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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1916
Page
9
Dr. Cox, famed for the dry battery and submarine signaling gear, announces a perfected subterranean wireless telephone. He claims a new physics law allows energy transmission over a single conductor, removing the circuit from electricity. The device is compact and could advance civilian and military communications.
After a Wednesday conference, railroad officials planned to seek federal injunctions to block Jersey City’s order prohibiting shipment or storage of high explosives within city limits. A warehouse fire spread to two loaded freight cars buried under debris, but Acting Fire Chief William Kern said the blaze was under control. Shrapnel shells in the debris exploded due to the heat.
Report states that more than fifty laborers near the blaze were ordered away and a deadline was established. The action indicates measures to ensure safety and control of the site as responders assess the situation and secure the area. Officials did not disclose further details about the cause or ongoing operations.
The war office reports repulsed enemy counter attacks south of the Somme northwest of Deniescourt and at Vadier. Our forces on the Meuse front bombarded Lemort Homme and conducted attacks from the Meuse to Fleury and the Vacheraoaille area, seizing German trenches, capturing ten machine guns, and taking about six hundred prisoners.
An advertisement asserts catarrhal deafness stems from inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian tube and cannot be cured by local applications. It claims only a constitutional remedy can restore hearing, offers $100 for any uncured case, and promotes circulars and druggists selling Hall's Catarrh Cure by F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo, Ohio.
London naval officers monitor the progress of the German submarine merchantman Deutschland with guarded hope for an unsafe return voyage. A British admiralty official reasserted that Britain will not recognize the vessel as an ordinary merchantman.
The Senate unanimously confirmed the nominations of Charles Lobdell of Great Bend Kansas George W Norris of Philadelphia W S A Smith of Sioux City Town and Herbert Quick of Berkeley Springs West Virginia as members of the new farm loan board with no opposition.
An official Palmyra primary ballot count confirms Morris Anderson wins prosecuting attorney, Amos Durand secures the western district judgeship, and John Miller is reelected public administrator by a narrow margin. Reelect Judge Ragland pleases locals as face of circuit court decisions. Community events include an ice cream social on courthouse lawn and a Palmyra school board meeting. Ben Harrison of Lewistown and Miss Mary Battles of LaBelle wed in a auto honeymoon ceremony, then plan a regional tour before settling on Harrison’s Lewistown farm.
New York on August 3 eyed a potential city wide walkout by 30,000 surface workers over union rights. A tie up of 1575 miles of streetcar lines could extend to elevated and subway services, provoking the worst strike in the city’s history and serious bus disruption. Governor Whitman, Mayor Mitchel, and police officials met to assess whether 10,000 police could manage without militia.
Gen George Bell Jr ordered troops in the Finlay area to return to Fort Bliss if no bandits are seen today after reports failed to reveal hostile Mexicans. A band sighting by guards was attributed to possible American ranchmen. Mexican pursuit continues over the Port Hancock incident. Kidney trouble ad appears with Foley Kidney Pills claims of relief after three bottles.
An Edison era advertisement touts Texas Wonder as a cure for kidney and bladder ailments, diabetes, rheumatism, and back pain. It claims universal regulation of bladder issues for children and adults and offers mail order with testimonials from other states. Dr. E W Finit of St. Louis endorses it. sold by druggists.
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