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Gaston L Chevrolet

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Gaston L Chevrolet
Birthdate:	October 04, 1892
Birthplace:	Côte-d'Or, Burgundy, France
Death:	November 25, 1920 (28) Beverly Hills, CA, United States (killed in a racing accident at the Beverly Hills, CA Speedway )
Place of Burial:	Indianapolis, IN, United States
Immediate Family:	Son of Joseph Joseph Chevrolet; Joseph Felicien Chevrolet; Angelina Marie Mahon; Angelina Marie MAHON and Anne AngÚline Mahon Husband of Marguerite Chevrolet Brother of Edward Alfred Chevrolet; Louis Joseph Chevrolet; Fanny M Chevrolet; Berthe Chevrolet; Arthur Emil Chevrolet and 8 others

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Gaston Chevrolet

Birth: Oct. 4, 1892 Death: Nov. 25, 1920

The youngest of three Swiss race car driver brothers, Gaston Chevrolet's greatest moment came when he won the 1920 Indianapolis 500, driving a car designed by his oldest brother Louis. Tragically, he was killed in a racing accident at the Beverly Hills (CA) Speedway less than 6 months after his greatest triumph. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Burial: Holy Cross and Saint Joseph Cemetery Indianapolis Marion County Indiana, USA

Maintained by: Find A Grave Record added: Jan 01, 2001 Find A Grave Memorial# 2402

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er gewann 1920 das Indianapolis 500 Miles Race mit einem von ihm u. seinem Bruder Louis konsruierten Rennwagen namens *FRONTENAC*;

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11 JAN 2019 15:51:19 GMT -0500 Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, 1836-1922 MyHeritage Les journaux sont sources fantastiques d'informations et d'histoires familiales pour la généalogie. Naissances, Mariages, les avis de Décès, et les registres obituaires, sont des ressources couramment utilisées en généalogie. Toutefois, les ancêtres peuvent avoir été cités dans des articles des nouvelles concernant des évènements locaux (ex: sociales, communautaires, écoles, sports, professions et évènements reliées au commerce). Collection 10449

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https://www.myheritage.fr/research/collection-10449/chronicling-ame... 4 27 NOV 1920 Bisbee Daily Review Publication : Bisbee, Cochise, Arizona, USA Date : 27 nov 1920 Texte : "...AUTO CRASH LOS ANGELES, Nov. 2GCertificates of accidental death were issued from the coroner's office here today in the cases of Gaston Chevrolet and Eddie O'DonneT. automobile race drivers, and Lyall Jolls..." À propos de cette sourceThe Bisbee Daily Review emerged in 1896 as the Weekly Orb, an Independent paper that ran until 1898, when it became the Arizona Daily Orb, with Alvan W. Howe and G. M. Porter as acting editor and publisher. This was only the beginning of several more title and editorial changes as well as two political transitions before the paper would find its feet firmly planted. The publication’s masthead changed to the Cochise Review and Arizona Daily Orb on May 3, 1900, at which time it also became a Republican paper. Soon after, it became the Cochise Review and then the Bisbee Daily Herald. Mastheads were not sticking during this time period because the July 2, 1900 issue read the Cochise Review and Bisbee Daily Herald; a month later the paper was once again the Cochise Review. On August 20, 1901, the Review became a Democratic publication. When William Kelly bought the Cochise Review in November 1901, it ran as a weekly for about six months before becoming the Bisbee Daily Review. The paper provided “mining news from every county in Arizona” and was “published in the best mining city on earth.” In 1903, William and his father, “Major” George Kelly formed the Consolidated Printing Company. In addition to the Bisbee Daily Review, they also bought and eventually owned all the dailies in Arizona’s southeastern mining districts. William Kelly had come to Bisbee at the invitation of Walter Douglas of the Phelps-Dodge Corporation, a New York company that traded metal and owned the Copper Queen mine in Bisbee as well as other Arizona mines in Morenci and Jerome. James Brykrit in Forging the Copper Collar: Arizona’s Labor Management War of 1901-1921 claimed that the corporation “intimidated editors, threatened ministers, bought sheriffs, seduced lawmakers and bullied union leaders” and “completely reversed the direction of Arizona politics and destroyed the liberal in the state.” In 1909, Phelps-Dodge started buying up the mining district newspapers the Kellys had run. By 1925, the corporation owned all of them--including the Bisbee Daily Review. According to William H. Lyon in Those Old Yellow Dog Days, Frontier Journalism in Arizona 1859-1912, Phelps-Dodge wanted to ensure “that nothing reflecting unfavorably on the company would appear in newsprint.” TheBisbee Daily Review ran as a daily from 1901 to 1971, when William Epler purchased the newspaper from Phelps-Dodge and changed it back to a weekly. In 1974, the Wick family bought the Review from Epler and ran the paper until 1976 when it merged into the Daily Herald Dispatch, which was also published by the Wick family. After various title changes, two periodicals eventually emerged from this joint effort and are still in publication today: the Sierra Vista Herald [and] Bisbee Daily Review, published out of Sierra Vista; and the Bisbee Daily Review [and] Sierra Vista Herald published out of Bisbee Record 10449:1951723:

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https://www.myheritage.fr/research/collection-10449/chronicling-ame... 4 27 NOV 1920 The New York Herald Publication : New York, New York, New York, USA Date : 27 nov 1920 Texte : "...racing driver injured yesterday at Beverly Hills Speedway, died this morningwithout regaining consciousness The body of Gaston Chevrolet, who died in the crash in which O'Donnell was Injured, will be taken...which occurred whenthe machine burst into (lames during the eighth lap. Louis Chevrolet, brother of Gaston Chevrolet, killed in yesterday's race at -o? Angeles, left here to-day for Indianapolis to attend..." À propos de cette sourceThe New York Sun debuted on September 3, 1833, becoming the first successful penny daily, popular with the city’s less affluent, working classes. Its publisher, Benjamin H. Day, emphasized local events, police court reports, and sports in his four-page morning newspaper. Advertisements, notably help-wanted ads, were plentiful. By 1834, the Sun had thelargest circulation in the United States. Its rising popularity was attributed to its readers’ passion for the Sun's sensational and sometimes fabricated stories and the paper’s exaggerated coverage of sundry scandals. Its success was also the result of the efforts of the city’s ubiquitous newsboys, who the innovative Day had hired to hawk the paper. The Sun added a Saturday edition in 1836. A number of weekly and semiweekly titles were also published, such as the Weekly Sun (1851-69), which shares the same masthead as the Sun with "Weekly" appearing in the title ornament.The paper’s true glory days began in 1868 when Charles A. Dana, former managing editor of the New York Tribune, became part owner and editor. Dana endeavored to apply the art of literary craftsmanship to the news. Under him, the Sun became known as “the newspaperman’s newspaper,” featuring editorials, society news, and human-interest stories. A Sunday edition was added in 1875 and, later, a Saturday supplement appeared, offering book notices, essays, and fictional sketches by Bret Harte, Henry James, and other well-known writers. In the 1880s, the paper’s size increased to eight pages and in 1887 the Evening Sun hit the streets in two editions: Wall Street and NightOn September 21, 1897, in response to a letter from eight-year-old reader Virginia O'Hanlon (“Papa says ‘If you see it in The Sun it’s so.’ Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?”), the paper published “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.” This opinion piece by veteran newspaperman Francis P. Church, insisting that Santa Claus “exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist,” caused an immediate sensation. It became one of the most famous editorials in newspaper publishing history; the Sun would reprint this editorial annually until 1949.By 1910 the paper averaged some 15 pages, with Sunday editions triple that length. In 1916 entrepreneur Frank A. Munsey, owner of multiple other newspapers, purchased the Sun, and a series of mergers followed. In July 1916, the Sun briefly became the Sun and New York Press and then reverted to the Sun by the end of the month. In 1920, the Sun merged with the New York Herald, and the titles were combined to create the Sun and the New York Herald which appeared daily from February to September of 1920. In October 1920, the daily was split into the New York Herald and the Sun, absorbing the Evening Sun in the process. The Sun continued until January 5, 1950, when itmerged with the New York World-Telegram and became the New York World-Telegram and the Sun. In 1966 that title became part of the World Journal Tribune; the latter folded the following year.The Sun morgue of clipped newspaper articles is held by the Humanities and Social Sciences Library of the New York Public Library. The Library of Congress Prints and Photograph Division holds an estimated one million photographs, which were assembled by the Sun and subsequent papers between the 1890s and 1967, in the New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection Record 10449:14153988:

