Umbrella Gift Sparks Memories In Store Drama
A struggling young woman Mary Duane endures a rainy day after sharing a seat and shelter with a stranger who lends an umbrella. Her imagination and past hopes for a singing career collide as a chance encounter with a professor leads to an unexpected reunion and invitation.
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Bellacao
Conservatory
Baizamo
Balsaia
Cam
Ile
Ineui
Pic
Asia
Mary
Weaver and Britt to Vie in 10th District Rematch
Washington March 30 Congressman Zebulon V Weaver will return to the Tenth district in April to campaign for reelection. No opposition yet. Former Congressman James J Britt remains in contest, aiming to leverage political capital while Democrats unite.
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George H. Manning
Washington, D. C
Zebulon V. Weaver
Tenth District
Weaver
Britt
Charles Evans Hughes
Zeb Weaver
Congress
Canadian Army Eyes Future Offensive On Front
Canadian troops report readiness as reverberations of a major offensive unfold on their right flank. Air activity is high with planes behind enemy lines and villages bombed at low altitude. Civilians are moving out from shell zones but no wide evacuation. A heavy gas bombardment saturated enemy front lines with 1500 drums followed by a 15 minute artillery barrage targeting assembly and support areas.
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Canadian Army
Lens
Browns Slated for Regular Big League Erection
Readable fragments indicate the St. Louis Browns face heavy defeats in a series, with references to wallopings and strong opposition, suggesting a rough stretch in their regular season schedule.
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St. Louis Browns
Telephone official instantly killed after wire contact
New Bern North Carolina March 30 F C Toepleman general manager of the Home Telephone and Telegraph Company was killed when he touched a heavily charged primary wire while surveying for cable placement. He climbed a pole near Hancock street and a live circuit blasted him to the ground breaking an ankle and crushing his skull.
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New Bern
N. C
F. C. Toepleman
Home Telephone and Telegraph Company
Henderson, N. C
Teepleman
New
City
Canada to go dry except Ontario and Quebec soon
Ottawa March 30 Canada will go dry at midnight to midsrow tonight except for Ontario and Quebec after the federal order in council. It will prohibit transport of liquor into provinces with prohibitory laws, allow physician prescription in minute quantities, and lasts until a year after peace is declared. Temperance advocates foresee eventual Dominion-wide prohibition amid a non partisan Ottawa government.
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Ottawa
Canada
Ontario
Quebec
Dominion
Chaney Boxers Keep Baltimore on the Pugilistic Map
The Chaney family of boxers earns recognition in Baltimore, doing a fairly good job to keep the city on the boxing map. They lack the fame of Joe Gans and Kid Williams but compete with solid style.
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Chaney
Baltimore
Joe Gans
Kid Williams
Chaneys
Chester Man Held for Death of His Wife
W A Wilkinson, jailed on prior charges, is now held on a murder warrant for the December 1916 beating death of his wife at Sandy River pumping station. Two African American suspects were questioned, released after a coroner’s jury linked the crime to others known to the jury. A separate dispatch reports the Southern Pine Association calling lumber men to a April 4 meeting in Memphis to discuss wartime support.
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Chaster
S. C
W. A. Wilkinson
Cr. C. Clack
Baldwin Mill
Wilkinson
Sandy River
John
Cato Wright
Columbia
New Orleans
Southern Pine Association
Southern Lumber Men
Memphis
Lumbermen Ca
Food administration backs cottonseed meal use for farmers
The South's food administration denies any ban on using cotton seed meal as fertilizer. It states mills must give farmers preference in selling cottonseed meal over commercial mixers, allowing farmers to buy raw material and mix their own fertilizer, saving 20 to 25 percent. No prohibition on swapping cotton seed for meal.
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Columbia
S. C
The
Food Administration
South
Delinquent Registrants Reported in District of Columbia
Officials estimate over 5000 delinquents in the state with about 4 percent of registrants classed as delinquents. Many boards have not submitted counts, hindering creation of 20 000 notification cards at headquarters. Captain CARWILE urges boards to send delinquent lists promptly to speed processing.
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Columbia
D. C
Capt. Carwile
Insurance Agent Fogle Burned by Fire Accident
A. W. Fogle of Columbia was severely burned when a remnant of a patent corn remedy tossed into the fireplace by Mrs. Fogle flared up, scorching the left side of his face and costing him sight in the left eye. A room occupant extinguished the flames with water.
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Columbia
S. C
A. W.fogle
Mr. Fogle
Fuel Officials Call Meeting In South Carolina
B B Gossett state fuel administrator calls a statewide meeting of city and county fuel chairmen and the state advisory board at the Jefferson hotel in Columbia next Tuesday at 10 am. The call follows a request from Washington and L F Snead will attend. More than 50 men from every section will participate to discuss the coming season's fuel situation.
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Anderson
S. C
B. B. Gossett
State Advisory Board of the Fuel Administration
Jefferson Hotel
Columbia
Washington
L. F. Snead
Garfield
Giants Try Howard Baler at First Base
Howard Baler who starred at third for New Orleans last season is tested at first base by Giants manager McGraw during tryouts.
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Howard Baler
New Orleans
McGraw
Giants
Divorce Notice and Mortgage Sales in New Hanover County
Public notices announce a divorce action in New Hanover County where Hester Kennedy is non-resident and must appear at the April 1918 term. The issue includes two mortgage sales by Wilmington Homestead and Loan Association and Stacy Adams to the Wilmington Thornestead and Loan Association, to be held at the Wilmington court house in April 1918 with described property in Wilmington.
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Hester
Hester Kennedy
North Carolina
Cannee
Tate
New Hanover
Auction of Wilmington property under 1916 mortgage notice
By power of sale in a mortgage from Marshall H Hill and wife to Wilmington Homestead and Loan Association dated October 3 1916 and recorded in New Hanover County the undersigned will sell at public auction for cash at the Court House door Wilmington on Tuesday April 30 1018 at noon the described lot on Dickinson Street Gwynn Street in Wilmington with exact dimensions provided. This 28th of March 1918. Attorneys 320 30 days.
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John J. Furlong
Wilmington
City of
Meares Street
Third Street
Second Street
Wilmington Homestead and Loan Association
John D. Bellamy & Son, Attorneys
Stacy Adams
Nixon Street
Eighth Street
John D. Bellamy & Son
Marshall H. Hill
Willington Homestead and Loan Association
New Hanover County
Court House
Dickinson Street
Gwynn Street
Russian Cruiser Admiral Makaroff Sunk in Harbor Mine
A Petrograd report via Copenhagen forwarded by Exchange Telegraph says the Russian cruiser Admiral Makaroff was sunk by a mine in the harbor at Reval on the Gulf of Finland. The London dispatch dates this news to March 30.
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London
Reval
Gulf of Finland
Makaroff
Petrograd
Copenhagen
Exchange Telegraph Company
Auction Notice of Land Tracts in New Hanover County
Mortgage held by Howard Foy and wife to C L Carter Trustee. Sale at Courthouse Wilmington on Tuesday April 23 1918 at noon. Two tracts described totaling about 15 acres with boundaries near Seacoast Railroad and Pritchard property. C L Carter trustee, Attorneys.
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Howard Foy
C. L. Carter
New Hanover County
Court House
Wilmington
North Carolina
George M. Croft
Fannie G. Pritchard
W. H. Btocley
Sale
Salt Cross
John D. Bellamy & Son
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