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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1916
Page
6
In a crowded dressing room after a dance, a narrator admires a maid and observes society women applying cosmetics. The piece comments on permanent waves, makeup trends, and yearning for natural health, recommending sleep and exercise over heavy artificial preparations.
The Victoria hosts Reillys Globe Trotters for a week led by thirteen artists with a full musical chorus. Empire Quartet and blackface comedian Ernest Linwood headline, with Harold Pate and Fred Kramer among other acts and the best dressed chorus. The program also includes Rube Goldberg cartoons in movies and the Triangle feature The Bugle Call with William Collier Jr Anna Lehr and Thomas Guise.
Florence Walton and Maurice discuss silent emotion in dance as they debut in The Quest of Life at the Grand. The Famous Players Paramount film follows a young girl balancing stenography studies at night with work as a butcher shop cashier, amid dramatic ambitions.
The Hague reports Belgian civilians are conscripted by German forces to lay a second line of wire entanglements 200 yards inside the first along the Dutch Belgian frontier near Wachtebeke. The measure follows a rise in German deserters prompting tighter security.
Mortgage sale conducted under a deed by Walter H Swepson and wife to the North Carolina Home Building Association in New Hanover County. The auction will be at the Court House door Wilmington on November 2, 1916 at noon for cash, selling Lot 2 and 3 in Block 4, Magnolia and Dock street area. Attorneys John D Bellamy & Son represent the association.
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