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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1919
Page
13
Nora Austin a 14 year old described as homeless is in county court on a dependency petition filed by Probation Officer Thomas Nolan. Her case was set for hearing December 27 by County Judge Fred Wolfe and she is in the Detention Home. Una Powell was also brought into custody on related matters.
Charges of a sordid nature have been filed against Oliver Wood regarding relations with the Powell girl. The case against the defendant was continued until the January term. A substitute for coke has been obtained from fungi dried and ground, mixed with cement, and consolidated by pressure. The Gospel of Matthew has been published in Pali, the sacred language of Buddhism.
The Quincy Whig reports that early morning skywatchers saw no dramatic event as a supposed league of planets formed near sunrise. Astronomer Henry J. Uhlenbrock notes six planets Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Neptune in near alignment but at right angles to the Earth, making the display unremarkable and not threatening.
A public hearing will be held in the council chamber next Monday morning and afternoon on proposed paving of 34 blocks of streets and two blocks of alleys. The board of local improvement mailed notices Tuesday to interested property owners naming the hours for the hearing. Paving projects include Payson avenue from Third to Twelfth with eight inch reinforced Portland cement concrete pavement at an estimated cost of 77 133.65. Hearing at 10 o'clock next Monday morning. Eighteenth from Broadway to Chesnut also slated for concrete pavement.
A list of street paving bids with estimated costs and hearing times for concrete work on Vine streets and an alley in Portland, plus a note that paving along these routes will use concrete except near railway tracks where bricks appear. Also mentions a Shanghai mill project with $1,600,000 capital and Chinese spinning and weaving plants expanding facilities.
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