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https://www.myheritage.fr/research/collection-10449/chronicling-ame... 4 26 NOV 1920 The Lake County Times Publication : Hammond, Lake, Indiana, USA Date : 26 nov 1920 Texte : "...racing driver, who was terriblyInjured yesterday at the Loa Angeles epeedway, when Gaston Chevrolet, famous driver, was killed Instantly, and Lyle Jolle a mechanician, was fatally hurt In a collision, died..." Record 10449:14316614:

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https://www.myheritage.fr/research/collection-10449/chronicling-ame... 4 26 NOV 1920 Norwich Bulletin Publication : Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA Date : 26 nov 1920 Texte : "...average of 103.2 miles an hour. Miller's time was '"2 : 26 : 14, and Hearne's . 2:27: 27. Gaston Chevrolet killed: just before the end of the race; was the youngest of three racing brothers. . Hewas i mechanic..." À propos de cette sourceIn 1910, the Norwich Bulletin advertised that it had the largest circulation of any paper in eastern Connecticut and that its readers could be found in “forty-nine towns, one hundred and sixty-five postal districts, and forty-one Rural Free Delivery District routes.” A subscription base of around 7,000, the editors claimed, meant that the Bulletin had nearly 40,000 readers a day. A Republican newspaper launched in 1895 during the Progressive Era, the Bulletin overtly courted its two most natural constituencies: the small towns, villages, and rural areas of the eastern part of Connecticut and adjacent Rhode Island, and the banking, industrial, and commercial movers and shakers based in the town of Norwich itself.The editor of the Norwich Bulletin summarized well the paper’s dual missions. First, the Bulletin would “spare no expense” in the effort to “cover its field” by maintaining 80 regular correspondents in the small centers of the eastern part of Connecticut. Second, the paper would “build and boom” the banking, commercial and industrial center of Norwich. Correspondents from the small towns sent in short reports on local events, social activities, and family news. The feature writer of “A Farmer Speaks to Farmers” commiserated with the beleaguered agriculturalists of the rural areas. At the same time, the Bulletin appears to have been the trusted aggregator of annual reports from the financial institutions, cotton and woolen mills, builders, and arms manufacturers whose owners formed the economic elite of Norwich and nurtured many of the important Republican politicians who operated in state and local government. Each January 1st issue also carried large photo spreads of industrial, institutional, and commercial buildings completed within the preceding calendar year. As Norwich was historically a center for New England trade, the Bulletin, in addition, published Atlantic maritime news. The Bulletin’s full Associated Press service was mentioned in the publisher’s statement in 1910 as a source of pride.The masthead featured a logo that traced thepaper’s lineage to 1791, when Ebenezer Bushnell founded the Weekly Register (1791-1795). A new owner, Thomas Hubbard, changed the name to the Chelsea Courier (1796-1798), and then over subsequent decades and changes of ownership, it appeared as the Courier (1798-1809), the Norwich Courier (1809-1845), the Norwich Weekly Courier (1845-1859), the Norwich Weekly Courier (1860-?), the Norwich Courier (?-1927), and other titles. In 1858, the Courier was purchased by a printing firm called Manning, Perry, and Company and these owners attempted to publish an evening paper, the Norwich Daily Courier (1858-1859). Soon Homer Bliss and Issac Bromley joined Manning’s firm. They decided that a morning paper would be more successful than an evening daily, and the Norwich Morning Bulletin (1858-1895) was born.In 1863, a group of prominent businessmen said to be led by the cotton manufacturer John F. Slater and the banker Lorenzo Blackstone formed the joint stock company known as the Bulletin Company. In 1895, the company renamed the morning paper and launched it as the Norwich Bulletin (1895-2011). Charles D. Noyes and William H. Oat purchased the Bulletin Company in 1898. Between the company’s founding and 1922, many important businessmen and Republican Party leaders were associated with it. These include Noyes, himself a leader of the state party organization, and Henry H. Gallup, a banker and manufacturer who served as Connecticut State Treasurer. The Norwich Bulletin was published until 2011 and a successor newspaper, the Bulletin, continues to this day Record 10449:48298:

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https://www.myheritage.fr/research/collection-10449/chronicling-ame... 4 2 DEC 1920 The Mt. Sterling Advocate Publication : Mount Sterling, Montgomery, Kentucky, USA Date : 2 déc 1920 Texte : "... Lamps,Gas Globes. Si Hi m Hi Hi ffiffitfiffiffiffiffiffi GASTON CHEVROLET KILLED WHEN AUTOS COLLIDE Los Angeles, Nov. 25. Gaston Chevrolet famous raving driver, and &1 Joles, mechanic for Eddio O'Don...25:20, an average of 103.2 miles an hour. Miller's timo was 2:10:14, Hearne's, 2:27:27. Gaston Chevrolet, killed just beforo the end of the race, was the youngest of three brothers racing. Ho was a mechanic..." À propos de cette sourceThe Mount Sterling Advocate has served the seat of Montgomery County and the surrounding area since 1890. Founded by businessmen John H. Mason and Dr. C.W. Harris, the weekly was an immediate success despite many other well- established county papers. By its second year, the Advocate was printing an impressive eight pages of copy. By 1920, it was published as a 12-page semi- weekly. The paper continued to grow and eventually expanded to its current 24 pages. Montgomery County was a “gateway” county, connecting the Eastern Mountain and Bluegrass regions of Kentucky. A single road, later designated as U.S. 460, led out of the mountains into downtown Mount Sterling. The first city of substantial size in the flatlands along the thoroughfare, Mount Sterling was a natural hub for commerce and social gatherings. Not surprisingly, much of the Advocate's content focused on the area’s heavy agricultural trade. One ofthe largest cash crops in both regions was Burley tobacco. The Burley Tobacco Society, an organization for tobacco farmers in Kentucky, featured prominently in the paper, along with other aspects of the tobacco market. The horse industry, of particular import to the Bluegrass Region, merited its own column--"Horse and Track," which was dedicated to racing news and the sale of horses. In keeping with the Commonwealth’s reputation for lively political rivalries, politics was a key aspect of the Advocate’s coverage. As a Democratic paper, the Advocate kept the county’s Democratic voters--who, by 1911, outnumbered Republicans by nearly two to one--abreast of party matters. There were regular endorsements for local and national candidates, including Kentucky Governor, John C.W. Beckham, who believed that temperance was the solution to the violence that plagued the state at the turn of the century. By the end of his gubernatorial tenure in 1907, nearly 100 of Kentucky’s then 119 counties were dry. Montgomery County followed suit in 1914, and Beckham was elected to the Senate that same year. The Advocate was often enmeshed in political controversy. In 1893, Walter Banks, an African American, was elected to the city council in Mount Sterling, where African Americans constituted nearly 30 percent of the population. Together with other county newspapers, the Advocate challenged Bank’s election. As a consequence, when the council met to finalize the results, Banks was dismissed from his position, because literacy tests and poll taxes had supposedly disqualified him from voting or serving as an elected official. Since its founding, the Advocate has frequently changed hands. In 1892, John H. Mason sold his share in the paper to J.W. Hedden. Four yearslater, Bruce W. Trimble and Hedden edited the paper together until 1910, when Trimble was replaced by Gemil B. Senff. For the next nine years, Senff and Hedden ran the Advocate. Following Senff’s departure, Hedden edited the paper with his son. After nearly 120 years, and more than 15 editors, the Mount Sterling Advocate is still in print today (http://www.mtsterlingadvocate.com/)&lt;/p&gt; Record 10449:2945138:

