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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1918
Page
4
Major and minor league games listed with varying weather conditions. Detroit and New York play in clear skies while Cleveland faces clouds in Washington. Cincinnati travels to St Louis under cloudy skies and New York visits Pittsburgh in similar conditions. Southern Association matchups show Birmingham cloudy and New Orleans clear with Mobile clear as well.
National League results include St Louis 5, Cincinnati 6. Boston 1, Brooklyn 3. Pittsburgh 2, Chicago 6. New York 4, Philadelphia 1. Cleveland 6, Detroit 3. Philadelphia 3, New York 7. Washington 4, Boston 3. International League features Newark 4, Syracuse 3. Baltimore 5, Buffalo 4. Toronto 3, Jersey City 1. Rochester 5. American Association reports Minneapolis Kansas City postponed due to rain. Louisville 3, Toledo 2. Indianapolis 1, Columbus 2. Southern Association games Birmingham 5, Chattanooga 6 in 12 innings. Mobile 3, Memphis 6. Atlanta 2, Nashville 6. No other games scheduled.
Two boxing cards announced with Eck Loadman meeting Johnny Ertle in Milwaukee at 10 rounds and Tommy Reagan facing Young Sacco in Boston at 12 rounds.
Social work experts gather in Kansas City for a ten day congress to reform standards of care and meals, addressing social ills amplified by wartime conditions. Over a hundred national groups join in nearly one hundred sessions and conferences focusing on postwar social needs and policy. The final Jewish national committee meeting on tuberculosis occurs tomorrow, centering on wartime tuberculosis issues.
In Episco pal church circles in Buffalo today a centennial anniversary was led marking the birth of the Rt. Rev. Arthur Weld Coxe, second bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Western New York. Coxe led the diocese from 1865 until his death in 1898 and was known as a scholar, writer, and pulpit orator.
In a second projected bout the two boxers Tilly Miske and Kid Norfolk may meet again in Paul. Their first encounter in Bos ton ended with Norfolk earning the decision. Jev Tendler, a clever Philadelphia boxer, beloved by the paper corner merchants during his visits, is a strong favorite with readers. Giants revere Larry Doyle on his return to Giants, drawing many admirers.
A stylish sports hat idea for women uses large silk handkerchiefs as trim. The Milan style sailor hat with a subtle front droop is shown, featuring a folded scarf center and a Japanese border edge that drapes over the crown and back.
A summer sports ensemble combines a tailored blouse with abundant tucks on shoulders and cuffs and a V neck. A two piece skirt in tussah or pongee uses side slits and a crushed girdle with self covered buttons for a chic, practical look.
The passage offers quick home remedies such as rinsing rubbed hands with salt and water to remove onion odor, cleaning burnt enamel with crushed eggshell and salt, soaking ground coffee with eggshells, and using cold water and French chalk to lift perspiration stains from silk. It also notes using old brick bits to restore brick walls where polishers have removed color.
A style note observes hats echoing Royal Flying Corps influence even in floral prints. Navy and black remain favored in tailored wear. New undergarments in batiste with a satin finish woven in broad self colored herringbone fabrics appear. Pin tucks add practicality to wool jersey suits.
The Russian Revolution pictures by Donald C. Thompson shown at the Grand today and tomorrow reveal his perilous three years filming in war zones including Petrograd and the eastern front. Thompson received government credentials and survived machine gun and rifle fire as he documented food riots, the revolution, and Russia’s shift toward democracy. Admission prices are kept low to invite all to witness this epochal spectacle.
The settings for The Legion of Death are large and elaborate created for Monday and Tuesday. One scene depicts the salon and library of a Russian grand duke with austere Russian art furniture and draperies. Dim lighting and delicate colors enhance the mood and tone.
The forthcoming Metro production de luxe features a double setting and an exact reproduction of the Czarina's boudoir from the Winter Palace in Petrograd. Realistic battle scenes are created in the San Fernando Valley with trenches dug by 100 laborers removing about twenty eight thousand cubic yards of earth to transform the landscape into a European battlefield.
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