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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1918
Page
11
Secretary Baker at an Emerson hotel luncheon stirs Baltimore financiers with vivid France and Italy frontline tales. Within 40 minutes subscriptions total $19,221,600, lifting city’s loan to $29,258,400, over the $25,348,900 quota.
A voice claims God will kill one third of earth’s people for crimes of murder theft and sorcery and promises a nonpoisonous medical system led by Dr Chapman's Physio Medical. The speaker asserts poisons like vaccines drugs and alcohol cause disease and touts natural cures for liver lung kidney and pelvic disorders in Quincy.
Committees of the Adams County Memorial association report progress for Decoration Day events on May 30. H C Turner outlined an offer for four gross of flags to decorate soldiers’ graves. Women’s Relief corps will scatter river flowers on a Sunday around Memorial Day for the sailor dead. Memorial services at Greenmount Cemetery set for May 26. On Memorial Day a parade to Woodland Cemetery and schoolchildren decorating Graceland graves are planned with details forthcoming.
Final arrangements for a big labor protest were made Monday night over California court denial of a new trial for Tom Mooney. The parade, a labor-wide showing with Quincy crafts including hundreds of molders, will start at 10 30 in front of the Labor temple and move through City streets to state and back. Mooney, sentenced to death for a bomb death in San Francisco, has drawn a Wilson recommendation for another trial and the California Supreme Court is reviewing the case. Mooney telegrammed President Wilson that he advised against strikes in protest of his conviction.
Past Grand Master M. P. Berry of Carthage spoke at the Odd Fellows ninety ninth anniversary celebration in the Chamber of Commerce building. He traced the order history and celebrated service members while noting dues suspensions for those in military service. Old members were honored.
Pike county exercises honor the departing boys for Camp Dix New Jersey with addresses by citizens and by the youths. High school glee club and drum corps perform martial music as the early morning departure marks a new tradition. Community leaders share patriotic talks, and local civic actions include land divisions and war savings pledges as May events unfold.
A Reuters dispatch from Stockholm reports that Aftonbladet and others cite a Zurich telegram via Berlin claiming a British fleet of transports is in the channel to take Britons home in an emergency. The Admiralty refutes the claim, stating the telegram is completely unfounded.
An official report describes a brave British pilot sacrificing himself and his observer by blowing up their latest flying boat with a bomb rather than letting Germans capture the aircraft and its secret. The two men, alone at sea after fog cut off their unit, faced a German flotilla approaching as the pilot prepared a final act of self sacrifice.
A man was struck by a sea disturbance and swept under water. He surfaced and cried out as debris fell, then was carried unconscious to safety by a British patrol boat an hour later.
Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor grew suddenly ill while addressing a mass meeting of labor representatives in Montreal Quebec He was taken to his hotel where officials attributed the illness to reaction from his many speeches on the Canadian tour He spoke about war stakes urged goodwill toward Germans but said there can be no peace while democracy is opposed by Kaiserism He left the platform and was reported ill.
Topeka report lists several Kansas men aboard the sunken British ship Orrissa. Rev A N Smith of Kankato formerly Lindsberg pastor and YMC A worker. Rev Charles Vickery of Salina not confirmed. Rev J E McChambers of Salina believed aboard. George H Hayes of Topeka formerly Central Y M C A secretary.
An advertisement urges readers to act now for multiple ailments from rheumatism to indigestion. It promotes Dr Burkhart's Vegetable Compound as a reliable 30 day, 70 day, or six month treatment to purify blood and restore health with prices listed as 25, 50, and 1.00 dollars.
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