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https://www.myheritage.fr/research/collection-10449/chronicling-ame... 4 3 DEC 1920 The Idaho Recorder Publication : Salmon, Lemhi, Idaho, USA Date : 3 déc 1920 Texte : "...Gaston Chevrolet, Eddie O'Donnell and Mechanician Lyall Joli» Killed In Pile-up of Car*. Los Angeles. Nov. 27.—Certificate* of accidental death were Issued from the coroner's office here yesterday in the cases of Gaston Chevrolet and Eddle O'Donnell, automobile race drivers, and Lyall Jolis, mechanician, killed..." Record 10449:3039679:

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https://www.myheritage.fr/research/collection-10449/chronicling-ame... 4 1 DEC 1920 The Challis Messenger Publication : Challis, Custer, Idaho, USA Date : 1 déc 1920 Texte : "...States when the fracas ended. FAMOUS RACING PILOT KILLED Gaston Chevrolet Victim of Race Collision at Los Angeles« Los Angeles.—Gaston Chevrolet was killed near the end of the 250-mile race on the Los Angeles..." Record 10449:3257477:

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https://www.myheritage.fr/research/collection-10449/chronicling-ame... 4 26 NOV 1920 Free Trader-Journal and Ottawa Fair Dealer Publication : Ottawa, La Salle County, Illinois, USA Date : 26 nov 1920 Texte : "...racing driver injured yesterday at Beverly Hills speedway, died this morning without regaining consciousness. The body of Gaston Chevrolet, who died in the crash in which O'Donnell was injured, will be taken..." Record 10449:3446819:

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https://www.myheritage.fr/research/collection-10449/chronicling-ame... 4 26 NOV 1920 The Rock Island Argus and Daily Union Publication : Rock Island, Rock Island County, Illinois, USA Date : 26 nov 1920 Texte : "...accident here yesterday, died here tday. , O'Donneil'p death was the third as a result of a crash between his machine and that of Gaston Chevrolet's in a 250-mile race here yesterday. Chevrolet and Lyall...mechanician, was injured. Take Body te IaaJaaav. Los Angeles. Calif., Nov. 26. The body of Gaston Chevrolet, who died in the crash in which O'uonneii was injured, will be taken to Indianapolis for burial Mrs..." À propos de cette sourceLocated on the Mississippi River, Rock Island, Illinois, is one of the Quad Cities, along with Moline, East Moline, and the Iowacities of Davenport and Bettendorf and is the seat of Rock Island County (Yes, there are five cities included within the Quad Cities Metropolitan Area). Rock Island gets its name from the largest island in the Mississippi River, which was formerly called Rock Island and is now called Arsenal Island. The Rock Island Argus is one of Illinois’ oldest newspapers and has been in continuous publication since 1851, when a weekly paper titled Rock Island Republican was founded by F. S. Nichols. In 1854, Colonel J. B. Danforth purchased the paper and began publishing a daily edition, along with the weekly. In 1859, Danforth, who was a Democrat, changed its name to the Rock Island Argus, to distinguish it as separate from the Republican Party. In 1882, John W. Potter bought the Rock Island Argus, and when he died in 1898, his wife, Minnie, took over its operation. The Rock Island Argus only had 500 subscribers when John Potter took it over, but, by all accounts, the newspaper thrived under Minnie Potter’s leadership. The Potter family owned and managed the entire family of Rock Island Argus newspapers, including Rock Island Daily Argus (1886-93), the Rock Island Argus (1893-1920), and its successors until the paper was purchased by the Small Newspaper Group in 1985. On October 16, 1908, the “worst fire in [the] city’s history” broke out. It was brought on by an explosion of coal dust in the yards of the Rock Island Lumber Company. The Argus published a special “Midnight Fire Edition” and reported that “millions of feet of lumber”were “devoured” before the fire could be put out. Three people were injured; 500 men were “thrown out of employment”; and an estimated $550,000 in total damages was reported. The Rock Island Argus is still in publication today, with its headquarters now in Moline, Illinois. The Small Newspaper Group—which also owns the Dispatch—combined the two newspapers, withthe content varying only in their respective mastheads Record 10449:3455099:

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https://www.myheritage.fr/research/collection-10449/chronicling-ame... 4 26 NOV 1920 The Rock Island Argus and Daily Union Publication : Rock Island, Rock Island County, Illinois, USA Date : 26 nov 1920 Texte : "...own efforts. u ine oariana wealth is lpft in trust Ve Must Have Thrills. Gaston Chevrolet, famous automobile racer. was killed yesterday at the Los -Angeles speedway. People who pay to witness such, contests..." À propos de cette sourceLocated on the Mississippi River, Rock Island, Illinois, is one of the Quad Cities, along with Moline, East Moline, and the Iowa cities of Davenport and Bettendorf and is the seat of Rock Island County (Yes, there are five cities included within the Quad Cities Metropolitan Area). Rock Island gets its name from the largest island inthe Mississippi River, which was formerly called Rock Island and is now called Arsenal Island. The Rock Island Argus is one of Illinois’ oldest newspapers and has been in continuous publicationsince 1851, when a weekly paper titled Rock Island Republican was founded by F. S. Nichols. In 1854, Colonel J. B. Danforth purchased the paper and began publishing a daily edition, along with the weekly. In 1859, Danforth, who was a Democrat, changed its name to the Rock Island Argus, to distinguish it as separate from the Republican Party. In 1882, John W. Potter bought the Rock Island Argus, and when he died in 1898, his wife, Minnie, took over its operation. The Rock Island Argus only had 500 subscribers when John Potter took it over, but, by all accounts, the newspaper thrived under Minnie Potter’s leadership. The Potter family owned and managed the entire family of Rock Island Argus newspapers, including Rock Island Daily Argus (1886-93), the Rock Island Argus (1893-1920), andits successors until the paper was purchased by the Small Newspaper Group in 1985. On October 16, 1908, the “worst fire in [the] city’s history” broke out. It was brought on by an explosion of coal dust in the yards of the Rock Island Lumber Company. The Argus published a special “Midnight Fire Edition” and reported that “millions of feet of lumber” were “devoured” before the fire could be put out. Three people were injured; 500 men were “thrown out of employment”; and an estimated $550,000 in total damages was reported. The Rock Island Argus is still in publication today, with its headquarters now in Moline, Illinois. The Small Newspaper Group—which also owns the Dispatch—combined the two newspapers, with the content varying only in their respective mastheads Record 10449:3455111:

