Lacy S. McDonald manages the Genealogy & Local History Library branch of The Hayner Public Library District in Alton. She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Carleton College as well as a master’s degree in Library and Information Science and a Graduate Certificate in Rare Books and Special Collections Librarianship from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
A June 4, 1926 article in the Alton Evening Telegraph described Shurtleff College junior Margery Elizabeth Fish’s unanimous victory in an all-college oratory competition, the Atchison Prize in Oratory, held on June 3. Eight women participated in all. A men’s competition, the Haynes...
A large audience attended the Alton Y.W.C.A.’s May Frolic performance at Spaulding Auditorium on May 21, 1926. The Y.W.C.A.’s Physical and Health Education Department staged the program, with Miss Harriet Hyndman, head of the department, serving as director. The May Frolic began a...
A front-page article on the Alton Evening Telegraph in May 1926 announced that well-known Alton attorney William P. Boynton “may perhaps enjoy the distinction of being the first Altonian who tried to make a trip from Alton to California in a motor bus.” By this time, many locals...
In May 1926, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students in the public schools participated in a music memory contest as part of Alton’s Music Week observance. A component of the music instruction program was to sing or listen to well-known compositions by the masters, and to study composers&rsquo...
Mrs. Lottie Zeuch, second wife of Charles F. Zeuch, died Tuesday, March 2, 1926. By the end of April, Charles had remarried his first wife, Stella. At the time of their second wedding, Charles was 66 and Stella was 63. They were first married in 1879 and had three daughters. Then, “after...
Actor, ventriloquist, letter carrier, and Panama–California Exposition gatekeeper George Mold died on April 25, 1926. An Alton Evening Telegraph article the next day announced the news. At the time of his death, Mold resided in Coronado Beach, California, but he grew up in Alton and frequently...
Mrs. Irene Elder Meyer, Wood River resident and a star of the Camerata Chorus in Alton, sang on St. Louis radio station KMOX as part of a special program on April 14, 1926. KMOX broadcast from the Mayfair Hotel (now known as the Magnolia Hotel St. Louis), located at North Eighth and St. Charles...
ALTON - Emily Taft, field secretary for the Illinois League of Women Voters, visited Alton on March 31, 1926, and met with a number of local women. The annual meeting of the National League of Women Voters was scheduled for April 14 – 21, 1926, in St. Louis. Many Alton women belonged to th...
The Alton Kennel Club held its inaugural dog show on March 23 and 24, 1926. There was not going to be a St. Louis Dog Show in 1926, so the Alton Kennel Club expected a large turnout, but even the Kennel Club members were surprised at the wide interest leading up to the Alton show. An Alton Evening...
“How would you like to have a family with 68 sick children in it?” the Alton Evening Telegraph asked in an article about the flu epidemic on March 17, 1926. The Catholic orphanage in Alton housed 300 children, and sixty-eight of them were ill. Dr. G. Taphorn was taking care of th...
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