Messenger Girls Considered for New Bern Telegraph Service
Special to The Dispatch New Bern September 28. Telegraph offices in the South are using girls as messengers and New Bern may soon employ messengeresses due to a boy shortage. Western Union officials may begin girl dispatch carriers within weeks. The article also notes no circus is booked for New Bern this year amid high taxes and rail embargoes. Also reported are hunters finding deer, Beaufort mosquitoes overwhelming residents, and the first cotton bale selling for 25 cents per pound at Pollocksville while none yet appears in New Bern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Bern
P. B. Shuping
Western Union Telegraph Company
North Carolina
Beaufort
Norfolk Southern
Pollocksville
I. H. Barrus
Jack Pearce
Hanover Building and Loan Association
Wilmington Real
J. W. Yates
H. F. Wilder
C. D. Weeks
Princess Street
German War Reporter Accuses Germany of Massacres
Dr. Harry Stuermer, former Cologne Zeitung correspondent, exposes Turkish deportations and Armenian massacres in Two War Years in Constantinople. He details German cowardice and complicity from Masurian battles to Constantinople, including plunder, deportations, and failed interventions. He cites officers and German missionaries corroborating atrocities and condemns official and diplomatic Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry “Prusrmer
Kolnische Zeitung
Masurian Lake
Turkey
Cologne
Switzerland
Constantinople
Germany
Belgium
Stuermer
Paul Schweeer
Asia Minor
Euphrates
Pera
Galata
Stuermer Himsel
Anatolia
Armenia
Nero
Berlin
Iuve German
Shetter
Shand's Grocery Fourth Adds Fresh Mackerel Milk
Local store Shand's Grocery Fourth announces new shipment of fresh mackerel and fresh daily milk plus courteous service. Phone 630 for delivery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shand’s Grocery
Young Spanish relief chief handles big wartime task
Washington dispatch notes Senor Clay, only 22, heads relief work for the Spanish embassies aiding prisoners of war and Polish war sufferers. He coordinates prisoner addresses, transfers funds from Americans, and reports August remittances of over 26 thousand dollars from about 900 donors to Polish victims. The Spanish relief office has expanded offerings and space.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Washington
Clay
Senor Don Garcia
America
Lester Clay
Germany
Senor Olay
Poland
Serbia
Rumania
Palestine
Weather forecast for next week and regional outlook
The forecast ahead calls for fair to cooler conditions with lower temperatures Sunday, then a return to normal by Tuesday or Wednesday for the South Atlantic and East Gulf States. A separate item notes Greek shipowners ceding a ration to the French government, and a notice of compensation for families of those killed in Athens is referenced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
South Atlantic
East Gulf States
Dene Salar
Athens
Fragmentary OCR Reflects Editorial Tone on Truth and Courage
A damaged text fragment discusses reporters at a newspaper with a call for courage and truth. It references travelers returning from Switzerland and an editorial stance on journalistic integrity without clear names or dates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Switzes
Tan
Ambition urged to seize business opportunities now
A prominent notice urges readers to act on ambition and prepare for success in the business world. It emphasizes that the decision rests with the individual and delays may allow others to fill the desired place.
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Messenger Girls
Sne&zinz
G. C. Elliott
D. C
Mrs Building. Ry
Palmer School of Chiropractic
Messenger Service
Peetal
Tee Cable Company
Es Hay
American Baking Co
Buick Light
W. D. MacMillan, Jr
C. BE. Bethea
American Bank and Trust Co
Care Dispatch
Wilmington
N. C
Market Street
A. Carpenter
Mechanics Home Association
Walker Taylor
W. M. Cumming
Army
Charles Finkelstein
South Front Street
Bear Produce and Merchandise Co
Southeighth Street
J. T. Gordon
M. Lance
Carolina Beach
New Hanover Transit Co
Dodge Brothers
W D. MacMillan, Jr
DODGE
W .D. MacMillan, Jr
the Motte Business College, Inc
Front and Chestnut
Gordon’s
M. C. Darby & Company
Kent
Postal Telegraph Office
Ajax
B. May
Jas. M. Stevenson
Southern Building
Queen City Cycle Co
Foltz & Kendrick
6Th and
Red Cross Streets
Martin Schnibben
North 7Th Street
FORD
N.C
Sullivan
King E
Shoemakers
N. Front Street
W. B. Cooper & Co
Wilmington, N. C
789
W. B. Thorpe & CO
Wares and Ann Streets
For
Market St
Wilmington, North Carolina
the Peoples Savings Ran
H. ©. McQueen
American Bank and Trust Company
American Bank & Trust
Liberty Loan
Cates
THE
C. L. Dickinson
Princess Building
the Home Savings Bank
Cape Fear Hardware CO
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