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https://www.myheritage.fr/research/collection-10449/chronicling-ame... 4 27 NOV 1920 Norwich Bulletin Publication : Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA Date : 27 nov 1920 Texte : "...ENVELOPES CONTAINING 84,3 Certtflentes of accidental ' death were Issued from the coroner's office at Los Angeles in the cases of .Gaston Chevrolet and Eddie 0'Dine" ' 'automobile race drivers, and Lyall..." À propos de cette sourceIn 1910, the Norwich Bulletin advertised that it had the largest circulation of any paper in eastern Connecticut and that its readers could be found in “forty-nine towns, one hundred and sixty-five postal districts, and forty-one Rural Free Delivery District routes.” A subscription base of around 7,000, the editors claimed, meant that the Bulletin had nearly 40,000 readers a day. A Republican newspaper launched in 1895 during the Progressive Era, the Bulletin overtly courted its two most natural constituencies: the small towns, villages, and rural areas of the eastern part of Connecticut and adjacent Rhode Island, and the banking, industrial, and commercial movers and shakers based in the town of Norwich itself.The editor of the Norwich Bulletin summarized well the paper’s dual missions. First, the Bulletin would “spare no expense” in the effort to “cover its field” by maintaining 80 regular correspondents in thesmall centers of the eastern part of Connecticut. Second, the paper would “build and boom” the banking, commercial and industrial center of Norwich. Correspondents from the small towns sent in short reports on local events, social activities, and family news. The feature writer of “A Farmer Speaks to Farmers” commiserated with the beleaguered agriculturalists of the rural areas. At the same time, the Bulletin appears to have been the trusted aggregator of annual reports from the financial institutions, cotton and woolen mills, builders, and arms manufacturers whose owners formed the economic elite of Norwich and nurtured many of the important Republican politicians who operated in state and local government. Each January 1st issue also carried large photo spreads of industrial, institutional, and commercial buildings completed within the preceding calendar year. As Norwich was historically a center for New England trade, the Bulletin, in addition, published Atlantic maritime news. The Bulletin’s full Associated Press service was mentioned in the publisher’s statement in 1910 as a source of pride.The masthead featured a logo that traced the paper’s lineage to 1791, when Ebenezer Bushnell founded the Weekly Register (1791-1795). A new owner, Thomas Hubbard, changed the name to the Chelsea Courier (1796-1798), and then over subsequent decades and changes of ownership, it appeared as the Courier (1798-1809), the Norwich Courier (1809-1845), the Norwich Weekly Courier (1845-1859), the Norwich Weekly Courier (1860-?), the Norwich Courier(?-1927), and other titles. In 1858, the Courier was purchased by a printing firm called Manning, Perry, and Company and these owners attempted to publish an evening paper, the Norwich Daily Courier (1858-1859). Soon Homer Bliss and Issac Bromley joined Manning’s firm. They decided that a morning paper would be more successful than an evening daily, and the Norwich Morning Bulletin (1858-1895) was born.In 1863, a group of prominent businessmen said to be led by the cotton manufacturer John F. Slater and the banker Lorenzo Blackstone formed the joint stock company known as the Bulletin Company. In 1895, the company renamed the morning paper and launched it as the Norwich Bulletin (1895-2011). Charles D. Noyes and William H. Oat purchased the Bulletin Company in 1898. Between the company’s founding and 1922, many important businessmen and Republican Party leaders were associated with it. These include Noyes, himself a leader of the state party organization, and Henry H. Gallup, a banker and manufacturer who served as Connecticut State Treasurer. The Norwich Bulletin was published until 2011 and a successor newspaper, the Bulletin, continues to this day Record 10449:48305:

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https://www.myheritage.fr/research/collection-10449/chronicling-ame... 4 26 NOV 1920 The Bridgeport Times and Evening Farmer Publication : Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA Date : 26 nov 1920 Texte : "...the racing driver, who was Injured yesterday at the Los Angeles Speedway, when Gaston Chevrolet, famous driver, was killed instantly, and Lyle Jolles, mechanic was fa tally hurt in a collision, died at..." À propos de cette sourceThe daily Bridgeport Evening Farmer, the Bridgeport Times and Evening Farmer, and the weekly Republican Farmer trace their roots to the publishing world of 18th-century Connecticut. This family of newspapers began in March 1790 in Danbury as the Farmers Journal and went through a number of name changes during the last decade of the century, becoming the Farmers Chronicle in 1793 and the Republican Journal in 1796. From 1800 through January of 1803, and then again after September 1803, it was called the Farmers Journal. For a few months from February to May or June 1803, under the leadership of a dynamic and determined editor named Stiles Nicholas, it was called the Farmer’s Journal and Columbian Ark.Although Connecticut was a Federalist stronghold, the Journal-Ark, whose slogan was “Be just and fear not,” maintained staunchly Democratic political sentiments. In 1807, Nicholas was fined and jailed while defending the Democratic editor of another publication against libel. Nicholas still managed to write and print a pamphlet from jail, thus ensuring that the publication of the newspaper was not interrupted. In 1810, Nicholas moved his paper, now called the Republican Farmer, to the growing town of Bridgeport. Initially, the Farmer’s four pages were filled mostly with advertisements and national and international items drawn from other newspapers, usually about a month behind in date. In later years, the paper expanded to eight pages, and modern technologies such as the telegraph, telephone, and ocean cables improved the immediacy and availability of the news.In 1837, Stiles Nicholas’s son, Roswell, took over editorship and in 1840 complete management of the Republican Farmer. Reports say that his successor, William S. Pomeroy, began the Daily Farmer in 1854, but the earliest daily that still exists is the Daily Advertiser and Farmer, a title that began on September 8, 1856. Pomeroy partnered with a Yale-educated southerner named Nathan Stephen Morse who was highly critical of Lincoln, expressed anti- abolitionist views, and proposed peace with the South in his editorials both prior to and during the Civil War. On August 24, 1861, a pro-union mob led by soldiers attacked the Farmer’s offices, smashing and throwing presses into the streets and ransacking and burning files and materials. By some accounts, Morse escaped by climbing over the rooftops of adjacent buildings and then by hiding in a canal boat. He returned to the South, and Pomeroy was eventually able to resume publication of the paper.After the Civil War, journalist James B. Gould and printer Henry B. Stiles took over the publication of the two papers, the long-lived weekly Republican Farmer and the daily, then called the Evening Farmer and later, the Bridgeport Evening Famer. Stiles son-in-law, Floyd Tucker, eventually took over editorial responsibilities. Tucker maintained the newspaper’soutspoken Democratic tradition and engaged in bitter disputes with other publications while vigorously supporting particular candidates for office. Bridgeport Mayor Denis Mulvihill credited the Farmer with securing his re-election in 1903. During the Tucker era, the Bridgeport Evening Farmer continued to champion the cause of labor by advocating for better wages and shorter work hours. During the nationally significant strikes for the eight-hour work day in Bridgeport in1915, the Farmer supported the organization of women workers. During World War I, however, it urged the city’s militant machinists’ union to submit to government restrictions on work stoppages.Between 1917 and 1927, the newspaper underwent numerous titles changes. The Bridgeport Evening Farmer was renamed the Bridgeport Times and Evening Farmer in 1918, the Bridgeport Times in 1924, the Bridgeport Times, Bridgeport Evening Farmer in February 1925, and the Bridgeport Times, Evening Farmer in August 1925. TheTimesmerged on November 1, 1926, with the weekly Bridgeport Star to form the Bridgeport Times, the Bridgeport Star. The title was simplified to the Times-Star in 1927.The Tucker era was the last period inwhich the paper’s editorial policy was strictly partisan. In 1926, Sumner Simpson and Morton E. Judd formed a corporation with James L. McGovern, and newspaper executive Henry D. Bradley becameGeneral Manager. McGovern remained editor after the Times-Star merger in 1926, and many employees of theFarmer, theTimes, and the Star remained at the paper in some capacity. The Times-Star shed its allegiance, however, to its Jeffersonian, Democratic roots declaring itself an “independent newspaper” that would offer non-partisan reporting and adhere to “modern standards of journalism.” By November 1930, the Times-Star claimed a circulation of 22,000 and a readership of 100,000. At one time, it even outpaced the highly successful daily Bridgeport Post in circulation and advertising revenue. However, during the Depression years, the newspaper was unable to pay dividends to its shareholders, and so, after recalling its “continuous service to the community” for 151 years, theTimes-Star published its last issue on November 25, 1941 Record 10449:7243313:

