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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1919
Page
7
City officials outline tasks to improve transit and roads. Establish an overnight “owl” car service to meet early trains. Grade a hard road to Taylor, Missouri and begin street paving this year. Consider river terminals and time a new barge line. Expand Quincy's outer territory before the next census.
The Wolf trial highlighted split enforcement between justice and war departments as damaging to the government case. Witnesses questioned halter quality, while disputes over who hires ferrets and pursues cases reveal interagency friction. Speculation on Pershing’s next move notes he will not enter the treaty controversy.
William C Bullitt, confidant to the American peace commission, faces a potentially embarrassing session before the Foreign Relations committee over his disclosures. His Lenine trip and report on Soviet Russia's role at Prinkipo triggered anger and a willingness to reveal confidential information. The panel is unlikely to regret probing such candid testimony, though individual members would prefer not to employ him in private capacity.
Wartime Salvation Army workers and their doughnuts earned wide praise from soldiers in France and city slums alike. Quincy prepares for a big state drive next week with organized chaperonage and solicitors giving their time to push the county over the goal. The piece highlights the army’s prominent war work and questions the need for further fundraising.
Boston mayoral stance frames police as an independent force loyal to the people. He argues against outside control or striking to improve pay, equating strikes with Bolshevism and warning democracy vs Soviet rule. Public sentiment skews toward unions but strikes influence opinion.
In a woodland chat, Spooky explains living year round in a hollow tree with Mrs Spooky and their four fledglings. He talks diet, noting winter meals of mice and shrews and summer insects, and says farmers are glad he helps curb mice. Peter learns Spooky’s tree home and seasonal habits.
The Whig Information Bureau replies to inquiries on Osler theory US war trenches payments Azerbaijan marriage validity for Catholics and Protestants fastest machine gun weeds in gravel driveways and related topics. Notable answers cover Osler on age and achievement, government compensation in France, Azerbaijan's location, interfaith marriage legality, Browning automatic rifle rate, and salt brine weed control.
A discharged soldier with an average of 65 percent is eligible for civil service appointment. French construction firms say they do not need or desire outside help in rebuilding devastated regions in France at present.
In St Louis on September 19 Judge Dyer in the Federal Court gave four brewing firms and the government 10 days to file briefs on wartime prohibition and the manufacture of 275 per cent beer. He joked about citing decisions on both sides and questioned if the Supreme Court is already considering the case, asking if a speedy ruling is needed.
ST LOUIS September 19 Ralph Shelton nineteen years old walked into the jail inviting by Assistant Jailer Adolph Breischer of Belleville. Shelton had just completed a jail sentence after threats against his father and then stole clothes from J O King and eight dollars before vanishing. He returned to Belleville on Wednesday and told the jailer Hello how are you Come down and give us a call Shelton was locked up.
The Kerr line steamship Jason arrived Friday from Hamburg carrying 350 tons of toys glassware and sugar beet seeds. It is a Hoover administration supply ship marking the first German cargo since the war. Seven stowaways were aboard seven aboard were Americans six and one German.
The ad rejects external liniments for rheumatism, asserting blood infection as the cause and promising permanent relief via S. S. S. A fifty plus year remedy, the notice claims it reaches the blood to rout disease germs and offers a free experts’ book and personal advice from the Swift Specific Co. Atlanta.
AURORA IL Sept 20 John Wheeler 75 described as a tramp who rode with automobile bandits helped police and farmers trap three robbers at Kaneville Ill Wheeler a veteran safe blower with a scarred leg and a gun earned when captured says he had no real role in the crime.
The sovereign grand lodge Independent Order of Odd Fellows and affiliated bodies adjourned in Baltimore after their annual convention and set next year’s meeting for Boston. The group also approved a wartime order banning non English language use in lodge meetings and in the ritual.
President Wilson's train pulled into San Diego at 3 23 p m. The presidential party was escorted to a hotel by army detachments amid security preparations and sightseers observing the arrival.
Concise sketch notes recall a bold 1416 crossing of the Tigris amid depth and current, the Welsh rebel Owen Glendower’s death as Henry IV’s foe, Charles Edward Storm’s exile after Culloden, and the 1868 Philadelphia meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science plus early revolving-turret battleship patents and the Monitor.
New York on September 20 reports a drive to unite all city employees including police and firemen into a single central union allied with the AFL. The effort seeks wage gains to counter cost of living, with 30 council members from 15 unions backing the plan. total membership exceeds 100,000. The central union proposal was unanimously endorsed and will go to all members for approval.
An old advertisement states catarrh cannot be cured by local applications and must be treated internally. Hall's Catarrh Medicine is claimed to cure catarrh by acting through the blood on mucous surfaces. It describes the product as a blood purifier and tonic with testimonials available from F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
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