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Quincy Whig

Location

Quincy, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Mar 26, 1920

Page

13

Operators Decide To Offer No Opposition

In St Louis on March 26 it was stated there will be no opposition to the coal commission majority report granting miners a 13 percent wage increase. Thomas T. Brewster, chair of the coal operators scale committee, said the operators will meet in New York to discuss the report and then confer with the miners scale committee to end the coal controversy as urged by President Wilson.

New York Miner's Wilson Brewster

Brown University Closes Over Scarlet Fever Outbreak

Officials and municipal health authorities posted notices at Brown University announcing immediate closing of the institution due to a scarlet fever outbreak. It will not reopen before April 8. TheWomen's College is not affected.

Brown University Women’s College

Mississippi Democrat Humphreys backs Wilson no third term

In Washington on March 26, Representative Humphreys a Democrat of Mississippi urged President Wilson to immediately announce that he would not seek a third term. The remark drew cheers from both parties in the House as the issue dominated discussions of the presidency and party plans.

Washington House Representative Humphreys Mississippi Wilson

What Shall We Do With Our Teachers?

The Quincy school proposition asks voters to raise the educational fund limit from one and one third percent to two percent to finance salaries, supplies, and maintaining schools. The building fund needs no increase. Women may vote. registration not required. sworn challenges allowed.

Quincy Board of Education

Cox Charges Defeat Of Treaty To Politics

Governor J M Cox of Ohio Democratic candidate blames a senatorial partisan conspiracy for defeat of the peace treaty and calls to junk most war institutions. He denounces Bolshevik hysteria and urges repealing excess profits and inheritance taxes while taxing business volume. He also says the Senate bears responsibility for the treaty’s fate and condemns early publication of the pact. The 1910 census notes the Negro population of the continental United States at 9 827 763.

Chicago J. M. Cox Ohio Tie Senate Cox League of Nations Continental United States

Name Sub Committee To Draw I R Plank

Springfield Illinois March 26 members of the sub committee to draft an initiative and referendum proposal for submission to the Illinois constitutional convention were named by F R Dove chairman of the committee on initiative and referendum and recall. The subcommittee includes Geo P Latchford Thomas F Frole Ernest Kunde Oscar Wolfe all of Chitage and James J Jack of Newton. The convention adjourned until today as Governor I Allen of Kansas was to address the convention at 2 30 this afternoon.

Springfield F. R. Dove Geo, P. Latchford Thomas F. Frole Ernest Kunde Oscar Wolfe Chitage James J. Jack Newton I. Allen Kansas

Diamond Match reports strong 1919 earnings and dividends

Chicago March 26 The Diamond Match company earned 12.81 a share on 16 965 100 capital stock in 1919 up from 12.13 in 1918 per annual report by President W A Fairburn at the stockholders meeting Total earnings after taxes for 1919 were 2 173 515 vs 2 058 657 in 1918

Chicago Diamond Match Company W. A. Fairburn

Japan Uses Nightly Sewage and Refuse in Agriculture

In Japan the sewage and refuse from every house is collected nightly and carefully used in agriculture, reflecting a long standing practice of recycling waste into farming inputs.

Japan

Plain colored Batiste yardage price list

Plain colored Batiste in rose blue pink black copenhagen shades noted at 30 inches wide with a value of 35c per yard. Price indicated as 5. co lien pe oe de 8s ee 29c appears as vendor code or garbled text on the listing.

Copenhagen

Easter Candy Offerings and Household Goods on Sale

Fresh supply of Candies Gum and chocolates with multiple brands and bulk prices. Beech Nut Life Savers Wrigley gum and Easter eggs feature. Heavy duty scrubs and sanitary cloths offered with reduced per unit pricing. Large Easter baskets and Becker's jars listed with bulk counts and prices.

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