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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1920
Page
6
A man exits a brutal confrontation after killing another, stating it was the judgment of God. He tends a wounded Joan, questions her captor memory, and insists she must leave with him. They depart as dawn breaks, the hunted woman guided by a calm, determined rescuer.
Joan endures a brutal confrontation with a stranger who killed her husband Pierre in self defense. Wounded, she travels into a desolate wilderness guided by a silent, commanding man toward a ranger station cabin. She drifts between memory and delirium as she rests under care, unsure of her protector's identity or loyalties.
A late 19th century advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a blood spreading cure for catarrhal deafness. It argues deafness stems from inflamed Eustachian tubes and promises 60 dollars for any case not cured, with a free circular from F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio.
Railroads into New Jersey and Long Island labored to keep trains running amid heavy seas. Thousands of commuters faced an involuntary overnight wait in day coaches as hotel rooms vanished. The first westbound New York Central train reached New York at about two o'clock after a fourteen hour trip from Albany.
Testimony details payments to three men tied to election work in Michigan. Corliss, a field agent in the Thumb, collected about 2,275 dollars in cash with 100 dollar expense advances. Davis oversaw southern counties, earned 300 dollars monthly, and paid county chairmen 125 to 150 dollars. He described a trip with King and secretary Clifford Sibben and noted a banquet in each county.
Northwestern University was practically eliminated from the basketball title race after eight players were sidelined by illness and several others left for home. Chester Langenstein of Freeport Illinois and the Barnard twins from Springfield Missouri cited dissatisfaction with faculty eligibility rules as the reason for departure, leaving captain Wilcox with little material to field a team.
London reports Sir Auckland Geddes proposing to send the former kaiser to a Dutch island as a fallback if negotiations with Holland fail to secure his removal. Semi official view treats it as a secondary option rather than the primary course.
Kadzu, a native Japanese forage, has been successfully introduced into Florida and is expected to yield several crops annually, signaling a promising addition to regional agriculture.
Pictures today feature Joe Burns in The Shimmy in at Gem Theater and Gloria Hope in The Guilty Man at Savoy. Lina Cavalieri stars in Two Brides at Family Theater with Charles Murray in The Dentist, while Princess Theater showcases Shirley Mason in The Winning Girl and Bray pictograph. Colonial Theater presents The Auction Sale of Sunbeam Ranch and Rasky’s Road Show with Pan cho Plans Revenge. Belasco Theater offers Tom Mix in The Cyclone and Orpheum Theater shows George Walsh in The Shark plus three vaudeville acts.
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