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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1916
Page
2
A long meditation on breathing as life force. Proper deep breathing vitalizes blood and brain, boosts energy, and enhances voice, health, and work performance. It argues that oxygen powers physical and mental life and previews upcoming breathing exercises.
Advice to treat a cold with rest, laxative syrup, and Dr King’s New Discovery. The medicine contains Pine Tar antiseptic oils and balsams and claims to ease coughs throat and nasal passages, check the cold, and clear the head. It’s advertised as a standard family cough syrup used over 40 years with a note to keep a bottle at home.
Birth announcements list several families with new babies. Floyd Plowman at 1505 North Sixth Street welcomes a daughter born Saturday. Edward Miller at 300 South Sixteenth Street welcomes a son. Walter Peachl at 844 South Fourteenth Street welcomes a daughter born Friday. Qeais Kuenstler at 1401 North Fifth Street welcomes a daughter born last Wednesday. Wr. and Mrs. Harisen Pinkston of Twenty third and Chestnut Streets welcome a daughter.
Rotary Film Quincy members will attend a post luncheon showing of festival motion pictures at the Orpheum theater after the noonday meeting at Hotel Quincy Tuesday.
City gossip notes several residents traveling visiting relatives and attending events. Jean Henry heads to Lake Geneva Wisconsin for summer. Mrs J V Henry visits in Quincy. Ruth Johnson and daughter Kathleen from Fellows California stay with grandparents. plus Co I and Co F excursion plans led by G W Hill.
New Canton Illinois reports the 8th and 10th grade commencements at the Pleasant Vale and Cincinnati townships in the Methodist church followed by a reception for graduates families and friends on Friday evening June 16. A wagon bridge bond election of 3500 dollars is set for June 27 in New Canton with urged township voters support for the needed structure.
A Tuesday afternoon windstorm south and southwest of town caused damage at the depot and elevators, blew down fruit trees and unroofed a barn at G R Fisher, and twisted a house near George Hyde’s with windows and porches demolished. Chas Hyde was injured by shattered glass. repairs followed as the train, delayed by track damage, remained in town until about ten o'clock Wednesday.
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