Wesely Hill Speaks Here Tonight on Liberty Loan
Wesely Hill and Augustus of New York will address a mass meeting on the liberty loan issue in Armory hall. The Quincy Clearing Association organized the event, with meetings planned countywide to aid the bond sale. Knights of s lodge 583 organises a committee to promote sales, inviting fraternal groups to support the drive. Women are active, with the First Chris tian Aid Society purchasing bonds and parties opening bond sale rooms in the hotel parlor for daily operations.
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Wesley Hill
Augustus
New York
Armory Hall
Quincy Clearing Association
Council No
Knights of S
Orbis
Adams County
Illinois
Aid Society
Chris
da Church Ladies’ Aid
Liberty Loan
Chamber of Commerce
Great Community Meeting For Liberty Loan Oct 18
The Chamber of Commerce calls a Thursday evening Liberty loan meeting in Quincy to recruit leaders and organize the final campaign. Fifty organizations were urged to attend, with at least eight members each, to pledge action and funds for a greater bond sale.
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Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Truman T. Pierson
Quincy
Chamber of
America
War Fund Drive Drives Gilmer Township Support
Adams County Farm Association members Thompson Clay Lawless and Thomas lead a war fund drive in Gilmer township. All collected money goes to the war chest to aid Adams County soldiers now serving. Volunteers urge residents to contribute when visited by farm association reps E. W. Rusk and others.
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Gilmer Township
Adams County Farmam‘ent Association
Thompson
Clay Lawless
Thomas
Adams County
Lams County
E. W. Rusk
Gilmer
Klemme Adopts Little Daughters in Court Decision
Klemme of Kentucky Avenue adopted two children in county court Monday after lengthy guardianship. David Aldyth Hermes are the girls' names, and after the option papers were signed the girls are legally the children of Mr. Klemme and the Hermes mother.
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Klemme
Ambiguous Brownian Note on Theater Rules
Fragmentary city notice notes a policy about adult sign out at a nickel theater and business downturn. It mentions Abe Martin and prohibition but the text is garbled, preserving only scattered phrases about rules and sales.
Adams county to choose site for Theresa Woodruff sanitarium
Trustees meet today to select between two proposed sites in Quincy and riverfront high above the Mississippi for the Theresa Woodruff Memorial tuberculosis sanitarium. The 15 to 20 acre site will cost up to 68000, funded by tax money and a 27000 legacy plus accumulated interest. Several smaller buildings may replace a single large structure.
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Adams County
Quincy
Mississippi
J. W. Wall
Hez G. Henry
Camp Point
Mr. Henry
Theresa Woodruff
Cawthorne Goes 10 Chicago Conference
The Y M C A board authorized G B Cawthorne to attend a Chicago conference at noon today in the Auditorium hotel. George Sherwood Eddy will speak as delegates, directors, and business men from across the state gather to begin a campaign for 35 million dollars in army work in Russia Italy and France. Chicago aims to raise 2 million if the rest of the state provides 1 million.
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G. B. Cawthorne
Chicago
Auditorium Hotel
George Sherwood Eddy
Russia
Italy
France
Cawthorne
United States
Start Class in Surgical Dressing at Chamber of Commerce
A surgical dressings class will begin Friday at 2 PM, with 7 lessons for 2.50, taught by a volunteer instructor to cover material costs. An evening class for employed women may be organized Wednesdays at 7 PM if demand remains, fee 1.75 for seven lessons. Apply to Mrs. E J Parker.
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Chamber of Commerce
E. J. Parker
Deaths and Funerals Ina Marsh 4 year old girl
Ina Verlea Marsh daughter of Mr and Mrs P P Marsh of 129 North Fourteenth street died at Blessing hospital at 9 50 am Monday after a three week illness of dysentery She was born in Quincy February 10 1913 aged 4 She leaves parents two brothers Ivan and Lawrence two sisters Lavera and Esther and grandparents The body was taken to Herman Stormer's undertaking establishment and will be sent Thursday to Memphis Missouri for burial.
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Ina Verlea Marsh
Ina Verlea
P. P. Marsh
North Fourteeth Street
Blessing Hospital
Quincy
Ivan
Lawrence
Lavera
Esther
Herman Stormer
Memphis
Lutheran Synod Opens Sessions With Addresses
Sixty delegates gather at Luther Alemorial church for the fifty first annual Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Central Illinois meeting. Rev C H Hightower, Zion Mt Carmel mayor, attends along with Liberty Lutherans. Monday features Brotherhood Night with men’s section and a program including missions talk by Rev David Davy and a main address by A D Chiquoine on The Reformation and the Men's Brotherhood. The schedule outlines services, sermons, discussions on church loyalty unity and education.
