Quincy bankers plan 1916 Joliet convention effort
Adams County bankers federation meeting set for October in the Hotel Newcomb Quincy hosts a banquet with music and two speakers. M P Berry of Sardis Savings and E W Rusk of Adams County will discuss banking topics. Officials include F G Warner acting chairman and J J Fischer secretary.
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Joliet
Auinoik Bankers’ 'Association
Puicey
Adams County Federation of Bankers
Netwcomb
M.p.berry
Dime ‘Savings Bank
Sarthage
Til
E. W. ‘Rusk
Quincy
Gidams
County
Rusk
Wilk
Association
Adams
Illinois
Bankers Association
Mendon
Joseph J. Fischer
Consis
G. T. Warner
Je “Singleton
Harvey Riggs
J.R. Pearce
J. M. Winter
H.C. Sprick
William Rupp, Jr
War game simulates divided fleet near Chesapeake Bay
Washington reports a war game scenario where Admiral Fletcher commands a weakened Atlantic fleet defending the capital. An unseen enemy fleet maneuvers off the Atlantic coast while the navy enforces strict censorship. The exercise aims to test response before a ten day conclusion.
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Washington
United States
Fletcher
Chesapeake - Bay
Atlantic
Maine
Florida
Navy Department
A Fine Treatment for Catarrh
Catarrh is a constitutional disease requiring constitutional treatment. Do not rely on sprays or douches. Take one ounce of Par mint double strength mixed with four pints hot water and four ounces sugar, stir and take a tablespoonful forty times daily. This remedy eases head noises and nasal blockage, has a mild tonic action, and is inexpensive to make.
Consul Gaffney Demanded to Resign Over War Remarks
Thomas John Gaffney Munich based American consul general has been asked to resign due to partisan European war remarks. Officials in Washington hint at dismissal if he refuses. Repeated state department warnings cited German sympathies. later reports allege letters from an Irish organization officer via the Austro Hungarian consulate in New York amid diplomatic protests from Germany and Austria Hungary ambassadors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas
John Gaffney
Munich
Washington
State Department
Gaffney
New- York
New York
Disease Increases In Macomb County Farm Quarantined
Macomb reports a renewed foot and mouth outbreak with a quarantine placed on B. T. Griffiths farm near Bushnell after noon today. Six cattle and 34 hogs will be slaughtered. no other cases found.
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Macomb
B. TF. Griffith
Bushnell
Cleveland munition workers win wage and eight hour day
Cleveland on October 5 wartime strike ends as A L Garrard president of the Cleveland Automatic Machine Company addresses about 900 workers declaring concession of wage increase and eight hour day demands.
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Cleveland
Cleveland Automatic Machine ”Company
Weiss Family in Arizona Strike Disturbances
Two sons of Mr and Mrs Weiss employed in the Clifton smelting plant's electric department are out of work as copper miners strike looms. The Weiss family, longtime Quincy evacuees, report the town under guard as state troops and county sheriff intervene to keep lights and water available despite the dispute over recognizing the miners union.
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Will Weiss
Quincy
Clifton
Ariz
Weiss
Joseph D. Robinson
Washington Street
Robinson
Robert
Virgil
Electrical
Company
Electric Light Plant
Greenlee County Shriff
National. Administration
Auto road to Pike's Peak Summit Opens at Cascade
Joe Esler, returning from the west, describes the new privately built auto road to Pike's Peak summit. The 17 mile high route from Cascade to the top costs a small toll and uses federal permission through the Pike National forest. The road features six water stations, signs with elevations, and views surpassing the Grand Canyon in depth. N L Drew, manager of the builders, is noted by locals.
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Quincy
Colorado Springs
Pike’s Peak
Joe Esler
West
Pike
National Forest
Pike’s Peak Ocean
Cascade
Sea Evel
Grand Canon
Collrado
Arizona
N. L. Drew
Indictments Quashed Against 75 Coal Strike Defendants
Wallenburg Colorado October 5 Judge J H Dennison denied a motion to quash indictments against 75 defendants in criminal cases arising from the recent coal strike. A subsequent motion for change of venue was filed, with argument time not yet fixed.
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Wallenburg
Colo
J. H. Dennison
Sail Around Cape Horn Due to Panama Canal Blockade
A dozen vessels at Balboa and Cristobal received orders to sail around Cape Horn because slides blocked the Panama Canal. The ships have departed and more are expected to receive similar orders as the situation develops.
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Cape Horn
Panama
Panama Canal
Balboa
Cristobal
Convention at Omaha Opens Sixth German American Alliance
OMAHA Neb Oct 5 The sixth annual convention of the German American Alliance of Nebraska began in this city today and will continue tomorrow It is largely social with only two brief business sessions devoted to the matters of the visitors the fall carnival and other forms of entertainment comprise the main program.
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Omaha
Neb
Progressive party reorgs at Massachusetts convention
Boston October 5 a thorough reorganization of the Progressive party in Massachusetts was effected at a state convention in Faneuil Hall as many former leaders returned to the Republican party Nelson B Clark of Beverly was endorsed as the Progressive candidate for governor in November election
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Bay State
Boston
Mass
Progressive Party
Massachusetts
Faneuil
Hall
Nelson B. Clark
Beverly
Birthday of Republic Observed in Lisbon
Portugal marked a national holiday to celebrate five years since the republic was proclaimed on October 5, 1910. In Lisbon and major cities authorities tightened security to curb any monarchist demonstrations.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Dutch War Hero Nordwall Tours America For Family Aid
Lieutenant Herbert Van de Nordwall known as Nordwall of plain American dress travels across the United States with his sister Wilhelmina to earn money for their Holland based family. The pair, famed for world wide walking trips in wooden shoes, seek funds amid wartime hardship that left their parents dead and siblings serving border guard duties. Wilhelmina, once celebrated for wooden shoe travels, now serves as a Red Cross nurse in Belgian hospitals.
