Social Affairs Notes Include Dances and Visits
Chicago visitor Me J M Walshe leaves for home after stay with Mrs Henry L Whipple. Mrs Will Ellis departs for Los Angeles and Mrs Kenny Erdman for Philadelphia. T N H club holds music and lunch. club members listed. Telephone company girls plan annual Armory dance to support Red Cross. men 35 cents and girls 15 cents. Katherine Holland Brown goes to California for an indeterminate stay. Carl Adams hosts dinner in honor of E P Gates of Chicago amid Union Christian En Cypyor meeting. A dancing club plans parties in Arcade hall every other Friday. RS. OTTO WESTIN hosts card club. prizes to Mrs Wewers and Mrs Ohne mus. St Marys academy girls enjoy sleighing party with luncheon. Mrs George Huseman guests celebrate birthday with bridge. McKinley coffee at Luther Memorial Church. Almo club and other societies hosting events. War Relief club sews for soldiers. smiles books bought for Quincy Negro soldiers. Mrs Glenn Burch observes husband’s birthday. Mr Burch connected to The Whip repertorial dept. Nights and Ladies of Security hold whist. prize winners listed. Wayside Inn book review at Mrs Dan Orr’s. next meeting with Mrs Lawrence Bonfoey. Women Foresters rent theaters for week. last day today. Friendship class sews for orphanage. picnic lunch. St Jacobi Young People enjoy candy pull and music. Good Shepherd auxiliary officers elected. luncheon served. annual social planned after Lent.
Fashions Rise For American Sport Suits This Spring
Fashion notes describe sport suit silhouettes with sleeveless square jacketed coats, plaid skirts and velvet or velour jackets. Eton jackets gain favor as skirts shift to new, fuller lines. long coats recede as 31 inch length separates become popular for spring and summer wear.
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Eton
Carter
German Ships in Atlantic Trade Reported for Troop Transport
Washington reports 660000 to 700000 tons of former enemy shipping now aids expeditionary forces. The Leviathan, once the Vaterland, can carry up to 10000 troops per voyage, though 8000 is considered max. Welding advances by engineers enable quicker repair of damaged engines without removing heavy parts. Also listed are fruits and vegetables cultivated for over 4000 years including almond apple apricot banana and grape.
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Washington
Daniels
France
Leviathan
Vaterland
High School Notes Fight War Time Costs Trim Banquet Plans
The senior class decides against the annual football banquet citing expenses over 100 and wartime limits. Instead they will host a combined event on February 7 with dancing games and refreshments, donating saved funds to war relief. Committees will organize the program under president Milton Lubber.
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O.D. Frank
Milton Lubber
Supreme War Council Meets in Trianon Versailles
The plenary session of the supreme war council was convened at the Trianon on Wednesday afternoon. Earlier Wednesday morning Premier Clemenceau British Prime Minister Lloyd George and Italian Premier Orlando conferred, with Italian Foreign Minister Sonnino also present.
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Versailles
Supreme War Council
Trianon
Clemenceau
Travid Lloyd George
Prof
Orlando
Baron Sonnino
Black Hand letter threatens Harrisburg health official
Dr. John A. Kappelman of the state board of health in Harrisburg received a letter signed Black Hand threatening death if he did not leave the city. Sheriff Russell also reports threatening letters linked to cooperation with Dr. Kappelman amid the smallpox efforts.
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Harrisburg
John A. Kappelman
State Board of Health
Russell
Kappelman
The Two Hardest Tests of Character and Money
The piece argues few people would seek wealth without work yet wealth tests character as much as poverty. It notes money changes behavior, warns against endless counting of pennies, and values ongoing striving over reaching the top, with the author admitting fear of both extremes.
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Kingdom of
Heaven
Christ
Rheumatics Made Happy
An advertised remedy claims to ease rheumatic troubles without upsetting the stomach or heart. Described as a blood based treatment for rheumatism, it is sold in bottles of 50c and $1.00. Available in Quincy at Owl Drug Store, 125 N. 6th St.
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Quincy
Owl Drug Store
N. 6Th St
Concentration of export freight moves to seaboard ordered
New York Jan 31 Export freight destined for the entente allies is to be moved in solid trains to seaboard as quickly as possible. A H Smith regional railroad director ordered 30 000 carloads with embargoed permits to start. Chicago St Louis and western lines will assemble trains, with daily telegraphs reporting cars held. Ships tied to docks to offset lighter and tug shortages, freight traffic improving in eastern railroads. Pennsylvania lines cleared and high water breaks in West Virginia largely repaired.
