Revolts Sweep World in 1911 Across Empires and Republics
The year 1911 marked widespread political upheaval from China to Mexico. Revolts toppled regimes and challenged graft and monopolies, with aviation advancing notably through Atwood and Rodgers flights. Prominent events include Chinese rebellion, Arizona and New Mexico statehood strides, labor clashes, and major court actions shaping future governance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Far East
China
Arizona
New Mexico
United States
Atwood
St. Louis
New York
Rodgers
Pasadena
Cal
Ocean
Among the Passengers A Fat Man A Deaf Man And A German Band
A downtown car scene features a fat man and a lean, both with two giggling girls nearby. A German band on a side street irritates residents while the fat man mocks “Music” and the lean man signals hearing difficulty. Laughter follows as the fat man recognizes the joke.
Natural Timepiece on Aegean Sea Sun Dial Frontier
Aegean sea area features a giant natural sun dial formed by a promontory rising 3,000 feet above water. As the sun moves, the mountain’s shadow touches successive small islands, each at exact distances, serving as hour markers on the enduring natural clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aegean Sea
The Lesser Evil Joke Exchange Across the Page
A sharp quip saves face as a husband explains preferring trouble with creditors over his wife's big spending. The exchange hints at domestic comedy and familiar marital dynamics without detailing events or locations.
Man Hung in Box Car in Gary Yard
Police investigate the death of Fritz Frederick Peterson 27 of Racine Wis found suspended by a necktie from a rafter inside a Pennsylvania box car in West Gary railway yards. Also reported Richmond dog muzzle order leads attorney Robbins fox terrier to carry muzzle and dig a hole to bury it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gary
Fritz F. Peterson
Jan
Fritz Frederick Peterson
Racine
Wis
West Gary
Peterson
Richmond
John F. Robbins
Robbins
Trial for Kidnaping Opens in Shelbyville
Shelbyville January 2 James Corbett who calls himself Hobo King No 2 faces trial on kidnapping Harold Calbert thirteen, October 3. Calbert says he was sent out to beg in Toledo where arrested. Prosecution highlights ill treatment as key evidence. Corbett says the boy followed him from the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shelbyville
James Corbett
Harold Calbert
Toledo
Calbert
Corbett
Man alleges drugged marriage ends in annulment plea
Els worth H Graves nineteen tells wife Martha Sampson Graves he renounced her and will seek annulment after a marriage performed at St Joseph Michigan on December twenty seventh Graves says his wife induced him to go there drugged him and they wed Logansport Indiana January second through local report
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logansport
Elsworth H. Graves
Martha Sampson Graves
St. Joseph
Mich
Graves
St. Joe
Sigma Chi Home Burned at Purdue Chapter House
Fire started from a grate on the second floor of the three story frame Sigma Chi chapter house at Purdue. Only one member was present as others were away on holiday vacation. The structure became a mass of flames before discovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sigma Chi
Lafayette
Purdue
Shoot at Target to Decide Contested Election
Bloomington January 2. A tie vote for two candidates prompts a question of legality for settling the contest by a shooting match. Trustee John Siscoe declined to recognize James Crouch as road supervisor after both men fired at a target, Crouch scoring higher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bloomington
Jan
John Siscoe
Polk Township
James Crouch
Crouch
Eloping Pair Pay Fines in Logansport
Salvatore Pezilla and Mrs Theresa Stattl who eloped from Pittsburg two weeks ago were fined in Logansport on January 2. Efforts by the girl's husband to prosecute Pezilla under the Mann Act in Pittsburg ended in reconciliation between the parties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logansport
Salvatore Pezilla
Theresa Stattl
Pittsburg
Pezilla
Statuis
Sweeney Called to Lennox Avenue Church pulpit
Columbus January 2 Rev Z T Sweeney of this city has been asked to serve as pastor at Lennox Avenue Christian church in New York City. He has not decided on a permanent call and will occupy the pulpit until spring. He previously led the Tabernacle Christian church here for several years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Columbus
