Mayor Welcomed Visitors to City Ouster Roast
Mayor Parry Quine Moore welcomed hundreds of visitors to Wilmington for the Live Stock Conference kickoff at the Exposition. Delays from trains hindered start, but President Jacobi of the Chamber of Commerce opened the session. Various dignitaries spoke on agriculture, stock breeding, and bee health, with a showcase of pure bred cattle and hogs drawing crowds.
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Isenabley
Nagu
Wey
Tvery
Gane
Caroapd
Wisness
Ascuremiers
Paultimore
B. W. Kilgore
Stites Agricultural Experiment Salon
WA. Graham
Agerisif Iy
T. E. Parker
Farminstitutes
E. P. Yager
W. K.los
United States
Owen
L. A. Nivin
Wrehrn Perming
Atlanta
Nivin
Iuppeher of Commerce
Thomas W. Bickett
Megram
Wrightsville Sound
Wilming
Tabernacle
City Council OKs April Fourth Holiday For Baseball Game
City Council votes to declare the afternoon of Wednesday April 4 a public holiday to permit downtown merchants and workers to attend the Bos ton NL team versus the New York AL team clash. Also discussed were mail delivery updates on Love's Grove residents, street improvements on Third Street, Water Street alley sanitation, a new aerial fire truck, electric lighting petitions, note renewal, and Councilmember Jones resignation.
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Boston
New York
Love’s Grove
H. McL. Green
W. J. Bradshaw
Third Street
Wooster
Wright
Bradshaw
Castle To
Water Street
Chestnut and
Grace
Bradshay
B. F. Merrett
L. M. Bunting
Twenty-first
Woolcott Avenue
Tenth
Meares Streets
W. J. McCaig
Robert Ruark
J. M. Hall
McCaig
Bunting
W. F. Jones
Jones
Crowds greet Second North Carolina regiment in Wilmington
The Second North Carolina regiment led by Col John Van B Metts and Brigadier General L W Young arrived in Wilmington after a long journey from El Paso. Crowds filled the station shed as soldiers, band, and aides entered the city amid cheers and tears. The parade did not occur due to late arrival and busyness of greetings. The unit details and officers are listed, with some men sent to hospital in Florence for pneumonia.
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North Carolina
John van B. Metts
Union Station
Wilmington
Laurence W. Young
Tarhelia
Goldsboro
Dixie
Coast Line
Old
Mexico
el Paso
L. W. Young
Gordon Smith
Robert Young
Wallace Stone
Metts
J. van B. Metts
C. M. Faircloth
G. K. Freeman
Baxter Hunter
A. K. Taylor
J. E. Ray
Medical Corps
W. A. Simpkins
P. L. Cantwell
John Malloy
J. O. Barbrey
W. S. Privett
J. T. Lumley
Tarboro
Louis Knight
A. T. Barr
Kinston
A. L. C. Dill
J. O’h. Taylor
Frank Williams
Selma
Stanley
McWaddell
S. E. Malone
Rockley
Fayetteville
E. H. Bain
Z. G. Hallowell
Co. L. Batts
R. J. Lamb
D. B. Byrd
Raeford
West
J. B. Williamson
Clinton
G. K. Hobbs
F. L. Whitfield
Edenton
W. D. Baner
H. H. Bell
C. D. Boyce
Wilson
Samuel Hannell
Dunn
Joe Shaw
John Currie
Dan Clifton
J. L. Hines
W. D. Holland
W. Burt
Machine Gun Company
W. W. Pierce
W. P. Monroe
L. M. Currie
F. L. Black
T. K. Vogue
Engineers Not Mustered Out After Border Duty
Company A Wilmington Engineers, home five months from the Mexican border, remain in Federal service for police duty. Orders from Washington cancel mustering out, keeping Companies A and B Engineers, Troops A and B Cavalry, and the Second Infantry in service at their camps. Company A is quartered at Front and Hanover streets with equipment and provisions for an indefinite stay.
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Wilmington
Washington, D. C
Raleigh
Goldsboro
Charlotte
R. D. Taylor
25Th
U. S. Infantry
War Department
North Carolina National Guard
Company A
North State Candy Company
Front
Hanover
Lucky Strike Cigarette Rolling from Burley Tobacco
An army of Ameri can Tobacco salesmen invaded Wilmington to place Lucky Strike cigarettes. Supervising North Carolina is C. L. Poston. In 1916 total sales exceeded 60 million pounds. About 35 billion hand rolled Burley cigarettes were produced, with ready made variants far below demand. The company has worked five years to develop a satisfactory Burley cigarette despite flavor loss when shredded.
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American Tobacco Company
Wilmington
C. L. Poston
North Carolina
New Hanover Poultry Show Planned for November
The New Hanover Poultry Association met at City Hall to plan a four day poultry show from November 20 to 23. Optimism runs high with an anticipated 3000 chicks entered and nationwide fanciers being invited to exhibit and ship birds.
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New Hanover Poultry Association
Merchants Learn Modern Methods From Motion Picture Lesson
In Hemenway auditorium retail merchants and clerks watched a film titled The Troubles of a Merchant and How to Stop Them. W H Farley of the National Cash Register Co explained that US retail failures cost over 200 million dollars yearly and urged efficiency through correct accounting and systematized operations.
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Hemenway
W. H. Farley
National Cash Register Company
United States
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Princess Street
Rak
Army
Baltimore
Harvard University
Federal Trade Commission
Incorporated
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Shadow Lawn Green
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