Quincy Business Leaders Fight Wabash Rail Cutbacks
A new campaign led by the Quincy Chamber of Commerce opposes Wabash train removals and seeks restored service with Springfield Decatur Pittsfield Barry Hannibal and other towns impacted. The effort plans outreach to Washington and public pressure, citing declining mail express and passenger service and noting coverage from Champaign and other papers.
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Chamber of Commerce
Decatur
Springfield
Pittsfield
Barry
Hannibal
Washington
Burlington
Wabash
Truman Pierson
Chamber of Commierce
Transportation Bureau
C. B. & Q. Railroad
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Danville
Champaign
Champaign Gazette
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United States Railroad Administration
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Quincy's Pulse Returns To Work At Postoffice
Quincy post office carrier Martin Melton resumes duties after a bout of influenza illness. Four clerks Gus Bunte Frank Randall Walter Stockhecke Lloyd Pepper and one carrier Carl Eppinger remain home ill.
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Postoffice
Martin Melton
Post Office
Gus Bunte
Frank Randall
Walter Stockhecke
Lloyd Pepper
Carl Eppinger
Ebert washes hands of deposed Kaiser
London reports Socialist premier Friedrich Ebert says he sees no legal means to compel Wilhelm Hohenzollern’s surrender and that Germany has separated from him. He emphasizes fixing wartime guilt, warns of possible German hunger, and notes limited influence to shape events while reflecting on Russia’s role and the fall of the old system.
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London
Friederich Ebert
Germany
William Hohenzollern
Ebert
Pershing cancels convoy home for 2nd division Negroes
Washington December 18 The assignment by Gen Pershing of the Second Division national army Negroes for early convoy home has been canceled. The army announced the change in a brief statement from Washington.
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Washington
Gen. Pershing
S2nd Division
National Army Negroes
War Department hints division chosen as occupation reserve
The War Department offered no explanation, but the presumption is that the division has been selected as a reserve unit to reinforce the American army of occupation in Germany.
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War Department
King George Enjoys Champagne After War Pause
London reports King George had champagne with dinner on armistice night and watched a lively popular girl show after reviewing a long list of theatrical attractions. It notes he had not been in a theater or drank intoxicants since 1915 until that night.
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London
George
Record yearling price at St Louis market
A Hereford yearling weighing 950 pounds sold at the National Stock Yards on Tuesday for 27 cents a pound, the highest price ever paid in the St Louis market, reflecting strong demand at the Missouri university sale event.
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ST. Louis
University of Missouri
National Stock Yards
Names of 3 Who Died and Prisoners Named
War department releases list of one officer and two enlisted men who died in France after leaving German camps and names two officers plus six enlisted men who died in Germany with 75 enlisted men reported as POWs. Among the dead in Germany is Private William H. Barnick of Petersburg Illinois and prisoners include Ralph V. Villano of Melrose Park Illinois and Lars Hanson of New Hartford Iowa.
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War Department
France
Germany
Camp
Rastatt
William HH. Barnick
Petersburg
Ilinois
Ralph V. Villano
Melrose
Park
Lars Hanson
New Hartford
Iowa
New South Wales Has Delegate In America
George Stephens Beeby minister for labor and industries for New South Wales arrives in Washington to meet Secretary of Labor Wilson. He plans a series of conferences over the next two weeks to study postwar American labor methods and industrial policies at the U.S. Department of Labor.
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Washington
George Stephens Beeby
New South Wales
Wilson
America
Beeby
Department of Labor
Wisconsin elects Beary president to succeed Vanchise
Dean B A Beary elected president of the University of Wisconsin at Madison and has accepted the post to succeed the late Charles R Vanchise. In Italy engineers developed airplanes capable of carrying twenty five men and traveling nine hundred miles with one stop.
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NEW University Wead
Madison, Wis
B. A. Beary
University of Wisconsin
Charles R. Vanchise
Wisnays
Italy
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