2010 September | TWEETS OF OLD

Spontaneous combustion is supposed to be the cause of the fire that destroyed the barn of John Stoner, two miles north of Bethalto. The fire broke out at three o’clock in the afternoon. Mr. Stoner was in Bethalto at the time, and his wife was alone on the farm. She said the flames broke out suddenly in all parts of the barn. She tried to untie the livestock in the barn, but was unable to do that on account of the flames. One mule and two calves perished in the fire. Twenty-five loads of hay, and all the farm machinery were in the barn as well as a storm buggy and a motorcycle. All were lost in the fire. from the Alton Evening Telegraph, July 26, 1919

TWEETS OF OLD

We attempt to reveal the lives of our predecessors through the tweets of yesteryear

Julius Goodluck had the misfortune to lose part of a thumb when it became entangled with the cut-off saw Wednesday morning.

A Chicago woman has been arrested for highway robbery. No proper young man now ventures to appear on Chicago streets without a chaperone.

Mrs. N. H. Waller had a spider taken out of her ear the other day which crawled in while she was asleep.

Frankling Mangham shot the top off one of his fingers with a pistol. Lucky that it wasn’t his head.

Chas. Richey cut his left hand badly Monday while cutting strings from a package.

Some low down hound swiped a milk bucket containing 2 tickets for the lacteal fluid off of Bremser’s gatepost last week.

Ole Peterson was arrested at Palermo on a charge of selling stolen flax.

A young woman in Dakota who works 160-acres, says she could work twice that if marriage-minded men would stop bothering her.

“Hank” Riggs is running his cider mill at full blast and producing a prime quality of “bug” juice.

Spontaneous combustion is supposed to be the cause of the fire that destroyed the barn of John Stoner, two miles north of Bethalto.

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