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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1916
Page
3
A Worcester Massachusetts letter extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for restoring health and enabling childbearing. The testimonial claims an operation was avoided and a healthy baby followed the remedy with confidential advice offered by the company.
Dr R H Hartley will deliver the baccalaureate sermon Sunday night June 11 at the Presbyterian church. Commencement exercises Friday evening June 15 will likely be held in the Hippodrome. 105 seniors are to graduate, the largest class from Quincy High School as announcements have been sent to friends.
A Glenns Ferry jury found Pearl F Shoemaker not guilty of murdering her husband Charles T Shoemaker and ruled their daughter Muriel E Robin Shoemaker’s death an unavoidable accident. The May 3 shooting occurred as the events unfolded after the body was sent to Quin cy for burial. the verdict cites self defense and accident.
Ratzer, new proprietor of The Midland at Fourth and Hampshire, plans a first class cafe with a glass partition separating it from the rest of the building. He has Moberly, Missouri business success and a noted dry speech against Gatling Gun Windle in a local option campaign.
Grace Whipple chapter of Order Eastern Star held an annual memorial in the Masonic temple honoring Elizabeth Beil and James Merritt of Oakland. Dr. A A Whipple opened with a reflection on Merritt, a noted Mason. tributes followed from Mrs Maud Coles Smith and Miss Lillian Cherry. The service closed with the hymn Face to Face sung by May Trescher.
Miss Rose Mary Hade presents a second vocal recital at the Quincy College of Music and Art music hall tonight assisted by Miss Inna Chumbley and Miss Marie Schaller. The program includes arias and songs by Mozart Chopin and others with pieces from Le Nozze di Figaro and Le Nozze di Figaro. Proceeds or tickets listed at $15.
Sudden weather shifts and high winds bring colds grippe and may lead to a chronic summer cough. Dr Kings New Discovery offers soothing tar syrup to calm the cough check the cold and break up grippe attacks. Prepared ready to use ask your druggist for a bottle.
Milton Hess of the Lesser company reports a pair posing as magazine agents cashed a $25 check at his store after visiting Quincy hotels and the Van Andrews home. The couple also bought goods at Hirsh and another store, then vanished with merchandise and change. Hess suspects the checks are worthless and plans action once confirmed.
Rev H J Leemhuis Lugo Schuess ler and John Schlinkmann returned from Columbia HI where the German Evangelical Synod of North America concluded its annual meeting. Officers elected include Karl Dexheimer president H J Leemhuis vice president J Hoston secretary and Frederick Rapp treasurer. Next meeting planned for East St Louis in May 1917.
Mrs H L Roche former Coatsburg resident died Sunday in Kansas City Kansas after a two year illness from multiple diseases. She was 42, survived by husband son Walter daughter Irene and by her father Valentine Reuschel two brothers Henry and William and sister Mrs Ed Simon. Funeral at St Peter's Lutheran Coatsburg with Rev A H Zeilinger, burial in Coatsburg cemetery.
The funeral for Frederick Burmeyer will be held at 2:00 PM at his residence 820 South Thirteenth Street with private services, followed by a 2:30 PM service at Christ Evangelical Church. Burial is in Greenmount Cemetery.
Funeral services for Paul Waterkotte will occur at 8 o'clock Thursday morning at his parents home, Mr and Mrs Herman Waterkotte, 1104 Cherry street, and at 8:30 o'clock at St John’s Catholic church. Burial will follow at Calvary cemetery. Friends invited to attend.
The funeral will be held at 2 o'clock this afternoon at the family residence 219 Chestnut street. Burial will take place in Woodland Cemetery.
Andrew Alston died at 3:40 p m Monday in the Soldiers Home hospital at age 73. A native of New York state, he served in Co B Fortieth Wisconsin Infantry and worked as a harness maker. He leaves a widow, a fellow resident of the home, and one brother in Wisconsin. Funeral services and burial will be held at the home cemetery.
John Bimond age 74 member of Company A Illinois Light Artillery died Monday afternoon at the Soldier's Home. He was a hotel keeper never married and burial will be in the home cemetery. Mrs Isabelle Parks of Dunlap Illinois a niece will attend the funeral which will be conducted at 9 oclock this morning at the home.
The Amusements Today page features showings at Orpheum Savoy Colonial Belasco Princess Star and Bijou theaters including Just Plain Mary Little Mecema's Romance His Wife's Mistake Doctor Rameau The Mas querader The Discard His Father's Footsteps Houses of Mystery Romance in a Mystery The Last Adventure and more. A stray line remarks one girl does not kiss another girl as a method of simplified advertising.
Advertisement touts Texas Wonder as a universal remedy for kidney and bladder troubles in men and women and for regulating children's bladder issues. It promises cures with one bottle lasting two months and offers mail order for 31.60 plus testimonials, listing Dr. BE. W. Hall of St. Louis and druggist availability.
Local items note a moonlight trip on the steamer G. W. Hill Thursday night led by Weems laundry workers. John Kuhlman of Hulls plans a trip to California for the summer. Crooks & Cox promote a millinery sale with Miss Virginia Kelly recuperating. Monthly notices include various local moves and visits.
Architect Martin J. Geise won the contract for the new $30,000 Mendon High School to be built this year as a township project. The eight room pressed brick building aims to be ready by January 1, 1917, featuring modern design with exterior stone work and white stone window trim.
Shelbi na Missouri voters approved a tax to support a $10,000 Carnegie library. The measure passed 200 to 79, levying 11% mills on each $160 of assessed city property valuation for library maintenance.
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