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Herbert van de Nordwall
Herbert P. Nordwall
Quincy
Keokuk
Nordwall
Acton
Holland
Wilhelmina’ Nordwall
America
Red’ Cross
Belgium
Herbert Nordwall
U. S.A
Netherlands
United States
Popular Couple Married Yesterday at St Francis Church
The Rev Father Francis united Eugene Weber and Miss Florerice Kroner in a morning ceremony at St Francis Church yesterday. Attendants were Miss Helen Reed and August Kroner. The couple left for Kansas City then Albuquerque to visit relatives and plan to return home in about three weeks to 2021 Spring Street. Weber works in the Wabash railroad freight office.
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Francis
St. Francis Church
Eugene’ ‘Weber
W.W. E. Steinbeck
Jersey Street
Florerice Kroner
Helen Reed
August Kroner
Weber
Kansas City
Albuquerque
West
Springstreet
Wabash’ Railroad
Judge keeps Munday trial with impartial jurors
Judge Stough overruled the defense bid to discharge Special Sheriff Hull in the Charles B Munday trial. Attorneys argued Hull biased against Catholics and democrats, but the judge ruled Munday’s Catholic faith irrelevant and jurors must be drawn from the county. Earlier, two panel jurors were accepted: Edward Longacre and Carl Glasse. State's Attorney Hoyne attended the proceedings.
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Stough
Edward Longacre
Carl Glasse
Maclay Hoyne
Entomologist From Springfield Checks Local Orchards
P. Flint of Springfield connected with the state entomologist’s office spent a couple of days near Guiney visiting orchards. He assessed coddling moth impact on apples and found little damage. He also examined some wheat for the Hessian fly.
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P. Flint
Springfield
Guiney
Tri State Medical Meeting Opens in Chicago
The Tri State medical meeting will open in Chicago today and continue Thursday and Friday. It covers Illinois Iowa and Missouri as the district of the association.
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Tri-State Medical
Chicago
Illinois
Iowa
Missouri
Association
Gas incident at Fourteenth and Lind streets claims worker
Henry Rees, a contractor building the new sewer in the northeast city, was overcome by gas while working in a trench at Fourteenth and Lind streets yesterday afternoon around five. Police ambulance and pulmotor were summoned but he died before arrival.
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Joseph Polks
Henry Rees
Canton Falls Celebration Opens With Enthusiasm
Canton Missouri opens its fall celebration under favorable conditions with a 22 piece mendow band providing music. Mayor George L. Martin welcomes attendees and advocates river transportation a levee fund and city park and street improvements. Keys to the city are turned over to visitors as hundreds arrive for the event. Lectures planned on hog feeding corn and good roads.tonight Canton High meets Shelbina High in football at 3 30 at Christian University athletic field.
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Canton
Mendow Band
George L. Martin
E. R.sperber
Sam Jordan
Frank W. Buffum
Christian, University Athletic Field
Canton High School
Kipling’s Son Reported Missing and Believed Killed
London reports Rudyard Kipling’s son John Kipling of the Irish Guards is missing and believed killed in action. He was 18, and despite health concerns his wish to serve led his father to consent to his army service.
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London
John Kipling
Irish Guards
Rudyard Kipling
Kipling
Women Help Organized at General Electric Plant
Schenectady N Y Oct 5 15 000 GE employees seek eight hour day union leaders report 9000 organized men left plant today 3000 women workers to be organized next 1000 clerks to follow later in the drive to unite the workforce.
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Schenectady
N. Y
General Electric Company
American Doctors Who Saved Serbia in Typhus Fight
Dr Richard P. Strong of Harvard Medical School and Dr Edward Ryan led American efforts in Belgrade against typhus and Austrian bombardments. Ryan, honored with the Legion of Honor, stabilized an American hospital praised as a Balkans model despite peril and war.
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Richard P. Strong
Harvard
American Sanitary Commission
Serbia
Edward Ryan
American Hospital
Belgrade
Strong
Ryan
Balkans
Naval advisory board to meet in Washington first session set
Thomas A. Edison, chairman, will preside at the inaugural meeting of the naval advisory board in Washington. Twenty two members expected. They will plan future meetings, labor division, and conferences with navy experts. Afterward they visit the White House and sail on the Mayflower to Indian Head to inspect laboratories and test a new 14 inch gun rifle. The board faces internal combustion engine development for aircraft and submarines as a primary issue.
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Washington
Thomas ‘A. Edison
Naval Advisory Board
Navy Department
White House
Wilson
Mayflower
Naval Proving Grounds
Indian Head
Ida
Acro
Northwestern Woman's Foreign Missionary gathering opens in Evanston
More than 1,200 women attended the 45th annual convention of the northwestern branch of the Woman's Foreign Missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal church in Evanston. The event, opening today, will run through Thursday as Mayor Harry Persons delivered the opening address after visiting Fort Sheridan.
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Chicago
Woman's Foreign ‘Missionary
Methodist’ Episcopal
Church ‘Way
Evanston
Harry Pearsons
Army ‘Training
Fort Sheridan
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Newcomb
Thomas St. John Gaffney
Donough County
Arizona Strike Distri
Quincy Letter Carrier
Esler
Pike's Highway
Quinayan
Eugene ‘Weber
Florence Kroner
Father Francis
Charles B
Munday
Bank
Martin
NAVAL
Missionary Gathering
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