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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1917
Page
7
The piece laments wild war rumors surrounding Col. Frank Wood and others, urges calm, factual discourse, and argues that rational, purposeful patriotism is essential. It recalls Atlantic City’s American Business convention showing restraint and confidence in government powers for war.
Amid wartime secrecy British and German naval figures clash over submarine losses and morale. The article notes German sailors, once eager for U boats, are paralyzed by unknowns as British secrecy hides sinkings while estimates suggest half of launched subs may be lost.
Observers recount odd misfortunes blamed on a mischievous devil inhabiting objects. A vinegar bottle stopper cracks itself, a wheelbarrow thwarts movement, a desk pen vanishes, and clocks misstrike. The toon suggests uncanny power in common items and jokes at their expense, with quips about Germans and wheelbarrows.
Editors from Jacksonville to Keokuk urge national resolve and support for war aims. Quotes stress duty to military authority, condemn local opposition, and note widespread confidence in government bonds and national victory.
In Thornton W. Surgess story Chatterer the Red Squirrel sulks atop a hemlock as beech nuts tempt neighbors. He mutters that Buster Bear is a coward after a tree-shaking incident, yet recalls his own folly and punishes himself with imagined grievances rather than action.
Pledges of cooperation with government war measures were made by members of the Farmers and Grain Dealers association of Illinois during a three day session opening in Galesburg on Tuesday October 17.
In Our School Tuesday reports youths forming Naval Preserves to desert General Andy Anderson’s Junior Home Guards. A raft voyage ended abruptly with all hands soaked as the Home Guards jeered from shore while Bull and accomplices vow retaliation. Fatty Bellows pursues a new girl, Flossy, amid comic romance and appetite tales.
Bear and Lightfoot the Deer along with Hap py Jack squirrel Whitefoot the Wood Mouse Sammy Jay Red head the Woodpecker Unc Billy Possum and two families the Gobbler and Grouse enjoy a feast of sweet brown beech nuts. Next story Chatterer Does Shameful Thing.
A World War era culinary note extols corn over wheat and offers a Johnny cake recipe. It advises milk with corn, peas and beans for balance, and shares a traditional method using buttermilk meat eggs butter soda and corn meal baked in a shallow pan for about thirty minutes.
A War Department note says 3600 Alabama Negroes will arrive at Camp Dodge on October 27 as the advance guard of 6600 from the state. Officers from the Fort Des Moines Negro officers training school will lead the regiments. Eight thousand third increment troops will go to Camp Pike in Little Rock Arkansas, with men drawn from the four states supplying the cantonment and localized as much as possible.
Six hundred and seventy eight African American trainees at Fort Des Moines were commissioned in the national army on Monday. The group includes 160 captains 320 first lieutenants and 198 second lieutenants. They will lead the seventeenth division formed from Negro soldiers many veterans of the Spanish American War among the graduates.
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