Looking at the 1924 local papers was so much fun last week that I decided to do it again. I’m not promising to make this a weekly feature, but it could happen.
Pretty much the entire paper is on homecoming and the havoc it was likely to cause. The cities imported cops from Chicago to help reroute traffic, and hotels like the Lincoln and the Inman laid in stores of vast quantities of meat.
- Memorial Stadium is dedicated to Illini war dead.
- The Illini team features “Red” Grange.
- The Republican national committee hopes to raise three million dollars for campaigns. (Compare that with this year’s numbers.)
- The Champaign-Urbana Electrical League wants you to know that glare will freaking kill you.
- The body of Floyd Collins is found.
- A coroner’s jury decides that the death of a prominent Champaign insurance agent was a suicide.
- A photo of the attorney for confessed hubby-poisoner Mrs. Elsie Sweetin of Ina, Illinois
- At the Princess Theatre: Tom Mix and Tony the Wonder Horse; at the Rialto: Hal Roach
- Tonight’s radio schedule
- Photo of Captain George W. Steele, appointed commander of the ZR-3 zeppelin, which recently completed its trip from Germany to New Jersey; Urbana man receives mail that came over on the ZR-3. See this Navy page on what was to become the USS Los Angeles, and this other page, and my favourite photo of the zeppelin, which was the world’s largest aircraft on its maiden journey and the fourth aircraft to cross the Atlantic.
- Be polite to your chickens in order to maximise egg production, and be sure to give them plenty of room.
- This is what’s happening in China, as far as you know.
