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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1916
Page
2
A chaotic dialogue scene unfolds with references to a stranded brother Percy, hospital care by a blond nurse, a bare neck, capital punishment dispute, and a swimming escape from an attempted kiss, all in disjointed exchanges.
Palmyra Missouri April 25 St Pauls college building a deserted school once famed was damaged by fire Sunday afternoon. Second floor rooms occupied by George Terry destroyed and interior badly damaged. The northern town block building stood near Main street. Firemen aided by citizens who carried water in buckets. The story recalls Dr William B Corbyn who led the school in 1850 and molded many boys into men.
In Palmyra on April 25 Col. D L Perry led the auction of pure bred and high grade Jersey cattle. H B Owsley_OWNER received 6642.50 for 45 cows and heifers plus five bulls. Prices ranged from 90 to 310 dollars with several high milking animals, many from distant buyers including Toledo.
Officers and soldiers of the United States army were sick more often and longer in 1914 than any other group examined by the public health service. The 1914 disability report notes 624 enlisted men per thousand admitted to sick report and disability rates of 498 per thousand from disease and 151 from injury. The average disability lasted thirteen and a half days with eight and a half days per year per enlisted person.
Santiago edition Diario Trustrado predicts a rupture of relations between the United States and Germany. The paper says President Wilson is proceeding according to prevailing opinion that condemns German procedures.
A humorous tale shows Bertie FitzSwanker taking a date motoring at high speed to impress a girl who fears his cowardice. He boasts of fifty miles per hour as a jewelers’ quip about alarm clocks ends the scene with a joke on keeping conventional clocks that wake an entire household.
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