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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1919
Page
13
City considers a modern high school building and river terminal initiative while improving roads to Taylor and starting street paving this year. An owl car service to meet trains is proposed, with efforts to add a new barge line and bring Quincy's surrounding areas into city bounds before the next census.
A dense editorial critique questions Gompers and Foster amid the steel strike. It cites Foster as a revolutionary organizer, notes Gompers' distrust of radicals, and argues the strike has political aims. The piece contrasts wages aims with broader class conflict and questions who benefits from the disruption.
Dr. Frank Crane argues team-play defines success across society from business and government to democracy. He asserts linked effort outperforms individual prowess, tracing team-play from labor unions to national unity and progress.
A reflective piece on confidence versus overconfidence in business leadership. It contrasts a wealthy inheritor who rushes into ventures with costly stimulants and stubborn denial of mistakes, against patient, experienced guidance, showing how excessive self assurance can derail plans and profits.
Fragmentary 1920s style civic debate discusses rationing and bread costs, public works, and highway signage. It mentions a proposed plan to raise bread price, costs to consumers, and a state highway system with maps and gasoline needs as a competing approach to private, commercial methods.
An analysis of apple pricing shows wide gaps from five cents at a corner stand to three to six dollars a bushel in grocers, with farmers near the city offering apples cheaply or free if picked by buyers. It argues the distribution system keeps prices high and urges direct farmer sales and cooperative action.
Two workers in a Chicago five and ten cent store discover they are sisters after being separated for seven to ten years. The unusual family reunion unfolds amid memories and the small shop’s daily routines.
Thornton Burgess narrates Danny Meadow Mouse fleeing Reddy Fox at the Smiling Pool. Grandfather Frog closes his eyes and Danny unexpectedly swims to safety toward the far bank, foiling predator plans as other dangers loom including Snapper the turtle and Billy Mink. Next story introduces An Unexpected Danger.
A jumble of historical references appears, noting treason trials, Bancroft the historian, the 1862 Corinth battle, railway stations in Sweden, Longfellow house visitors, New York primaries women voters, and a Paris hotel reopening as an American women's club.
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