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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1915
Page
4
Residents and visitors frequent Perry with long lists of callers and travels. Newlyweds Mr and Mrs John Hornbeck plan stays in Perry before moving to Parkville Missouri. Various stand at Quincy or Griggsville bringing business and social ties including Casket Co representative Chester Wilcox and Miss Mabel Maiden at the World's C E convention in Chicago.
Local society items list numerous visitors and travels including Judge and Mrs Symonds hosting relatives on July fourth. Residents like Wayne Patterson Ralph Ehrenfield and Mary Ferrigal are mentioned with trips to Chicago Pittsburgh Battle Creek and Washington DC. The Marblehead ball club plays St Boniface and Marblehead Grey Sox beat St Johns 3 to 2 as farmers report excess rain.
Henry Waggart and Otto Stollberg traveled to Isannibal on Tuesday for the beat event. They aimed to cover local developments and meet community figures in the area.
Sickness or sin not, neglect of illness is wrong. Po-Do-Lax, containing podophyllin from May Apple, claims to awaken the liver and increase bile flow to purge the bowels. The ad asserts relief from constipation and related ailments overnight, urging readers to obtain a bottle from their druggist.
Grover Goodwin Paul Keller Miss Chloe Goodwin and Mabel Keller spent Monday in Hannibal Mrs Laura Lanam of Hannibal arrived Thursday called here by the illness of her brother Elmer Miller remains very ill of meningitis Dr Norburg of Jackson Ville consulted with local physicians Loren and Irving Browning spent days with their father in Hannibal Born to Leonard Ward and wife a son Mr and Mrs James Praul are also proud parents of a son Ida Riggs and daughter have gone to Griggsville for the summer Frank Crenshaw Oscar Stears and Murrell Poor have gone to Selby Neb to harvest Threshing just beginning many fields too wet for wheat Wm Reed of Mt Pleasant Town arrived with his wife remains funeral in Summer Hill Congregational church Rev Longnecker pastor burial in Summer Hill cemetery Family formerly resided there A small tornado near Summer Hill wrecks buildings trees barns and damages dwellings Seventeen trees blown down at Jake Fortune wheat blown over heads of trees and buildings Wagon with occupants blown over fence team unharmed Hogs and geese blown away no injuries but fear Telecommunication service crippled delaying information
The Lancet ponders a future where chemical and physical science makes warfare impractical. It suggests explosives could be neutralized by new long distance firing methods, wireless waves, radiations and projections. The paper notes a possibility that precise weapons might extinguish themselves, potentially leading to arbitration succeeding.
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