Red Cross Reports Suffering as Mexico Talks Hit Impasse
Washington reports cite a final ceasefire deadline and a conference plan to resolve Mexico hostilities. Carranza’s forces hold Mexico City while Villa and Zapata threat eases. A Sonora statement notes extreme hunger with beans and corn scarce in government stores and grain monopolies.
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Washington
Mexico
Carranza
Charles A. Douglas
Vera Cruz
Car‘ranza
Gonzalez
Villa
Zapata
Sonora
Red. Cross
Chicago Eastland inquiry blasted as farce by mayor
Chicago mayor William Hale Thompson denounces the Redfield inquiry as a farce and vows a real investigation to uncover blame for the Eastland disaster. Korshak, city counsel aide, says the inquiry fails to assure the public that government inspectors acted properly or that safety was prioritized.
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Chicago
Eastland
Redfield
William Hale Thompson
Board of Inquiry
Max M. Korshak
Thompson
Secretary of ‘Commerce
Great Lakes
Miners Idle in Southern Ohio to be Housed in Cleveland
Columbus Ohio July 30 State officials plan to move about three hundred idle miners from southern Ohio to Cleveland where jobs have been promised. Free employment agencies in major cities were told to place other idle miners in any work. Meanwhile hundreds of mining families receive food purchases funded by the adjutant general’s department with help from state organizations and individuals. Ohio operators blame wage-rate discrimination for forcing mines to close and thousands to lose work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Cleveland
Adjutant-General’s
Russia plans retreat from Warsaw amid strategic withdrawal
Paris dispatch cites Le Temps Petrograd correspondent saying Russia urges allies to prepare for evacuation of Warsaw and a strategic retreat. Authorities reportedly state they will abandon territory but fear loss of an army as irreparable, with possible defense line from Kovno to Brest Litovsk. The censor-approved Temps piece, deemed significant, outlines a potential full Vistula abandonment.
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Paris
Russia
Warsaw
le Temps
Petrograd
Temps
Vistula
Kovno
Grodno
Brest Litovsk
Fifth Infantry Band to Play Washington Park Concerts
The Fifth Infantry band will give a weekly concert this evening in Washington Park and a Sunday night recital at Highland Park. Program selections include popular and classical numbers such as Victory March, Blue Danube, and selections from operas like Bohemian Girl and Little Cafe. Weather may bring large crowds to both performances.
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Fifth ‘Infantry
Washington Park
Highland
Garitier
Raymond
Ene
Thomas
Gilesa
Bruno
Dope Rumors Probed by Dr Beatty at Fairview
Drool Beaties of Fairview investigated rumors of dope peddling at Soldiers and Sailors Home. A woman visitor returned after finding no stitch practice. Dr Beatty said few cases involved dope use with victims sent for treatment or recent deaths. Some elderly patients received drugs only under medical prescription.
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Fairview
Beatty
Des Moines River Floods Crossing Toward Missouri
Des Moines River south of Keokuk overflows covering several hundred acres of corn and pickle land. Wagon road into Missouri is submerged and Burlington route tracks are endangered.
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Des Moines
Keokuk, Ta
Moines
Keokuk
Missouri
Cook and Carroll Dominate Quincy Rifle Club Duel
The Quincy Rifle Club team defeated Company F. I. N. G. 667 to 519 in a range duel on Maine Street. Cook led with 200 from kneeling and prone, Happy Jack Carroll totaled 170, and Wingerter topped the losers with 146. Standings show White 41 standing, Carroll 40 sitting, Cook 41 kneeling, and 62 prone for Cook.
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Quincy Rifle Club
Maine Street
Quinevans
Cook
Jack
Carroll
Wingerter
J. W. White
Méador Weer
Williams
Balzer
Wingerten
Elmore Wee Eae "Gand
Quincy
Rifle ‘Club
Ee Ee Ae
Oung Carrollett
Ned Egan Quits Muscatine Club
Muscatine Iowa July 30 The Muscatine baseball association board announces the resignation of Manager Ned Egan and appoints Teese Runser as temporary manager. The board cites friction between players, manager and board. Outfielder Charles Reinhart is released and Suttlelenie Sar, recently under suspension for injuries, is reinstated.
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Muscatine
Iowa
Muscatine Baseball Association
Ned Egan
Teese Runser
Egan
Charles Reinhart
Suttlelenie Sar
Want Ads Offer Real Bargains and Quick Replies
The notice promotes want ads in the Whig office for bargains. It invites readers to advertise what they want and their price, with or without having their name used. It highlights how want ads help locate lots, contractors, or buyers for better deals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whig Office
Joan
Town Topics waist sale and travel notices
Special for today at Halbach-Schroeder Co. promotes dress skirts waists and ginghams with low prices. Multiple locals including Glen Nattus and Elmer Mester visit Quincys trade circles, while Bert Meyer and Miss Grace Beeler appear in light fare notices. Community events and civic notices mix with sales and travel depictions across Davenport area.
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Halbach- Schroeder Co
Glen Nattus
Galena
Ill
Chicago
Halbach-Schroeder Co
Elmer Mester
Kewanee
Earl “Thompson
St. Louis
Quincy
Wirth
Halbach- Schroeder, Co
V.G
Musselman
Burlington
Bert Meyer
L. A
Halbach-Schroeder. Co
Oren A. Alderson
City
Bloomington
Alderson
Russell Brenner
Grace Beeler
Maine Street
Davenport
Palace Stables
Are You Feeling Fit The Kidney Health Ad
An advertisement extols Foley Kidney Pills as a quick aid to weak overworked kidneys. It claims they help filter blood and remove poisonous waste, reducing sore muscles joints backache and rheumatism while warning of dangerous bladder ailments. J Miller & Arthur Drug Co.
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Foley
J. Miller &Arthur Drug .Co
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King Humoreske
Oei
Dvorak
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Caryl
Strauss
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Eure Heineman Oat Bourne
DR. L. Beatty
Bull
Muscatine Club
Central — Association
Tom Tarpy
Decatur
Trish
Meyer-Wilms Co
Eli Gray
Whig Composing Room
Humeston
John Ellis
Tremont Hotel
George
Wilson
Monmouth
United Brethren Church
Esther Kirby
Macomb
J.°. McConnell
Atlantic City
Frank A. Hohnadel
Clara Mae Simpson
Hohnade l
Amelia Morehouse
Hampshire
Hlatsiith-Schroeder Co
Colchester
Ann Anders
Baby
Opal Lamb
Manuel Schwartz
Mendon
Elzabeth. Brown
Robert Britt
Amelia Kruse
Community Enterprise
Doatsburg
Messrs. Stokes and
Sunter
John L. Schrage
Twenty-fourth Street
California
Edina
Sam
Addie
Messenger
William Simon
Chick
Sixth
Jefferson Streets
Illinois
STATE
Bank of Quincy
Corner Sixth
Hampshire Streets
Illinois State Bank of
Coner
Sixth and
Quincy Gas, Electric & Heating CO
Éary &Practical Flamé Dress
Naking Lossons
Pictorial Review
Pictorial Review Dress
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