October 11, 2011
EX-MAYOR SPOONER CELEBRATES CHICAGO FIRE Ex-Mayor William F. Spooner, one of the few residents of Valparaiso who lived in Chicago during the great fire in 1871, which destroyed the major portion of the city, was in Chicago Saturday and Sunday, the anniversary of the mammoth conflagration, observing the event. Three other friends who lived in [...]
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September 15, 2011
May 17, 1923 GETTING READY FOR THE KU KLUX GATHERING Forty men were employed yesterday in putting the finishing touches to the fair grounds for the Ku Klux celebration to be staged here Saturday. Stands have been erected along the north and east sides of the track for the sale of food, and the center [...]
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