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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1915
Page
8
Edina and surrounding area reports relatives and friends traveling to Quincy and St Louis for visits and business. Residents bring news of hospital stays, weddings, and community projects as foundations take shape at local sites and families reunite.
Mrs Charles and Mr Lawrence and their spouses visited this week. Mrs Augustine made a business trip to Jacksonville on Wednesday. A number from Bluatts joined a moonlight excursion Tuesday night but wet weather altered plans.
Ellington Ill died aged 75 after long Meredosia residence. Daughter Bert Judy of Helena Oklahoma was summoned but arrived after her mother passed. Other children Mrs Nellie Shroder of Streator and Mrs Bart Judy and Mrs William Cobb visit Quincy relatives. Mrs Judy planned to travel to Helena Monday with four children joining en route.
Continued discussion in cabinet likely on drafting a note to Germany regarding the Orduna incident. Officials expect a brief warning that further violations of U S rights by German submarine attacks on passenger ships would be treated as hostile acts threatening diplomatic relations. Possible reference to Germany's stance and the need to clarify aims and future actions.
Berlin July 17 The law against paying debts to countries Germany is at war with applies to Germans and foreign residents alike. A Berlin firm member, once part of a large European business, was fined $25 for attempting to arrange by correspondence a debt settlement of $5,000 owed to England. He did not send the money from Germany but tried to have it sent to England from Chile.
A Paris court martial in Marseilles has condemned Herman Hochel, now in Germany, for systematic espionage against France prior to the declaration of war. He did not appear to defend himself at the trial.
Among local praise for Charley Darey the leading American playwright, Oliver Players bring The Captain starring Nat Goodwin to Manila settings. Audiences fill the Orpheum as tickets sell fast for matinee and Society Night. Cast enlarged to deliver a gala production amid strong demand and packed seats.
July 17 report states French authorities in the Dardanelles offered a prompt apology for the Kleber cruiser’s bombardment of the small Greek colony at Castilorizo in the northern Aegean. Damage described as confined with no further details given.
An old advertisement touts Backache TrewLic Tron tablets to flush kidneys and relieve rheumatism without habit forming opiates. Claims remove the cause and keep wealth, priced 80 cents prepaid by mail from Uron Co New York, with local agents Miller Arthur Drug Co.
A reporter exposes a powerful stage manager as a moral leper ruining a young actress. Protection is pressured, the magnate flees, the reporter is jailed on a frame up, escapes, and dies by suicide. Years later the magnate is arrested for murder as the reporter’s death mirrors the plot.
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