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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1919
Page
7
City plans a hard road to Taylor Missouri and an early morning owl car service to meet trains. A temporary Towhead island bathing beach is proposed for this summer with intent to permanent status later.
An opinion piece catalogs East Broadway and Maine Street as the city’s dirtiest road segments with crowded car-track bumps and holes. It highlights Broadway as the standout worst, notes repair efforts stalled by costs, and warns dirt streets may hinder access to the business district and rail station.
The controversy over Taft suggested reservations widens chasm between Wilson supporters and Republican leaders including Lodge Borah Johnson and Sherman. President Wilson studies the proposals amid claims of improper publication, while Hays notes the risk of leaks from carbon-copy letters.
Vincy laments sweltering Sunday heat with no safe local bathing beach near the river. He urges Mayor O'Brien to establish a temporary, low cost beach with a safety zone and guards for one day. He questions why residents cannot have a swim option next Sunday August 3rd.
The movement urges memorials through practical acts: planting trees and building beautified roads. Proponents argue this serves the living best, avoiding mere monuments. The American Borentry Association advocates Memorial Road Building, an idea gaining traction in regions and needed nationally.
A wartime era column urges reforestation and highway improvement from Maryland to California. It cites Walnut trees along a Chicago to Saginaw route named Victory Highway, a Roosevelt Memorial Trunk Highway plan from Montauk Point to Buffalo, and memorials such as a Memorial Bridge for Canada US link. It highlights train of efforts by state and federal groups to plant trees for fallen soldiers, promote cemetery and road beautification, and honor national defense themes, ending with a note on Secretary Wilson’s Scottish birth and naturalization.
Fred Haskins Daily Quiz presents a Q A on when to remove the service flag and the origin of its practice. It notes the flag should come down at the end of the service for each person or be kept as an heirloom when they return home or are mustered out. It also identifies Shakespeare’s line about adversity from As You Like It.
A historical note states about 200000 commissioned officers served in the war, with 48 percent from officers training camps, 21 percent physicians, 13 percent specialists, 6 percent from the ranks and 3 percent from the regular army. It contrasts with 9000 at outbreak and asks if Indians knew the value.
The Whig newspaper will featureWant Ads to boost real estate advertising and sales throughout the coming month. The campaign aims to connect sellers with buyers through prominent listings and standard notices in the paper.
A Spanish government commission advances plans for a national system to generate electric power from waterfalls and distribute it nationwide. The tale of Sprite and Peter highlights curiosity, secrecy, and the pursuit of hidden nests amid woodland moss.
On July 29 marks include the 1108 death of Philip I of France with a weak reign and regency. 1794 Stanislaus Augustus’ forced relinquishment of Poland’s army. and 1868 Reconstruction era Fourteenth Amendment proclamation. The notes cite regency, Crusade plans, and constitutional ratification dynamics.
Paris report says Alexandre Ribot called Erzberger’s claim that Britain and France sought peace through the Vatican in 1917 a distortion of the truth. Ribot, then French premier and foreign minister, issued the statement to Marcel Hutin of Echo de Paris denying the German finance minister’s assertion.
San Francisco July 29 United States district court Judge William H Sawtelle sustained a demurrer by Ranier Brewing Co permitting sale of beer containing 234 percent alcohol on the coast.
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