Weather Changes Across Regions This Week
The barometer shows fair to slightly warmer conditions in the north on Thursday with Wednesday as a transition day. Missouri expects fair weather Wednesday and Thursday with little temperature change. Iowa forecasts fair conditions Wednesday and Thursday, warmer midweek in the northwestern area. Yesterday’s temperatures ranged from 47 at 7 am to 67 at noon and 62 at 5 pm, dipping to 48 at midnight.
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Missouri
Iowa
Northwest
Rise Fall River Forecast Delow Warsaw to Louisiana
The river forecast for Delow Warsaw to Louisiana shows little change over the next 48 hours with modest fluctuations expected. Authorities advise monitoring levels and prepared for minor rises, though no major flooding is anticipated in the near term.
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Delow
Warsaw
Louisiana
Fall Elections Shape State and National Outlook
Eight states vote next Tuesday amid off year contests seen as a gauge for next year. Massachusetts stands out with a hot governor race as Governor Walsh defends against Samuel W. McCall while state questions dominate. Maryland and New Jersey offer Republicans versus Democrats battles, with judiciary seats in New York also on the ballot. women’s suffrage votes appear in several states.
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Kentucky
Maryland
Massachusetts
New Jersey
New York
Walsh
Samuel W. McCall
Congress
Pennsylvania
Birth of a political Moses in coming Congress session
The coming Congress session promises new issues led by the president, notably national preparedness. Veteran Democratic leaders show shifting sentiment, while many favorite sons may shape opinion in Washington during winter. State elections next week influence the party’s momentum, fueling expectation of major changes and possible political milestones.
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Congress
Democratic Party
Washington
Quincy Man's Views on Railroads Under Receivership
A Quincy commentator cites an American Economist clipping arguing railroads, as key arteries of U S business, should be taxed to capacity during downturns. He recalls past receiverships under Democratic administrations, noting resilience compared with Europe and predicting Republican efforts to restore sound business after the war.
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United
C. Piggott
Quincy
Isue
American Economist
United ‘States
Cleveland
America
Typhoid Fever Decline Reported by State Board
The state board reports a steady fall in typhoid fever since 1910 due to sanitary measures and public health effort. Figures show a 20,000 annual reduction in forty-three million people, with 1914 deaths lower than 1913 in forty-one American cities.
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Quincy
Esson
Ie State Board ‘of Wealth
Tilindis
State Board
Thearger
Berlin
London
Streetcar Passenger Signals Motorman To Go Ahead
A Quincy street car nearing downtown on Tuesday evening was hailed by a passenger from a cross town car at ar street intersection. The prospective rider waved and urged the motorman to proceed, but the operator chose caution and the car did not advance.
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Quincy
Down Town
Ar Street
New Shirtings Feature Clever Weaves and Fit Focus
American designers present new shirtings with fresh weaves fabrics and combinations. Manhattans lead the march with better patterns and longer lasting color. Underwear boasts the biggest line in town at prices that save you money.
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Manhattans
Safety First Emphasized After Near Miss With Motorman
A near accident shows a motorman acting safely, avoiding harm to a householder and family, while noting a rise in overall accidents. The piece urges strict adherence to safety first by all, stating life should be protected over taking chances and that discipline toward safety yields rewards.
Editors Night Cap and Foreign News Echoes
The piece comments on China swapping ministers to V Wellington Koo and notes a victory for a steam laundry. It mentions a peculiar newspaper name Tyd in Amsterdam, a pair of Quincy women jailed for shoplifting corn, and eleven men still on trial for bottling up New England. Greece’s stance on an island swap draws parallels to St Helena. A New Jersey suffrage debate and a post December quarrel among families are referenced.
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Quincy
New England
Drama surrounds Decker trial in Palmyra circuit court
In Palmyra Missouri on October 26 the Thomas Decker case unfolds with dramatic courtroom moments as the 15 year old daughter Gertrude testifies against her father amid a tense defense by Hays Heather and Henwood and a packed courtroom. Witnesses including Alice Lake and others are cited to provide context to alleged prior incidents and motives.
