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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1919
Page
7
The column advocates securing a suitable public aviation landing field and backing the Build Now movement to enable at least 200 dwellings next year. It calls for a modern high school, an owl car service for morning trains, a hard road to Taylor Missouri, river terminal development, a new barge line, and annexation of Quincy’s outlying territory before the next census.
This 1919 essay urges unwavering faith in the American people. It cites Lincoln’s call for confidence in democracy, praises wartime sobriety and postwar productivity, and warns against Bolshevik influence. It predicts rising prosperity as production, coal, factories, and farms rebound, grounded in the character of Americans.
The city grapples with extended annexation as officials push for action amid neighbors outside the urban core. Mayor O Brien pledges swift legal steps while a Broadway meeting aims to gauge sentiment and extend fellowship through a representative council. The Seventy committee may survey other districts as Quincys boundaries blur.
A columnist argues old standard tunes like Nellie Gray and When You and I Were Young Maggie retain charm in film and stage, noting audiences favor plantation era songs like Old Black Joe and lamenting modern ballads’ fleeting fame while venerable tunes endure and honor forgotten composers. The piece contrasts minstrel traditions, ragtime blends, and the economics of pop songs versus classics.
A reflection on how ticket lines reveal civilization. The speaker argues that the impulse to queue, wait, and take one’s place quietly marks progress beyond early tribal behavior, echoing Carlyle on evolution beginning with orderly patience rather than crowding and chaos.
The piece contemplates freedom of the press and its relation to human life likening it to a mathematical puzzle. It references Walter Lippmann as a leading figure of the intelligentsia and hints at critical views on intellectual elites.
H Addington Bruce surveys egotism signs useful in social and business relations. He notes poor listening, tautological talk, conspicuous dress, abnormal self assertion, and rudeness to gain attention. The piece urges self study and effort to overcome egotism to improve chances of success.
Washington report on the federal education bureau's push to teach health as a habit. It outlines positive health messaging for children, calls for teachers trained in hygienic thinking, and urges a mindset shift from donts to do, linking health to strength, happiness, and civic progress.
A critique of Walter Lippmann on liberty and journalism. The piece notes his call for signed reporting, educated reporters, and neutral fact observers, while arguing that human life resists scientific certainty and that even the best reporting cannot fix truth. It emphasizes the need for experienced observers to record significant facts amid a flood of data.
Readers submit questions to Frederic t Klaskin in Washington D C with a two cent stamp for return answers. The page lists multiple Q and A items including population figures for Georgia and the nation, the first baseball club, electric railroad mileage by state, rules of Truth, and Panama Canal dimensions. It notes Red Cross field uniforms colored forest green and requests if the government will redeem a bill torn.
Farmer Brown's Boy spots traps near Jerry Muskrat's domain at the Laughing Brook and Smiling Pool. He removes traps found on logs and warns against trapping, vowing to confront the trapper and protect the land.
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