Quincy firms do war work in 34 replies to 80 letters
Quincy manufacturers formed a committee to secure government contracts and sent 19 of 34 responding firms to army quartemasters in Chicago Rock Island St Louis and Jeffersonville Ind for bids on war supplies. Respondents covered wood products food metal goods leather goods and paper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quincy
Chicago
Rock Island
St. Louis
Jeffersonville
Ind
Frank Pierson
N. E. Monroe
Joseph Fischer
George D. Levi
C. F. Perry
Presient
The
Chamber of Ommerce
Quincy Irms
Navy seeks Quincy men for aviator training
Young men of Quincy can join the navy as quarter master aviators and, after passing tests, be sent to the naval aviation school at Pensacola Florida for flight training. The window is short as Peoria district may send only four men and one has already enlisted from Quincy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quincy
Navy
Naval Aviation School
Pensacola
Fla
Peoria
Soldiers and Sailors Home Farewell and Notices
Thomas Carroll traveling dietitian will leave the Soldiers and Sailors Home after Aug 1 to take a government post with Herbert Hoover. Families at the Home hold a musical afternoon in cottage 10, with the Miller children performing. Various residents and visitors are noted, including Radcliffs visiting Mrs Mackinson, the Payne relatives, and several funerals for Isaac Webb and George A Forsythe. Condemnation day led to sale of unrepairable clothing for rags and repairs halted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Carroll
Carroll
Herbert C. Hoover
Mr. Hoover
Fred Miller
Madison Street
Cottage 10
Marshall
Ellen Brady
Radcliff
Ed Mackinson
Senator Payne
Isaac Webb
Soldiers’ Home
William West
Cottage
Boyles
Cottage 20
Harvey, Ill
William Martin
Leon
Deaths and Funerals for Redmond Fees and Webb
Miss Sadie Redmond died, funeral at 8:30 in the home and 9 at St Peter's Church, burial in St Peter's cemetery, invites friends. William A. Fees funeral at 8:30 in the home and 9 at St Boniface Church, large attendance, burial in St Boniface cemetery. George Webb, 65, died at Blessing hospital after months of illness, funeral at Bethel A M E church, burial in Greenmount cemetery. Mrs Louis Koch funeral at 2:30 in her sister's home, nephews as bearers, burial in Greenmount cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sadie Redmond
Sadie Redmond Lavill
South Eighth Street
St. Peter’s Catholic Church
St. Peter’s Cemetery
William A. Fees
Ohio Street
St. Boniface Catholic Church
Father Degenhardt
A. G. Weisenburger
Adam Weisenburger
P. W. Reardon
Tim Ford
J. L. Ellerbrock
Charles W. Zang
St. Boniface Cemetery
George Webb
North Eighth Street
Blessing Hospital
Bethel A. M. E. Church
Louis Koch
William Ryan
Payson Avenue
G. D. Hamm
St. Jacobi Lutheran Church
Fred Klusmeyer
Albert Dinkheller
Edward Luecke
Fred
William
August Feld
Greenmount Cemetery
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San Diegans
Imperial
MISS
Gem City Business College
America
Civil Service
Fellding
Heckenkamp’s
N. 6Th Ave
6Th and
Adams
Burke
H. O. Chaninorn
Quincy Gas, Electric & Heating Co
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