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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1920
Page
2
London visitor Spargo investigates a fabled fifty racing tickets once owned by Market Milcaster families. Mr Quarterpage recalls the group and hints the entire town holds or knows the aging memory of those fifty. Local updates include residents traveling, illnesses, and social visits as the town's daily life unfolds.
The text describes lingering post influenza symptoms including throat congestion chest soreness and persistent cough. It advises moderate outdoor activity nutritious food and avoiding chills. It promotes nightly Vicks VapoRub applications to draw out inflammation and deliver vapors, plus throat chest rubbing and a warm funneled cover, with samples available from Vick Chemical Company Greensboro NC.
A quaint ad explains bedbug growth, estimating seven eggs daily with two thirds female hatchlings. It pledges P D Q as a safe eco friendly solution from Owl Chemical Co to kill bedbugs and their eggs, promising a quart to wipe out a million pests, with hospital and hotel size offered at 2.50 and prepaid by mail order.
Palmyra Missouri April 16 members of the Palmyra High School teachers training class presented the play Home Ties at the Savoy theater over two and a half hours with a large crowd. The cast included Martin Winn Ruth Winn Alma Wayne and others under the direction of Mrs Elsea and stage manager A F Elsea. Sunday a Philadelphia presentation is planned. The same cast will perform in Philadelphia this week. In Palmyra city election results were quiet with three councilmen elected and a vacancy for recorder caused by death. several write in votes were cast for the recorder position. Start paying agitation to pave Main Street with Tarvia double seal pavement and extend along key streets as plans advance.
In Marseilles on April 14 Louise Boulvnle who in 1914 denounced to the Germans a French soldier, her neighbor Michel Amedee, was condemned to death by a court martial. Amedee was executed thirty minutes before a pardon order reached the German officer in charge.
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