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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1917
Page
17
A fashion feature introduces the bustle back as a fresh silhouette, contrasting with the prevailing side draperies. The sketch shows a fall-ready gown in navy or tan serge or gabardine with white satin trim, bullet buttons, and a jacketlike bodice. The design uses a separate bustle section sewn into side seams to create the back drape without visible seams.
A bereaved mother hardens her heart against her two young daughters, refusing comfort, joy, or shared life after a year of loss. The piece warns of the damage to family morale as the daughters seek happiness and resilience while the mother clings to sorrow. It notes a broader wartime shift as England and Wales see more women in agriculture, with a third of traditional land labor redirected to war work.
A vintage medical advertisement for Texas Wonder by Dr. E W Hall claims to cure kidney and bladder issues, dissolves gravel, and improves diabetes, rheumatism, and irregularities. It promises bladder regulation in children and offers mail order of a one dollar bottle with sworn testimonials from St. Louis, Missouri.
Mrs Margaret Bonnet, aged 81, died last week at her home in Chicago Heights after a year of ill health following a stroke. A Quincy native, she moved to Chicago Heights with her husband in 1897. She attended a Presbyterian church there, previously a Methodist in Quincy. Survived by five children Louise Jordan James W Charles J George H and Lorenzo Bonnet.
Harry K Grummon died Wednesday morning in Excelsior Springs Missouri. His body arrived in Quincy Saturday morning. The funeral will be held at 2 PM in the Baptist church in Newtown with burial in Newtown cemetery.
Funeral conducted Saturday afternoon at the home of 332 South Fourth street by Rev. W. O. Shank of Central Baptist church. Large attendance and beautiful flowers. Mrs. John Inghram and Mrs. George Reeves sang. Burial in Woodland cemetery. Active bearers: Harry Cannon, Julius Kespohl, Tim Castle, Tom Beatty, Albert Richardson. Honorary bearers: John McConnell, William Shinn, Charles Bagby, Homer Swope.
The funeral for Samuel H. De Crow will be held at 2 30 this afternoon in Mumper chapel. Burial will follow in Woodland cemetery.
The funeral for Mrs Francis Walford will be at 8 30 a m at her daughter Mrs John Dusterhaus home 814 North Eighteenth street and at 9 a m in St John s Catholic church Burial will be in Calvary cemetery
Funeral services for Mrs William Echterkamp will be conducted at 2 30 o clock Monday afternoon at the home of her son John Echterkamp two miles east of Bluff Hall. Burial will be in Bluff Hall cemetery.
John Henkel 80, brother in law of Alderman A. C. Bickhaus, died Wednesday in Kansas City after a career as a carpenter and contractor. He had lived in Quincy years earlier and leaves a wife, a son and a daughter. the funeral will be attended by Bickhaus. William Schaefer 96, father of Henry Schaefer of 327 Hampshire Street, died Saturday at his daughter Mrs. Chris Klopp’s Muscatine Iowa home after five years of bedfast illness. survivors include Mrs. Klopp, Henry, and Mrs. John Bloom of Muscatine.
Local temperatures yesterday ranged from the mid sixties to the mid eighties with readings near 63 at noon 85 around mid-afternoon 84 at night and 67 at midnight. Earl Louis B Allen Reiley Car Harley Pedlers and John Boltz traveled from Edina Missouri to Quincy Saturday morning and returned that evening.
A long list of short notes from Quincy covers undertaker visits, railroad commission hearings in Chicago, chiropractic offices, and strangers arriving for holidays. Local families plan trips to Summer Hill Wisconsin and Ripley, Missouri, while businesses ship cars to Tennessee and Bristol. Several residents depart for St Louis and St Paul area visits, with upcoming openings and teaching changes noted.
In Lowell Massachusetts Mrs Margaret Quinn reports three years of change of life symptoms and nervous distress. After using Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Compound she notes reduced headaches pain and nerves improved. The ad lists warning symptoms and invites readers to seek advice from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co.
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