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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1916
Page
3
Market conditions and marine weather updates are reported with coastal readings and sea forecasts. Navigation advisories and port reports are included for the day with commodity notes and early market movements. The section provides regional weather outlooks and nautical summaries for mariners.
Readable fragments show a mid October weather and market snapshot with cloudy Charleston and New York notes. Prices for eggs butter chickens and vegetables mix with rail and industrials shifting. Major stocks include United States Steel Baldwin Locomotive American Cotton and Chesapeake Ohio with varied gains and declines.
An Oct 16 report discusses unusually high London Liverpool prices and shifting cotton offers from Texas to North Carolina mills. It questions export demand strength, notes North Carolina textile activity, and cites nearby price quotes and naval stores data from Wilmington and Savannah.
New York October cotton prices show renewed strength at the open with active buying. Active months advance 8 to 13 points, December hits 17.72 and January 17.68 as futures move toward month highs.
Mrs James sues for divorce alleging neglect by her husband and failure to support the bulldog, as reported in Exchange notes. The filing centers on marital breakdown and care responsibilities.
The piece reviews long running interstate clashes centered on Mason and Dixon's line, detailing Delaware's 12 mile circle claim over New Jersey waters and the Delaware river, plus the Flat Iron feud with Pennsylvania. It notes Jersey shad fishermen and colonial courts, several generations of disputes, and eventual shifts in boundaries and maps.
Raleigh N C Oct 16 John J Parker Republican candidate for attorney general spoke in the Court House Friday night to a large Republican audience. He defended his stand on tariff and foreign policy, attacked the Adamson bill and labor unions, and criticized Democratic leaders and state administration. He praised the 1897 legislature while condemning current programs and pledged to push court reforms if elected.
Altoona reports Henry Weaver of Bald Eagle Valley describes a Sunday mishap sequence at Tyrone in which a pear tree limb breaks during his climb causing a fall onto a pig, killing the animal. A frightened colt crashes through a clothes line and fence, injures itself, and a veterinarian arrives to treat wounds and accidentally shoots Weaver’s dog.
The American Missionary Association opens its annual meeting in Minneapolis with plans to advance a two stage program for a new Congregationalism. President Henry Churchill King of Oberlin College will preside and deliver two major addresses, joined by President Vincent of the University of Minnesota and other noted figures.
Boston officials report more than six men and women, including a former Massachusetts legislator, arraigned in Superior Criminal Court for trial in the Margaret Ward case. Ward’s body was found in a Salem automobile after an illegal operation reportedly led to her death.
The Grand Circuit closes its three month campaign at the State fair grounds track in Atlanta on Oct 16. Kings and queens of trotting and pacing compete for stakes and purses exceeding a half million dollars. The meet marks the circuit's first extended stay far south and officials expect top sport from packed stables and a week of fast racing.
Clarence L. Reames U S district attorney for Oregon arrives to conduct this week’s trials of six men charged with fraud in locating settlers on Oregon and California grant lands. This is the second trial after the first last June ended in jury disagreement. The six defendants are William B. DeGram Norman B. Cook W A S Nicholson Sidney L Sperry A J Reetz and Franklin P Bull.
Fares for all passenger trains on October 31 and November 1 2 3 with limited returning until midnight November 4 1916. Proportionate excursion fares from intermediate points. Children half rate. For details call Phone 160. T C White General Passenger Agent Wilmington NC.
Round trip fare from Wilmington to Sanford for the Lee County Agricultural Fair is 3.90 with tickets via Atlantic Coast Line and the Standard Railroad of the South. Tickets valid November 1 to 3 with return by midnight November 4 1916. Proportionate fares from intermediate points and children half fare. For schedules and information call on.
The Victoria presents an all vaudeville bill headlined by Zarrow's Variety Review with five high class acts. Lynch Trio, Hill and Edmunds Irish gags, Musical Al Nuttle, Shyder and Vaughn and Bessie Knowles headline, with free courtesy to ladies tonight.
William Fox presents Theda Bara in a modernized film version of East Lynne at the Royal tomorrow. Claire Whitney also stars, with an updated setting using automobiles and a vivid, detailed adaptation likely to be Fox’s greatest offering at the Royal.
Vallejo California October 16 County Treasurer George Weniger gains $10 from a former grocery patron who repaid an old debt. The man explained he was formerly hard up but had since improved and was now prosperous enough to settle the debt.
Three hundred machinists are needed at the United States Naval Torpedo Station in Newport Rhode Island, per a circular received by Postmaster H McL Green. Pay starts at 3.36 dollars per day for two weeks, rising to 3.76 dollars per day if extended. Applicants must read blueprints and perform at least three machinist trades, with only American citizens eligible.
Foreclosure auction scheduled for November 10 1916 at the New Hanover County Court House door. D M Beardsley and wife mortgaged property in Sea Gate Park Harnett township to H A Burerr jr. The sale covers two parcels Lot 5 Block A and Lot 4 Block A with specified boundary lines and a right of way, in New Hanover County North Carolina.
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