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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1916
Page
3
Market Review and Marine and Weather News notes the water level in the Cape Fear river at Fayetteville North Carolina stood at 1.8 feet at 8 a.m. yesterday. The forecast section provides general weather outlook for the region with typical coastal conditions and tide considerations.
A Savannah pupil from Bancroft school, four years in attendance, now cannot continue at public school. He depended on family transportation and crutches with braces to walk home each afternoon, slow but manageable. Market notes mention naval stores and a snapshot of Wall Street openings with mixed gains in various steel and tobacco shares.
Spokane reports Donald Fureham, once nearly paralyzed by a crippling ailment, can again attend classes thanks to a private elevator. The story notes his renewed ability to go to school after years of limited movement.
The cotton market showed stability at the morning open in New York on October 5. Prices rose as much as 11 points to a new high, but realising sales remained heavy and Southern traders pushed prices back 9 to 10 points within the first hour.
In Brazil Indiana on October 5 a citizen found surface water fouling his well. He quit after half an hour of pumping. He built a small water wheel on a trough end to amuse local boys. The boys then pumped the well dry just to see the wheel turn.
On the San Fernando boulevard Deputy Sheriffs Cooper and Sweeney sighted a large coyote dart from the roadside into car headlights. A race ensued with the animal running ahead of the automobile until a burst of speed ended when the car struck and killed the coyote.
The War Department ordered the remaining North Carolina troops at Camp Glenn to move to the Mexican border as soon as transportation is arranged.
Warsaw, Oct. 5. Miss Margaret Hill Pierce of this city will depart for Washington City to lead a training school for a class of ten. The new program, named the Child Life School, builds on her prior work in Natural Education for Children and recent study at Columbia University. Support from prominent Washington figures is expected to bolster the venture.
President Wilson arrived in Omaha to participate in Nebraska’s fiftieth anniversary statehood celebration. He planned a noon lunch address at the Commercial Club and a ceremonial pageant with Mrs. Wilson, then would address an audience at the municipal auditorium before departing for Long Branch later tonight.
Altoona Pa October 5 Two men were probably killed as the Mercantile Express on the Pennsylvania Railroad crashed into the rear of a stock train at the Lewiston yards. The engineman was badly scalded and about a dozen mail clerks and passengers were injured. Trains were blocked more than four hours.
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