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https://www.myheritage.fr/research/collection-10449/chronicling-ame... 4 3 DEC 1920 Norwich Bulletin Publication : Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA Date : 3 déc 1920 Texte : "...to the request, which was taken under advisement FUNERAL OF GASTON CHEVROLET IX INDIANAPOLIS Indianapolis, Ind.; Dec. 2. The fu neral oi uaston, Chevrolet, automobile racing driver, who was killed Thanks..." À propos de cette sourceIn 1910, the Norwich Bulletin advertised that it had the largest circulation of any paper in eastern Connecticut and that its readers could be found in “forty-nine towns, one hundred and sixty-five postal districts, and forty-one Rural Free Delivery District routes.” A subscription base of around 7,000, the editors claimed, meant that the Bulletin had nearly 40,000 readers a day. A Republican newspaper launched in 1895 during the Progressive Era, the Bulletin overtly courted its two most natural constituencies: the small towns, villages, and rural areas of the eastern part of Connecticut and adjacent Rhode Island, and the banking, industrial, and commercial movers and shakers based in the town of Norwich itself.The editor of the Norwich Bulletin summarized well the paper’s dual missions. First, the Bulletin would “spare no expense” in the effort to “cover its field” by maintaining 80 regular correspondents in the small centers of the eastern part of Connecticut. Second, the paper would “build and boom” the banking, commercial and industrial center of Norwich. Correspondents from the small towns sent in short reports on local events, social activities, and family news. The feature writer of “A Farmer Speaks to Farmers” commiserated with the beleaguered agriculturalists of the rural areas. At the same time, the Bulletin appears to have been the trusted aggregator of annual reports from the financial institutions, cotton and woolen mills, builders, and arms manufacturers whose owners formed the economic elite of Norwich and nurtured many of the important Republican politicians who operated in state and local government. Each January 1st issue also carried large photo spreads of industrial, institutional, and commercial buildings completed within the preceding calendar year. As Norwich was historically a center for New England trade, the Bulletin, in addition, published Atlantic maritime news. The Bulletin’s full Associated Press service was mentioned in the publisher’s statement in 1910 as a source of pride.The masthead featured a logo that traced thepaper’s lineage to 1791, when Ebenezer Bushnell founded the Weekly Register (1791-1795). A new owner, Thomas Hubbard, changed the name to the Chelsea Courier (1796-1798), and then over subsequent decades and changes of ownership, it appeared as the Courier (1798-1809), the Norwich Courier (1809-1845), the Norwich Weekly Courier (1845-1859), the Norwich Weekly Courier (1860-?), the Norwich Courier (?-1927), and other titles. In 1858, the Courier was purchased by a printing firm called Manning, Perry, and Company and these owners attempted to publish an evening paper, the Norwich Daily Courier (1858-1859). Soon Homer Bliss and Issac Bromley joined Manning’s firm. They decided that a morning paper would be more successful than an evening daily, and the Norwich Morning Bulletin (1858-1895) was born.In 1863, a group of prominent businessmen said to be led by the cotton manufacturer John F. Slater and the banker Lorenzo Blackstone formed the joint stock company known as the Bulletin Company. In 1895, the company renamed the morning paper and launched it as the Norwich Bulletin (1895-2011). Charles D. Noyes and William H. Oat purchased the Bulletin Company in 1898. Between the company’s founding and 1922, many important businessmen and Republican Party leaders were associated with it. These include Noyes, himself a leader of the state party organization, and Henry H. Gallup, a banker and manufacturer who served as Connecticut State Treasurer. The Norwich Bulletin was published until 2011 and a successor newspaper, the Bulletin, continues to this day Record 10449:48357:

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https://www.myheritage.fr/research/collection-10449/chronicling-ame... 4 26 NOV 1920 The Topeka State Journal Publication : Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, USA Date : 26 nov 1920 Texte : "...morning without regaining consciousness. .... i O'Donnell's death was the third , as a result of a crash between his machine and that of Gaston Chevrolet's in a 250 mile race here yesterday. Chevrolet and Lyall..." À propos de cette sourceThe Topeka [Kansas] State Journal is a continuation of the Topeka Blade, a paper founded by Clarke Swayze in August 1, 1873. George W. Reed bought the Blade in 1879 and changed its name to the Daily Kansas State Journal. Between 1879 and 1885, the paper underwent many changes in ownership, editors, and publishers. In 1881, Samuel N. Wood was editor and the State Journal Company the publisher. In 1882, Reed, Allen, and Co. became its publisher and later in 1883 its owner. The following year, the State Journal Company took over the paper and changed its nameto the Topeka State Journal. In April 1885, the Journal went into the hands of a receiver, but in June, it passed back to the State Journal Company. Finally, in 1885, Frank P. MacLennan purchased theJournal; he published and edited the paper until 1940 when it was bought by Oscar S. Stauffer. Frank MacLennan had worked for many years near newspapers. As a boy he folded papers and was a carrier for the Springfield Advertiser in Missouri. He then worked at nearly every department at the Emporia Daily News. When MacLennan saw that the Topeka State Journal was up for auction, he went to Topeka and won the rights. MacLennan was not initially pleased with his purchase and tried to sell the paper a year after he bought it. However, he was not able to get the price he wanted, so MacLennan kept the Journal and made vast improvements to its offices and equipment. The Topeka State Journal was a daily and weekly newspaper, putting out editions every day except Sunday and weekly editions every Thursday. The first weekly editions were established with the Blade in 1874, a year after the paper was established. The daily editions were eight while the weekly editions were 12 or 16 pages. The Topeka State Journal was the Official State Paper and the Official Paper of the City of Topeka. The Journal is listed as being “Independent Republican,” views supported by MacLennan’s editorials and actions. Fearless and outspoken, MacLennan was a staunch supporter of Theodore Roosevelt in 1912, then the candidate of the Progressive Party--at a time when most Republicans had returnedto their traditional rate on deposits for all public funds instead of just for the school board fund. Nine banks and two trust companies united against MacLennan and the Journal, in an effort to discredit them and to deny the city and county what MacLennan considered a just rate for separate funds. MacLennan’s response was not to retract his position, but to rent a banking house and start the Kansas Reserve State Bank Record 10449:578617:

