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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1915
Page
8
London officials say several hundred British and American relief workers remain in the Serbia zone controlled by German or Bulgarian forces. A reassuring message notes promises of good treatment from both the Germans and Bulgarians, and they are reported safe.
London reports, per the Times, that German censorship blocked all reports from British and neutral sources about the execution of Edith Cavell. German papers for Saturday and Sunday carried no mention of American intervention or of American Minister Whitlock’s story.
St Johns Guild of the Cathedral elected officers after a Wednesday meeting with Mrs Edward Prince and Mrs Guy Noll present. Nominating committee chaired by Mrs E J Parker proposed the slate. Officers chosen include Mrs J W Emery president and Mrs George H Cottrell first vice president. Tea followed the session. next meeting at Mrs Parker's home to finalize winter plans. The guild aims to build a cathedral pantry.
Students at Webster School present lines penned for a Halloween event. The piece promises a big, engaging program with child authored verses and playful verses.
Webster school hosts a Halloween affair with ghosts goblins and a vaudeville show. Students present poems and songs promising candy popcorn and cake, with a magic miracle room and a Kazoo band. Mrs Harden and families plan to attend the Friday night event from seven to nine thirty.
The Empire Hippodrome features Julia Sanderson Donald Brian and Joseph Cawthorn in The Girl From Utah with Al Gorrells company in Two Old Chums. Frohman presents the big three ply here after a London hit with new Kern songs and 25 musical numbers.
The Al Gorrell Stock company resumes engagement at the Hippodrome next Sunday offering the famous farce Two Old Chums at cheap prices for the first half of the week starting Sunday afternoon.
The Socialist Ladies club met in the Labor temple basement for a two and a half hour session. Ministers Leemhuis Langhorst and Fruechte visited Burlington yesterday with Evangelical church colleagues. Weilers offers special piano prices this week. Frank Borawski and wife toured from Kansas City to town, manager of Dick & Bros brewery branch there, visiting his former Jacksonville home. returning today. A. R. Dick of Dick & Bros brewery is in Chicago on business. City Waterworks applies a cement coat to water plugs by the sidewalk for leak protection. Tansmann’s and Heidbreder’s properties on Eighth street near State and Kentucky receive fresh paint.
A Webster school Halloween night features a ghostly, vaudeville filled program with Charlie Chaplin acts a Kazoo band and a human piano plus a fish pond Gem studio photos and free attractions. Adults pay ten cents children five cents with proceeds supporting a moving picture machine and school activities.
A court transcript contains the phrase and you will be admitted directed at Anna Whitney. The fragment notes a staged remark and references a formal setting involving Whitney.
In Los Angeles on October 23, hundreds of delegates and church dignitaries gathered for the annual convention of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The gathering, one of the world's largest of its kind with over 320,000 members, runs through November 4 and features several missionaries recently returned from foreign fields.
London reports an Amsterdam dispatch that the German emperor's audience with American ambassador James W. Gerard caused a sensation. It marked the first audience granted to a neutral country envoy in eight months and lasted unusually long.
London dispatch reports the Salvation Army learning that a large relief expedition has been dispatched by the Russian government to aid Armenian refugees in the southern Caucasus.
Governor Joseph W. Fifer famed as Private Joe turns 75 at his Bloomington home. Born October 28, 1840 in Staunton, Virginia, he moved to the county with his stone mason father in 1857. He served in the 28th Illinois Infantry, survived a bullet through his body at Jackson, Mississippi in 1863, then studied at Illinois Wesleyan, practiced law, and held posts including Bloomington corporation counsel, state senator, and governor elected in 1888.
An advertisement claims the product quickly relieves a clogged system and relieves biliousness dizziness and listlessness. It says neglect leads to serious complications, promises natural bowels movement without griping and urges starting treatment tonight at 25 cents a bottle.
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