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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1919
Page
7
A proposed program calls for a permanent airplane landing field, a new high school building, and construction of at least 200 bungalows or apartments next year to meet housing needs. It also prioritizes cleaning alleys and surrounding premises to improve sanitary conditions.
A call for a four sided forty acre air field near Quincy, level and clear of pits, suitable for year round landings. The writer argues public spirit will fund a permanent field as aviation grows, noting river bluffs limit west side options and parks unsuitable.
The piece contrasts American anxieties about French railroads with French critique of American locomotives. It notes French preference for bolted rails and long lasting French engines, and plans to rebuild American buys with French craftsmanship, arguing cultural standards affect production. Baron Neuflize cautions that different methods reflect different formulas and that foreign approaches aren’t inherently wrong.
The piece notes the White House plans a Covenanting Crusade with the President delivering thirty speeches. It questions the League of Nations mandate, recalls his Paris remarks on January twenty five, and challenges whether the nation has repudiated its instructions and if the President should rally the people directly.
A chronological note recalls pivotal dates on September 11 including Danes in England in 1069 Harold and Canute, Hendrick Hudson's voyage in 1609, Cromwell taking Drogheda in 1649, Brandywine in 1777 with Lafayette first flag use, and Macdonough’s Lake Champlain victory in 1814.
A Kirksville Osteopathic clinic opens Sept 15 offering free examination and treatment to patients who cannot afford home care. Faculty supervise senior students to ensure best results with board and room available at reasonable rates. Catalog on application.
The Mountain Meadows Massacre saw a wagon party bound for California slaughtered in Utah by a group of Native Americans guided by Mormon authorities. Twenty years later Bishop John Lee confessed the plan originated at the church’s highest ranks, and he was executed at the massacre site.
After the war in Italy, foreign champagnes are unlikely to be in demand, while beer will find a market. Much beer is brewed in Italy and consumption rises, but Italian beer is said to be inferior in quality and flavor to imported beer.
Yank Yank the Nuthatch explains to Peter Rabbit how he climbs and comes down trees without losing balance. He notes woodpeckers rely on stiff tails, while he uses three toes with sharp claws. He also reveals he eats acorns and beech nuts, not just insects, and jokes about his future adventures in the Green.
A narrator recalls cracking a beech nut in a trunk hollow and, by calling the nutcracker habit a “Nuthatch,” explains how the name arose. Péter then learns a thing about seep. The fragment hints at a storytelling sequence with a playful, rural setting and a childlike morals moment.
In Chicago at the National Association of Retail Clothiers sixth annual convention five hundred members report belts and doublebreasts will be the next styles for men. They show little hope for lower prices while seeking ways to cut rising costs of goods.
Knoxville dispatch reports Maude Moore, named by Lerouy Harth, head of the Imperial Motor Co and a wealthy new businessman, as the woman who shot him. After hiding in a cave for over 18 hours, she was arrested and confessed that the killing arose from a quarrel during an automobile ride.
In New Orleans on September 10 cotton growers and factors from ten states endorsed a 36 cent per pound minimum price for September cotton, with a monthly rise of 0.5 cent to reach 40 cents by May, and they requested the association president to call another meeting to discuss a still higher minimum. A geologic estimate places a single soda deposit in British East Africa at over 200 million tons.
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