"The holiday death toll really soared to unheard of heights before, 740 which really goes to show somebody was negligent of preauction or of the rights of others."
“As a way of warning we are asking our people not to get so free as to be reckless on the Fourth of July. It is well known that we usually have more accidents, deaths and injuries on that date than at normal times. We can have a good time and enjoy…
"One person was shot and two stabbed during fourth of July holiday celebrations. Mrs. Elizabeth King, 26, of 3140 S, Wabash ave., was shot in the right thigh by a stray bullet as she walked near 35th and Wabash ave., Wednesday night. She was taken…
"PHILADELPHIA - Funeral services where held Thursday at the Campbell AME Church, Kinsey and Paul St., who was drowned July 5 in the ocean off North Wildwood, N.J.
He drowned while swimming with friends at 26th st. and the beach during a Fourth of…
"The celebration of the Fourth of July with an early morning joy ride at 2 a. m. Wednesday
resulted disastrously for a party of four consisting of one man and three women when the auto in
which they were riding crashed into a street car. One of the…
"Springfield, III. – Secretary of State Paul Powell asked Illinois motorists to show alertness and respect the rules of the road as they take to the highways for the second holiday of the 1966 season – The Fourth of July weekend. “If you are…
"Several accidents were the toll of the Fourth of July celebrations in Harlem. Peter Rodriguez, 11, 2143, seventh avenue, sustained abrasions and powder burns on the right leg from the discharge of a pistol at close range by an unidentified boy. The…
"Casualties in United States From Celebration of Fourth.
Chicago.-- Latest reports on the number of casualties in the United States due to the celebration of the Fourth of July show that 39 lives were sacrificed and 1,217 were injured, as compared…
"19 Killed; 427 Injured
In Some Cities the Fourth Was Celebrated in a “Sane” Manner and No Deaths Were Reported.
Chicago, Ill.-- Statistics compiled regarding Fourth of July casualties throughout the country indicate a much smaller list of…
"Time was, not so very long ago, when the boys and girls, too, for that matter, thought there couldn’t be a Fourth of July without a great noise of bursting firecrackers and other dangerous and loud, banging fireworks. Now things are quite different.…
"The Fourth of July being celebrated with fire works around and about for almost a month before the date, has come and gone with its usual amount of casualties."
CHICAGO, Ill., July 1- Going somewhere over the Fourth of July?
If so, then plan for the trip safely. But even if you stay home, keep safety in mind for the of July holiday- one of the most dangerous, week-ends of the year.
That is the advice of…
"STERLING, ILL.---(UPI)---
A beauty shop operator and a telephone installer faced murder by arson charges in July 4 fire that killed four persons.
Whiteside County Chief Deputy Sheriff Boyd Kimmell said charges would be filed her against John H.…
"ST. LOUIS, July 10.- Dr. William M. Wright, X-ray expert of the staff of City hospital No. 2, was drowned July 4 at 7 p.m. in South river, near Palmyra, Mo., where he had gone for an Independence day outing.
He was one of the party of six St.…
"HOLLYWOOD. Calif., July 19- Marring [sic] an otherwise pleasant holiday and causing great anxiety among her many friends and movie fans. Miss Libby Taylor, famous screen highlight was severely injured in a car crash on the Fourth of July.
Deep…
"Four members of a Winston-Salem, N.C. family, among them a two-year-old child, were killed near here Wednesday in a jarring head-on auto collision as the returned from a Fourth of July visit with relatives.
The South Carolina Highway Patrol …
"During my boyhood, this coming midnight was for me a delirium of bliss; for on the glorious Fourth my mother allowed me to rise at midnight and go out on the street and yell until breakfast. While that method of entertainment does not appeal to me…
"The noise and fanfare of the traditional Fourth of July celebration ended in tragic silence yesterday for a Chicago high school student.
Benny Stewart, 17, of 1866 Central Park ave., a student at Cregier High school, was fatally shot by a .44…
"No doubt every one of you know that Saturday is July 4 (Independence day). Throughout the entire country children and grown-ups will be celebrating this national holiday. In all probability Billikens will come in for their share of good time, but in…
Three are dead and thirty-seven ill as a result of eating poisoned food at the home of Mac Canady, near Garfield, Ga., on the Fourth of July, according to information reaching here. Mystery surrounds the wholesale poisoning of the Canady family, who…
"Special to the Christian Science Monitor, Philadelphia designed to prevent a repetition of the Fourth of July fatality and accident toll, a bill prohibiting individual use of fireworks has been introduced in the House of Representatives at…
"“Don’ts’” for a safe and sane Fourth of July celebration have been listed by Arthur H. Young president of the National Safety council, in appeaking for “a glorious day and not a disastrous one.”
Children particularly should be guarded, he said,…
"Several accidents were the toll of the Fourth of July celebrations in Harlem. Peter Rodriguez, 11, 2143 Seventh avenue, sustained abrasions and powder burns on the right leg from the discharge of a pistol at close range by an unidentified boy. The…
"NEW YORK (UPI)- A pregnant woman shot through the hand at Yankee Stadium July 4th was in good condition Saturday, but said she was not likely to attend another baseball game.
Joan Barrett, 34, was shot by an unknown assailant as she sat in the…
"At Wanamie, a mining town five miles from Wilkesbarre, Pa., five boys were killed and nine others injured by celebrating the 4th of July.
They had placed powder in a pipe, and it failed to go off. They then forced a stick of dynamite into the…
"The man who secretly arms himself with a murderous revolver or some other deadly weapon and goes out among people who have gathered for a day’s pleasure starts out wrong. It is in the very air for every American citizen to feel a swelling of the…
"Those useful persons, the statisticians, whose work usually makes us wiser, if not always happier, have figured up that our lst Fourth of July celebration cost this country the lives of not less than 377 men, women and children, the wounding and…
"The traveling man who sells hardware remarked that he was afraid he would die of heart disease if he was ever compelled to go to the front. His friends wanted to know what made him think so, and after lighting a fresh cigar he said:
“It was…
"Coal has gone up in New York.
The sugar trust has failed in its efforts to raise prices.
It is announced the W.J. Campbell will decline the Republican national chairmanship.
Elections in England on Monday and Tuesday show Liberal gains, and…
"Claiming the dubious distinction of being the most belated victims of a Fourth of July prank, two men and a woman were burned and bruised about the legs Friday night by a giant fire-cracker.
Those injured when the cracker exploded in a store at…
The first victim of the Fourth of July, according to police, is 14-year-old Irvin Stewart, who died in a Woodbury, N.J., hospital Tuesday of tetanus. A week ago young Stewart and several companions obtained some blank cartridges and borrowed a…
"How may I celebrate the Fourth of July—and still avoid the possibility of being numbered among scores who will probably be killed, or among the several thousands who will probably be seriously injured?
This is a practical question which the…