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Luther Alemorial
Evangelical Lutheran Synod of
Central Hainois
C. H. Hightower
Zion Church
Mt. Carmel
Lutheran Church In
Dee Brown
Otho Arnold
John Dickson
H. G. Anderson
David Davy
Chicago
Quincy
A. D. Chiquoine
Philadelphia
America
F. B. Herbert
Alfonso A. Marohn
Synod
United Lutheran Church
P. C. Croll
H. D. Hoover
Carthage College
Miss May Kurth Marries J P Mudd in Edina Missouri
Edina Mo Oct 16 Miss May Kurth daughter of Mr and Mrs Richard Kurth married Mr J P Mudd at Sit Josephs church Monday morning officiated by Father Donovan Harold and Leatha Kurth attended the ceremony They plan a honeymoon then reside in Edina Mr Mudd runs a plumbing business and is son of D H Mudd a hardware dealer The bride is from a well known farmer family near Edina
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Edina
May Kurth
Richard Kurth
J. P. Mudd
Sit. Joseph’s
Donovan
Harold
Leatha Kurth
Mudd
D. H
10 Split Fifth Regardless of Wood Hill Tift
Camp Houston Texas October 16 report on the 33rd Division notes Brigadier General Hill and Colonel Wood clash is closed. General Henry D Todd Jr acting commander says Fifth Infantry remains intact with most units remaining together while machine gun battalions move to Camp Logan side by side. Hill cites loyalty of Third and Fourth as reason for brigade realignment. Fifth broken for efficiency. A superior officer advised against public statements.
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Camp Houston
Texas
Thirty Third Division
Wood
Hill
Henry D. Todd, Jr
Todd
Burnet M. Chipperfield
Camp Logan
Lieut Col Center May Serve in France
Rumor from Camp Logan Houston says Lieutenant Colonel C D Center formerly of the Fifth Illinois guard is to be on General Bells staff in France. Also Lieutenant Joseph Emery son of Mr and Mrs Joseph W Emery is now in France with Headquarters Company Ninth United States infantry after sailing in September. Emory graduated from Dartmouth in 1917.
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Camp Logan
Houston
Tex
C. D. Center
Hlinois Guard
France
Gen. Bell
Bell
Gen. Todd
Joseph Emery
Joseph W. Emery
Ninth United States Infantry
Mr. Emery
Plattsburg
Dartmouth College
Somers Sailors Prepare To Go To Sea In New Orleans
W H Jackson of torpedo boat Somers writes from New Orleans that the ship has a new cook and wash house and the crew plans to go to sea. Discharge looms for one local man, while Quincy residents hope for returns from the man in charge.
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Somers
O. H. Barnard
Front
Oak Streets
W. H. Jackson
New Orleans
McRore
Wagn
Scott
Mr. Kline
Quincy
Mr. Lewis
Adams County dairymen tour Marion county farms
Adams County dairy men visited Jersey Guernsey and Holstein herds from Marion county. Palmer Rusk led eighteen travelers by auto to Morton Happel Suter Head and Gray farms and Silo Head, learning milking machinery, road improvements, and Jersey performance with Ed Glendening and B. C. Settles.
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Adams County
Jersey
Guernsey
Marion County
Adams County Farm Improvement Association
C. R. Happel
Happel
Quincy
E. W. Rusk
Gebhardt Bros
Sunny Side Farm
Palmyra
Hannibal
Missouri
Oxford
America
Rusk
Willliams Morton
Ed Glendenning
B. C. Settles
Settles
Spring Valley Farm
Ira T. Suter
Palmer” Rusk
John Bier
September Court Ends Ends with Akers sentencing
Judge Akers sentenced John Hardin to the reformatory Monday morning and then adjourned circuit court for the September term. The October term opens Monday.
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Akers
John Hardin
Reformatory
Miss Dunn's Will Probed. Executor Named for Gift Distribution
Miss Susan Dunn longtime Quincy schoolteacher left a will probated Monday leaving all property to William H. Govert as executor. He will distribute many small gifts to persons Miss Dunn remembered.
