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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1919
Page
11
Fragmentary report notes tension over a league dispute involving Herr So-aml-so, with talk of reparation amounts and possible retirement or cease of certain actions. Limited readable names and context hinder full reconstruction.
Voters face questions about funding city needs through general taxation as debt grows. Proponents argue growth requires funds for streets and services, while critics warn rising interest costs demand scrutiny. The piece weighs future implications and elected duties amid fiscal pressures.
Washington dispatch lists first Gotha Missouri and Kan garian guard division units slated for early convoy home from France. The 60th Field Artillery Brigade and the 128th 9th and 10th Field Artillery Regiments plus Base Hospital No 92 and Bakery Company No 397 are among those assigned to return to the United States. Arrival reports note officers and men from Brest aboard ships to New York and Charleston with thousands of troops from the 30th Old Hickory division, including Brig Gen Tyson and the 69th Infantry Brigade aboard the Mercury.
London reports four companies entered the transatlantic competition for a 50060 prize. Sorace entries loom large while Sopwith plans and an assembled New Zealand machine are noted among hopefuls.
In Cham Pattyn county, Edward Nofftz 33 was found slain at his Pesotum area home. His wife was bound in a chair, neighbor freed her, and a 50 farmer posse captured two unnamed farm hands hired by a Chicago agency. The suspects fled with Nofftz’s team.
Ben No Neal, Democratic state chairman, arrives as the Missouri Democratic executive committee considers the controversy surrounding Scopewater Fames AL Reais. Delegates oppose the plan and debate accelerates toward a noon decision.
Prickly Porky the Porcupine sneaks into Farmer Brown’s sugar house in the Green Forest and becomes entangled in a sweater. The coat’s spears pop out as he frantically backtracks, knocking over pails and scaring himself into a wild scramble to escape. The sweater finally comes off, releasing many spears in the process.
A survey notes 1380 as the first European use of gunpowder in battle against Genoa by Venice. It lists March deaths of Raphael in 1520, Peg Woffington in 1760, General Zachary Taylor in 1846, Prince Leopold in 1884, Anton Seidl in 1898, and Seidl’s career from Budapest to Leipzig and New York, ending with his death in New York in 1863.
Washington March 26 An expert Miram Sevasly warned state department officials that Pan Turanism fuels disturbances in Egypt and resembles Bolshevism. He cited Turkish massacres of Armenians and Greeks as parallels and noted Egypt riots included Turkish flags signaling Pan Turanian influence. Romhos Nubar and A Haroniin urged vigilance against this spread at the peace conference.
An old classified ad touts Texas Wonder as a cure for kidney and bladder ailments including grivel diabetes back pain rheumatism and irregularities in men and women. It claims bladder regulation in children and offers a two month treatment for one dollar seventy five, with testimonials available by mail from Saint Louis Missouri or druggists.
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