Twenty-First Illinois Rebekah District Assembly at Quincy
Delegates from Adams, Pike and Brown counties attend the twentieth annual Twenty-first Illinois Rebekah District assembly in Quincy. Officers elected include Noble Grand Hallie Gordley and Vice Grand Clara Morey. Memorial services honor departed members as district plans future convention site.
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Rebekah
Quincy
Twenty-first
Illinois Rebekah District Assembly
Adams
Pike
Brown
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Noble Grand
Hallie Gordley
Mt. Sterling
Clara Morey
Barry
Anna Meyer
Lucretia Carlton
Pittsfield
Fern Burrows
School of Instruction
Irene Cooper
Decatur
Rebekahs
A. E. Crowell
A. Otis Arnold
Anna Worman
Golden
Adah Lodge
No. 41
Clayton
Ill
Elizabeth Saxer
Amelia Geschwindner
Ida Sillerberg
Mary Cates
Elia McNaughtor
Irma
Louise Waldhaus
M. Y. Korey
Masonic Temple
Katherine Collins
Mayme Neumann
Ruth Michelmann
Mary Adams
Casper Schwab
Reading
John Dehner
Dean Wood
Wilma Schwindeler
Irma Lodge No
Colfax Lodge
Neutrone Prescription 99 Promises Rheumatism Cure
An aging newspaper ad touts Neutrone Prescription 99 as a cure for rheumatism. It claims thousands are relieved from sore inflamed muscles and stiff joints, restoring strength and reducing irritability. The ad notes mail orders and a local Quincy sale at Owl Drug, 123 North Sixth Street.
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Ecriphial
Eitieet
Quincy
Owl Drug Ete
North Sixth Street
Enrolling Girls to Work On Farms In Adams County
Girls over sixteen may enroll with Miss Edna Kiem for the Adams County Girls Working Reserve at the Y M C A Quincy NL. They will assist farmer wives with canning cooking and chickens, not as farmerettes unless desired. Cards require name address phone weight height housework experience work type parent and physician signatures.
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Edna Kiem
Iillinois Girls
Irma Lodge convention ends with patriotic adjournment
Pittsfield Illinois hosts a convention where 300 members pledge friendship and support to staff officers. Fern Burrows Alma Miller Lizzie Harris signatories, with a patriotic closing sung to the Star Spangled Banner. Executive committee includes Ella Gilmer Ida Jacobs Nina Spencer and others. additional committees cover reception entertainment program badges train auto registration and more.
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Pittsfield
Ill
Fern Burrows
Irma Lodge
Alma Miller
Golden
Lizzie Harris
Ella Gilmer
Ida Jacobs
Nina Spencer
Matilda Pierson
Flora Martin
Emma Weinhoener
Gertrude Melvin
Waterways Meeting Is Again Postponed
Mayor Thompson and delegates from the Mississippi Valley Waterways chamber found the conference indefinitely postponed due to Secretary McAdoo's illness. Thompson and Col. Frank Wood had traveled to Washington for the talks, but the session was delayed again after the secretary fell ill.
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Thompson
Washington
Mississippi Valley Waterways
McAdson
Col
Frank Wood
Chamber of Commerce
Sec
McAdoo
Quincy s Pulse Broadway Merchants Meet
Plans for an all day picnic on June 30 were made at the Twelfth and Broadway Merchants association meeting Wednesday night. Merchants will take their families on the outing. The gathering at Timmerwilke barber shop was well attended and followed by refreshments and social time playing cards.
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Broadway Merchants Meet
Twelfth and
Broadway Merchants Association
Timmerwilke
Senator Sterling Leads Opposition in SD Primary
Senator Thomas Sterling of Vermillion leads Frank M. Byrne of Faulkton for U.S. Senate renomination by about 1000 votes in SD primary returns. C. H. Christopherson and C. H. Dillon run neck and neck for Republican representatives in the first district. Royal C. Johnson leads over Donald McLean in the second district race. John E Kelly appears likely Democratic U.S. Senate nominee.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
Thomas Sterling
Vermillion
Frank M. Byrne
Faulkton
United States
South Dakota
C. H. Christopherson
C. H. Dillon
Yankton
Congress
Royal C. Johnson
Aberdeen
Donald McLean
Webster
John E Kelly
Quincy Relatives Hear From Boys In Machine Gun Unit
Relatives in Quincy received cards from machine gun unit members who sailed from New York City around May 15 and have landed safely in France. Capt. James Beatty led the command, arriving in France a few weeks earlier, with word confirming the overseas arrival welcomed by families.
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Quincy
Machine Company
New York City
War Department
Machine Gun
James Beatty
France
Ed O Wilde to Visit Quincy Friends in Near Future
Edward O Wilde state food administrator of Louisiana and editor of the Gulf States Farmer, a noted southern industrial figure, plans a northern tour. A Rochester Minn clipping notes public sympathy for Red Cross and Wilde’s eagerness to contribute a bill of good denomination.
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Edward O. Wilde
Louisiana
Erde Beatty
Quincy
Wilde
Gulf States Farmer
South
Rochester
War Headquarters
Hibbing Man Seeks Help Quietly Accommodated
In Hibbing Minnesota a resident who asked for assistance was accommodated while others in Rochester reportedly roam freely for contributions to the effort. The report notes ongoing local activity and community responses to a shared cause.
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Hibbing, Minn
Rochester
Is Unable To Agree In Tunis Case
Judge Albert Akers in the circuit court ordered the jurors in the Marion Tunis case locked up for the night after deliberating from 4 p.m. Wednesday until 11 p.m. They lodged at Tremont hotel and may remain jailed until court convenes at 9 a.m. If no verdict is reached the case may proceed later, with Tunis facing a criminal assault charge. Florence Tunis testified she had been intimate with her father for over a year, while defense contended she was tricked into making the claim to avoid a term at Geneva State Training School.
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Albert Akers
Marion Tunis
Tremont
Ande
Roy Adair
Arthur Roy
S. A. Hubbard
William Schlagenhaus
Tunis
Dau Bieter
Florence
State Training School
Geneva
Bond
Adair
Wilson urges thrift appeal to nation for war effort
President Wilson urges Americans to buy only essentials and join a national thrift movement by June 28, pledging to invest savings in liberty bonds and war savings stamps. He frames the effort as a wartime labor and materials conservation campaign, stressing production, efficiency, and universal participation.
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Washington
Wilson
Treasury Department
United States
Government urges women and children to buy war savings
A fragment urges women and children to enlist in a great volunteer army of production by buying war savings securities before June 28. It calls for continual saving and promoting membership in war savings societies to support the war effort at home.
Strause Murder Defense Opens in Peoria Trial
In Peoria Illinois on May 30 defense attorney Harry Miller closed his opening argument for Edgar A. Strause in the murder of Berne M. Mead cashier. Miller urged acquittal contending Strause acted in self defense and killed only to save his life as he cited witnesses supporting the witness stand testimony.
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Strause
Plot to Destroy Tampico Oil Wells
Washington May 30 reports of a German plot to destroy the Tampico oil wells reached the state department. An attempt to damage the wells was to be made today as officials await Mexican authorities to protect the oil sites that fund large portions of the Mexican government.
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Washington
Tampico
State Department
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Delghtel
Adams County
Waterways
Senator Sterling
O. Wilde
Thrift
Jury Strause
Bellans
Bella
LAN
Ladies
Gray Oxfords
Children’s Mary Jane Pumps
Ater
Oxfords
Kid Oxfords
Louis
Mary Jane
Oitary
Stords
Lewis Shoe Store
Red Cross
Maine St
Quincy, Hl
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