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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1917
Page
3
In Washington on March 27 the Emergency Peace Federation announced plans for a large antiwar demonstration when Congress opens. The group expects 10 000 to 150 000 pacifists to march through the capital to urge peace, aiming to show the majority sentiment to the President and lawmakers.
A vintage advertisement touts a cold cure claim with LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets. It promises one day relief and offers a money refund if it fails. Druggist signatures are shown on each box.
A public demonstration plans a mass showing of support with 1,000,000 telegrams and letters aimed at President Wilson and Congress. Organizers say the action is patriotic and intended to reveal public opinion on the war effort.
Theo dore Roosevelt hunting devil fish off the Florida coast killed two of the marine monsters in a Monday tally. One of the creatures fought fiercely, dragging the launch more than two miles and almost overturning the boat, according to a telegram from Russell J. Coles, a party member, at Danville Virginia.
Henry Vogel president of the St Joseph Turn Verein orders removal of all German flags and portraits of notable Germany from Turner hall. Replaced with red white and blue pictures of American statesmen now displayed.
Two German auxiliary cruiser crewmen fled from the Philadelphia navy yard and crossed the Rio Grande into Matamoros opposite Brownsville Texas. American authorities notified Mexican officials as two other crew members reportedly escaped custody during a lockup at the yard. The fourteenth crewmen who attempted liberty were later captured or believed to have fled toward the border.
London dispatch reports German destruction of French towns as a catalyst for a renewed Allied push toward St Quentin. French troops push forward, aided by General Neville and Haig’s wedges near Moy, Venedeuil, and La Fere, with heavy fighting intensifying along the Hindenburg line.
Petrograd reports Russia believes Von Hindenburg’s retreat on the western front signals a German move toward Petrograd. Great massing of troops and munitions on the northern boundary accompanies the shift, raising fears of a dramatic national peril and prompting calls to unite factions. Socialists urge immediate peace and even propose soldiers fraternize with Germans.
In El Paso a Greek reportedly insulted the U S flag before a Mexican quarter mass meeting. Private D S Axton of the Fifth U S Cavalry confronted him. the foreigner drew a revolver and fired twice, wounding Axton in the foot. The attacker fled. Separately in Galesburg Knox College lost two athletes, Philip Carroll and William Ellard, to military service en route to Kewanee.
GRAND RAPIDS Mich March 27 The Birk Brothers of Chicago won the five man event in the American Bowling Congress tournament scoring 3061 to lead the finals as reigning champions.
Six men for the naval reserves flying corps are to be trained at the Atlantic coast aeronautical station in Newport News. They will be commissioned upon completion of the preliminary course.
Short notices report residents and visitors in Quincy Illnesses improve or stabilize including Mrs S P Landcraft of 2231 Oak street Blessing hospital for intestinal trouble. Mrs George Beatty 423 Spring street improving after operation Blessing hospital. John Silvers of Detroit attends mother’s funeral. John Joson 513 Kentucky improving after two weeks illness. B A Spaeth Davenport visits. Mrs Dave Hunsaker 30014 South Fifth street better at home. S S Groves Plymouth visits. Mr and Mrs D S Broady Paloma visit. Kenneth Lewis leaves for Beloit college. Miss Susie McHaffey 2421 Maine seriously ill. Miss McHaffey improving but not as well. Miss Gladys Herleman goes to Louisiana Mo to visit sister. Miss Daisy Mollenhauer Carthage college student visits parents. Rev and Mrs August Langhorst Warsaw visit son Rev and Mrs Paul Langhorst. Mrs Floyd Munroe and daughter home from Palmyra. Mr and Mrs John Steiner visit George Steiner in Loraine. Lawrence Thornhill 1011 Hampshire ill throat improves. Joe Ertle East Hampshire improving from pneumonia. Emery Lancaster, attorney, in Chicago on business.
Rochester, N. Y. March 27 General Sir Sam Hughes of Canada told a Chamber of Commerce dinner that if he could act in the United States he would make Villa a brigadier general and send him to command 50 000 or 60 000 Mexicans to Europe to fight the Teutons. He compared Mexicans to Irish and urged universal military training as democracy’s safeguard.
Wesleyan University faculty votes to place the entire staff at the disposal of the government in the national emergency. Military training will start immediately after Easter under an officer’s supervision. Student body adopts a mass meeting resolution pledging loyalty and readiness to serve.
St Louis report notes Mrs Phillip N Moore president of the National Council of Women says loyalty to the United States is the watchword for the 26 clubs she represents and that women are organized to see what they can do.
NEW YORK March 27 The finance committee of the American French British and Belgium permanent blind relief war funds has decided to guarantee the French committee 40000 annually for five years The committee has already sent abroad 260000 to aid French relief efforts.
New York on March 27. A man registered as RB Rhodes but identified by police as Charles E Townsend, a sales manager and efficiency expert for a Detroit dry goods firm, shot himself in his Hotel Vanderbilt room Monday night.
A presidential decree in Buenos Aires on March 27 forbids exporting grain and flour to secure stocks needed for Argentina. The measure aims to protect national reserves and ensure essential supplies.
The advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as especially effective for rheumatism catarrh scrofula eczema and other blood disorders. It claims Peptiron Pills boost anemia nervous exhaustion paleness sleeplessness and overall nerve vitality as part of a strongest combination course. It urges families to take these medicines regularly before and after meals for best results.
A British AP dispatch from France details Monsieu r LeCure Caron, voyage nes parish priest and town mayor, describing two and a half years under German control. He recounts the quiet terror, forced labor, and rumors of Paris fall, and notes the brief Allied advance as British and French forces closed in.
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