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Quincy Whig

Location

Quincy, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Sep 12, 1917

Page

8

Illinois Women Oppose Washington Picketing Says Mrs Trout

Mrs Grace Wilbur Trout president of the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association denounces militant picketing in Washington while urging patriotic action in Illinois through the Woman's Emergency League. The note stresses education, campaign financing, and orderly methods to pass the 1918 constitutional convention resolution. Local notices include social events, clubs, visits, and planned gatherings.

Grace Wilbur Trout Illinois Equal Suffrage Association Washington Woman’s Emergency League Woman's Emergency League Illinois Illinois ‘Equal Suffrage Association

Most People Like Aluminum in Kitchens

A narrator recalls a friend building a summer cottage who endures repeated tactless comments from three women about aluminum kettles enamel sinks and an oil stove. The friend wrestles with whether she should have listened but the lesson focuses on the quiet harm of well meaning but blunt critiques.

Fashions for Americans Georgette blouse design

A detailed note on a tailored Georgette blouse featuring a V neck, ribbon bound collar, dot taffetta trim, and side-fastened closure. It discusses neck shapes, fabric needs of two and a quarter yards, and compares tailored Georgette blouses with crepe de chine vests, tucks, ribbons, beads, and the cost considerations pushing toward simpler trims in sport wear.

Georgette

Miss Gertrude Witt to Wed John J Godfrey

Miss Gertrude Witt and John J Godfrey will marry in the St Peter Catholic church parsonage at 10 this morning. Rev Father J J Driscoll will perform the ceremony. Attendants are Miss Anni Godfrey and Carl Witt. A dinner for about twenty guests precedes their departure for St Louis where Mr Godfrey is in business. Miss Witt is daughter of Mr and Mrs Fred H Witt of 1626 Jefferson street. Mr Godfrey resides in St Louis.

Gertrude Witt John J. Godfrey St. Peter Catholic Church J. J. Driscoll Anni Godfrey Carl Witt St. Louis Godfrey Miss Witt Fred H. Witt Jefferson Street Gary Talkins-Vogel Clara Talkins William Talkins Anthony Vogel John Vogel Soldiers and Sailors St. Rose Catholic Father J. Brennan

Miss Barbara Funke to Be Married Today

Miss Barbara Funke daughter of Mrs Katherine Funke will marry August Dittmer son of Mrs Pauline Dittmer at 9 this morning in St Francis church. Attendants include her sister Miss Marie Funke and his brother George Dittmer from Denver. The ushers will be

Barbara Funke Katherine Funke Lind Street August Dittmer Pauline Dittmer St. Francis Church Father Didacus Asister Marie Funke George Dittmer Denver

Wedding of Joseph Funke and Virgil Willer

Miss Funke will wear white satin with a satin train trimmed in pearls and lace and carry a basket of pink roses. An attendant will wear georgette crepe. A wedding breakfast will be served to relatives and seventy five guests invited to dinner with dancing. The couple will live on Twenty third and Elm streets in a furnished home. Mr. Dittmer works at the Electric Wheel company. Mrs. George Isterschmidt and George Dittmer of Denver are the only out of town guests.

Joseph Funke Virgil Willer Funke Georgette Crepe Twenty-third Elm Streets Mr. Dittmer Electric Wheel Company George Isterschmidt Keokuk George Dittmer Denver

Harvey Sprick and Lena Haimbaugh Married in Denver

Harvey Sprick, son of Mr and Mrs H C Sprick, wed Miss Lena Haimbaugh of Denver in a Denver ceremony Tuesday evening attended by immediate families. The Spricks plan to live with his parents a time before moving to a Prairie Avenue home in town. Mrs Sprick and daughter Helen will return Sunday evening. Mr Sprick to visit Nebraska relatives before returning home.

Harvey Sprick H. C. Sprick Lena Haimbaugh Denver Statetreet Prairie Avenue

Hollenstein and Kestner Tie Simple Parish Wedding

Miss Viola Hollenstein of Camp Point and Alvin L. Kestner of Clayton wed in the county courthouse parlor before Judge McCarl. The ceremony was unattended and held Tuesday morning.

Hollenstein-Kestner Viola Hollenstein Camp Point Alvin L. Kestner Clayton McCarl

Commemorative medals surface in Germany since war

In Germany more than 2,000 commemorative medals have appeared since the war, reflecting ongoing interest in postwar remembrance and veteran culture.

Germany

Orphan Girl Credits Lydia Pinkham Remedy for Health

An 17 year old Pittsburgh girl describes suffering from headaches dizzy spells and side pain. She credits Lydia Pinkham Vegetable Compound with restoring health and enabling her to work daily. She urges publishing the letter to help other young women seek free advice from Lydia Pinkham Medicine Co.

Pittsburgh Tatea Klysleter Lydia Pinkham Mise Marin Garner &T Troy Hill Lydia Pinkham Medicine Co Tyna Mase

Emergency League Plans Big Drive Starting Sept 19

Massive preparations prevail as the Woman's Emergency League readies a ten day drive beginning September 19. Cook county corps hold mass meetings with final instructions while downstate divisions assemble for conferences. Notable leaders and governors express support amid active organizing centers in Rock Island Moline Alton Galesburg Pontiac and Peoria.

Chicago Woman's Emergency League Cook County Downstate Corps Danville E. B. Cooley Quincy Decatur Springfield Deaeen Lowden Dunne Anothe R. W. Welch Rockford Julius Kespohl B. F. Harris Champaign Presi

First Mississippi cargo voyage reaches Minneapolis

The United States steamer Minneapolis carried the first river cargo in fifty years to Minneapolis. The voyage signals the start of broader river use by Davenport Rock Island and Moline factors with the Mississippi Valley Waterways Association in cooperative efforts.

United States Minneapolis Mississippi River Davenport Rock Island Moline Mississippi Valley Waterways Association

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