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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1917
Page
2
Public notice urges all residents to join the Red Cross without waiting to be asked. It notes many have not joined because not personally invited and emphasizes the organization is for all. Reports Anna Brown home women have knitted hard and will soon donate twenty six pairs of socks two sweaters and several scarves.
Real estate records show Q. D. Andrew transferring lot 19 on the original plat in Ursa to Mary M. Grimes for 1350 dollars under the real estate transfers notice.
Cranberries reach Quincy markets with prices around 20 cents a quart for first arrivals. Cape Cod crops face 35 to 40 percent frost damage. New Jersey reports 20 percent loss. Total crop forecast about 300,000 barrels across three states, the lightest since 1905. Prices on pears apples and other produce listed. fruit selection includes California pineapples and Michigan grapes. Prices reflect a market adjusting to crop damage and tighter supplies.
Fragmentary OCR note records ordinary stock values with prices per pound and quantity hints. Entities include Deicke and figures around 80 to 90 per pound, but the text is incomplete and lacks full context or dates.
Edward Webb of Pure Ice and Coal in Quincy attended a Kansas City reunion of his large Webb family. The 14 relatives include nine sons and three daughters, with three sons heading to France for special service and a grandson in the navy. The family, native of Pike County, has members in Kansas City, with varied professions. The father fought for the south in the war.
A Woodruff Memorial Tuberculosis sanatorium site will be selected after a successor to Dr. R. J. Christie is named by J. C. Gibbs. Gibbs seeks an interested appointee. The sanatorium will be built near Quincy on a high river bluff to ensure pure air and ample ground, with a home like appearance rather than hospital in design and operation.
The Illinois Public Utilities Commission ordered temporary electric rates in Quincy effective Oct 1. A hearing in Springfield on Sept 20 was postponed and no further details were released before the commission’s Thursday decision reached Quincy. The notice also promotes The Whig want columns for opportunities.
The Quincy association of Congregational churches holds its annual meeting in Christ church Monday and Tuesday October 1 and 2. The program includes devotional periods led by pastors from Griggsville Dallas City Quincy Payson and Chicago with business sessions, sermons, addresses on evangelism and Congregationalism and a war era discussion by Ernest Pye of Marsovan Turkey.
Police officials departed Chicago Thursday night for Danville Illinois to recover five boys all under 14 who fled in box cars fearing punishment for school misbehavior. Danville reports the fugitives were located there.
There will be twelve gatherings at the Labor Temple next week. The schedule lists unions and groups meeting through the week including Painters and Decorators' union No. 68 Plumbers' union No. 161 on Monday Beer Bottlers' union No. 239 Soldiers and Sailors' Home Em ployes' association Hod Carriers and Building Laborers and Woman's Label league on Tuesday Stonemason's union No. 6 and Dairymen's association on Wednesday and Team Drivers' union No. 80 Iron Molders' union No. 44 on Thursday.
The Texas Wonder promises to cure kidney and bladder troubles including rheumatism and back issues in men and women and even children. It claims to regulate bladder functions and offer a two month treatment, with testimonials and mail order option from Dr. W. Bath, Saint Louis, Missouri.
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