited engagement starting Monday April 1 presenting The Eternal Magdalene A Full House and Order Cover with stars Mabel Paige Peruchi Gyppzene Edouard D Cize Joseph Cusack Charles W Ritchie. Reserved seats open Friday with three day advance sale.
Mabel Normand stars in Dodging a Million at the Grand theatre Monday and Tuesday. The mystery unfolds through Arabella Flynn a modest modiste as a stranger asks about her family, three numbered trunks arrive with clues, and a fatal poison ends the sequence with high tension.
The Royal announces Gracey's Colonial Maids company presenting clean refined musical comedy with elaborate scenery and wardrobe on the circuit. The troupe features six vaudeville acts led by the Colonial Trio and heads with noted specialties. Opening bill is Cupid's Mix-Up plus four chapters of serials on select weekdays.
Building on Main street Chesterfield finished under same occupants who rebuilt after last fall’s fire. The two brick stores replace those burned and await use, marking end of a months long reconstruction project.
The Teal-Jones company and the Ches terfield Drug Company occupy the two buildings after moving in with all furnishings updated. The new setup places the men’s furnishing store alongside the drug retailer in the same block.
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