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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1917
Page
2
Washington May 19 United Press reports army experts have developed a process to produce buff dyes domestically from plant matter enabling khaki uniforms. Contracts for 12,500,000 yards have been let with 40,000,000 yards expected. The shift marks another step toward American independence from Germany.
A fragment notes Penshurst village has only one resident remaining as others reportedly join the volors, indicating a dramatic demographic shift amid local upheaval.
An estimate puts the total value of sandbags used by Britain in the current war at 750 million dollars. The figure underscores the scale of domestic mobilization and supply challenges amid ongoing hostilities.
The most successful recruiter in Canada is said to be Sergeant Pichard, a South African war veteran, who has enlisted 1,700 men.
The surface speed of German submarines is given as about fourteen to twenty knots, while submerged speed is eight to ten knots.
EF 5 presents for the first time in Wilmington the DeLoss Masqueraders a ten member all star vaudeville and musical comedy company. The show features the Spencer Trio of Harmony Singers as a headline act with elaborate scenery and a stylish chorus. The program also includes The Crimson Stain Mystery final chapter and The Cost of Hatred a five reel photoplay deemed one of the year’s top features.
The Grand reports a major photoplay event ready to captivate Wilming ton readers. Howard-Wells Amusement confirms seven weekly features starting next Sunday with Envy starring Ann Murdock Shirley Mason and George LeGuere. each film highlights top stars and culminates in The Seventh Deadly Sin with a mystery identity.
The article hails J Stuart Blackton and his wartime spectacle Womanhood The Glory of the Nation. Harry T Morey delivers a stirring soldier speech before an invited civic audience whose cheers echo through the Vitagraph studios area. The film’s patriotic fervor, praised by Blackton, draws strong crowds as it opens tomorrow.
A Paramount Lasky drama presented at the Grand Wilmington stars Kathryn Williams and Theodore Roberts. The story follows a youth brutalized after a family wrong, pursued by hatred, aided by the minister’s daughter who aids his escape, marriage follows, and the father broods. The Exhibitors' Trade Review calls it a tense, far reaching, strongly dramatic entertainment with immediate action from the start.
A poet notes sadness at Lockwood's Folly Beach as the hours pass slow and longing for mirth returns. The speaker laments fairy gifts and seeks comfort on a couch, while the sea’s roar soothes the mind and the sunset briefly offers solace.
The verse notes gloom as Brosh and Richmond quit baseball to join the army aviation service. Peoria hosts an exhibition against the Chicago White Sox on August 24. A caravan of wartime costs notes feeding a horse has doubled since the war, with Birmingham spending £40,000 in Britain.
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