Paul Durica, director of exhibitions at the Chicago History Museum, continues his daily reading of the Chicago Tribune from 1924. Here are five of his finds from last month.
A scene in the courtroom during the Black Sox trial in 1921. Eight Chicago White Sox players were on trial for allegedly fixing the 1919 World Series.A frame grab from a British Canadian Pathe newsreel shows the 1919 World Series between the Chicago White Sox and Cincinnati Reds.Players are on the field during one of the games in Chicago of the 1919 World Series between the Chicago White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds.
A judge, who was seated in the audience among an estimated 4,000 people, disrupted the screening after determining the more than three-hour-long Civil War epic violated a state statute passed in 1917 that barred the showing of pictures that tend to engender race or class hatred. Police shut down the showing of the 1915 film.
That led to the nomination of the Kentucky-born Lincoln. After the talk, visitors had the opportunity to view the gray shawl Lincoln wore in New York when he made his famousNoted archeologist, Professor James H. Breasted of the University of Chicago stands next to some of the relics from the tombs of Egyptian kings, which are his pride.
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