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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1964
Page
3
In Dixmoor Illinois a riot by about a thousand angry Black residents lasts five hours. Police with shotguns and dogs restore order after whites and Blacks clash. Two people were shot and 50 plus injured, with 25 Negroes arrested in earlier outbreaks. Sheriff Richard Ogilvie leads 40 policemen to quell the disturbance.
An ad touts Bio-Dyne based Preparation H as shrinking hemorrhoids and relieving itch and pain without surgery. The rest of the text shifts to a riot report with police actions, injuries, and arrests in a mixed, chaotic narrative. riots involve perceived racial tensions, looting, and police response.
Witnesses report two days of unrest with civil rights leaders urging calm met by violent crowds. Teens led the mob and set a vacant new home on fire to draw responders. Fire trucks were stoned. the first fire unit reached the area after an hour and a half, with 30 policemen guarding the scene. The initial house burned. a neighboring home also sustained damage.
Pulaski County authorities say Glenwood Thomas Sowers, 45, shot his wife Nora Ann Sowers with a shotgun after an argument and then killed himself. Mrs. Sowers was in fair condition at Pulaski Hospital. Police report the shooting occurred as she fled from the house.
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