Next! On To Elgin!
While an estimated 100,000 people witnessed the highly successful second annual Elgin Road Races in 1911, it was an event that was also marred by tragedy and protest.
In other news, Elginites were shocked when they learned what use city officials were making of an empty museum in Lords Park.
And, the ill-mannered behavior of the “Newsies,” or boys selling newspapers, prompted some strong action from the police and city attorney.
Here’s a look at those and other stories making Elgin area headlines in the late summer of 1911.
If your browser is like the two I tested this on, you may be seeing some badly translated numeric character references.
#8212; is an em dash, the semicolon is part of the code but it also needed a leading ampersand.
#147; is curly open double quote, #148 is curly close double quote, and #146; is curly close single quote or, in this case, an apostrophe. At least that’s what they are in Windows code page 1252, they’re control characters elsewhere.
The em dash probably started as #151; but got (partially) translated up to a proper ISO/Unicode value, the others didn’t.
Also all paragraph breaks seem to have been lost after a good start.Report
Across three browsers and two operating systems, the page renders as expected each time. I’ll put this in my “could not reproduce” file.Report