Jitney Ordinance Debate Shapes Quincy Policy
Mayor Abbott criticizes old rules as the ordinance committee drafts a new jitney ordinance to regulate Quincy cars. Snyder defends operation on country trips and peak-city routes, arguing a prohibitive plan could wreck his seven-car business and seat prices. The council aims to present a workable measure next Monday night preserving jitney service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City ‘Council
Quincy
Abbott
Snyder
Highland Park
Champauqua
Twenty-fourth
Jersey
Badamo
A Medicine Chest for 260
An ad touts Sloan's Liniment as a cure for toothache bruises sprains stiff neck backache neuralgia rheumatism and emergencies describing it as symptom relief for congestion and inflammation. Also notes the infant Richard Blitz died at age one year ten months from a summer faint attack. body to be shipped to Knox City Missouri.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard
Ben Blitz
South Third Street
Knox City
Kehoka Merchant Buys Willis Overland Car in Quincy
John Meyers a Kehoka shoe merchant visited Quincy with Ed Warmhaught Wantrum Sturm and Adam Long to purchase a Willis Overland car. The group from Kehoka Mo traveled to the city yesterday for the deal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kehoka
John Meyers
Quincy
Willis-Overland
Ed Warmhaught
Camp Warmhaught
Wantrum Sturm
Adam Long
Captain Baldwin Named to Naval Advisory Board
Captain Thomas S. Baldwin of this city is named to the Naval Advisory board alongside Maxim Edison Wright and other noted scientists. The honor reflects well on him and Quincy. Baldwin works on an aerial battleship for the United States government and may lead to further projects. The board will split members by specialty including submarine surface and aeronautics, with Captain Baldwin among aeronautics leaders under Secretary Daniels. He has long been in aviation, inventing a hot air balloon and building a fleet of aircraft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas. S. Baldwin
Naval Advisory Board
Maxim
Edison
Wright
Captain Baldwin
Quincey
United States
Naval Advisory. Board
Berg
Jenee
Orville Wright
Aeronautical Division
Baldwin
Daniels
Local pick ups list social visitors and guests
Local notes list Mr and Mrs Charles McNiell hosting Miss Carrie Gilmore of Keokuk. Mrs Marshall Travilla of 1177 Vermont street visits sister Mrs G B Wage in Chicago. Mrs David Gans of Chicago visits her parents Mr and Mrs H E B Knapheide. Mr and Mrs G W Ellis of 200 Locust street return from Davenport. Joseph Piggot family return from New York City after three weeks. Ruth Bywater returns from Lorraine. Mrs James Pickard of 1466 Vermont street hosts daughter Miss Sarah Pickard of Chicago. Mrs Elizabeth Verbrecht of 418% South Eighth street is seriously ill at home. Misses Rose Kientzle and Helen Ridder spend vacations in Mt Sterling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshall Travilla
Vermont Street
G. B. Wage
Chicago
David Gans
H. EB. Knapheide
Maiden Lane
G. W. Ellis
Locust
Davenport
Joseph, Piggot
New York City
Ruth Bywater
Loraine
James Pickard
Sarah Pickard
Elizabeth Verbrecht
South Eighth Street
Rose Kientzle
Helen Ridder
Mt. Sterling
Former Quincy Girl Assigned Important State Task
Miss Annie Hinrichsen former Quincy girl now state inspector for the Illinois Charities commission is in Quincy to gather information on juvenile work personal crisis reports and insanity cases in Adams county She will inspect county and city jails the Detention Home county Home and other sites She meets with Judge Lyman McCarl Probation Officer Thomas Nolan and others before continuing to other counties to collect data on atmospheric conditions and deaths by self action as alleged by Dr Norberry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie Hinrichsen
Quincy
Illinois Charities Commission
Adams County
Ilinrichsen
Eonate
Lyman McCarl
Thomias Nolan
Carl Hofmeister
Virinia
Kelley
RGRH
Norberry
Miss. Hi
Hinrichsen
Civil Service Commission
Morgan Counts
Jacksonville
Ursa Woman Dies After Long Illness at Blessing Hospital
Mrs. Minnie Groves wife of Dr W D Groves of Ursa died at Blessing hospital after a lingering illness. Born in Marcelline she was 51. Survived by husband daughter Mrs Ursula Byrd and other relatives. Funeral set for Friday morning in Ursa after ambulance transport due to train rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnie Groves
W. D. Groves
Ursa
Blessing Hospital
Groves
Marcelline
Ursula
Byrd
Quincy Businessmen to Auto Buses Fair Trip
Members of the Chamber of Commerce and Quincy business men will attend the Brown County fair at Mt. Sterling by automobile next week instead of a special Wabash train due to high one day rail rates. Negotiations yielded a 1.56 round trip fare and a required guaranteed group of 200 riders. The chamber chose autos to avoid the guaranteed revenue loss, the 40 mile trip planned for Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Quincy