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https://www.myheritage.fr/research/collection-10449/chronicling-ame... 4 4 DEC 1920 The Concordia Sentinel Publication : Ferriday, Concordia, Louisiana, USA Date : 4 déc 1920 Texte : "...down. He died while being tak*e en to a hospital. 3 GASTON CHEVROLET KILLED r- Death Rides at Wheel In Noted Auto tt Race at Los Angeles Thanks10 giving Day. ii- - 's Los Angeles.-Gaston Chevrolet, Ln famous..." À propos de cette sourceThe Concordia Sentinel was founded in 1882 in Vidalia, Louisiana, the seat of Concordia Parish in rural northeast Louisiana. Located in the agriculturallyrich bottomlands of the Mississippi River, the parish was closely tied to the cotton-based economy of nearby Natchez, Mississippi, during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Its population at that time was more than three-fourths African American. Published weekly in eight pages, the Concordia Sentinel was the official journal of Concordia Parish. It reported a mix of local, national, and international news. Local reporting covered the advent of Prohibition in Louisiana, the establishment of farmers’ cooperative unions, activities of the Concordia Progressive League and district levee board, the social and economic effects of the boll weevil blight on the region, and the north Louisiana oil boom. News from the nation’s capital was highlighted in a “Washington Sidelights” column. Other columns featured short essays on miscellaneous social issues. Fiction, including condensed classics, was printed for readers of all ages, while a fashion column appealed to women. The Concordia Sentinel’s founder was Josiah L. Rountree, patriarch of a family of north Louisiana newspaper publishers. Upon returning from World War I, Rountree’s son Percy Rountree, Sr.,took over as manager and editor. In 1966, Percy Rountree, Jr., sold the paper to Sam Hanna, a well-known local journalist, who moved its operations from Vidalia to the neighboring town of Ferriday. It is still in publication as of 2010 Record 10449:7038528:

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https://www.myheritage.fr/research/collection-10449/chronicling-ame... 4 2 DEC 1920 The Era-Leader Publication : Franklinton, Washington, Louisiana, USA Date : 2 déc 1920 Texte : "...heard on treaty man.dates before they go into effect. Gaston Chevrolet, fatuous auto racing driver, and Lyall Jones, i mechanician, were killed in a crash on the Los Angeles speedway. Ainnouncement was..." À propos de cette sourceIn 1910, the Era-Leader of Franklinton, Louisiana, was formed by the merger of the Washington Leader and the New Era (the first newspaper in the parish, founded in1887 as the Franklinton New Era). The Era-Leader’s editor was J. Valentine “Vol” Brock (1873-1954), a native of Mississippi who, with Prentiss B. Carter, had edited the short-lived Washington Progress around 1900. Prior to World War I, Brock reported almost entirely local news. In addition to news from Franklinton (the seat of Washington Parish, an agricultural and timber-producing parish in southeastern Louisiana), the four-page weekly carried regular reports from nearby towns, including Bogalusa, the largest town in the parish and the operations center of one of its largest employers, the Great Southern Lumber Company. Farm and forestry news was combined with personal notices, biographies of political candidates, announcements of public sales, and proceedings of the local school board, court, and police jury (the governing body of the parish). In 1912, Brock, a lawyer, was elected district attorney for Washington and St. Tammany Parishes and turned over the editorship of the Era-Leader to his wife, Henrietta “Henri” McClendon Brock (1873-1948), who edited the paper for the next twenty-five years. A graduate of Whitworth College in Brookhaven, Mississippi, Mrs. Brock was an educational leader in Washington Parish for many years. In 1916, she was elected the first woman president of the Louisiana Press Association, an honor recognized by one journal as “a milestone in the progress of women in the State.” The Era-Leader is a rich source of information on the impact of World War I on southeastern Louisiana and southern Mississippi. Many articles trace the war’s impact on local agriculture and forestry. Also of interest are articles on military enlistment (including enlistment of African American troops), rationing, efforts to reduce waste, and a series of six “war talks” by “Uncle Dan” (Howard H. Gross of the Universal Military Training League). Reporting on the Red Cross was in depth and continued after the war, focusing on its campaign to eradicate tuberculosis. The Franklinton Era-Leader was the official journal of Washington Parish, a role it continues to fill in 2010 Record 10449:7118569:

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https://www.myheritage.fr/research/collection-10449/chronicling-ame... 4 4 DEC 1920 The Rice Belt Journal Publication : Welsh, Calcasieu, Louisiana, USA Date : 4 déc 1920 Texte : "...Certificates of accidental death were issued by the coroner Friday in the cases of Gaston Chevrolet and Eddie O'Donnell, automobile race drivers, and Lyall Jolls, mechanician. killed in Thursday's 250mile..." À propos de cette sourceIncorporated in 1888, the community of Welsh was named after Henry Welsh, a prominent local businessman who offered the Southern Pacific Railroad a right- of-waythrough his land, ensuring rail service to the town. By 1917, Welsh’s population had grown to about 1,250, due in large part to an influx of Midwestern farm families whom promoters of Louisiana’s rice industry, seeking experienced grain farmers, had recruited. Welsh and the surrounding area was also home to many French-speaking Cajuns who worked primarily in the cattle trade or on small farms. The Welsh Rice Belt Journal was founded in 1900. Billed as “An American Newspaper, Devoted to the Interest of Southwest Louisiana,” it was nonpartisan and focused chiefly on agriculture. It also reported on land sales, the Louisiana oil boom, municipal improvements, the Good Roads Movement, the activities of temperance clubs and anti-gambling leagues, and the work of local Red Cross chapters during World War I. In addition to a “local and personal” section, the Journal carried regular news briefs from the neighboring towns of Iowa, Roanoke, Jennings, Crowley, Lake Arthur, and Lake Charles. Also of interest are ordinances and proceedings of the Welsh town council, reports of the parish school board, and minutes of the police jury, the governing body of the parish. In 1912, the Rice Belt Journal became the official newspaper of Jefferson Davis Parish, one of three new parishes carved out of Calcasieu Parish. Published as an eight-page weekly for most of the period 1900 to 1921, it appeared briefly as a four-page biweekly paper in 1914 and 1918. J. R. Rountree edited the Journal from 1900 to 1902. In 1902, James T. Walker (b. ca. 1858) and Gordon Crank (1876-1945), publisher and editor of the Elsberry (MO) Democrat, purchased the paper. Crank served as its editor until returning to Missouri in 1906. He was succeeded by Dwight Ripley Read (1873-1948), a graduate of the University of Kansas, who later went on to edit the Milton (FL) Santa Rosa Star, an agricultural newspaper. The lawyer John T. Hood (1875-1956) served as editor of the Journal from 1913 to 1915, followed by R. S. Greer, a one-time mayor of Welsh, from 1915 to 1918. R. W. Howard (b. ca. 1881), a native of Minnesota, began editing the paper in 1918. Publication ended in late 1948 or 1949; by 1950, theWelsh Citizen had become the official town paper Record 10449:7147507:

