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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1916
Page
3
A London despatch recalls Canadian battalions after the Courcellette assault. Soldiers describe sleepless nights, dashed charges, and vivid, often comic incidents amid ruins. A frightened German officer, a wounded baron, and a dozen digger feats illustrate human grit on the Somme front.
Brief items show local residents and visitors in Springfield and Quincy. Farmer Rusk plans two days at the state fair, while Miss Lallah Bier visits St Marys academy classmates in Quincy. Others attend events, travel, or note local business updates and medical news. The passage also quotes a frontline war remark about Canadian soldiers at Courcellette.
The non-magnetic yacht Carnegie with a party of eastern scientists docked in San Francisco from Lytellon New Zealand. The expedition has sailed since March 1915, led by M P A. Scientists J A Luke Purdue F C Loring Columbia and Bradley Jones MIT corrected numerous ocean charts finding Indian Ocean errors of 16 degrees. They also searched for Dougherty Island in the Antarctic without success.
In Itasca county Minnesota sheriff Charles Gunderson led a posse of over 100 armed men through Goodhope township woods near Round Lake school to find a man who assaulted and shot Olga Dahl a 19 year old district school teacher. She was tied to a tree and not expected to survive.
Theodore Roosevelt and William H Taft have accepted invitations to attend a reception for Charles E Hughes at the Union League club in New York on October 3. Elihu Root will preside as club president.
Hartford dispatch reports Mrs. Amy E. Archer Gilligan indicted for first degree murder on five counts for poisoning residents at her Windsor elderly care home. Judge Shumway ordered trial to December term as counsel requested delay. Gilligan pleads not guilty and remains jailed without bonds. Authorities say bodies of four victims exhumed show poison traces. Victims include Mrs. Maude Lynch, Franklin R. Andrews, Charles A. Smith, Michael W. Gilligan, and Mrs. Alice Gowdy.
Des Moines Iowa Sept 22 The Italian importing company was enjoined Thursday in district court from taking orders for liquor to be shipped
A court granted an injunction after findings that a company accepted an order for liquor violating the state prohibitory statute. The Des Moines railroad is restrained from delivering liquor as a common carrier within the state.
Local federal officials said no action will be taken to stop a bread price rise from five to six cents for the small loaf unless a general price-raising combine is shown. A jeweler remarks that pearls are like women and demand much attention.
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