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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1917
Page
8
Ruth Camedron writes of an Authorman's Wife who resents a maid receiving silk stockings as a birthday gift. The piece critiques the idea that the poor should be grateful for donated items and exposes the caller's smug charity. It contrasts private snobbery with genuine generosity and ends with a critique of misused philanthropy.
A fashion paragraph describes an early fall frock in satin or serge with satin trim, banding, and knickery to match. It discusses fabrics, suitability of satin for street dresses, combinations with Georgette, and required yardage for materials and construction details.
Social notes from Quincy chronicle a Washington, D. C. journalist REDERIC J. HASKIN visiting long time local friends and golfing at Quincy Country Club, with other gatherings including a progressive dinner honoring departing residents and a string of local visits, lectures, and club events featuring residents and guests from Illinois and Missouri.
Me and Mrs J Henry Basert accompanied Harvey G Riggs and family to Denver leaving Sunday for about two weeks. Ed Meyer and 1619 Vine street folk returned from Milwaukee and Chicago after a three week trip. Esther Hokamp and brother Herman drove to the Grimmer farm with Carl Pfeiffer and came back. Young folks played bridge at the Stillwell home, bouquets from Stillwell gardens as prizes. Ed Musselman and family went to Bluff Park for the week. E N Walcott of Chicago visits Quincy. Westmoreland Country club member plans time on local links. Walcott and Mrs Walcott recently saw former Quincy residents George and Mrs McMein in Des Moines en route to a Michigan resort. The McMeins live in Des Moines, Iowa. Additional society on page 9.
Henry Basse and Melinda Stollberg plan marriage soon with date undisclosed. Basse, son of a jeweler, bought the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. L. Henry at 2101 Hampshire for his future wife. Stollberg is noted as lovely and accomplished, having resigned from Reliable Poultry Journal Hayes-Mead. The engagement of Nellie Hayes of Chestnut street to Charles Mead is announced.
Government seeks stenographers and other civil service workers as J L Schrage, local examiner, notes a great need across many lines. Officials urge qualified applicants to apply promptly for employment in the civil service.
An advertisement for Texas Wonder patent medicine claims to treat kidney and bladder ailments in men and women, dissolving gravel, curing diabetes, back pain, and rheumatism. It offers mail order at 31.00 with two months per bottle, requesting sworn testimonials and listing Dr. E. W. Hall of St. Louis as the contact.
Positions available Tuesday for land classifiers and assistants with salaries from 1200 to 1500 annually. Apply to Mr. Schrage. Numerous openings open for radio, heating and ventilating, and electrical and mechanical engineers. Examinations soon planned. higher wages than common civil life.
Mr Meade a carpenter from Mexico and Miss attend St Peter's school until recently plan a late month marriage in St Peter's church parsonage with Father Brennan, after which they will make Quincy their home.
The cafeteria department of the Y W C A has prepared for a large crowd on circus day and expects to accommodate country visitors.
The class examination in surgical dressing was held yesterday and the shop closed yesterday afternoon for the first time in weeks. The women enjoyed the work and were pleased with what they learned from the course.
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