Motivated jitney owner bets against ordinance in Quincy
Snyder who came to Quincy to launch automobile rapid service plans declares he will wager 500 dollars that the jitney ordinance will not stand. He says he will not seek a license under the new rules and may relocate to St. Louis where jitneys operate freely. He noted a 90000 dollar certified check and plans to pursue other ventures while the city clerk publishes the ordinance.
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Quincy
Snyder
St. Louis
Adopted Resolutions at Portland congress target pacifist league
July 20 Portland Sons of the American Revolution adopted a resolution urging suppression of the American peace league literature. The action accompanied a resolution calling for removal of PLP Claxton as U.S. Commissioner of Education for alleged unpatriotic utterances.
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Portland
Ore
Sons of the ‘American’ Revolution
School Peace League
Plp
Claxton
United States
Education
War Update: Austro German Drive In Poland Gains Reported
Twenty four hour digest from Associated Press dispatches details rapid Austro German advances through Poland and Russian frontier towns. Nowo Georgievek shelled near Warsaw. Ostrolenka and Radom reported fallen. British and German lines in trench warfare near Ypres described alongside Italian gains on the Isonzo and Black Sea cargo losses.
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Poland
Thousand Mile
Ostrolenka
Naréw
Warsaw
Radom
Ivangorod
Berlin
Vienna
Russian War‘ Office
Nowo- Georgievek
Ypres
Sir John French
Isonzo
Corso
Rome
Gorizia
Black Sea
Caucasus
Sebastopol
Wichita man charged with murder in Mo case
A warrant for first degree murder was issued for George W. Ward in Wichita. He is to be tried soon at West Plains, Missouri, for allegedly killing his wife and burning their home there last March to conceal the crime. Ward's first wife died in a July 1913 house fire near Wichita, which he attributed to an accident during cleaning with benzine.
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Wichita
Kan
Geo. W. Ward
West Plains
Ward
Adams County Horse Proves Turf Sensation in Cleveland
Adams County owner Ellis Franks bred and raised Russell Boy a five year old stallion who won the Edwards stake at Cleveland tying a 2:0334 record. The rank outsider, once offered 12000, has drawn attention after past wins at Springfield and Baldwin park, with future hopes pinned on more fast performances.
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Russell Boy
Edwards
Cleveland
Ohio
Adams County
Ellis Franks
Liberty
Russell
Baldwin Park
Franks
Springfield
Russell Bay
Sun workers move to new quarters near Park Row
In New York on July 20 the Sun staff closed its historic old home after decades and moved a block down Park Row. Before leaving, hundreds of alumni and current workers gathered for a valedictory dinner in the ramshackle rooms where copy and proof were once pushed.
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New York
Workers of the Sun
Park Row
German Press Confident Reports Favorable War Tone
London dispatch notes the Times says German newspapers on July 21 project extreme confidence about the eastern campaign. Enthusiastic articles recount favorable outcomes from the war's first years and suggest an optimistic reckoning.
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London
the Times
Birth Rates Compared in Greater New York
Health department report shows nearly 3000 newborns in Greater New York during one week, versus just over 100 reported by French authorities for France in the same period. The contrast highlights a surge in New York births amid international figures.
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New York
France
Health Department
War fronts report gains and retreats across Europe
Official communications from Petrograd Paris Vienna London and Rome summarize July 20 actions. Allies advance near Radom and Sokal while Russians hold Narew and Dniester fronts. In Artois and the Meuse Meur, shelling and bombardment occur. at Hooge 150 yards of trenches captured. Prisoners and material taken are noted, with ongoing offensives on the Isonzo Plateau of Corso.
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Petrograd
London
Riga
Shavli
Grunhof-Zagory-Krupy
Trans- Niemen
Suwalki
Gluboki
Narew
Nova Georgievsk
Vistula
Bug
Krylov-Sokal
Sokal
Dniester
Paris
Artois
Rheims
Meuse
Moselle
Les Eparges
Fest En-Haye
le Pretre Forest
Vigneulles-Les-Hatton- Chatel
Vienna
Radom
Warsaw
Titanka
Kostrzyn
Bukowina
Bessarabia
Sir John French
War Office
RCME
Isonzo
Corso
Prowlers Plague North End as Police Fail to Catch Them
Prowlers terrorize women in the North End triggering multiple calls over several nights. Residents report a bulky negro demanding money from Mrs H Long on Ninth and Oak, a yard intrusion on Twenty Fourth Street, and a failed break in at 726 North Sixth Street. Police fear two or three intruders may be active, with arrests not yet made.
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North End
H. Long
Ninth
Oak Streets
Twentyfourth Street
North Sixth Street
Labor Day Picnic Committee Meets in Regular Session
The labor Day picnic committee of the Trades and Labor Assembly met in regular sessions last evening but nothing of importance was accomplished.
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The
Trades and Labor Assembly
Dimmer lights and sidewalk orders dominate city council
City council last night adopted a dimmer ordinance for auto lights after a heated debate between Aldermen Weisenburger and Bolles. Five sidewalk improvements were approved along Ohio, Fourth, Kentucky, and Elm streets, while a long overdue streetcar and jitney hours ordinance was laid over for three meetings. Plans also include sewer tax review, macadam work on Prairie Avenue, and a playground at the Ninth and Hampshire market lot.
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Weisenburger
Bolles
Seventh
Tenth
Fourth
Spring
Oak
Kentucky
Wink
Elm
Cordsiemon
Milton Cabell
Thomas White Stove Company
York
Fifth
Board of Focal Improvements
Metzger
Loren C. Cox
Lawndale
Prairie R Aveue
East Avenue
Division Street
Davy Ross
Welfare Federation
Ninth
Hampshire Streets
Market Committee
George Koch
Board of Health
George Binkert
Sixteenth and
O'Brien
McNutt
Sycamore
Sixth Streets
Board of Public Works
Ross
Bitter
Ohio Street
Board of Local Improvements
Jackson Streets
Bickhaus
Twelfth
Thirteen
Maine
Sloan's Liniment Ad Promise Quick Muscle Relief
An old-time ad touts Sloan's Liniment for tired aching muscles immediate relief after hard work. It claims workers saw stinging soreness vanish with counter irritant action, praising past users and noting 25 cents price at all druggists.
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Sloan
Great War Film at the Family Theater Today
The Fam ily theater screens a highly promoted war picture claiming over 3,000 authentic battle scenes. It promises a sweeping, chronological view from the war’s start to now with vivid depictions of English French German and Belgian soldiers in trenches and on battlefields.
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Family Theater
For Rent Ninth and Spring St Double Brick North Half
Rental notice for the north half of a double brick unit at the southeast corner of Ninth and Spring Street. Eight rooms, bath, furnace, electric lights and gas available. Rent reasonable. Inquiries to Roy D. Johnson at the Illinois State Bank Building.
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Ninth and Spring St
Roy D. Johnson
Illinois State Bank
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Charley Dazey
Nat Goodwin
Call OF the Pines
Europe
Associated Press
Adams County Horse
Pacer
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Hous
Taporty
Prowlers
Baffle Police
Fred. L.hancock
Cuticura
Boston
Theater Today
Broadway
Helen Leslie
Frank Lloyd
Eddie Boland
Heeza
G. Breaker
Bijou
Chaplin
Charles
Edith
Story
Hughie Mack
Jane
Henry B. ‘Walthall
Irene Fenwick
Spendtarift
Ceci Hom
Louis Waldfogel
Hampshire
H.f.uafler
South Tenth Street
W. Arthur Sonnenschein
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