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https://www.myheritage.fr/research/collection-10449/chronicling-ame... 4 9 DEC 1920 Mexico Weekly Ledger Publication : Mexico, Audrain, Missouri, USA Date : 9 déc 1920 Texte : "...racing has again claimed ' 'its toll of death. Gaston Chevrolet, famous racing driver, and Lynll Mis, mechanician for Eddie. O'Connell, were killed Thursday when Chevrolet's and O'Donnell's machines crashed..." À propos de cette sourceJohn B. Williams established the first newspaper in Audrain County, Missouri, in 1855, calling it the Weekly Ledger and publishing out of the town of Mexico. A newspaperman from nearby Fulton, Williams had ties to many prominent journalists in central Missouri and enjoyed considerable success in the newspaper industry. After just two years in Mexico, Williams decided to return to Fulton and sell the Weekly Ledger to Dr. William D. H. Hunter. Hunter’s editorship of the newspaper was slightly longer than Williams’, but came to an abrupt end in 1862, when a fire destroyed the Ledger’s printing offices. The Civil War also contributed to a lapse in publication. For the next three years, it looked as though the Ledger was to be a short entry in the history of Audrain County’s press. In October 1865, the Weekly Ledger reappeared under the name North Missouri Messenger, with William W. Davenport as editor and proprietor. Davenport quickly sold the paper to Milton F. Simmons and went on to publish the St. Charles Cosmos from 1869 until 1872. Simmons changed the name of the paper to the Missouri Messenger and published it under that title until September 1874, when he sold the Messenger to J. Linn Ladd. Under Ladd, the paper’s politics changed from Republican to Democratic and the Missouri Messenger was rechristened the Mexico Weekly Ledger, to connect it to John B. Williams’ earlier newspaper of that name. Having trouble raising subscription levels, Ladd sold the Mexico Ledger to Robert Morgan White. In his last editorial, Ladd admonished Mexico for its lack of support and pleaded with the town’s residents to help make new management succeed. Either his entreaty worked, or the new owner simply refused to consider failure as an option, for Robert Morgan White and his son, Leander Mitchell White, would oversee the Mexico Ledger for the next 60 years.White was not just the owner and editor of the Mexico Ledger; he took an active interest in all aspects of the business, acting as reporter, solicitor, bookkeeper, and business manager of both the weekly and, beginning in 1886, the daily edition (known as Mexico Evening Ledger). The Whites turned the Mexico Ledger into one of the most successful newspapers in central and northern Missouri. Known for its extensive local reporting, the eight-page Thursday paper “cover[ed] the news as the dew does Dixie.” Famous for his energy and intensity, Robert White became one of the best-known editors of country newspapers in Missouri. White had purchased the Ledger immediately after graduating from college in 1876 and he managed it until his death in 1934. White also served as President of the Missouri Press Association, Secretary for theNational Editorial Association, and Vice-President of the Western Federation of Editors. While he never sought public office, White was active in many statewide civic and educational societies, including a stint as President of The State Historical Society of Missouri from 1914 to 1916. All the while, White continued to publish the weekly and daily editions of his newspaper. His son, Leander, wasalso instrumental to the success of the Mexico Ledger. Following in the footsteps of his father, Leander White served on statewide boards and committees and succeeded in the ownership and editorship of the Mexico Ledger after his father’s death. Leander White spent his entire career running the Ledger, which is still published as a daily edition today Record 10449:9707075:

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https://www.myheritage.fr/research/collection-10449/chronicling-ame... 4 27 NOV 1920 The Lake County Times Publication : Hammond, Lake, Indiana, USA Date : 27 nov 1920 Texte : "...racing driver Injured Thurs dayat Beverly Hills speedway, died yesterday without regaining consciousness. ' The body of Gaston Chevrolet, who died In the crash In which O'Donnell was Injured, will be taken..." Record 10449:14316627:

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https://www.myheritage.fr/research/collection-10449/chronicling-ame... 4 26 NOV 1920 Richmond Daily Register Publication : Richmond, Madison, Kentucky, USA Date : 26 nov 1920 Texte : "...KILLED IN AUTO RACE SMASH (By Ajsecf&ted Press Speedway, Los Angeles, Nov. 26. Gaston Chevrolet, famous racing driver, and Lyall Jolls, mechanician for Eddie O'Donnell, were killed today when Chevrolet...automobile racing driver, died today without regaining consciousness. O'Donnell's car crashed into the one driven by Gaston Chevrolet near the end of the race. Chevrolet was killed as was Lyall Jolls, mechanician..." À propos de cette sourceThe ravages of the Civil War left Richmond, Kentucky, without a newspaper as early as 1862. Several startups failed in short order during the war, but in 1866, B.H. Brown launched the successful Kentucky Register. Starting with only a few drawers of type and a used hand crank press, the paper was touting “the finest editorial and library rooms in the state” by 1880. Brown sold half interest in the Democratic paper to Judge William C. Miller in 1868. Three years later, Brown sold his remaining interest in the Kentucky Register to Francis Marion Green, a Richmond lawyer who never married or held political office of any kind. Within a year, Miller retired, leaving Green as the sole proprietor. He would remain so until his death in1895, though he had at least one notable editor during his tenure. The infamous Madison County newspaperman, French Tipton, who was later shot and killed by a rival journalist, took the editorial reins in 1875 until he left the paper in 1887. Green was succeeded by civil engineer Capt. Samual F. Rock who began to publish both the weekly Register and a semiweekly edition known as the Semi- weekly Register. Rock is said to have also owned the Valley View Argent, the Ford Index, and the Irvine Leader, making him one of the biggest publishers in the state at that time. The Semi-Weekly Register ceased publication soon after 1900. In 1907, Rock sold the weekly to Thomas H. Pickels, who maintained the Kentucky Register until 1917 when it was sold to Grant E. Lilly. Lilly was a notable lawyer, and both he and his wife, Anna Dudley McGinn, were active civic leaders in Madison County. On New Year’s Day in 1913, Lilly launched his first newspaper, the Madisonian, in Richmond. The Democratic weekly carried no advertisements on the first two pages and only a select few on subsequent pages. “A busy man is entitled to read the news without having to search for it among flaming advertisements,” Lilly declared. The first page of the Madisonian was reserved for national and the second for general state news. A single page was devoted to local news and social events, along withmaterial for women, children, and farmers, religious and temperance facts, general literature with “good short stories,” and “as many other pages as necessary to carry out the general plan.” The Madisonian was the culmination of Lilly’s 20-year dream to become a newspaperman. Lilly had initially hesitated in pursuing this course because of his strong friendships withother publishers. However, those friendships didn’t prevent expansion of his publishing empire once the Madisonian began. By October 1914, Lilly had bought a Democratic competitor, the RichmondClimax , and merged the two papers into the Climax-Madisonian. The latter followed the timbre of the Climax, being less rigid in contextual appointment than the Madisonian, with multiple advertisements on all pages. Within a year, the Climax-Madisonian claimed a larger circulation in Madison County than all its competitors combined. Around 1917, the Climax-Madisonian was renamed the Richmond Climax. As mentioned above, Lilly acquired the Kentucky Register in 1917, reportedly as a gift for his wife who wished to try her hand at the editorial profession. However, Grant E. Lilly’s career as a publisher was short lived. In only a few months, central Kentucky newspaperman Shelton M. Saufley bought both the Kentucky Register and the Richmond Climax and merged them into the Richmond Daily Register on December 1, 1917. The following year, the Lilly’s moved to Lexington in Fayette County, bringing to a close their involvement with newspapers. The Richmond Daily Register remained inoperation until 1978 when it was sold to the Richmond Publishing Corporation and became the Richmond Register, which is still published today (see http://richmondregister.com/)&lt;/p&gt; Record 10449:2830953:

