Plans to Build New High School and Housing
Work out plans for a new high school building. Build next year at least 200 bungalows or apartments to meet Quincl's housing needs. Clean up alleys and rear areas to improve sanitary conditions.
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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1919
Page
7
Lexington's 131 Year Old Sensation Draws National Interest
A Kentucky man named John Shell became a national curiosity as dispatches enshrined him as 131 years old. Reports claimed a child of five, a second marriage, and feats from Daniel Boone to deer hunts, but no verifiable records emerged. Skeptics say Shell may be a well preserved nanogenerian exploited by opportunistic reporters during a dull season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Shell
Shell
Kentucky
Bunker Hill
Boone
Backdoor diplomacy and a shift to open treaty making
The memorandum notes British and French missteps in secret suties and Persia understandings, recalling Wilson's lament that self determination moves were blocked by hidden treaties. It argues that postwar league covenants should render treaty making transparent and subject to league scrutiny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Persia
Foreign Relations Committee
Frank P. Walsh
Wilson
Shantung
Europe
League
Daily Quiz Q&A From The Whig Information Bureau
Historian Fred Haskin presents a column of questions and brief answers on varied topics. The reader asks about widow war risk insurance on remarriage, air pockets, cost of living rise, popular trees, Brigadier General Dawes, Bible films, woodchuck versus groundhog, Esperanto origin, hearses, and royal surname history, with concise authorities and explanations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amy Reader
The
Whig
Whig Information Bureau
Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, D. C
Individua
Spencer Opposes Treaty Without Reservations
Senate questions President Wilson's St. Louis speech on the treaty. Senator Spencer of Missouri urges four reservations to safeguard American rights, saying if pressed to choose he would vote for rejection. He calls the peace pact a one man document and warns of jeopardy without safeguards. Spectators applaud in the galleries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wilson
St. Louis
Senate
Spencer
Missouri
League
Foreign Relations Committee
America
Contraband Beer Seized From Eagle Packet in Pekin
Forty five barrels of beer believed en route from St. Louis to Peoria were seized by Pekin police and federal agents as the Eagle Packet steamer docked at Pekin. Trucks waited near the dock as liquor was taken. Secret service men in Peoria review former saloons suspected of illicit liquor trade. Beer labeled Hyde Park in 12 ounce bottles with high alcohol content. Samples sent to Springfield for analysis. disposition pending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peoria
St. Louis
Pekin
Eagle Packet Company
Fare Increase Defeated. Carmen Strike Follows Vote
Burlington voters reject a proposal to raise street railway fares by a 600 majority. Carmens threaten and commence strike within an hour after polls closed as auditors report the company has lost money for two years, prompting talks to amend the franchise to raise fares.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
Veteran Farm Editor Dies At Eighty In Isis
Shwaned Isis September 9 Captain I G Heaps aged eighty died Monday after years of leading agricultural development and publishing in farm papers. He was a well known figure in farming circles and edited several agricultural periodicals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shwaned
Isis
I G. Heaps
Allows Increases In Beef And Lamb Cuts
New York Sept 10 An increase of 2 cents a pound in virtually all cuts of beef and lamb was added in the new fair price list issued by Arthur Williams federal food administrator. No increase appeared in the grocery list and pork was quoted from one half cent to one cent lower. No reason was given for the beef and lamb rise but last week Williams said advances in certain commodities were due to movements in the market over which we have no control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Arthur Williams
Mob terrorizes Towex Ireland spares Cork area
A mob in Ferney, Ireland, 19 miles northeast of Cork, tormented the town for an hour last evening. Fifty shops were damaged and a jewelry store was demolished. Loss is estimated in the several thousand pounds sterling range.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Towex
London
Ferney
Ireland
Cork
Exchange Telegraph Company
Yank Yank the Nuthatch Returns Home in Winter Visit
Peter Rabbit meets Yank Yank the Nuthatch in the Old Orchard on a winter return. Yank Yank climbs headfirst down a tree and explains his winter home in a hidden stump nest with Mrs. Yank Yank and a brood of six. He notes his real home lies in the Great Woods further north.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yank Yank
Peter Rabbit
Peter
Curiosity
Kansas Corn Crop Deteriorates in August Report
Topeka Sept 9 August corn prospects in Kansas slipped further per Edward C Paxton of the federal crop estimates bureau The latest forecast puts Kansas corn at about 67 652 000 bushels with an estimated condition near 47 per cent indicating a weak trend for the season and reflecting ongoing crop stress statewide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kas
Kansas
Edward ¢. Paxton
Federal Bureau of Crop Estimates
Sept 10 through history keeps changing the world
On September 10 1954 Louis IV of France was killed by a tall French horse at age thirty eight in a strange fatal accident. In 1621 James granted Sir William Alexander a patent for Arcadia to be Nuova Scotia a Scottish palatinate, but the land passed to France after nine years. Settlements grew from New England. In 1813 the Battle of Lake Erie saw Perry defeat Barclay and claim two ships two brigs a schooner and a sloop with dont give up the ship noted and his dispatch to General Harrison. American losses numbered twenty seven killed and ninety six wounded while British losses were forty one killed and ninety four wounded. In 1862 the Barbara Frietchie incident near Frederickstown Maryland saw Stonewall Jackson order the flag to be taken down and Frietchie risk her life to defend it, crying out to shoot her before the flag.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis IV
France
James
Wiliam Alexander
Arcadia
Nuova Scotia
Palatinate
Crown of
Scotland
William
New England
Lake Erie
Perry
Barclay
Lawrence
Chesapeake
Shannon
Harrison
Barbara Frietchie
Frederickstown
Stonewall Jackson
Barbara Freitchie
Court Preacher Denounces Kaiser as Maligned
Berlin reports Dr. Ernest Von Dryander once court preacher who praised William during the war has issued a brochure portraying the former Emperor as persecuted and innocent. It notes alleged abnormal religious development, citing an 1916 incident where the Kaiser cried for a miracle as the war began.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Ernest von Dryander
William
Burlington Adopts County Paving and Memorial Auditorium Plans
Burlington Iowa voters approved two measures in a special election. Des Moines county carried a plan to pave the county’s primary roads by a large majority and also adopted a proposal to build a memorial auditorium for World War I servicemen by about nine hundred votes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
Des Moines
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