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Palmyra
Thomas Decker
Gertrude
Circuit Court of
Decker
Hays
Heather
Henwood
Anderson
Quincy
Ast
Alice Lake
Gertrude Decker
Koch
Lake
Charles
Bolton
Lawrence ‘Berry
Benbow
Thomas ‘Decker
Alice
H. Clay "Teather
One Hundred Years Ago Today And Other Retro Notes
One Hundred Years Ago Today 1815 navy agitation. Seventy-Five Years Ago Today 1840 Samuel Thomas born at South Point Ohio. died in New York Jan 11 1903. Fifty Years Ago Today 1865 Palmerston buried. Worcester died at Cambridge. Twenty-Five Years Ago Today 1890 Arch Bishop Feehan silver jubilee in Chicago. One Year Ago Today Oct 27 1914 naval and battlefield events. hotel destruction in Rheims. Our Daily Birthday Party Theodore Roosevelt twenty sixth president.
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Hocking Valley
South Point
Ohio
New York
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Westminster Abbey
Joseph E. Worcester
Cambridge
Mass
Bedford
N. H
O .Feehan
Chicago
Union of South Africa
Beyers
Rheims
von Falkenhayn
von Moltke
Lines Worth Remembering Better You Should Forget and Smile
A compact reflection on memory and emotion cites Christina Rossetti noting that choosing happiness over lingering sadness is wiser. The poem-like line invites readers to weigh forgetting painful memories against dwelling on them.
Two from Quincy off to Navy service
Two men from Quincy enlist at the temporary recruiting office. Joseph Thomas Zumsteg of Seventh and Monroe streets sails as an apprentice seaman for the Great Lakes. Thomas Edward Fitzgerald of 609 South Twelfth Street departs for Newport Rhode Island to study six months as lands man for yeoman before serving at sea.
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Joseph Thomas Zumsteg
Seventh
Monroe Streets
Thomas Edward Fitzgerald
Twelfth
United States Navy
Zumsteg
Great Lakes
Fitzgerald
Newport
R. I
Yeoman
Keokuk
M. J. Peterson
W. McEwan
J. A.C. Ferland
J.C. Huff
Good Shepherd Choir to Attend Palmyra Synod Service
This afternoon, weather permitting, the Good Shepherd choir members will be taken by auto to Palmyra to attend the closing service of the synod. Between twenty and thirty congregants will travel, with many planning to go on the 5 o'clock train. In Decatur, Mills dispatch notes Knights Templar in Chicago session selected Decatur for the 1916 grand encampment and Rev Frank Fox elected state grand prelate.
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Good Shepherd
Palmyra
Decatur
L. A
Eland
Templar
Chicago
Frank. Fox
Military Touch in Youthful Princess Costume Review
A blue duvetyn frock with braid trimming gives a semi-princess outfit a military air. The design highlights pockets, collar, cuffs, and belt with braid accents. the gown uses 2½ yards of 64-inch material and 1 yard of contrasting silk for the belt. cost is 16 cents for Pictorial Review cost No. 6425.
ASK POLICE POWERS FOR SUPERVISORS
Springfield Alabama October 26 Henry B Eger of Libertyville president of the Association of Supervisors County Commissioners County and Probate Clerks in twenty ninth annual convention advocated the delegation of police powers to county supervisors Resolutions asking legislation to this end will probably be introduced Thursday Very often it is impossible to have papers served or to secure police protection in the township because of the scarcity of properly qualified officers said President Eger Members of the state highway commission are ready to meet attacks tomorrow on the hard road law led by B F Staymates of Clinton
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Springfield
Henry B. Eger
Libertyville
Association of Supervisors
Eger
Denver 70 Fight Prohibition City Brief Filed
James HL Mbirsh city attorney filed in the state supreme court the Denver brief arguing that a charter amendment repurposing liquor licenses should stand despite the statewide prohibition. The brief seeks judicial testing of state prohibition laws to obtain administration when they take effect January 1.
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Denver
James Hlmbirsh
State Supreme Court
Woman shoots ex-husband at doorway in Sullivan
In Sullivan Indiana Samantha Bennett held her infant and shot and killed her former husband William Bennett thirty as she claimed he tried to force open the door to her home. The Bennetts had seven marriages.
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Sullivan
Ind
Samantha Bennett
William Bennett
Bennetts
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