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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1920
Page
2
Crowds on Fourth and Hampshire watched the Marine Corps Roving Marine Jazz Band serenade The Whig office and its workers. The group performed a lively program of popular tunes, drawing hundreds of spectators who praised the high quality of the performance.
A segmented advertisement list many grocery items with unit prices for items such as coffee, raisins, milk, prunes, beans, oats, flour, and canned goods. The ad highlights multiple brands and package sizes, including Colonial Inn Coffee, Matt Coffee, Dundee Milk, Armour products, and Bonanza Flour, with prices ranging from fractions of a dollar to about a dollar per item.
The band boys leaving Quincey carry pleasant memories and many friends who hope to welcome them back again.
Mrs Bertha Burress and her Fox Minnesota husband arrived Thursday to attend the funeral of her father James Walden buried at 4 pm in the home cemetery by the G A R. William T Gibbons died Feb 26 in hospital age 77 a veteran of Co K 40th NS Infantry. The Home resumed bakery operations and pies may be expected for Sunday. Several transfers and furlough updates are listed, plus a note on a troubled resident Walter Morrison arrested for vagrancy and deemed not employable by Poles court.
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