Open Warfare on Western Front May Be New Tactics for Spring
Paris reports a push toward renewed open warfare in 1918 after Sir Julian Byng’s Cambrai success. An American officer foresees a hybrid clash of trench and field fighting, with Germans defending a fragile line. The piece notes British air and artillery gains, a mobile infantry approach, and the looming choice between massed mobile assaults and mobile warfare.
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Western Front
Cambrai
Iaf
Hereld
Whs
How to Reduce Your Weight
Advice promising easy weight loss through air, exercise, and a drugstore capsule called off of kerein. Claims include faster weight loss, improved digestion, and a buoyant feeling, with weekly weigh ins and no starvation diet.
Big Turkey Robbery Under Police Investigation
Three hundred pounds of dressed turkeys were stolen from a Burlington car in Quincy as a train arrived en route to Chicago. Detectives Piercy and Meise of the local police were called in by railroad officials.
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Burlington
Quincy
Chicago
Piercy and
Meise
Sleeping Boy Rescued From Wabash Train Tracks
Henry Allen, a Kinderhook youth, slept beneath a Wabash passenger coach at the station after an evening of Christmas shopping. A station officer spotted him, alerted police, and saved the boy just as danger appeared imminent. The incident occurred around 5:30 on a Monday evening.
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Santa Claus
Henry Allen
Kinderhook
Alen
Allen
Quincy
Wabash Station
John Barleycorn
John Ahern
Man Failure Cited In Louisville Train Wreck
Louisville and Nashville general manager B M Starks says "man failure" caused last Thursday night’s rear end collision near Shepherdsville that killed more than forty people. The statement, issued amid holiday tensions, refers to the disaster in historical terms.
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Louisville
Louisville and Nashville
Shepherdsville
B. M. Starks
Christmas and wedding bells toll together in Adams County
Nine marriage licenses issued in Adams County on the day before Christmas as county clerk Billy Smith processed couples from Missouri and nearby states. Grooms range in draft age. licenses list Emery Duck with Nell Murphy and seven other couples including George Steiner with Lucille Zeh and Frederick Simon with Lula McIntyre among others.
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Cupid
Adams County
Billy Smith
Edward Moore
Missouri
Emery W. Duck
Clay Center
Kas
Nell Murphy
Quincy
Regal
Bryan Keller
Liberty
Pev Sparks
Camp Point
George
Steiner
Lucille Zeh
John E. Algood
Maywood
Otis Murphy Appointed to Succeed Ben Lynch in Quincy
Otis Murphy, ex police department member, is named successor to Ben Lynch, first sergeant who resigns to Chief Louis Melton. Murphy brings prior service as station officer and second lieutenant. Lynch leaves due to rheumatism and poor health. George Steinbrecher, formerly with Quincy Bottling Works, is hired to replace Earl Akers as night patrol driver.
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Otis Murphy
Quincy Police Department
Ben Lynch
Louis Melton
J. Frank Garner
Murphy
Lynch
Police Department
George Steinbrecher
Quincy Bottling Works
Police
Earl
Jerry” Akers
Son of Quincy Family Wins Croix de Guerre at Verdun
Richard Allen Blount, son of a prominent Quincy family, has been awarded the Croix de guerre by France for bravery in capturing thirty Germans singlehanded while serving with the Foreign Legion at Verdun. His mother, Mrs Ollie Lynds Blount, now of Chicago, visits Quincy yearly. the Blount family was longtime prominent in Quincy.
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Richard Allen Blount
Quincy
Verdun
Ollie Lynds Blount
Chicago
R. E. Blount
Summer-Lynds Drug Company
C. E. Lynds
Elijah Young
Young Wall Paper Company
Chicago Tribune
Last Sund
Blount
Min
Foreign Legion
New York
M. Joseph Barlow
South Sixteen Street
Wage Increase for Street Car Employes
Superintendent W A Martin of the Quincy Street Railway announces a ten cent a day wage raise for motormen conductors and construction depart ment workers starting Jan 1 with possible extra ten cent increases later in the year depending on start month The company notes an overall wage rise this year despite higher operating costs This item also contains an ad promoting Laxative Bromo Quinine with a claim of unique efficacy and a 20 cent price note attributed to E Grove
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W. A. Martin
Quincy Street Railway Company
Construction Department
Car Company
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Herbert Corey
Paris
Julian Byng
Ph Me
Enlah Mae Baker
William M. Binkley
Legal
Gladys Mae Peabody
Lewistown
John J Smith
Fall Creek
Lora E. Echtenkamp
Frederick William Simon
Memphis
Lula B. McIntyre
Gerin
Harry Hollenstine
Viera M. Leach
Paloma
Benjamin B. Baldwin
Mendon
Alta F. Frisbie
Naki
E. Grove
Rae FS
A & Nai
Ory Gest Progressive Dry Goods
Merry Christmas
Eeales Arthur Drug CO
Quincy’s. Hit
Pee Citta
Maine Street
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