Enlisted officers endure seasick voyage aboard Luzon
Chief Yeoman Hynes reports on the Luzon cruise from Chicago to Luzon with 200 tons of coal loaded by steam shovel. Severe seasickness affects officers and crew. Ensign Edwards and Jack Herrick among the sickest. Despite rough weather and a Mackinac strait storm, the ship presses toward Detroit and Buffalo with good meals and improving health aboard.
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Yeoman
Isla
Zzan
Ey Sea
Illinois Naval Ting
Chicago
Ning
Apm
Luzon
T. Quincy Boys
W. C. Edwards
Jack
Herrick
Quartermaster King
Hermesmeyer
Stanberry
Edwards
Buffalo
Detroit
Johnson
Put-in- Bay
Ohio
Liberty
Hynes
The Big Circus Watchwords of Time and Trade
A vivid portrait of the Barnum & Bailey circus as a rigid time driven enterprise. It notes the schedule discipline from lithograph to train departure, and details the immense scale including 750 horses, 40 elephants and more, with a $3,000,000 investment and a $400,000 stock exchange for horses. It contrasts the circus’ internal commissariat with external hotel reliance and hints at animal value volatility.
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Barnum’& Bailey Circus
Circus
Barnum & Bailey
Barnum
Bailey
Rees Wins Sewer Contract In City Territory
Henry Rees, local contractor, was awarded the contract for the new sanitary sewer between Thirteenth and Twenty fourth and Oak and Spruce streets after bids opened at the Board of Local Improvements meeting. Engineer estimate was 20070 dollars. bids ranged down to 14549.35 by Rees. Rees plans to start in about three weeks and will deploy a new trench digging machine on the project.
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Henry Rees
Twenty- Fourth
Oak and
Spruce Streets
Board of Local Improvements
AW. D. Meyer
Peter. Simons
Joseph Eiff & Son
Jacob Althaus
St. Louis
Hummert, & Menke
A. C. Schuering
Rees
Gibson City
Car and streetcar collisions near Quincy intersect
An afternoon crash at Ninth and Maine involved a Mittelburg auto with two women and four children, hitting a streetcar. no injuries, car towed after front wheels smashed. A separate 10th and Broadway incident saw Dr. R J Christie’s car strike a streetcar, causing minor damage and no injuries.
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Ninth and
Maine
R.J. Christie
Tenth and
Broadway
Empire Hippodrome Weekly Schedule Features Hypocrites and Travel Pictures
The Empire Hippodrome lists a slate of showings from September 1 to 9, featuring matinees and evening performances of Hypocrites, followed by Dorsey Travel Pictures titled Japan and China. Burlesque acts titled September Morning Glories also appear later in the week.
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Riday
Dorsey
Japan
China
Dorsey Travel
Orning
Illinois aims six fire loss curbs including fire escapes
Springfield Aug 28 Walter H Bennett state fire marshal says Illinois cities outside Chicago will adopt six ordinances to cut losses exceeding 15 million dollars annually. Provisions include mandatory fire escapes in three story plus buildings, compulsory Fourth of July fireworks controls, monthly fire department inspections, restrictions on flammable liquids, regulated garages, and a new Electrical Inspector to oversee wiring and safety measures.
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Springfield
Walter H. Bennett
Llinois
Chicago
Fire Department
Fire ‘Department
Iess
Fires Department
Four Different Bomb Types Described From Front Lines
London reports an English officer’s letter detailing four main bomb types used in France and Flanders. Hair-brush bombs replace bristles with explosive blocks, policeman’s club bombs have tapes at the tail, cricket-ball bombs use a timed fuse, and jam-tin bombs rely on chance with a ten-second delay. Archibald Blakely, aged 88, dies in Pittsburgh, longtime Allegheny County bar member and last survivor of a group that helped form the Republican Party.
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London
France
Flanders
Archibald Bakaly
Pittsburgh
Archibald Blakely
Aed
Allegheny County
Republican Party
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Yoeman ‘Hynes
Quincy
Empire-Hippodrome
Bennett
S. B. Montgomery
JW. Gardner
Eln
Monroe Herman H.: Brown
Thos. Burrows
F. W. Crane
Thos. L. Tushaus Geo. F. ‘Jasper
A. H. Pennoyer
Quincy, Ill
THE
CUB Reporter
Missus Scoop
Adigne
Ana
Hop
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