Social and Red Cross activities fill Wilmington schedule
Local church groups meet for social sessions and fund drives. Red Cross events include a benefit in St. Andrew's Memorial hall, a mass meeting for Acme and New Berlin, and a war fund drive. Community canning classes and school cantatas support Red Cross efforts and home demonstration programs.
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St. Andrew’s Memorial Hall
Red Cross
Wilmington
Acme
New Berlin
J. A. McNorton
J. A. Brown
Chadbowrn
Vired to Attend School Sessions
A fragment indicates someone was ordered or advised to attend school sessions. No further details on person, date, or location are readable.
Red Cross Drive Appeals for Work Rooms Support
Red Cross calls for volunteers to support the great drive this week while continuing necessary work in the rooms. A report shows substantial proceeds from a children’s play and extensive in kind donations and numerous knitters supplying sweaters socks and comfort items for relief efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Terfére
South Fifth
Independent Ice Company
Robert Bunn
Union School
Arnold
Arnold _deRosset, nine yards. oilcloth: J. W. Murchison
Mrs. Goodlet
Mrs. Savage
Austin Burr
Miss Crapster
Miss May Brown
Solky
Benson
Baxter
Sanders
Columbia Munds
T. D. Love
Fentress
How Old Are You By Your Hair Ad
An advertisement promotes Parisian sage as a quick safe remedy for faded dry and falling hair. It claims the liquid treats dandruff scalp itch and promotes new growth while making hair look heavier and attractive. The product is sold by R. R. Bellamy and drug and toilet counters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. R. Bellamy
War Ration Notes and Local Fabric Items Listed
A scanned collage mentions rationing in Kaiserreich Germany with reduced meat bread and potatoes for civilians alongside a community list of knitted items and donations. Entries include Mrs St Amand and Miss Whitson contributing sweaters and socks as well as the St Cecilia guild and Union school girls making squares and wristlets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sisters of Mercy
St. Amand
Union School
Jean Boatwright
Mary’s Unit
St." Cecilia Guild
St. James Church
Mrs. Maffitt
Whitson
Sibely
A. Liebman
Lena Goodman
Dolly Hicks
Kaiserland
Germany
Kansas City Star
Petition for Extra Session Addresses Labor Shortage
Mill men and other employers of labor who gathered in the city recently petition Governor Bickett to convene an extra session of the legislature to study the labor shortage problem and seek remedies to remove the evil, as reported by the New Bern Sun Journal.
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Bickett
New Bern Sun- Journal
Change for the Better in Kemp Texas Woman’s Tonic Cardui Ad
Mrs Minnie Check of Kemp Texas reports relief from side pains and fatigue after taking Cardui nine or ten bottles. She praises the vegetable tonic for building strength and recommends it to other women. The advertisement touts Cardui as a long used remedy for ailments of women and claims many similar letters.
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Kemp
Texas
Minnie Check
Cardui
Cardus
Advt
Rowan's Quota Set For Camp Jackson Draft
The local exam board lists 141 men summoned for entrainment on Wednesday May 29 for Camp Jackson in Columbia South Carolina. They will complete Rowan's second quota if voluntary enlistments are credited to the county. otherwise a small number may be called.
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Rowan
Extian Board
Camp Jackson
Columbia
S. C
Salisbury Post
University of Michigan offers course for women tracers
The University of Michigan will run a summer course to train women as tracers for engineers' offices. The program targets practical drafting and measurement skills to support engineering teams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Michigan
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Badis
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E. C. Borough
L. G. Herring
Greenville Sound
Epworth
League of
Fifth Avenue Methodist Church
Marguerite Phillips
Dorsey Phillips
Philadelphia
the Red Cross
Myrtle Grove
Hemenway
Bladen Street Methodist Church
M. T. Plyler
General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Atlanta
Lt. C. Hood
Charlotte
Ella B. Burkheimer
Cape Fear
William Hooper School
S.A. Matthews
Housewives’ League
Annie P. Pretlow
Mary C. Bennett
RED Cross Bulletin
Thomas
C. W. Bidgood
Mrs. Albright
Andrew Harriss
O’brien
Mrs. Meads
Edna Davis
B. B. McDuffie
Emily Hammond
Alice Wright
B. G. Empie
Sarah Lippitt
Mary Brown
Lane
Athalia Bunting
J.’ S. Funchess
Fred Burr
Hill Burgwin
F. C. Tiencken
Pembroke Jones
Draper
John Bolles
Dainty
A. D. Brown Company
Dorothy, Dodd, Jr
Dorothy Dodd
Kid Oxford
Grover
Belk-Williams Co
Old North State
Brooklyn Building and Loan Association
Carolina Building and Loan Association
Citizens Building and Loan Association
City and Suburban Building and Loan Association
Co-operative Building and Loan Association
Hanover Building and Loan Association
Mechanics’ Building and Loan Association
North Carolina Home Building Association
Orton Building and Loan Association
People’s Building and Loan Association
Progressive Building and Loan Association
Rural Building and Loan Association
Wilmington Homestead and Loan Association
Metropolitan Trust Company
Workers Building and Loan Association
Ilmington
Wilmington Printing Company
Odd Fellows of
State
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