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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1915
Page
22
Quincy Fire Chief Marriotte urges safe Christmas lighting using electric lights instead of candles. He warns dried trees are highly flammable and can spark a large blaze. Merchants should inspect display window wiring as holiday goods increase fire risk.
Gay Williamson was here on business Monday. Mrs. Martha Gray has been ill with rheumatism but is much improved now. Mrs. Ed Doane and Leigh visited relatives in Jacksonville. Shoppers included Mae Peterson Mary Bell Nellie Gray Ida Dunham Eva Reinhardt Emmett Harris from Pittsfield. Wm Pease and son Je R Snowhill visited Relatives at Adair Iowa Tuesday to Saturday. Rev Watters Ross Tedrow and Wm Hall did Christmas shopping in Quincy Tuesday.
Haverford College football? soccer team held the University of Pennsylvania to a 1 to 1 tie in Haverford Pa on December 18 to win the intercollegiate championship for the second time.
Mrs Will Oyster and her daughter from La Grange visited the city yesterday for Christmas shopping, sharing a brief outing and purchases.
Advertisement touts Dr Kings New Discovery as a remedy to cure colds by avoiding exposure and drafts and eating right. It claims pine tar healing balsams and mild laxatives kill cold germs soothe the throat heal mucous membranes and has over 45 years of use as a guarantee of satisfaction.
A jumbled local page lists Tree Brand cutlery and safety razors, Christmas sales at Gunther Hardware, jewelry and undertaker services, medical moves to Blessing hospital, a death at Adams County poor farm of Tom Scott, notices to notify Lizzie Scott for body disposition, Christmas Savings Club at Illinois State Bank, taxi service, and several residents sent to hospitals for holidays. Names include John Schwank, Lizzie Scott, J. J. Fineburg, Dr. Charles Ericson, Lena Black, T. C. Poling, Zeus L. Smith, Rev. James Robert Smith, Hugh Lowry, D C Jackson, J R Pearce.
Mothers of growing children are urged to keep Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin a staple remedy. The herbal laxative, prescribed by Dr W B Caldwell of Monticello Illinois for over 25 years, is sold for fifty cents a bottle and a free trial bottle is available by writing to Monticello. The ad cites a testimonial from Mrs Turner of 844 Main St Buffalo New York praising its stomach and bowel benefits.
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