Gems Booster Tickets Put On Sale For Two-Game Usage
Gems booster club to sell 1500 baseball tickets at 1.10 each, including war tax, for any two games of the season. Funds to repair wind-damaged fence at Newcomb Park. Several new players signed for tryouts, with a Rock Island opener set for April 15 and 16. Whist prize event planned at Hotel Newcomb April 7. Flooding reports describe levee protection holding and river forecast to fall toward normal spring levels.
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Newcomb
Tom Lenane
Detroit Tigers
W. A. Viehl
Payson Twirler
Stanley Peters
Payson
Gemns
Rock Island
Hannibal
Davenport
Quincy
American Black Devils
Peoria
Levees Withstand Turbulent Flood Waters In Storm
Mississippi river holds at 16.2 feet at midnight as levees endure the flood. Government prediction of 16.43 feet today implies peak rise near the record with no imminent breaks feared around Quincy farms. The acid test came Sunday when the flood’s true force showed itself.
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Quincy
Mississippi
Hamilton Says Car Company Wishes To Pave But Can't Pay
Attorney Bentley Hamilton representing the McKinley railway system met Mayor O'Brien in Quincy to discuss paving Maine street and other streets. He said the company does not wish to block paving but lacks funds to pay. He planned a conference with the board of local improvements, but the revocation of paving ordinances for Maine street and the Third street district ended the need for a meeting. Then he said he would return to Quincy to represent the company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bentley Hamilton
McKinley Railway System
O'Brien
Maine Street
Hamilton
Quincy
Board of Local Improvements
Third Street
Street Railway Proposes Hearings On Third District Ordinances
The street railway company plans public hearings on new Third district ordinances and Maine street improvements. It will seek council approval to abolish the Front street line.
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the Street Railway Company
Third District
Maine Street
Council
Front Street
High Winds Cause Widespread Damage Sunday
A Sunday windstorm ripped through the town at hurricane speed causing extensive damage. Homes, trees, fences, and chimneys were destroyed or damaged. Leonard Bernmann’s roof and the old library at Soldiers Home suffered, a child was nearly harmed, and several businesses reported broken windows. debris covered streets and parks were strewn with branches and boughs.
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Leonard Bernmann
Ohio Street
Soldiers Home
League Baseball Park
Brown & Mays Drug Store
Florel Quincy
Excelsior Stove Co
Columbia
Quincy
Washington Park
Incident Notes No Loss Of Life Reported
The report states there was no loss of life and no serious injuries. Details are limited to the absence of severe harm and the lack of fatalities.
Paper Mill Employees Refuse 70c Per Hour Offer
In a Labor Temple meeting Monday evening, striking machinists refused the American Strawboard company’s offer of 70 cents per hour to return to work. An eight hour day was not included, while previously machinists earned 55 cents hourly. The Weis employees’ case remains pending and a conference with management is planned this week.
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Labor Temple
American Strawboard Company
J. B. Nellegar
International Union
Weis
Deege Hendren wedding at City Hall with Judge Reardon
Laura B Hendren of Centralia Missouri wed Alan H Deege of Quincy in Judge Reardon s office at city hall Monday afternoon. Rev Henry W Trueblood heads to Decatur for Inter church world movement conference. Vermont Street Methodist Women s Foreign Missionary Society meets Wednesday at 2 30 at Mrs E G Boyd s home.
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Laura B. Hendren
Centralia
Alan H. Deege
Quincy
Reardon
City Hall
Henry W. Trueblood
D. D
United Brethren Church
Decatur
Duke Schroer
Adams County
Ilinois
Annual Reunion Address at St John Lutheran Service
Rev E P Schueler pastor of St John Lutheran gave a talk on Joshua's Call to Consecration during the church's annual reunion service for confirmation class members Sunday. Mrs John Ohnemus sang and the church orchestra directed by L D Keis performed several selections.
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E. P. Schueler
St. John Lutheran Church
Joshua
John Ohnemus
L. d. Keis
Local Aldermanic Candidates Listed in Quincy
The list presents candidates for the Fifth Ward aldermanic race in Quincy Illinois with names and street addresses including G L Klein Samuel Hyatt Jos Brinkman Sam Robinson Lawrence Ellermeier and others. The document names Samuel S Hyatt Jos Brinkman Sam Robinson and Lawrence Ellermeier with their respective addresses in Quincy Adams County Illinois.
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Samuel S. Hyatt
Maine Street
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U. S
Wiighes
W.C. Warren
Millboro
Virginia
D.D
Brown & Mays Drug CO
the Gems
New Wittanp Hovel
Washington
Fatima
Willard
Shoreham
Capitol Building
County of
Adams
State of
Illinois
City Citizens Ticket
A. C. Hellhake
Vine Street
G. L. Klein
S. Fourth Street
George J. Saalig
S. Seventh Street
John Lepper
Washington Street
H. A. Wortman
Hampshire Street
A. E. Owen
S. Nineteenth Street
Seventh Ward
Frank M. Bolles
York Street
City Labor Ticket
Adolph C. Ridder
Fifth Street
John H. Ackermann
Jersey Street
Elmer Mutz
Madison Street
Edward J. Goessling
Jefferson Street
William J. Tandy
Cherry Street
John Boeing
Leo Heimlich
Monroe Street
Harry L. Nichols
State Street
Town Citizens Ticket
Charles W. Zang
Vermont Street
Town Labor
William H. Lehbrink
WM. F. Bader
Frank
Willer
Twelfth Street
Bert Ryan
Payson Avenue
J. N. Tibesar No
R. S. Benedict
Fourth Street
City Municipal Ticket
John P. McDonnell
Eleventh Street
M. Zimmerman
S. Fifth Street
Adam Hild
Sam Robinson
Twenty-fifth Street
Lawrence Ellermeier
City Peoples Ticket
E. A. Mollenhauer
Broadway
Henry Lamermeyer
A. D
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