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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1919
Page
4
Unsigned OCR snippet lists office lines for Telephonists General Manager Advertising Department Circulation Department Managing Editor City Editor and notices for My Mall Daily and Sunday scales with six months three months and one year rates. Indicates entry at Wilmington North Carolina post office as second class matter.
A policy notice from the paper states that the Associated Press holds exclusive rights to republication of AP credited dispatches and local news published in the paper. The notice clarifies licensing and reprint rules for readers and other media.
The piece argues smoke wastes fuel and damages goods and homes, citing a Cincinnati plant saving fifty thousand dollars annually after moving to the suburbs. It notes Pittsburg became cleaner without a single arrest due to a smoke inspector, contrasting with Cleveland Cincinnati and Buffalo.
The piece argues postwar prices surged, with food up 78.72 percent between 1914 and 1918 and 73.29 percent to June 1919, while clothing and fuel costs shift. It urges strict economy, anti profiteering, and public measures to ease hardship as society adapts to peace and past battles fade.
The piece argues schools should train tomorrow's citizens rather than imprison youth with rote study. It notes teachers face rising demand for higher pay and stresses that parental cooperation and support at home are essential to education.
A fragment recalls how schooling has evolved from Shakespearean times to the present. The piece notes that mandatory attendance shaped by new methods and shop oriented training has altered how boys and girls are prepared, with trades and sewing featured in schools.
A reminiscence recalls Civil War veterans marching to encampments along the Atlantic coast and inland cities for decades. The piece notes large numbers gathering, with ranks thinning slowly as time passed.
Our Daily Birthday Party lists Charles Piez former director general of the emergency fleet corporation born in Germany to American parents aged 53. Maj. Gen. William M. Wright of the US Army born in New Jersey aged 56. Brig. Gen. Clarence P. Townsley born in De Kalb New York aged 64. Eugene N. Foss ex congressman and Massachusetts governor born in West Berkshire Vermont aged 61. J Horace McFarland longtime American civic federation president born in Juniata County Pennsylvania aged 70.
A historical column recounts events from 1819 as a physician and two chaplains reach St Helena to attend Napoleon. It notes 1844 birth of Grace Atkinson Oliver in Boston and her death in Marblehead, Mass., May 21, 1899. It also marks 1869 financial panic in New York known as Black Friday and 1894 Vienna hosts a German council of national sciences with 2,000 delegates.
Washington report argues to lower costs by boosting extractive industries through permanent, self sustaining forest and mining towns. It proposes moving workers from idle years into timber and farm combined lands with planned communities, schools, and homes, using federal forests and steady forestry policy.
McKaye analyzes 801 farms in the northwest and argues profitability requires net income after debt and costs equal to a good wage. He favors government leasing and land reclamation to curb speculation, and proposes fully equipped farms for buyers. Crosser bill and Clyde Kelly proposal reflect these ideas.
Brig. Gen. Clarence P. Townsley retires from the U S army at age in a long record of service mainly in artillery. He graduated from the United States military academy in 1907 after being appointed from Iowa and served as chief of artillery and ordnance in Havana during the war with Spain before holding key posts at Fort Monroe and West Point.
Within Philadelphia city limits lies Bustleton a small community of retired farmers. Historic lore marks the old Bill Tilger's Union Hotel with a chamber featuring a World War era artifact. An entry recalls September 24, 1918 a U S liberty loan drive and German officials public discontent.
Daily service except Sundays, with a Sunday special schedule. Center departures every 34 minutes from 8 30 a m to 6 00 p m and Beach departures every 10 minutes from 9 15 a m to 8 45 p m. Freight runs daily except Sunday from 9 80 a m to 3 00 p m and again from 11 15 a m to 4 15 p m with depot hours 6 00 a m to 1 00 p m and 2 00 to 6 00 p m. Ninth and Orange Streets freight leaves 11 00 a m and Beach 12 45 p m. Freight office hours 10 04 a m to 11 00 a m.
Historians recall a bed once slept in by Mad Anthony Wayne at the Union Hotel kept in the Tilyer family for generations. In September Bustleton becomes busy as mushroom hunters head to dew soaked fields at sunrise to harvest and sell many bushels at Philadelphia markets.
A brief quotation attributes happiness to those with less selfishness and greater disinterest, citing Mrs Sigourney. The line frames content about character and joy as a moral reflection. It reads as a timeless adage rather than a news item.
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