Mt. Sterling
Wabash
Perry
Chautauqua Draws Big Crowds With Kenyon Feature
Chautauqua attendance swells near record as King and Senator Kenyon headline the program this afternoon and evening. Afternoon events include a 2:00 Prelude by Signor Bel lina on accordion and impersonations by Gilbert and Eldredge. Evening program features a 7:45 Prelude by Signor Bel lina and an 8:15 lecture by Senator William Kenyon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King
Senator Kenyon
Signor S
Bellino
Accordion
Gilbert Not Eldredge
Signor
Wil *Liam
Kenyon
Comedy Players brighten Quincy Chautauqua with humorous plays
The Comedy Players appeared at the Quincy Chautauqua sessions yesterday and last night offering amusing playlets by two young women and two young men. The two scenes from the School of Scandal drew praise for costuming and scenery. Mrs Gates and Mrs Lulu Tyler Gates, a reader and impersonator, closed her engagement for the year with last night. Senator Kenyon and Signor Bellino the Accordion King were listed for today with Eldredge and his masterful performances promised tomorrow. The management reported large audiences and high praise for this year’s program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quincy
Gates
Bellino
Gilbert
Eldredge
William S
Hart fined for insulting woman at city court
George Hart of Camp Point was fined 25 and costs for insulting Mrs. I Waller on North Third Street. Officers Edwards and Connell made the arrest. Hart bonded to the workhouse if he cannot pay. Other cases in the session included dismissals for lack of witnesses and fines for drunkenness and canning amber hued fluid in an alley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Hart
Camp Point
Reardon
Edwards
Connell
I. Waller
Ciy
Adair
Frank
Hurlbut
Jake
Westenfeld
Marlbutt
Conrad Threeman Visited town to handle affairs
Conrad Threeman of near Barry spent part of yesterday in town looking after business matters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conrad Threeman
Barry
Mrs Anna Achilles Succumbs at St Marys Hospital
Mrs Anna Achilles of 229 Jersey street Quincy dies at 7 25 pm at St Marys hospital after a two week illness with operations. She leaves husband a Burlington road employee, one brother Philip Simon and three sisters Mrs Ned Hudson Mrs August Ames and Mrs Walter Lawrence all of Quincy. Funeral arrangements not yet announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adolph Achilles
Jersey Street
Quincy
Everling
St. Mary’s Hospital
Anna Simon
Philip Simon
Burlington Road
Ned Hudson
August Ames
Walter Lawrence
Oldest German M E member dies in Quincy at 89
John C Haerle aged about 89 died yesterday morning at Blessing hospital after a month of illness and a week bedridden due to liver trouble. Born January 25 1826 in Wuertemburg Germany he came to Quincy in 1853 after arriving in the U S two years earlier. He is survived by son Charles daughter Lydia Adams of 431 North Eighth Street five grandchildren two great grandchildren and brother Louis Haerle of Indianapolis Indiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John C. Haerle
Spring” Street
Blessing Hospital
Mr. Haerle
Was
Wuertemburg
Germany
Haerle
Quincy
United States
Charles
Lydia Adams
North Eighth: Street
Louis Haerle
Indianapolis
Ind
Local oil magnates foresee strong prospects in Ada lease
G A Urban and J E Stephens returned from Ada Oklahoma after inspecting an oil lease acquired by Royal Oil Co a local concern formed to develop southwest resources They are enthused over the prospect and have optioned a drill and may start within days Nearby wells are producing with one gas well netting about 75 dollars daily Another oil well was drilled but gas pressure was so high it ejected the tools from the borehole
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G.A. Urban
J. E. Stephens
Ada
Oklahoma
Royal Oil Co
Quincy
Messrs. Urban and Stephens
Rain Delays Highland Park Fireworks Display Tonight
Heavy rain last evening forced deferral of the Highland Park fireworks show. The 8 pm program will be resumed tonight unless rain again prevents it. about a thousand spectators gathered for the acrobat and other features before the postponement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Highland Park
Quincy Firm Buys Hannibal White Shop Millinery
Crooks & Cox, wholesale and retail mil liners, acquire Hannibal millinery store known as the White Shop at 313 Broadway. The Quincy firm plans to operate the store under its current name.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quincy
Hannibal
Crooks & Cox
Broadway
Crooks &Cox
Rev Rigg Performs Two Local Weddings
Yesterday afternoon and evening Rev N M Rigg officiated two wedding ceremonies. The first united Charles H Hyde and Nellie Isabella Harper of Hersman Brown County amid a farm life future. the second joined John L Hofmaster of Mullinville Kansas and Leta Sticknall of Lewistown Illinois with sister Lila Sticknall as witness. The Hofmasters will reside on a farm near Greensburg Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. M. Rigg
