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MT Vernon Past Milestones On This Day
A retrospective column notes events from 5 to 55 years ago in Mt. Vernon including a death from heart failure 55 years past, draft registration work by local moms, new funeral limousines sold, Knights of Pythias events, a boy injured when a team ran away, a murder case linked suicide, a car found stripped, a building opening, railroad injuries, and a city’s civic honors and births. It recalls Capt Lambattis’s daughter, Dr Ward’s funeral, and community notices from 25 to 15 years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Temple of Justice
Earl Davis
St. Louis
J.N. Johnson Co
Mt. Vernon
Knights of Pythias
Byford Sweetin
Elsie Sweetin
Violet Sharp
Lindbergh
Stumpp
Bluford
Ilinois
L.I
New York
Capt. Lambattis
M.M. Lambattis
Todd P. Ward
Central Church of Christ
Edwin Rackaway
Register-News
Norma Lee Dykes
Marion Dykes
North St
James B. Kelley
Lesser
J.G. Parsons
Ray Schweinfurth
Carla Schweinfurth
Chicago
American Iris Society