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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1920
Page
6
The Quincy Whig urges a Build Now movement to secure a river landing field and to erect 200 dwellings within the year. Proposes a modern high school, an owl car to meet trains, a hard road to Taylor Missouri, river terminals, a new barge line, and a riverfront public bathing beach.
The Missouri Democratic convention processed Senator Reed for political crimes, a rare event in American politics. Reed led a defiant Senate clique resisting White House orders, while other figures like Hoke Smith and Walsh faced varying party discipline over the League of Nations. The piece notes ongoing debates as Versailles ratification unfolds and hints Reed could become a martyr.
Johnson defeats Wood decisively in Nebraska primaries with Pershing a distant third. The California senator emerges as a forceful, outspoken candidate matching Roosevelt in personality. Michigan win seen not as fluke, boosting confidence among progressives in strong states.
The piece brands Simpkin as a plain lunatic with no political motive after fatally shooting Dr. Markoe in a New York church. It argues he was an escaped inmate from Minnesota and eastern hospitals, noting lax controls let dangerous individuals slip away and urging stricter confinement under guard.
The court remarks that Simpkin who won freedom still faces responsibility for the St George's murder. The discussion centers on whether liberty excuses accountability in the case.
Mr Marshall argues papers should print a call for justice and freedom, yet he concedes he lacks news desk credentials. The public would cancel subscriptions if such calls replaced coverage of wars riots and societal flaws.
In a critique of social hierarchies, the speaker argues that real United States leadership comes from the inconspicuous masses rather than celebrities. He cites common citizens as possessing true judgment, conscience, and justice, while condemning elites for their vanity and spectacle. M Philip Gibbble calls us a nation of nobodies.
The essay surveys Professor Adler’s theory that artistic talent grows from bodily inferiority prompting compensatory focus on art. It cites Demosthenes and others, notes criticism, and suggests exploring cultural education for children with such defects as potential contributors to artistic trends.
A compact quiz from Fred Haskin covers Crapette as a double solitaire, direct solar heating of the earth, frosting syrup method, chimney soot as a fertilizer, the Great Seal designers, brush turkey incubation, and Colonel E H Liscum’s death in the Boxer uprising. Names include Franklin Adams Jefferson Barton Prestruch and Liscum.
The waltz, of French origin, was adopted and modified in Germany. It became popular on the continent early in the 19th century and was introduced into England in 1812.
A humorist notes Congress receives an immense daily mail, averaging about 100 pieces per Representative and 70 per Senator, totaling around 50 000 pieces daily. He recounts how letters about petitions and requests flood offices, plus oddball requests and advice from constituents, with some readers even sending in gifts via The Congressional Record.
In Thornton W Burgess Animal Stories, Billy Possum dies after eggs lure him into Farmer Brown's yard. Reddy Fox claims the death, while Jimmy Skunk and other forest residents recall Billy's fondness for eggs and the odd chain of events leading to the discovery. Farmer Brown's Boy searches for the possum and finds no trace of him.
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