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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1917
Page
4
Fragmentary text lists varied city and team abbreviations with scattered scores and outlets. The legible parts mention New York national print, American National, and several team results such as Cleveland and Chicago, but the overall meaning is obscured by incompleteness.
New York Oct 2 Out of about players from the Chicago Amer ans and New York Nationals eligible for the coming World Series only ten have played in past editions. Giants and White Sox veterans are listed among those with multiple series and cross team histories across 1910 to 1913. Notable names include Lec Rona aseman Eddie Collins Arthur Fletcher Charley Herzog Tesreau Eddie Murphy Bobby Byrne Demaree Burns Zimmerman and George Gibson.
W. W. Hollingsworth of Monticello Iowa a former league umpire was killed Sunday night in an automobile crash near Dubuque Iowa also killed was Charles Huehne. An auto struck an old culvert and overturned killing both men. Hollingsworth umpired in Al Tearney's Threeed league last season and had ruled First Baseman Dave Williams from Rock Island out of a game at cannibal leading to the game’s suspension. Jack Tighe stirred trouble by threatening to quit unless Williams was reinstated. Tearney later defended keeping the free player and Tighe settled down.
A fragment reports tickets failing to sell for a Chicago game at league park on Monday. It mentions empty seats, sold out or unsold sections, and an uncertain start time.
Red Cross women prepare lunch boxes for Marion county's thirty six boys bound for Fort Riley with a 11 30 parade line on Main Street Palmyra led by Scout Master J T Bloom Hoy Scouts and Palmyra drum corps County and city officials join the exemption board Recruits listed include Ira Menke Widebrook Palmyra Jesse Snodgrass Hannibal Bernhard Lawrence McKoy Hannibal and many others from Hannibal Palmyra and nearby towns Also noted are funeral for Christian H Krummell and Warren Round Up plans by Marion County Farm Bureau with a dinner and exhibits on Nov 3 in Warren
A wartime piece describes British night defense against Zeppelin raids near London. It details two two-man night patrol planes, ground crew, and the officer coordinating launches, the pilots racing to intercept over the North Sea, the deadly night patrols, and the strain of keeping watch until dawn.
Canadian press dispatch from Oct. 2 notes prisoners confirm a strong desire for peace among German rank and file. The piece cites high officer timidity and reluctance of company commanders to lead from the front as a key grievance amid trench fighting.
London reports British aircraft bombed Belgian sites Saturday night including Zeebrugges locks Saint Denis Westrom air drome Thourout and Bruges works and trains. Several tons of bombs caused a large fire at Saint Denis Westrom. Two hostile machines destroyed and two driven down in aerial combat. a Gotha believed damaged.
Organizing board's charter details a move to dismantle the Ketteler monument erected to Carl Von Ketteler who died during the Boxer Uprising era and is linked to the 1900 relief efforts. The proposal notes the memorial’s alignment with wartime sentiment and public display in the city.
Mrs T F Hasse returns to Oak Park after visit with her mother Mrs Keegan cottage 7. Mrs Bessie Eddy receives news from daughter Mrs W Fe-Young of St Louis about two injured arms. E Taylor returns to Sterling after visit with father at cottage 3 and Miss Bettie Jones. Miss Carrie Troutwine and Miss Mabel Troutwine visit grandparents at cottages 20. Cottage 22 Bible class has 24 members. Mr and Mrs Thomas Pennington discharge from home to Macomb. Mrs Mary Friend to Clinton for furlough. Nellie Agnew and relatives depart from 614 North Tenth Street.
Mrs. Aik and her daughter moved from page twenty to another residence. John Hull of Bloomington and Mrs. John Enoch, wife of the city weigh master, visited Mr. and Mrs. Gallagher at cottage twenty two on Sunday after.
A theatre page notes Bessie Barriscale stars in Wooden Shoes at the Princess with a Dutch village set costing 35000 dollars built in California. Seventy five workers labored fifteen weeks. The plot follows Pampy a Dutch girl who emigrates with Hans after her father’s death and sells flowers to tourists in cobbled streets.
Peter Pinkelman has booked the Garden of Allah for one solid week at the Princess theater. The production, a screen version of a stage hit, has been in the making for months and is praised as a wonderful screen success. Show begins the week of October 213.
A coast guard patrol ship was rammed and sunk Monday off an Atlantic port. The navy department announced the incident and said work to raise the sunken vessel will begin at once.
Secretary Daniels plans a weekly communique detailing progress in Navy war preparations and outlining activities of American naval forces currently in European waters. The notice also mentions Whig want ads as a quick channel to fill vacant rooms.
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