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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1920
Page
10
A fragmentary column riffs on a big league star’s status, joking about using cars and bats to drive home, with lines about Hess and Pest and a humorous question of who watches whom as players move between majors and minors.
Vivid local snippets feature Fiddie Corbin and Ray Hobbs at 316 North Sixth street with Eddie aiding, a Taylored jab at carburetors, a mislaid sign on North Twelfth, and trucks cruising South Bottom while pedestrians trade quips about drinking, marriage and cars.
Tests by Miller Rubber Company chemists show tubes made of pure gum rubber on a large mandrel last longer than thicker tubes on a smaller mandrel. Circumference size of a tube matters more than thickness, with damage from cuts or shocks depending on rubber stress rather than thickness.
Judge Frank L Hooper of the circuit court held that a prisoner in the state penitentiary is entitled to a good time even after his sentence is commuted by the governor. The ruling in William Miles case, whose 25 year term was commuted, could free seven other convicts with commuted sentences.
In Atlanta Debs serving a 10 year term for espionage was notified by a national socialist committee of his nomination for the presidency in 1920. The ceremony occurred in the warden’s office with Debs in prison attire, praising radical ideals and urging industrial emancipation of workers.
ST LOUIS May 29 Organization of the Unitedtates Feed Distbrut ors association launched at a conference of practitioners and jobbers from across the nation was completed Friday afternoon. Officers were elected and a constitution and arbitration board set up to settle trade disputes among members. No plan for state law coordination on feed handling was endorsed. The first annual convention will be in Chicago in late September with all current officers serving until then. President Eugene Dreyer St. Louis. vice presidents Frank Ludwig Boston H V Lancaster St Tyas E Crosby Battleboro Vt N C Hefling Philadelphia Y W R Wilbur Jamestown NY. secretary David N Slousand St Louis. treasurer ALC Robinson St Louis. Lovers knots do not always result In wedding ties.
Chicago event marked the second Cantigny anniversary with Major General C P Summerall addressing 1500 wounded soldiers at Fort Sheridan and a Friday mass meeting of First Division men and American Legion members. Government motion pictures of the division in action were shown for the first time. greetings telegrams were received from Gen. There’s a lingering ad content about ads and place hunting included.
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