Charles H. Hyde
Nellie Isabela.Harper
Hersman, Brown
County
John L. Hofmaster
Mullinville
Kan
Leta Sticksnall
Lewistown
Lila, Sticknall
Town Topics and Local Notices Round Up
Ward's Cakes at Mersiman's and other business notes fill a Quincy page. Travelers include C L Baker of Hannibal and Mr. and Mrs. William Cheesewright heading to Griggsville for the county fair. Local shifts: Louise Collins returns from St Louis, James Gibson improves after appendicitis, Emily Humphries breaks a leg, Minnie Fischer tours Tacoma, Mrs Charles Carroll visits from Kansas City, and Charles Reynolds dies at 80 in the Soldiers Home. Relatives and friends of local families are mentioned with school and shop reminders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. L. Baker
Hannibal
St. Anthonius
L. P. Johnson
Eleventh Street
Mr. Sterling
Palace Stables
Louise Collins
North Fourth Street
St. Loui
O.H Cady
Edward Werner
la Belle
Blue Ribbon
Hampshire
James Gibson
North Fifth Street
St. Mary's Hospital
Emily Humphries
Bert Humphries
Riverside Township
Quincy
Charles Carroll
Kansas City
William Kamp
Charles D. Reynolds
Soldiers’ Home Hospital
Kentucky
Co. D
115Th Linois
Larrison, Goldstein
St. Louis
Mr. Goldstein
Seeberger-Harmon
North End Sanitary sewer plan eyed by Quincy owners
About 25 property owners gathered in the county court room to file objections to the $30,000 North End sanitary sewer assessment covering 37 blocks. Judge McCarl extended the hearing to a Saturday at 9 am to let objections be filed in writing, with option of payment over five years and six percent bonds. The project, under Mayor Abbott, includes Spruce Thirteenth to Twentieth, Twentieth to Cedar, Chestnut Fifteenth to Twenty Second, Lind Sixteenth to Twenty Fourth, Elm Eighteenth to Twenty Fourth, Chestnut Fourteen to Fifteenth, Fourteenth Chestnut to Vine, and Oak Thirteenth to Sixteenth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North End
McCarl
Alois" Hegklé
Ben Heckle
Abbott
Quincy
Pardons Board Considers Five Condemned Mexicans
Phoenix July 28 Frank Trott chairman of the state board of pardons and paroles called a meeting tonight to consider the cases of five Mexicans condemned to be hanged Friday at Florence. The call followed a telegram from Secretary of State Lansing seeking further reprieves for the condemned men.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Frank Trott
State Board of Pardons and Parales
Icr
Florence
Secretary of State
Lansing
Pulotor Saves Asphyxiated Man Edward Land
Edward Land, a Quincy Gas Electric and Heating worker, was overcome by gas fumes while in a trench on North Eighth Street. Fellow workers pulled him from the trench and carried him to a residence. Police and a pulmonator were summoned. after a few minutes the patient revived and was moved to his home. His condition improved overnight and he was expected to be able to work today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Land
Highth Street
Edward
Land
Quincy Gas, Electric ‘& Heating Company
North Eighth Street
Marriage Licenses Issued to Five Couples Yesterday
Marriage licenses were issued yesterday to five couples. John Leslie Hoofmaster, 21, Mullinville, Kansas, and Leta Spicknall, 18, Tawntown, Ti. Charles Henry Pike, 22, Hersman, Al, and Nellie Isabelle Harper, 92, Wersman. James F. George, 66, West Salem, Tit., and Martha J. Runyon, 66, Mt. Erie, MW.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John ‘Leslie
Hoofmaster
Mullinville
Kan
Leta Spicknall
Tawntown
Charles
Henry Pike
Hersman
Nellie Isabelle
Harper
Wersman
James F. George
West Salem
Tit
Martha
J. Runyon
Mt. Erie
Citrolax Best Laxative Endorsed by Salt Lake City Reader
Citrolax touted for constipation sour stomach lazy liver and sluggish bowels with claim of quick headache relief. Advert claims thorough flushing with no pain or nausea and a cleansed wholesome system. Reader quote from Salt Lake City Utah praises it as a gripe free laxative with pleasant after effects. Miller and Arthur Drug Co. distributes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. H
Weihecht
Salt. Lake
City
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Mr. Snyder
Highland
Fifth
Fred J. Brinkoetter
Northwest
Men’s League of Salem Church
Mr. Brinkoetter
Wemakit
Simon Oppenheimer
Pleasant Hill
Valley of Peace Cemetery
Oppenheimer
Isaac Lesem
Mary
Mary Wings
Anna Dailey
Brennan
Magses
Max Pierce
Harry Wing
Anna
Mary Clow
Thomas S. Baldwin
Great. Naval
Charles McNiell
Miss Carrie Gilmore
Keokuk
State Charities Commission
Comedy Players
Mrs. Gates
St Od
Am Re
Gilbert Eldredge
J. P. Dolliver
Chautauqua
Ames
Carroll
Anna Achilles
Burlington
Wf. E
John C. _Haerle
Spring Street
Okla
Quincy’s. Pulse
A. F. Trapp
State Street
M. E. Church
Ward
Mersiman’s
William
South Seventh Street
Griggsville
S. 10Th St
Charles Mueller
St.Louis
M'Carl
Pulotor
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