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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1919
Page
7
The page of opinion advocates securing a suitable plot for a public aviation landing field and backing a Build Now movement to enable at least 200 dwellings next year. It calls for a new modern high school, an early-morning owl car service, a hard road to Taylor Missouri, river terminal improvements, and expanding Quincy's outlying territory before the next census.
Chairman Frank Smith of the Republican state committee says partisanship will not shape the constitutional convention. He argues good citizenship transcends party labels and notes historic party evolution in framing constitutions. The 1848 and 1920 documents may be named beyond any single party affiliation.
A veteran AP director notes readers crave human interest thrills and that faked stories spread despite education. He cites a Riverside Drive bull incident in New York as an example of sensational but plausible reporting that newspapers sometimes publish.
In 1919 Dr Frank Crane argues democracy enables progress by removing obstructions while various isms seek total control. He contrasts democracy as humble justice guided by natural laws with isms as doctrinaire, egotistical schemes. Democracy advances daily, remains open to change, and arises from free, strong leaders, while isms arise from oppressed classes seeking power and rely on cleverness rather than faith.
Gen Squier unveils a wire based radiophonic system that sends telephonic messages to distant destinations via a single wire. The invention enables多way conversations and broadcasts with no signal loss, allowing Nome Alaska to hear Rio South America clearly.
A 1919 commentary urges music in every home to ease tension and aid recovery. Personal anecdotes recount a worker's fatigue lifted by listening to records and performances, illustrating music therapy's growing credibility and its broad, mood brightening benefits. The author notes music’s medical and everyday value for better living.
The Baltimore American notes Uncle Joe Cannon’s view that women were active in politics as far back as the 1860s and that voting rights have not created stark gender divides. He cites 1860 debates where women attended and parades ran parallel with men. He argues gender will not determine electoral outcomes in major issues.
Reports from New York describe a surge of marriages among American forces in Europe, with many soldiers taking German brides. Hostess House staff note brides arrive with limited means and language barriers, seek employment to support new households, and aim to please in lawfully merging families. The YWCA runs clinics for health and infants as brides adapt to American life amid unfamiliar customs and expectations.
A reader Q and A column describing how to submit questions to The Whig Information Bureau in Washington with two cent return postage. It includes sample questions on alcohol revenue, great writers as talkers, redeeming war savings stamps, daily calories for hard work, and the tribute poem The Bivouac of the Dead with O Hara.
Jerry Muskrat lies in bed nursing a sore tail and recalls a trapper’s ruse. He reflects on being deceived by a friend who fed him to lure him, decides he will never trust anyone again, and now roams warily between eating in his Smiling Pool world and avoiding traps. He seeks food but avoids new dangers, living in constant suspicion.
A fragmented recap lists events from 1536 to 1853 including the Jesuit founding under Ignatius Loyola, Vor Helmont’s witchcraft inquiry, James Francis Edward Stuart and the Gadsden Purchase. It also includes a Q&A on denomination and address for The Little Church Around the Corner, identified as Protestant Episcopal at 5 East 20th Street, New York City.
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