Source: Chicago Tribune; Sept. 7, 1947
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Month: June 2019
Old Ad of the Week: Tea Tastes Swell!
Source: Chicago Tribune; March 30, 1940
Unearthed: Four Faces
My husband noted this week that I’ve only posted about newspaper finds lately — no headstones, no graveyards.
“It IS Graveyard Snoop, after all,” he remarked (pretty bravely for a guy whose wife hangs out in cemeteries).
Old Ad of the Week: Energy Food
Source: Chicago Tribune; April 30, 1950
Cora: Her Face in the Water (6)
Read the full Cora Stallman series here.
Thursday, Aug. 6, 1925. Coles County, IL.
By the sixth day, the people of Coles County were tired. The suicide-or-murder question still hadn’t been answered. Cora Stallman’s curious death had made national papers, bringing 19 press agents to Mattoon. They chased the story, and the locals, like a honking flock of geese. For the journalists, too, their time in small-town Illinois was getting old. Telegrams in their pockets barked: Get a story or get home.
Fortunately for everyone, on Thursday, Coroner FS Schilling and the other investigators — State’s Attorney Charles Fletcher, Sheriff Tom McNutt, and Deputy Sheriff Frank Shirley — were ready to talk.
Graveyard Snoop 