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New York
Seaboard
A. H. Smith
Chicago
St. Louis
Buffalo
Canada
Michigan
Dpittabureh
Ohio River
Telegraph
Rate fixing left 10 0.0 committee action noted
Wallington Jan 31 Elimination from the administration railroad rate provisions was approved by the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee by a 7 to 6 vote. The panel favored leaving rate fixing to the Interstate Commerce Commission and state commissions. Democrats Pomerene Gore Underwood and Cummins McLean Kellogg Townsend and Republicans voted yes. Smith Myers Robinson Thompson and James Poindexter voted no. Secretary McAdoo urged retaining presidential rate power. Every old bachelor thinks it the easiest thing in the world to manage a wife.
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Wallington
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Underwood
Interstate Commerce Commmission
Pomerene
Gore
Cummins
McLean
Kellogg
Townsend
Smith
South Carolina
Myers
Robinson
Thompson
James
Poindexter
McAdoo
Bold Omaha Jewelry Store Raid Totals $20000
Five armed bandits robbed a downtown Omaha jewelry store at 3 o'clock Wednesday. They forced the proprietor and two clerks to a back room while others looted the showroom and escaped with jewelry valued at about $20000.
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Omaha
Neb
Council Bluffs Man With Pershing Dies
Death from pneumonia of Private George D. McIdgey of 912 Twenty-second Avenue Council Bluffs Indiana was announced in General Pershing's casualty list on Wednesday.
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Washington
Jan
George D. McIdgey
Twenty-second Avenue
Council Bluffs, In
Pershing
Provisional Social Democratic Government Heads Helsingfors
Stockholm dispatch notes the provisional government formed at Helsingfors led by Senator Manner with Sirola as foreign minister and Tokot, former premier, as minister of food supplies.
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Stockholm
Social Democratic
Helsingfors
Manner
MM. Sirola
Tokot
Germans destroying Belgian industries and assets
Dispatches to the Belgian legation report ongoing German razing of Belgian industry. Hotels and convents are looted for linen and mattresses. Belgians are deprived of wool and offered seaweed at three cents a pound. An electric plant named DL Escaut is said to be stripped for parts.
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Washington
Belgium
DL Escaut
Kiowa
Ronebacher Thitte
Texas Wonder cures kidney and bladder troubles
A vintage advertisement proclaims Texas Wonder cures for kidney and bladder ailments in men and women and bladder troubles in children. It claims to dissolve gravel and cure diabetes and rheumatism, offering mail delivery from Dr. E W Hall of St. Louis for $1.60 per bottle, with testimonials available.
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Texas Wonder
E. W. Hall
Olive St
St. Louis
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Will Ellis
F. H. Weems
Los Angeles
Kenny Erdman
Weems
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Leona Fischer
North Twentieth Street
Erma Richert
Mildred Fichter
Margaret Canfield
Ethel Ruff
Reichert
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Clara Lammers
Albert Leaker
Miss Fischer
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Red Cross
Katherine Holland Brown
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E. P. Gates
Union Christian En Cypyor
Oewer
Harry Githens
Merle Killum
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Alfred Adams
Lawrence Perry
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Otto Westin
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Anton Ohnemus
Wewers
St. Mary's Academy
Pauline Bakers
Schwindeler’s
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Carroll Cramer
Elizabeth Terwische
Lenora Hanack
Ida Hermes
Marian Rupp
Dorohhy Menke
Mariam Flair
Antoinette Heckenkamp
Marie Straley
Lillian Ricker
Margaret Cunnane
Marianne Wiskirchen
George Huseman
Bridge Club
McKinley
Luther Memorial Church
The
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Almo Club
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E. Goldsberry
Oak Camp
War Relief Club
Lincoln School
Ella Davis
Camp Dodge
Glenn Burch
North Fifth Street
Burch
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C. H. Walker
E. King
Lavington
Rickhoss
Frost
Lean Beasore
Lena Clair
Alma McPike
Robert Bacon
Wayside Inn
T. B. Adams
Dan Orr
Nouston
Lawrence Bonfoey
St. Francis Church
Family
Savoy Theaters
Friendship Class
First Christian Church
Mary Edwards
Young People’s Society
St. Jacobi Church
Edna Tomamichaels
Charles F. Kriegshauser
Payson Avenue
Good Shepherd Church
John Potter
John Wyckoff
Enos Kriegshauser
FL Wheeshauser
Aunittary
Dr. Kruse
Dr. Moorfield
Gulf
A. Hawkinson
Prop
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Maine Street
Mary Hamess
W.C. A
Theugh School
Cheerful Brome
Shelbina
Ruth Cameron
Council Bluffs
Government
TD LL. Odell
Marshall
Pat Jerry Odedl
Fletcher
Fletcher’s
Castoria
Vedi
Texas
Miller-Helhake Shoe Co
Quincy Railway Company
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