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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1917
Page
3
Adams County draft numbers are listed in order drawn up to 3077 with Quincy involvement noted. The text warns of potential transmission errors from telegraph typing and advises registrants to watch newspapers for official notices and printed instructions mailed to men.
The article compiles county by county draft quotas and divisions for Illinois, with totals for each county such as Madison 1284, Peoria 284, Rock Island 794, and Will 486, among others, as part of the continued state listing. It also notes the July 24 draft master list distribution delay and procedures for local boards to post numbers, notify registrants, and handle voluntary enlistments and transfers.
Three Red Cross chapters were organized Sunday in Adams county spanning Fowler Coatsburg and Paloma. Officers were elected in each town with leaders to manage membership hospital supplies fighting men and dependent families. Presence of local figures and a Quincy chapter member highlighted the events.
Stockholm reports a real life parallel to Victor Hugo’s Jean Valjean. Gotthard Lindberg, a respected farmer and politician, vanished in 1904 after alleged timber fraud and forgery, then reappeared as Gotthard Dahlbom in Finland. He was sentenced to prison, escaped, and after a later arrest inspired by similarities to Lindberg, a man named Fritz Anderson faced inquiry. Lindberg allegedly accumulated over 100,000 crowns, with time spent in the United States and cities including New York, Bridgeport, and Minneapolis before his 1909 Uddevalla escape.
Fort Snelling Minnesota July 24 The governors of North Dakota South Dakota Nebraska and Minnesota were invited by Brig Gen Sage to visit Fort Snelling August 10 to view the finished products of the first officers camps Official word that the second camp for this district would be held here instead of Fort Riley Kansas was received by Gen Sage Monday Preparations to take care of the second installment of student officers began at once.
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