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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1919
Page
7
A detailed guide urging home canning for vegetables and fruits, with safety tips and heating times. It emphasizes choosing only storable produce, proper sterilization, sealing, and testing rubbers and lids. The article contrasts fresh storage needs, warns against unnecessary heat, and explains bacteria and molds, stressing planning and seasonal eating.
A New York Fashion Letter extols leather accessories from dominos cases to vanity sets. It praises folding frames, mini hat boxes, and pillowy leather covers with satin bands, describing colors, designs, and travel convenience. Various jewelry boxes, perfume holders, and writing cases are highlighted as lush examples of craftsmanship.
Official war records detail the Signal Corps role in World War I. Telephony and telegraph innovations, including a new form of wire and dual circuit setups, supported front line operations. US exchanges peaked at 956 lines serving 9500 stations, while field glasses production expanded rapidly. Motion picture reporting and carrier pigeons also augmented communications, with pigeons delivering over six percent of messages despite shell and gas barrages.
Washington May 11 transport sailings announced for unit returns from overseas duty. The Iowan arrives New York May 22 with detachments of the fifth machine gun battalion the 104th field signal battalion and the 13th infantry base hospital No 77 and one casual company. Minesweeper Roanoke due Newport News May 19 with 12 casual companies a detachment of the 311th infantry and 3 casual officers.
London reports the submarine commander confined in the Tower of London is Captain Kaiservetter. He is believed to have commanded the U-boat that torpedoed the British channel steamer Sussex on March 24, 1916, an attack that killed 30 American passengers aboard.
In Frederick County Maryland a phantom in white with a violin haunts Continental Schoolhouse. Local theory points to Clinton Baugher, an escaped asylum patient, while skeptics insist it is a genuine ghost. Officers begin a manhunt hoping to catch the figure and solve the mystery.
Brig. Gen. Douglas Masarthir, former brigade commander in the Rainbow Division, is named superintendent of the West Point Military Academy by Gen. March. MacArthur will resume duties June 12, relieving Brig. Gen. Samuel Tillman Bristien, who returns to the retired list.
Detroit News recounts a tulip mania tale where a sailor mistook an onion for a prized bulb and a bystander killed a man over a tulip related fiasco. The piece notes the 17th century Dutch boom and its global economic crash, and ends with a brief dispatch about Count Von Brodorff-Rantau’s failed attempt to meet President Wilson in Paris.
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