Social notes and club meetings in Wilmington area
Miss Nannie Roberts of Raleigh has returned home after a visit here. Miss Martha Jackson also returned from Winnabow. The Mothers' club of East Wilming plans a social Friday with the school closing exercises. Misses Elgin and Amy Kelly came back from Currie. Circle No 3 of Fifth Avenue Methodist Church meets tomorrow at 3:30 at Mrs. M. L. Jones’s home. The Winter Park Presbyterian women's auxiliary meets tomorrow at 4 in Chadbourn memorial building. Invitations have been issued for the marriage of Miss Jessie Hattie Silvia to Mr. W. M. Turner on May 15 at 412 South Fourth Street Wilmington. Cape Fear chapter UDC will wreath Confederate graves at Oakdale and Eleven cemeteries Friday, with about 100 wreaths. Veterans T. A. Hodges, D. H. Scott, D. N. Page and Alex Leslie are marshals for Oakdale cemetery ceremonies. Friends of Lois Toomer, long a Red Cross nurse, cheer her improved health and return home from a Baltimore hospital. Lena Beery, with her during illness, has returned home. Toomer plans to resume work when recovered.
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Hattie Silvia
Cape Fear
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Akdale Cemetery
Oakdale
Elevue
T. A. Hodges
D. H. Scott
D. N. Page
Alex Leslie
Lois Toomer
Baltimore
Red Cross
Fort McArthur
Texas
Lena Beery
Miss Toomer
St. John’s Red Cross Unit Sets Thursday Meeting
The Red Cross unit of St. Johns mission will meet Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the mission house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. John’s
Vologda Telegraphs Correct Cipher Dispatch Order
Telegram officials in Vologda announce that the cipher dispatch order is restored to all embassies. The error traced to misinterpretation by telegraph staff in the district, and the order was intended for Siberia only.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vologda
Russia
Siberia
Casualty List Reports 75 Names With KIA and Missing
The casualty list shows 75 names with 13 killed in action 2 died of accident 8 died of disease 13 wounded severely 41 wounded slightly and 4 missing in action. Officers killed include Egbert Williams Beach Arthur R Gaylord and Frank S Hanf. Several southerners named among the wounded and missing with home towns listed.
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Washington
Egbert Williams Beach
Piedmont
Cal
Arthur R. Gaylord
Minneapolis, Minn
Frank S
Hanf
Chelsea
Mass
Julian N. Devell
Washington, D. C
John E. Grissard
Chicago
William H. Gordon
New York City
Edgard B. Noland
Leesburg
Norand
Francis P. Valleley
Pratt City
Ala
Henry Coner
Crowville
James Shields
Greenville
Miss
James W. Rosser
Broadway
N. C
Lowery T. Hagood
Oakdale
Tenn
Wagoner Daniel D. McConnell
Kingstree
S. C
William Mason
Forney
John Phillips
Palace Street
Gifin
Changing Habits Hard in War Effort
The remark notes that altering daily routines is difficult while stressing that achieving victory in the war remains a strenuous, challenging objective.
Report on Future Financial Needs of Allies
Washington May 8 a treasury presentation by Oscar T Crosby president and head of the allied financial study outlines the future funding requirements of the Allies. The report projects needs across defense support loans and reconstruction efforts with emphasis on continued Allied collaboration and financial planning through forthcoming quarters.
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Washington
The
Treasury
Oscar T. Crosby
After Effects of Measles in Coal Creek
In Coal Creek Tennessee Mrs U S Fritts recalls her boy James recovering from illness after measles and diarrhea using Thedford's Black Draught three times daily for a month. She says it saved his life and she keeps the remedy as "our doctor." The product is described as a pure vegetable liver medicine aiding liver and bowels and widely used for constipation and indigestion.
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Coal Creek
Tenn
U. S. Fritts
Thedford
James
American on return from Europe joins inter allied council on finance
An American member of the inter allied council on finance and purchases returns from Europe where he has been stationed since last September.
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Inter-Allied Council
Europe
Ironized Paw-Paw Promises Health From a Contractor’s Testimony
A South Carolina contractor J. H. Evans shares a testimonial praising Ironized Paw-Paw for curing stomach and liver troubles after skeptical use. The ad urges readers with digestive issues to try the remedy, notes availability at Elvington’s Dependable Drug Store, and mentions mail orders from Interstate Drug Company, Inc., New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. H. Evans
Edgewold
S. C
Elvington
Interstate Drug Company, Inc
New York
Von Bernstorff code deciphered and turned over
Albany May 8 Attorney General Lewis announced the von Bernstorff code used by the German foreign office to contact former ambassador in the United States has been deciphered reconstructed and given to the federal government. Copper and wool shipments to Germany were coded as Wadkin bonds and Southern Norfolk bonds. Fragmentary evidence aided reconstructing the code and its wartime communications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Albany
N. Y
von Bernstorff
Foreign Office
Keap
United States
Merton E. Lewis
Hugo Schmidt
New York City
Germany
Schmidt
Alfred L. Becker
Also Mentioned on This Page
Nannie Roberts
Raleigh
Martha Jackson
Winnabow
Mothers’ Club of
East Wilming
East Wilmington
Misses Elgin
Amy Kelly
Currie
Witheir
Mrs. J. Selly
Circle No. 3
Fifth Avenue
M. L. Jones
South Sixth Treet
Winter Park Presbyterian Church
Chadbourn Memorial
Underwood & Underwood
J. K. Rosser
Belk-Williams CO
Coats
Palm Leaf Fans
Tennessee
A. D. Brown Company
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