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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1917
Page
2
A health notice explains auto-intoxication as slow self poisoning of vital organs causing jaundice constipation indigestion and nervousness. It promotes Peplac as a tonic to cleanse organs and restore function, likening it to a spark plug that starts and regulates the body's engines. Available at Wilmington drug stores.
USSB Lovel receives a letter from gunners in France naming their trench The Louise Lovely Trench and christening their big howitzer Louise The Australian star Miss Lovely plans gifts for the men who signed the letter including a keepsake for each signer
The fragment quotes a formula credited to Helen Ferguson Taylor describing patience persistency and courage as steps toward film entry. It references Holmes and a 16 year old as the subject of the note, but the readable text is incomplete and lacks full context or confirmation of events.
Horace Morgan known as Kewpie weighs 364 pounds and stands 6 feet 5 inches. Doctors cannot weigh him on standard scales, prompting the examining board chief to suggest enlisting as the Morgan twins.
Evelyn Nesbit and her son Rus Nesbit sell Thaw related goods in a busy scene on a secondscreen. The event highlights Nesbit’s ongoing business ventures with her family presence noted.
Grace Cunard reports the loss of her husband Joe Moore to the draft. The compulsory military call up pulled him from home, leaving her to face the separation and its consequences for their family.
Film director Charles J. Brabin has twenty six relatives serving in the British army with brothers A E Brabin killed at Givenchy on the Marne, Jack commanding a tank, Edward in charge of a 15 inch gun. Violet Mer sereau curls questioned. Bert Jackson and his Girls of Today opening at the Royal draw capacity crowds with new songs, sets, and Eclipse Harmony Trio praised.
Syracuse Herald critic praises John W. Vogels Big City Minstrels at the Academy of Music for a strong opening with a capable company. The review notes novel features good singers a prepossessing first part and an entertaining comic dance finale The Jennie Cooler Dance.
Capacity crowds will witness William Foxs latest feature In Virginia Pearsons starring role. The mystery drama promises thrills from opening title to fade out with new photographic effects and expert direction by Carl Harbaugh.
An advertisement warns dandruff leads to baldness and promotes Parisian sage from R. R. Bellamy as the cure. The tonic is claimed to stop itching and shedding, promote new growth, and is guaranteed or money back. It touts antiseptic, non greasy formula with perfume and notes it won’t color hair.
A Toledo advertisement asserts catarrhal deafness results from inflammation of the Eustachian tube and cannot be cured by local means. It promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a constitutional remedy and offers one hundred dollars for any case it cannot cure, with a statement of a free consultation.
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