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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1919
Page
7
The city outlines tasks including a new high school building, an owl car service for early trains, a hard road to Taylor Missouri, street paving this year, river terminals with a future barge line, and bringing nearby areas into the city before the next census. The note ends with the word icy.
A long analysis notes steady downtown growth as old buildings are renovated and fronts rebuilt. It argues modernization brings gradual, substantial expansion while preserving historic facades and requiring health inspections for stairways and rear areas.
A prose vignette on moving day and wanderlust frames a family’s relocation as a ritual to the god of travel. It imagines nomadic roots in ancient herders, contrasts gypsy stereotypes with settled life, and reflects on restlessness, poverty, rent, and inflation shaping the urge to move.
Answers argue that labor strikes are not new, noting their frequency in early recorded history. The piece contends that the current upheaval is part of a long pattern, labeling the scale of historical strike activity as among the greatest the world has seen.
The letter writer recalls Ames Russell Lowell saying he never saw himself as more than a boy. He notes adults treat him as a child in disguise, laughs at advice from aspiring writers, and laments grown up concerns. He fondly remembers a school friend and imagines happy, playful life in heaven with younger angels.
The piece discusses Walter Camp’s Senior Services Corps idea to boost health and efficiency in men over forty through daily set up exercises hiking and a simple training plan. It praises Camp’s program, noting improvements in health, spirits, and endurance after ninety days and argues the book offers practical dietary rules, hygienic tips, and a photo guided exercise system aimed at fit busy men without excessive time commitment.
In Cheops era Egypt a vast pyramid project faced a strike of about 50 000 workmen who protested by refusing to work over inadequate tools and supplies. When negotiations failed soldiers were sent in, thousands were killed, others fled, and the rest were forced to resume construction.
The Continental London Mail notes a postwar marriage slowdown as men face high costs, housing shortages, and lingering economic strain. War-time incentives fade, nerves relax, and many men seek rest before forming new families, dampening hasty nuptials.
Treasury and the Federal Reserve examine exchange as the fee nations pay to buy American goods. The piece explains how wartime production boosted exports, why imports matter for stable trade, and how Europe and Canada affect exchange rates. It argues for balanced exchange through mutual commerce and increased U S production.
The conference of coal operators and miners in the central competitive field recessed until next Thursday and will reconvene in Philadelphia. Operators favored Washington meetings citing potential federal involvement to avert a November 1 strike by 400,000 miners. miners opposed federal intervention preferring direct negotiations. The recess followed a recommendation by the sub scale committee led by acting President John Lewis of the miners. In Norway, the sale of liquor containing more than 1 percent alcohol was banned.
Danny Meadow Mouse swims across the Smiling Pool to escape predators Reddy Fox Billy Mink and Snapper the turtle. A Big Pickerel lurks, scents a meal, and lunges as Danny nears shore but narrowly escapes, diving into a hole in the pool bank.
The notes recount St Francis of Assisi’s death on October 14 1226 and Alexander Selkirk’s desert island abandonment on October 14. It also mentions the Battle of Germantown with Washington and Howe and Rutherford B Hayes birth on October 4 1822 noting Hayes’s 1875 presidential run and the universal postal system creation.
Former President Taft arrived in Washington to appear before a congressional committee on a national budget system and held private talks with Republican senators about reservations to the peace treaty. He planned further meetings with Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska and other Democratic leaders in the treaty fight.
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