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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1915
Page
12
Mexico offers seven mile street car ride for one sixth of a cent and similar prices across goods. News notes emphasize exceptionally low costs and widespread affordability for consumers.
El Paso writer notes Mexican currency devaluation from Juarez visit. Ten centavos to mail to the U S, peso worth about 1 2/3 cents, and a ten cent gold tariff on each peso of Mexican paper money imported. Soldiers earn three pesos daily, meals run two and a half to four pesos, trains seen on Northwest Mexican and National Railways with deluxe cars and governors’ names painted on cars.
St. Paul's Evangelical Church holds its annual Mission Festival on Sunday September 12 with morning and evening services expected to draw large crowds. A German service features Rev B E Mueller of Alton who will speak in German at morning and in Sunday school, with English addresses by Rev E Mueller and Rev H J Leemhuis among others. An offer is taken for Evangelical Mission work locally and abroad, and St. Paul's orchestra will perform in the program.
In Paloma on September 6 the St Edwards congregation of Mendon postponed its Highland Park picnic originally set for Tuesday September 14 due to late threshing and a shortage of spring chickens after many drowned in the wet season.
GB. G. Wedrick and family have returned to their home in Loraine after a pleasant automobile trip to Pleasanton Kansas. The journey was made without incident.
Mrs J M Lewis arrives in Quincy after summer at Roaring Brook Michigan visiting Alvin Keys and Louise. She will visit Wabash Indiana for a few weeks then Springfield with her daughter. Many local families host guests, dances, dinners, and outings fill the week as residents return from trips to Chicago St Louis and New York.
The funeral of Martin Joseph was delayed several times due to trains before being held at 10 Monday morning at the Hebrew temple. A large number of former associates attended to honor a Quin cy resident long connected with Joseph & Nellie and Joseph Bros. & Davidson, noted for generosity to public causes and charities. Rev Dr Kuppin spoke at the temple, and Worshipful Master George D. Levi lauded the Masonic fraternity. Pallbearers named were Charles Gunn Joel Benton J A Arrowsmith George Beil Charles Rosenheim and Clarence D Cole.
An old time remedy claims to stop headache neuralgia and pain in moments. The ad urges readers to send for a dime package and visit a drug store, promising dramatic relief after a single powder.
W C Morse, chemist with the State Geological Survey in 1915, left the survey on September 2 1915 to pursue private consulting in western Illinois oil fields. He coauthored Bulletin 31 now in use for new development, and oil men in Quincy and vicinity wish him success.
Miss Inez Dudley Rogers daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Cogswell Rogers of New York wed William John Hazel son of Mr. and Mrs. John Hazel of Homer in a ceremony at Dudley Manor near Cum mington Massachusetts. The bride, a Harvard descendant, Virginia seminary graduate and noted horsewoman, will live with her husband at Suffield Connecticut where he serves as physical director. St Augustine Florida marked 3500 years since its first European settlement as Menendez de Aviles arrived on Sept 8 1565 in a pomp filled ceremony with clergy and cross bearing priests.
New Haven Sept. Sixty or more candidates reported for preliminary football practice today at the Madison Country Club on Long Island Sound twenty miles east of New Haven. The squad will practice there until Sept. 20 when training shifts to Yale Field.
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