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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1915
Page
4
The council adopted a resolution urged the board of local improvements to report all sewer and street paying ordinances for 1916. The move aims to cut winter delays and speed contracts once frost leaves the ground.
BGM presented a Christmas play The Birth of Christ at the YMCA on Sunday afternoon. About 40 boys parents attended with the cast listed including Prolocutor Mrs O A Alderson Scehist Ruth Lemmon Angel of Light Ida Hopke Mary Eunice Albright Joseph Kenneth Dickson Shepherds Leslie Leggett George Pipe Raymond Bailey Wise men Joe Bowen Ray Garner Harold Thrush and property men William Steinbeck and Earl Carlton.
A vintage newspaper ad touts Vall's Catarrh Cure claiming it cures catarrh in all states by acting through the blood. It offers a $100 reward for anyone who proves it fails, cites testimonials, and lists Toledo Ohio as the address of Cheney & Co. with druggists selling the product.
Friends of Orin Seifert son of Mr and Mrs C A Seifert of 1450 Hampshire street and Miss Bernice Alders of Hamilton Iowa learned a year after their marriage that the couple wed secretly in Missouri. They were separated returning to Quincy and later joined in Chicago where the union was announced. Mrs Seifert formerly taught stenography in the local business college.
The calendar sale campaign of the B. G. M. will be continued until the arrival of the calendars, which were to have been received yesterday.
The Christmas celebration at St John’s Lutheran Church features a 10 am German service and 7 pm Sunday school children’s program with recitations songs and a dialogue of the Christmas story from Luke 2 1 20. English services follow at 7 30 am on Sunday with the Lord’s Supper. A Christmas Day tree for Sunday school children and evening gift distribution are planned.
An advertisement features Citrolax with claims it relieves constipation sour stomach and headaches, promotes a thorough cleanse with no nausea or pain. R H Weihecht of Salt Lake City Utah endorses it as the best laxative he has used with no unpleasant after-effects, via Miller Arthur Drug Co.
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