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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1920
Page
2
An old ad promotes Sloan's liniment for strains pains bruises and stiffness. It touts fast scattering congestion and suggests users join thousands who keep it on hand. The copy notes three sizes 36c 70c and 140.
A letter from Commissioner Hugh M. Smith to Rep. Ed ward King outlines salvaging of 156,338,000 food fishes from shallow landlocked pools along the Mississippi. Most were returned to the main river. 10 percent shipped, rest planted in waters of the watershed. Costs per thousand and potential future expansion are noted.
In Norfolk Va a mock obsequies drew over ten thousand observers as Billy Sunday delivered a sermon at his tabernacle. The procession began at a station where a corpse in a coffin arrived by special Milwaukee train. Pallbearers moved through the streets to the tabernacle with Satanic Majesty in attendance. Sunday, at the door, greeted the corpse and led the way inside as he proclaimed the message Good bye John. You were Gods worst enemy you were hells best friend. I hate you with a perfect hatred I love to hate you.
Senator Kenyon Republican Iowa pushes national solidarity through an Americanization bill. It would cost 96 million dollars this year and 12.5 million annually for three years, funding cooperation with states to educate illiterate citizens ages 16 to 21 and all alien residents six months in the US. At least 200 hours of instruction per year would be required, aimed at reducing illiteracy and bolshevism.
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