Bud Lewis Joins Elite Fighting Division In France
J L Lewis of 1219 1.2 Maine Street reports from France dated Sept 10 1917 describing life in a cantonment with hot water showers a gasoline stove for chocolate and a move with an American army unit attached to a highly decorated division. He mentions gas warfare Russian peace hopes and the brutal anticipated slaughter while urging prayers for safety and an end to the war.
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J. L. Lewis
Maine Street
Harold
France
Harvard
Bowie
Russia
Germany
Friendly Visitor Duty At Associ ated Charities
Miss Eugenia Dudley, a friendly visitor for Associated Charities, will visit Monday. Lyman McCarl reported receiving her letter. Dudley has done playground work in Denver and relief work in Chicago Heights. Burglary case: Russell Johnson 19 and Martin Dale 17 charged after camp break of Dr Warren L King south of Quincy. They were arrested in Bowling Green and brought to Pike county with detectives. Both pleaded guilty in police court and were bound over to circuit court. unable to post bonds, are remanded.
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Eugenia Dudley
Associated Charities
Lyman McCarl
Miss Dudley
Denver
Chicago Heights
Russell Johnson
Martin Dale
Quincy
Warren L. King
Bowling Green
Piercy and
Meise
Dr. King
Pike County
Dale
Johnson
Saloon Keeper Fined for Sunday Window Shades
Anton Simons, saloon keeper on Vine Street, was fined $25 and costs in police court for violating the Sunday rule requiring screens and shades be removed from saloon windows. He claimed illness caused forgetfulness. Additionally S. M. Potter was fined $5 and costs for vagrancy. Public utilities in Quincy will paint posts and poles per a city order, with Duke Schroer confirming company actions to begin work soon.
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Anton Simons
Vine Street
Simons
S. M. Potter
Quincy
Duke Schroer
Thanking Friends for Sympathy After Death of Son Oliver Bliss Kenady
Mr and Mrs Thomas B Kenady and Family express gratitude for sympathy kindness during illness and after the death of their son Oliver Bliss Kenady and for the many floral offerings.
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Oliver Bliss Kenady
Thomas B. Kenady
Stolen Poodle and For Sale Stove Notice
Strayed or stolen small white poodle missing from 417 Hampshire St on Saturday night October 13. A $1.00 reward offered for its return to 317 Hampshire St. Also for sale a large hard coat stove in good condition at 043 S. Third. No dealers.
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Hampshire St
Hampshire Street
Quincy District War Tax Pickup Nearing Two Hundred Thousand
Revenue figures released Monday show the Quincy district will pay about 200000 in war tax on distilled liquors. The first 47 establishments visited by six inspectors yielded 68728 for the government, officials said.
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Quincy
John L. Pickering
Pickering
Weather outlook for Illinois and Missouri
The forecast calls for fair conditions in Illinois and Missouri on Tuesday with similar outlook for Wednesday. Cooler temperatures expected Tuesday, with slightly cooler readings across the southern and eastern areas.
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Illinois
Missouri
Towa
Weather fragment notes river stage and temperatures
Local weather fragment records yesterday's temperatures and river stage around midnight. The readable elements mention values and a river level near 6.15 while referencing locations and times, but many words are garbled. The text preserves a snapshot of the period's atmospheric data and river observation despite corruption.
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Teepanienevss
Rise Fall River Forecast Update
The river will change only slightly over the next 48 hours with minor fluctuations. Forecasters expect gradual rise and fall patterns as weather systems move through the area, with no significant flooding anticipated in the short term.
Wanted Carrier Bay for Routes in East Town
Help wanted for distribution. The Whig Office seeks a carrier bay to cover routes in the eastern part of town. Apply in person at the Whig Office for details and assignment.
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Carrier Bay
Whig
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Trustees of Tuberculosis Institution
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Franklin School
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Illnois Infantry
Zoller
T. T. Pierson
Garage Men's Club
Quincy Colored
Rogers Hall
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Hampshire Streets
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Kentucky Street
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Maine Streets
G. W. Burch
Hattie Hutchins
Colorado Springs
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George Simonson
Anton Hoebling
Melrose Township
Jacob Jacobson
Concord Township
Albert Beckman
Concord
E. P. Poling
Keene
Alex Turner
Otho Turner
Frank Randolph
Keene Township
William Hicks
Hancock County
Kelley Alexander
Schuyler County
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Hugh Reeder
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