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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1917
Page
3
New York cotton prices opened sharply higher on September futures but cooled under selling pressure and heavy realizing. October dipped to 20.40 and finished near 20.09 as the market turned unsettled around midday. December January and March followed the trend with mixed gains and losses amid spot activity at 21.30 for middling.
Nervousness over a tropical storm kept New Orleans cotton prices rising early but fair belt weather and optimistic weekly weather reports sparked selling. By noon active months fell 50 to 69 points, with October near 20.06 and December around 19.96 to 19.11, as spot cotton stayed quiet at 19.75 to 20.88.
Liverpool market reports steady spot prices with gains of 20 to 25 points. American middling fair at 18.20 and good middling 17.60, with several futures contracts up about 25 points. Trading notes show 3 000 bales sold, 17 000 bales received, all American.
The seed oil market ended softer with spot and futures bids noted. Prices shown include September 15.75, October 1, November 15.19, December 618, January 15.20, February 35.25, March 15.28, and April 15.30 with total sales of 16,400.
In a bid to preserve memory of members of parliament who died in the war, there is a proposal to place name-plates on the backs of the seats they occupied in the House of Commons.
Tokyo General Motors hits a new low around 71 1/2 as steel and coal shares slide. Milestones include dives in International Nickel and Canadian Pacific while Southern Railway dividends resume. Chicago grain shows corn firm on speculative buying despite early weakness. oats hold, wheat arrivals unchanged.
Turpentine firm sales 410 receipts 264 shipments 284 stock 32,977. Rosin firm sales 1,014 receipts 1,064 shipments 895 stock 86,885. Quote includes grades B D BE G H T K M N WG WW with prices from 5.50 to 7.36.
The article lists ten classroom and teaching reforms to boost efficiency. It covers paying teachers for preterm patron visits, requiring retiring teachers to pass on promotions, grading by register before opening, using individual desks, encouraging strenuous play and frequent recess, assigning written work for idle classes, fostering friendly rivalry with prizes, having pupils prepare lessons at home, and county superintendents drafting a countywide advancement plan.
Stage of water in the Cape Fear river at Fayetteville at 8 a m yesterday was 6.1 feet.
More than a thousand appeals for exemption from military service on war industry grounds were filed with Pro vost Marshal General Crowder. Preliminary review is under way, with final President decisions expected. Personal hearings will not be held and evidence must match district board submissions. Until decision, those claiming industrial exemptions remain subject to military duty.
German children and women are mobilized in anti Wilson agitation. Hamburg area public schools held Sunday demonstrations with telegrams to Emperor William Chancellor Michaelis and Hindenburg. Vorwaerts denounces pan German plotting and questions Michaelis stance while new anti Reichstag party formed led by Tirpitz and Kopp aimed at pressuring for rejection of peaceful terms.
The notice records Thursday sunrise and sunset times with approximate indications for September 1. It lists sunrise and sunset as key daily markers and references a specific time: 6 54.
Prof. Paul Milukoff offered his services to mediate between Korniloff and Kerensky in Petrograd. He proposed government authority to negotiate peace but Kerensky insisted on unconditional Korniloff surrender. General Alexieff said he would take no official position and remained a private individual.
Paris reports French forces attacked German trenches in the St Souplet area of Champagne. They penetrated the first two lines and reached the third, with German garrison killed or captured. French detachments also clashed near Auberive and along the St Hilaire to St Souplet road. Meuse sector saw repulsed attacks north of Courieres wood and Ronvaux. Taure assault failed. Artillery fire raged in Drei Grachten and Bixachoote. Dunkirk area bombarded with civilian casualties.
The Chamber of Commerce of the United States states today that preferential shipments under the recent act of Congress will be granted only when necessary for national defense and security.
The Swedish election scene touches a telegrams scandal tied to use of a government exchange system. Foreign Minister Lindman knew little of the traffic, while former minister Wallenberg is accused of weak safeguards. Copenhagen Politiken predicts the issue will influence the campaign.
The Knights of Columbus named secretaries to oversee recreation halls at ten training camps including Columbia South Carolina and Petersburg Virginia. The project costs 1 million dollars with 32 camps to be served and twenty two more to be named soon by the organization.
The Atlantic Coast Line announces reduced round trip fares from Wilmington North Carolina. Tickets go on sale on set dates with itineraries to cities including New York Philadelphia Baltimore and Atlanta among others. Final limits range from September to October 1917 with several stopover options and intermediate point pricing.
Southern Railway announces a route change shortening the Winston Salem Morehead City Beaufort line to Winston Salem Goldsboro. Sleeping car service will be on trains 232 142 and 111 237. For details contact Southern Railway Agents or Passenger Agent J O Jones Raleigh N C.
A vintage drug ad proclaims Calotabs as the purified, tasteless calomel substitute. The tablet claims no griping or nausea and promises quick relief for biliousness constipation and indigestion. Sold in sealed twenty dose packages for thirty five cents with druggists offering a refund guarantee.
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