ANOTHER VIRDEN RIOT APPEAL TO THE GOVERNOR
A Springfield dispatch says Governor Yates refused to interfere with plans to import 200 Birmingham negroes to replace strikers at Jatrobe Foundry near Chicago Melrose Park. He advised invoking Cook County Sheriff to preserve peace citing state law on armed laborers and forged contracts. Tensions rise in Maywood Belleville and Melrose Park as locals vow to block arrivals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Springfield
Yates
Birmingham
Ala
Jatrobe Foundry Company
Melrose Park
Miss Meeting of
Cookingham
M. W. Church
Burlbach
Peter Bolander
Ak. T. Gallagher
W. Lee
lWoury Behling
Cook County
Tan
Vdlsge O Melita
Maywood
Belleville
Subiha
Lnberers
Doherty
Strike Moves Reported In American Sheet Steel War
A July 25 dispatch from Pittsburg describes two alleged moves in the Minnesota era strike. The Vandergrift mills shipped some non union workers to Wellsville to restart the plant, triggering alarm in Wellsville. Officials and strikers remain mobilized as United States Steel Corp authorities aim to break the strike and resume idle plants. A second reported action involves restarting the Hyde Park plant, long idle and part of the same combine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Sheet Steel Company
Hyde Park
Amalgamated Association
Shaffer Eaid Yeaterday
Anton
Pittsburg
Vandergrift
Wellsville
United States Steel Corporation
Famous trotting gelding near death after barbed wire accident
Vay-Ere-fos Harta Wimacifa Racine, Wir, July 25. The noted trotting gelding with 2:10 trot and 2:00 pace records was found nearly dead at the Case farm after tearing a foreleg on barbed wire fencing. He had run loose for eight years and lost significant blood. Also in Chicago the Yacht Race was postponed due to an impending squall during the fourth trial race.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vay-Ere-fos Harta Wimacifa Racine
Wir
Chicago
Buffalo Bill
Col. W. F. Cody
Great Plains
Schley Calls For an Inquiry
Washington July 25 Rear Admiral Schley requests a court of Inquiry and Secretary Long approves calling it at once, likely to start in September. He rebuts Maclay's charges calling the book unfair and defamatory and cites a May dispatch it deems humiliating and cowardly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Schley
Navy Department
Long
Maclay
Rehley
Sehley
Key West
Yucatan
Yelled for Lazarus Chorus Saved Lissie at Dock
In St Joseph Michigan on July 25 Chief Morton learned a Chicago druggist filled a prescription for a man named Lazarus who had mistaken the bottle and boarded a boat to St Joseph with a deadly poison aboard. The chief had men yell Lazarus as the boat arrived and questioned every deck passenger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lissie
St. Joseph
Mich
Morton
Chicago
Lazarus
Lazarus case prompts river rescue and police work
A medico incident at Paw Paw Lake involved Mrs Lazarus and a husband who discarded a bottle into the river after the man was found. Chief Morton Worke spent two hours on the case, helping to avert danger. Meanwhile a Chicago poisoning scare tied to fruit stands and a steamer crew member highlights ongoing fears of embalming rumors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lazarus
Indayw
Paw Paw Lake
Morton
Devlish Attempt and Minor News From July 25
A gang attempted to wreck a Gale branch train near Vexas Junction by placing rails at a ravine curve. A passer-by was attacked while trying to help, but escaped and alerted the station. Suspect Rolla Atkins is jailed. Mitten detained. Charles Pearl bitten by rattlesnake while performing, in precarious condition. Alfalfa saves Nebraska with two harvests and a third near ready. Boundary dispute in Dayton ends with high costs. Unloaded toy pistol causes scalp wound. Dr J S Mind, pioneer physician, dies at 57 after heat collapse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thoga Carbondale
Gale
Ilinois Central Railroad
Vexas Junction
Mitten
Milwaukee
Charles Ea Pearl
la Pearl
Trinity Hospital
Nebraska
Omaha
Neb
Tom Hart
West
Receiver appointed for the Germany Exchange Bank at Chilton
Judge Clementson of the circuit court named R W Connell of Calumet County as receiver for the Germany Exchange Bank of Chilton. The bond stands at 100,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chilton
Oshkosh
Wis
Clementson
Ciicuit Court
Ins
R. Wf. Connell
Calumet County
Germany Exchange Bank
The Youngers Start New Work After Prison Release
Stillwater Minnesota July 25 Cole man and James Younger after twenty five years in state prison have begun work as salesmen for a St Paul dealer in gravestones and monuments. Six Cin a Mountain Chasm Aosta Italy July 20 three Englishmen and three guides while clumping Mount Cerytho fell down a chasm and all were killed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Youngers
Stillwater
Minn
Coleman
James Younger
St. Paul
Aosta
Italy
Cerytho
Record Heat Smashes Century-Old Temperature Records
Across the corn belt on July 22 temperatures soared to 100 degrees or more with no rain in the belt. Cities from Des Moines to St. Louis and New York to Boston logged new all-time highs, while scattered thunder showers offered little relief. Official readings ranged up to 108 degrees in Des Moines and Springfield, with many locales breaking prior records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Great
Corn Belt
Wether Bureau
Inois
Town
Great Lakes
South Atlantic
Pacific
Atlantic Coast
Atlantic
Arizona
Des Moines
Springfield
Cincinnati
Louisville
Thdianapolla
St. Louis
Omaha
Bismarck
N. D
Concordia
Kan
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Record Heatwave Smashes Kansas City Weather Records
A searing heat wave sweeps Kansas City and Kansas City, Missouri, with the government thermometer peaking at 106 in the city and up to 128 in the business district. Seven deaths from prostration, and over thirty treated, push daily heat toll to sixteen across both cities. Farmers rush cattle to market as water shortages bite and grain prices climb. Heavy afternoon showers occur in parts of Missouri and Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Formora
Kingas City
Kansas
Kansas City
Kangugs City
Kiv
Kansas City Weather Bureau
Bute
Cabile
Missouri
Joplin Vine
Fort Scott
Do you boil or bake your lobsters
Fragmented ad style reminiscence with quack remedies and household tips. It mentions cooking lobsters in various ways and promotes DeWitt’s remedies for burns cuts and coughs, naming Mrs Wyse and a Martha. The text resembles a late 19th or early 20th century catalog style with patent medicine claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hellgerent
Also Mentioned on This Page
Virden
Illnois
Effingham
Ills
Mtonday
Aust Opera House
M. O. Eldridge
Office of Public Roads Inquiries
Department of Agriculture
The
United Sinkese
Secretary of the Navy
Guy Boswell
Charles McVea
Boswell
South Water Street
Mwarbor
Supreme Court
John Gogtle
Taudwig Dreger
Dayton
Quincy
Noah Worst
Charles Button
Wencer
Trampton
Mind
Prank Dn County
Wetmore
Wetmores
Wettmore
Wetmore Tobacco Company
Bi. Louis
America
Hetmor
Edical
Wild West
AND
Congress OF Rough Riders
Iowa Falls
Weather Department
Dilshorpe
Ind
Joe Hillman
Voltz
Delaware
Ben Dickhoff
Treasury
United States
Lewis
E.R Lewis
MANET
Peoria
Ile
de Whtt
Marty
DeWitt
de Witt
Lagrippe
TW. Wise
Martlenna
Humphreys
Beepete B
Colio
Melleiah
Proven Halridney
Willensza
Mediine Co
Cor
Wiildork
VerHuiNady Minuet Buseamc
Coscor Wuliame
John Head
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!