Whig War Stories Inspire 550 to Enlist for Democracy
The Quincy Whig reports 550 recruits say they joined after reading its war stories. Army and navy offices combined enlisted about 1,276 since last March, with registration day June 4, 1917, triggering a flood of volunteers. Four counties and Peoria-backed offices directed the effort, as posters and newspapers shaped enlistment.
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Quincy Whig
Uncle Sam
Army
Navy
U.S. Army
N. J. Wempen
Quincey
Langsford
Quincy
Decatur
Princess Theater
H. J. Wempen
Sergt
John Langsford
Peoria
Jefferson Barracks
Wempen
Adams
Pike
Hancock
Schuyler
Chicago
United States
Whig
Herald
Journal
War Service
Food Price Schedule Announced by Local Food Administration
The Quincy Food Administration released a price schedule for foods, noting it is partial but broader than prior lists and reflects local conditions. Prices may fluctuate daily. profits for butchers and grocers should stay within prewar percentages to curb profiteering and ensure fair access.
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The
Food Administration
Quincy Food Administration
Coldest Weather Since 1899 Sweeps U S
Washington reports record low temperatures across the nation from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic, with subzero readings as far south as Birmingham and 32 below in North Dakota. Heavy snow in the West snarls rail traffic, delaying coal deliveries and worsening hardship, while the cold grips the South and Florida with 18 though 20 below readings in Mobile and New Orleans.
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Washington
United States
Rocky Mountains
Atlantic Coast
Lakes
Gulf
Birmingham
Ala
North Dakota
Middle West
Mississippi River
Ohio
Michigan
Weather Bureau
New York
New England
Florida
Mobile
New Orleans
Mason City Woman Killed by Robber
Mrs Clara Wedge a wealthy Mason City resident was murdered in her home on Saturday night the house set on fire to cover the crime the body found in a pool of blood throat cut and head crushed Robbery suspected Police hold a man unnamed pending investigation Mrs Wedge daughter says no money was kept at home though land valued at 150000 in Iowa and Minnesota
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Mason City
Clara Wedge
Pauth Krueger
Wedge
Iowa
Minnesota
Krueger
Deny Mines Sunk Vessels by German Claim
London reports official denial of German assertion that the British hospital ship Rewa was sunk by a mine. No mines were in the water where the vessel went down. Also notes Caproni triplane now exhibited on the Atlantic coast spans 110 feet tip to tip of wings.
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London
Rewa
Caproni
Atlantic
Prominent bankers marooned on snowbound train
Chicago January 13 Several of the nation s leading financiers spent Saturday night in a snow drift somewhere east of Chicago aboard the Twentieth Century Limited which left New York Friday afternoon. Otto Kahn led the party intended to deliver an address at the Chicago Bankers club banquet. Also aboard were Francis EL. Ilne James S. Alexander Eugene V. R. Thayr and other bank presidents from major cities across the Midwest stranded in drifts while en route to Chicago for the banquet.
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Chicago
Twentieth Century Limited
New York
Otto Kahn
Chicago Bankers’ Club
Francis EL. Iline
First National Bank
James S. Alexander
Bank of Commerce
Eugene V. R. Thayr
Irving National Bank
St. Louis
Kansas City
Omaha
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Milwaukee
Duluth
Louisville
Cleveland
Indianapolis
Cincinnati
Middle West
Coal shortage in Cedar Rapids. two workers killed in Belleville blast
Cedar Rapids reports coal supplies exhausted by cold snap with no sales left in the city and charitable aid distributing blankets and clothing. Four births in destitute homes. Trains delayed. union services planned to save fuel. In Belleville Indiana two boiler explosions at the Swansea plant killed Edward Lee and Ernest Ortlepp, with William Harrison badly burned.
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Cedar Rapids
Belleville
Edward Lee
Municipal Lighting
Swansea, Jr
Here
Ernest Ortlepp
William Harrison
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Lunegsford
Parker
Hodgdon
Hodgdon’s Dairy Products
Hampshire
Swift
Bic
Graham
Payra
California
Santa Clara
Wisconsin
Dakota
Adams Co
Nation’s Financial Fraternity
Coney Island
Frankfurters
Hampshire ST
Gwi Drug Store
U. S
Maxwell
Cerns
Otal
Vermont
Morris Adler-Moller Co
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