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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1917
Page
9
Eight grain farms with fair to good improvements offered with market-ready crops. Purchaser gains wheat, oats, growing corn, plus timothy, clover, and cash rents. Options expire June 23 and July 1, enabling timely acquisition of diversified harvest potential.
By order of the County Court of Adams County Illinois the executrix of Charles H Williamson will sell at public vendue on Friday July 6 1917 at 2 PM at the south front door of the Court House Quinney Adams County Illinois the east half of the south ten acres of the north twenty acres of the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section 29 township 2 south range 8 west with Mississippi River Power Company right of way and an undivided one half interest in lots 5 and 6 in Lawndate Addition to Quinney including described parcels and the dower interest of Emily Williamson the sale will be cash. A deed will be made after court approval. Dated June 4 1917.
An American passenger liner repelled a major German submarine off the Irish coast Sunday night as American naval gunners hit the sub with a torpedo fired at close range. The attack occurred near an English port on June 26, with the torpedo missing by under twenty feet. In contrast, reports state that Kerman Persia hosts about 1,000 rug and carpet looms.
Springfield June 26 The state board of agriculture reports mixed conditions for Illinois crops from June 20 with wheat and oats better than earlier estimates. Corn lags at 80 percent of normal due to cold wet weather while winter wheat stands at 60 percent and spring wheat at 95 percent. Oats at 98.6 percent, pastures and meadows are good, potatoes at 4 percent of normal. acreage for corn wheat and potatoes shows increases.
Miss Mabel Scottwood twenty of LaGrange Tennessee died when she tripped on a high heel while crossing the Burlington right of way near Aurora. She was struck by a freight train and killed as she hurried to reach an approaching train. This followed another fatality near the same Burlington section when Miss Julia Fender, a Naperville farm resident, was cut in two by a train Saturday.
In Pittsburgh on June 26 M. H. Broderick president of the American Boiler Manufacturers association predicted the year will see boiler work for American ships and submarine plates. He urged attention to materials and transportation issues. A Dubuque college student who did home mission work last summer funds college by barbering in the campus community.
The data shows Germans and Austro Hungarians make up 31 percent of foreign born residents. Native-born figures total 4,171,915 with Germans 2,501,588. Naturalization predominates. New York state has 436,911 German born citizens. Half of Cincinnati’s residents were born in Germany, and in New York City the largest German born group resides in Queens.
Washington June 26 tanks on the western front show mixed results as an evolving weapon. Early British models were heavy and unwieldy, often failing to advance in wet ground, while French designs proved more handy and effective. Germans copied the concept after observing field use, but the core faults were already revealed by guarded English experiments. Tanks offer strategic advantage when paired with infantry as they straddle trenches and provide machine gun coverage, though crew endure cramped, smoky, and perilous conditions. The article notes anticipated future tank expansion and design changes.
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