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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1916
Page
3
Sunrise and sunset times for Friday are noted with Cape Fear river stage at Fayetteville N C at 8 am yesterday measured 1 8 feet. This brief item blends market review with marine and weather updates from Sunrise.
New York cotton opened lower by 2 to 21 points with January at 18.30 and May at 18.53 amid storm damage reports. Prices recovered to around 18.52 for January and 18.72 for May by the end of the first hour, still below yesterday’s highs.
Trading opened with specialties leading gains while rail leaders United States Steel Union Pacific and Chesapeake and Ohio remained firm. Spirit prices for Wilmington and Savannah naval stores showed mixed quotes, rosin and spirits reported with minor shifts and fractional cents across multiple listings.
Hundreds attended the funeral in Wilmington despite bad weather. The service at First Presbyterian was led by Rev. J. M. Wells with Rev. W. E. Cox assisting. Pallbearers from Knights Templar and Masons accompanied the casket to Oakdale cemetery, where burial rites were observed beside abundant floral tributes.
Topeka scholars debunk apocalypse fears about global hunger 8 to 9 million years hence. Some experts propose nut trees could supply nourishment in a pinch, replacing dire warnings with a hopeful view that the earth will not starve.
Democratic lieutenant governor candidate Max Gardner spoke to about 2000 at the Cumberland County city auditorium. He urged young voters toward the Republican party and argued Southern Republicans are despised by the national party. Gardner’s speech focused on the youth and drew attention as Cam Morrison gains momentum for the Democratic primary and 1946 election.
San Francisco, Oct. 19. A young man claiming to be D. M. Delmas, nephew of the famed lawyer Delphin M. Delmas who once defended Harry K. Thaw, is under arrest on charges of swindling operations totaling 130 dollars. He is said to have a long record of swindling merchants, wrecking banks and jail breaking, and to have traveled the world in a romance that led to his capture after detectives followed his trail globally.
Brunswick County officials show no reply received from New Hanover on a joint meeting to discuss a Ferry across the Cape Fear. The Brunswick board may stand by ceding Heagles Island and building a bridge to the market street site if New Hanover will fund and maintain the Cape Fear causeway.
In New Bern on October 19 the Chamber of Commerce discussed securing a permanent playground for city children. Prof H B Smith led the discussion for Prof J H Bourdelais with a committee to work with the local Woman's Club. Possible sites include the Broad Street vacant lot near Burn, the city hall area, and the Athens theatre vicinity.
Application for a charter of the Sanitary Manufacturing Company with $25,000 capital was filed in Raleigh. The firm plans to produce sanitary appliances including sanitary telephone mouthpieces.
Chairman Hyman says twelve firms contacted to place parade floats and a committee will secure the groundwork for the playground. Secretary Ramspeck of the Chamber of Commerce will assist. Norfolk Southern to send a representative to New Bern to connect the union station to the fair grounds with a shuttle train during fair week, expecting large crowds.
William Jennings Bryan arrives in Louisville to campaign for Wilson with eight addresses planned from Bowling Green to Elizabethtown. The series begins in Bowling Green and ends with a principal address in Elizabethtown.
Seismograph records from Georgia Alabama and Tennessee show a local tremor lasting about three minutes. Georgetown University reports the quake began at 508 p m and was very slight with the center near Denetdonfeshington.
The Telephone Pioneers of America met in Atlanta for its annual reunion starting today. The two day gathering is social in nature and includes members such as Prof. Alexander Graham Bell, Theodore N. Vail, and R. H. Starrett among others connected to early telephone history.
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