Z. T. Sweeney
Lennox Avenue
Indianapolis
Oklahoma City
Indiana
Oklahoma
Hugh Burrell
People’s State Bank
Brownstown
Burrell
Haskell
Lee Cruce
Cruce
Two Schools at War Over Basketball Games
Terre Haute January 2 Rose Poly faculty bans base ball games with Indiana normal after a spring fight. Accordingly normal cancels two basketball games with Rose. Bitter feeling lingers between the two local institutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terre Haute
Jan
Rose Poly
Indiana Normal
Normal
Rose
Sunday Ragtime Banned in Downtown District
Wabash Mayor James Wilson issued an order prohibiting music in the downtown area on Sundays. The ban followed complaints about ragtime playing on electric pianos disturbing the Sunday calm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wabash
James Wilson
Wind kills Terre Haute man at factory smokestack
Wind toppled a sixty foot smokestack at the Moses Turner grass factory in Terre Haute on January 2, killing David Boyle and injuring two other workers. The accident highlighted factory safety risks as responders investigated the site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terre Haute
Jan
Moses Turner
David Boyle
Fights Postage Increase
Washington reports a strong opposition by the American Newspaper Publishers Association postal committee to Hitchcock’s plan to raise second class rates. Don G C Seitz chairs the committee and cites a House committee inquiry showing publishers shipped millions of pounds of matter by mail and by express at much lower rates, arguing that mail access is not a privilege but a right and urging a fight against post office censorship and mismanagement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hitchcock
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Don GC. Seitz
The
New York World
Post Office Department
House Committee
William A. Ashbrook
Express
Transportation Corporation
Congress
Impracticable Suggestion by Robert Henri at Sherry's
The artist Robert Henri spoke at a New York tea about the Latin Quarter. He recalled a spring day sketching horses near the Luxemberg Gardens when a youth spoke of his shabby coat and replied he would turn it only if it had three sides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Henri
Sherry’s
New York
Latin Quarter
Boule Midi
Discreet Collectors and a Tale of Sargent
At the Ritz-Carlton in New York Joseph KB Widener praised his father’s discreet art collection. He recalled a New York millionaire shown a vast gallery by Sargent who planned to leave his pictures to a public institution. Sargent suggested an institution for the blind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph KB. Widener
Ritz-Carlton
New York
Sargent
Mr. Sargent
Growth of Wooden Flooring in Italy Replaces Marble Demand
Wooden flooring gains popularity in Italy replacing earlier demand for marble tiling and cement. Oak, larch and pitch pine predominate with little use of maple birch or beech reaching markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
What Was In Her Heart Blood In Her Answer
A literary exchange sets a chilling mood as a young woman answers a question with a single word. The terse reply, blood, implies danger or violence behind her cool gaze and hints at dark motivations or a treacherous history in the narrative.
Guard charged with murder at Indianapolis hospital
Ralph Stevenson, a young guard at Central Hospital for the Insane, was arrested on murder charges after the death of inmate Richard Cooper of Shelbyville. Doctor Edenharter cited evidence of unnecessary violence during the December 1 incident leading to Cooper’s death from pneumonia and hip injury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Stevenson
Hospital For the Insane
Indianapolis
Richard Cooper
Central Hospital For the
George F. Edenharter
Shelbyville
Edenharter
Stevenson
Cooper
Tonia
Stevensan
State Teachers Elect Officers Indianapolis
