Monolithic Highway Plan Faces Voter Referendum
The proposed state road plan dubbed the monolithic highway seeks to connect county seats including Quincy Carthage Mt Sterling and Pittsfield with an 18 foot wide brick base road financed by auto licenses and a 60 million bond issue over twenty years. The plan promises year round passability for autos trucks and wagons but excludes many county points. Voters must approve the bond plan in a referendum despite its lofty name and cost concerns.
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State
Lowde Crests
Altho
Adams County
Quincy
Carthage
Mt. Sterling
Pittsfield
Hindenburg Reforms Line as Allies Press West Front
The article discusses Von Hindenburg’s strategy of retreat to reconfigure the western front for efficiency and supply access. It notes a post Bapaume shift, a potential small-width advance, and German border proximity with rail and underground networks in retreat. It speculates on a halted advance near the frontier and possible peace by summer of 1917 1918 or 1919.
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von Hindenburg
Bapaume
Xingle
The Duma Struggles Over Separate Peace in Russia
The article argues the Russian duma blocks a separate peace, claiming duma control could derail any such settlement. It notes the revolution's reach beyond Russia, mutterings in the reichstag, and the duma as a stabilizing force opposed to monarchy. It portrays the duma as organized and decisive, capable of ending hopes for a separate peace if it opposes it.
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Russia
Reichstag
Amsterdam
America
Germany
Thomas Carlyle
Louis
France
Dumain
Czar
Duma
The Great Fear and the Call for Love Over War
A dramatic lament on the great fear gripping society and its consequence. The author urges rejecting cruelty and embracing love, humanity, and reason for peace, while warning that fear drives violence and war. The piece contrasts worldly power with the teachings of Jesus and laments the peril of forsaking compassion.
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Jeanie
sHidow
Babylon
Europe
Lelio
America
Wallace
Sinai
Jesus
Hell
Kingdom of Heaven
Fatty and Bol Face Almanack Fears in School Diary
A Tuesday school diary describes Fatty fearing a deadly almanack diagnosis, Bol Haynes struggling with spelling while Miss Palmer prepares an exam. Bol hides his method as Andy offers help, but the spelling test exposes his confusion with letters and word choices.
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Fatty
Anny
Bol
Bol Haynes
Miss Palmer
Bal
Andy Anderson
Andy
Bobby Coon and Black Pussy in a Kitchen Mischief
Bobby Coon overstays in Farmer Brown's kitchen and grows fat while Black Pussy, hungry and wary, is driven away from her own food. The cat learns fear and hunger as the woodland visitor exploits the warm cozy setting, prompting a moral about mischief and food security.
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Bobby Coon
Bobby
Farmer Brown
Hle
Green Forest
Mrs. Brown
Parmer Brown
Bobby Coan
Vie
Black Pussy
Hick Pussy
Green Meadows
Trade Follows the Loan and Postwar Fortunes
A banker’s adage hints that export finance shapes personal fortunes. The essay notes Europe’s war era export boom, a flood of gold payments, and the need to invest for postwar opportunity, warning the nation may lag in resuming global trade after the conflict.
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England
France
Germany
Whig's Letter Box Praises Edition
A letter from Moller and Futterer in Quincy dated March 19 compliments the Whig on its special automobile edition and overall editing. The writer lauds last Sunday's Whig as a credit to the city. The note begins a plea for an orphanage in a follow up to the editor.
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Quincy
Whig
Building features to aid Saint Aloysius orphanage income
A Quincy reader describes plans for a new building at Saint Aloysius orphanage to provide care for wards in need. The facility aims to offer admission to all orphans lacking other homes and to attract small, steady contributions from guardians paying for care. A Missouri inventor touts a boat driven by an aeroplane engine for shallow streams and canals in one region.
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St. Aloysius Orphanage
Quincyv
Adams
St. Aloysius
Quincy
Quine Cy
Missouri
Tescum advertised as a secret cure all remedy
An old style sales pitch boasts Tescum rescues victims of the drinkcurse and offers a steelbound money refund guarantee by Heidbreder Bros. It promotes discreet use for husbands brothers or sons and markets at $1 per box or 6 boxes for $5 with a bold dealer claim of risk free results.
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Tescum
Heidbreder Bros
Q-Ban Hair Restorer Promises Gray Coverage
An ad touts Q-Ban Hair Restorer as a safe, guaranteed solution to gray hair. It claims natural color returns, improved hair health, and a money-back guarantee, with availability at Brown & Mays in Memphis and via Hessig-Ellis Drug Co. Memphis.
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Brown & Mays
Hessig-Ellis Drug Co
Memphis
Tenn
T ‘ Adv
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By Webster
H. T. Webster
Frank Moser
Bellowes
Anny Boy
Fatty Bellowes
Thornton W. Burgess
South America
Mexico
John M.orrison
Moller & Futterer
Quincey
Peteweiss
Quincy Gas, Electric & Heating Co
Oliver
G. R. Cottrell
Wells
Fifth
Maine
California
Burlington
Toi Mat
A. 8. Ellis
Quincy, Il
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