The Indiana State Teachers association at its convention in Indianapolis elected officers. Charles A. Greathouse as president and Miles Adelaide Steele Bailor as recording secretary. An executive committee includes A. O. News Kokomo C. E. Clark Boonville O. M. Pittinger Frankfort A Jibbey Newport H A Burk New Albany H S Kauffman Warsaw George P. Burke Indianapolis W A Myers Hartford City Limuel Hines Crawfordsville vice presidents Horace Ellis Vincennes J K Huston Aurora A J Retfel Brookville A J Trester Alexandria W Q Schamlaub Kentland Lloyd F Gates Churubusco. Permanent secretary-treasurer is J. B. Pearcy of Anderson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Indiana State Teachers’ Association
Charles A. Greathouse
Miles Adelaide Steele Bailor
A. O. News
Kokomo
C. E. Clark
Boonville
O. M. Pittinger
Frankfort
A. ©. Jibbey
Newport
H. A. Burk
New Albany
H. S. Kauffman
Warsaw
George P. Burke
W. A. Myers
Hartford City
Limuel Hines
Crawfordsville
Horace Ellis
Vincennes
J. K. Huston
Aurora
A. J. Retfel
Brookville
A. J. Trester
Alexandria
W. QO. Schamlaub
Kentland
Lloyd F. Gates
Churubusco
Permacent
J. B. Pearcy
Anderson
Taggart Holds the Control in Democratic District
Indianapolis reports Thomas Taggart will likely lead the party for two more years controlling chairman and secretary selections and the state campaign. County results show Taggart defeating Governor Marshall, with the split arising from Taggart supporting Harmon of Ohio for the presidency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taggart
Indianapolis
Thomas Taggart
Marshall
Harmon
Ohio
Gary Postoffice Gains From Second To First Class
Gary post office receipts rose in the last quarter enough to advance the office from second to first class at the next grading. Five years ago a common shoe box could hold all the Gary mail, illustrating the growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gary
Child Falla Breaks Neck in Tragic Breakfast Accident
The two year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bennett Jr. fell from a high chair at the breakfast table and broke his neck. He died thirty minutes after the fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Falla
Laporte
Henry Bennett, Jr
Candy maker Geiger narrowly escapes after car hits pole
Leonard Geiger, a prominent Indianapolis candy manufacturer, narrowly escapes serious injury when his car strikes a telephone pole on Delaware Street. The vehicle overturns and wrecks. Geiger suffers only minor bruises. The pole had fallen into the street due to ongoing repairs and darkness obscured his view.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Leonard Geiger
Delaware Street
Geiger
Also Mentioned on This Page
Juan Estrada
Nicaragua
Taft
Estrada
W. E. Corey
United States Steel Corporation
Postal Savings
Elkins
West Virginia
Tobacco Trust
United States Supreme Court
Panama Canal
Arkansas
Camden
N. J
Paul Morton
Equitable Life Insurance Company
Secretary of the Treasury
David Graham Phillips
House of Representatives
San Francisco
New Orleans
Charles S. Sperry
Vivian Gould
Lord Decies
England
Archbishop Ryan
Philadelphia
Asquith
House of Commons
House of Lords
Lorimer
Mlinois
Senate
Mexican
Viterbo
Triangle Shirt Waist Company
Asch
Tom L. Johnson
Cleveland
House
David Jayne Hill
Germany
McNamara Brothers
Chicago
Los Angeles
Jay Gould
Annie Douglas
Graham
Hawaiii
Bangor
Kwantung Province
Juarez
J. M. Dickinson
Henry L. Stimson
Standard Oil Company
Supreme Court
Porfirio Diaz
Mexico
Diaz
Mex
Ico
W. E. D. Stokes
Lilian Graham
Ethel Conrad
France
Captain Princeteau
M. la Martin
M. Lendran
Olympic
King George of England
Cornell
Harry N. Atwood
Boston
Conneau
Andre Beaumont
Belgium
Holland
Harvard-Yale
Oxford-Cambridge
London
Prince of Wales
Henry Clay Beattie
Manchester
N. Y
Col
John Jacob Astor
Madeline Talmage
H. H. Hilton
Apawamis Hinks
Premier Stolypin
Russia
Kiev
West
Cal P. Rodgers
Toulon
Turkey
Tripoli
Austin
Winfield
Schley
Republic of China
Wu Chang
John Marshal Harlan
Eugene Ely
Macon
C. V. T. Richeson
Avis Linnell
Frand W. Sandford
Holy Ghosters
Portland
Chinese National Assembly
Winston Churchill
Admiralty
Reginald McKenna
Philadelphia Athletics
Joseph Pulitzer
Cardinals
Kyrle Bellew
Shanghai
Yangtse-Kiang River
Pacific Coast
Ambassador Guild
St. Petersburg
Persia
W. Morgan Shuster
United States Circuit Court
Caceres
Santo Domingo
Mildred Sherman
Lord Campys
Rome
King George
India
J. B. McNamara
John J
Investigation Board
Maine
Ericaville
Tenn
George Emperor
Republican National Committee
Sulzer
Alfred G. Vanderbilt
Margaret McKim
Curtiss Guild
John Bigelow
America
Tabriz
Marks
Parks
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association Committee
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!