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https://www.myheritage.fr/research/collection-10449/chronicling-ame... 4 26 NOV 1920 The Bridgeport Times and Evening Farmer Publication : Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA Date : 26 nov 1920 Texte : "...Nov. 26. Roscoe Sarles won the 250-mile automobile rase here a race which resulted in the death of Gaston Chevrolet and the serious injury of Eddie O'Donnell. Sarles drove the full distance without a stop..." À propos de cette sourceThe daily Bridgeport Evening Farmer, the Bridgeport Times and Evening Farmer, and the weekly Republican Farmer trace their roots to the publishing world of 18th-century Connecticut. This family of newspapers began in March 1790 in Danbury as the Farmers Journal and went through a number of name changes during the last decade of the century,becoming the Farmers Chronicle in 1793 and the Republican Journal in 1796. From 1800 through January of 1803, and then again after September 1803, it was called the Farmers Journal. For a few months from February to May or June 1803, under the leadership of a dynamic and determined editor named Stiles Nicholas, it was called the Farmer’s Journal and Columbian Ark.Although Connecticut was a Federalist stronghold, the Journal-Ark, whose slogan was “Be just and fear not,” maintained staunchly Democratic political sentiments. In 1807, Nicholas was fined and jailed while defending the Democratic editor of another publication against libel. Nicholas still managed to write and print a pamphlet from jail, thus ensuring that the publication of the newspaper was not interrupted. In 1810, Nicholas moved his paper, now called the Republican Farmer, to the growing town of Bridgeport. Initially, the Farmer’s four pages were filled mostly with advertisements and national and international items drawn from other newspapers, usually about a month behind in date. In later years, the paper expanded to eight pages, and modern technologies such as the telegraph, telephone, and ocean cables improved the immediacy and availability of the news.In 1837, Stiles Nicholas’s son, Roswell, took over editorship and in 1840 complete management of the Republican Farmer. Reports say that his successor, William S. Pomeroy, began the Daily Farmer in 1854, but the earliest daily that still exists is the Daily Advertiser and Farmer, a title that began on September 8, 1856. Pomeroypartnered with a Yale-educated southerner named Nathan Stephen Morse who was highly critical of Lincoln, expressed anti- abolitionist views, and proposed peace with the South in his editorials both prior to and during the Civil War. On August 24, 1861, a pro-union mob led by soldiers attacked the Farmer’s offices, smashing and throwing presses into the streets and ransacking and burning files and materials. By some accounts, Morse escaped by climbing over the rooftops of adjacent buildings and then by hiding in a canal boat. He returned to the South, and Pomeroy was eventually able to resume publication of the paper.After the Civil War, journalist James B. Gould and printer Henry B. Stiles took over the publication of the two papers, the long-lived weekly Republican Farmer and the daily, then called the Evening Farmer and later, the Bridgeport Evening Famer. Stiles son-in-law, Floyd Tucker, eventually took over editorial responsibilities. Tucker maintained the newspaper’soutspoken Democratic tradition and engaged in bitter disputes with other publications while vigorously supporting particular candidates for office. Bridgeport Mayor Denis Mulvihill credited the Farmer with securing his re-election in 1903. During the Tucker era, the Bridgeport Evening Farmer continued to champion the cause of labor by advocating for better wages and shorter work hours. During the nationally significant strikes for the eight-hour work day in Bridgeport in1915, the Farmer supported the organization of women workers. During World War I, however, it urged the city’s militant machinists’ union to submit to government restrictions on work stoppages.Between 1917 and 1927, the newspaper underwent numerous titles changes. The Bridgeport Evening Farmer was renamed the Bridgeport Times and Evening Farmer in 1918, the Bridgeport Times in 1924, the Bridgeport Times, Bridgeport Evening Farmer in February 1925, and the Bridgeport Times, Evening Farmer in August 1925. TheTimes merged on November 1, 1926, with the weekly Bridgeport Star to form the Bridgeport Times, the Bridgeport Star. The title was simplified to the Times-Star in 1927.The Tucker era was the last periodin which the paper’s editorial policy was strictly partisan. In 1926, Sumner Simpson and Morton E. Judd formed a corporation with James L. McGovern, and newspaper executive Henry D. Bradley became General Manager. McGovern remained editor after the Times-Star merger in 1926, and many employees of theFarmer, theTimes, and the Star remained at the paper in some capacity. The Times-Star shed its allegiance, however, to its Jeffersonian, Democratic roots declaring itself an “independent newspaper” that would offer non-partisan reporting and adhere to “modern standards of journalism.” By November 1930, the Times-Star claimed a circulation of 22,000 and a readership of 100,000. At one time, it even outpaced the highly successful daily Bridgeport Post in circulationand advertising revenue. However, during the Depression years, the newspaper was unable to pay dividends to its shareholders, and so, after recalling its “continuous service to the community” for 151 years, theTimes-Star published its last issue on November 25, 1941 Record 10449:7243318:

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https://www.myheritage.fr/research/collection-10449/chronicling-ame... 4 26 NOV 1920 The Butte Daily Bulletin Publication : Butte, Silver Bow, Montana, USA Date : 26 nov 1920 Texte : "... in the 250-mile speedway race at Beverly Hills yesterday, when Gaston Chevrolet and Lyallas Jells, O'Donnell's mechanician, were killed. O'Donnoll sustained a fractured skull and both arms broken in a..." À propos de cette sourceThe emergence of the Butte Daily Bulletin can be linked to the turbulent events in Butte during the summer and autumn of 1917: the Speculator Mine fire killing 168 miners; the organizing activities of the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) throughout the Pacific Northwest and the brutal murder of IWW organizer Frank Little in Butte; and the formation of the Montana Council of Defense, which was organized to rout out individuals guilty of sedition and espionage and which supported by the Anaconda Company as part of its “captive press” to silence labor unions and those opposed to participation in World War I. In December 1917, the Butte Daily Bulletin hit the streets as a reaction to these developments.A group of progressive politicians, including Burton K. Wheeler (U.S. Attorney in Butte and future U.S. Senator from Montana) and James A. Murray (independent mine owner and uncle of James E. Murray, future U.S. Senator from Montana) joined forces with William F. Dunne, an electrical worker and union militant and R. Bruce Smith, president of the Butte Typographical Union, to publish the eight-page, seven-column weekly newspaper that grew out of the Strike Bulletin, published irregularly beginning in June 1917. The newspaper became a daily in August 1918. The motto of the Bulletin appeared in bold letters on the masthead:During the 1918election campaign, the Silver Bow County Council of Defense used newsprint shortages declared by the U.S. War Industries Board to challenge the Bulletin’s effort to become a daily newspaper, and on August 12 the Montana Council of Defense issued a ban on new dailies. The Bulletin’s editor, William F. Dunne, responded with an editorial attacking the Council of Defense for “their star-chambered sessions and putrid tactics” and wrote that the members “have grown lean and gray, or fat and bald in the service of big business.” The Bulletin defied the Council’s order and continued to publish. On September 13, at the behest of the Council, Major Omar Bradley and his soldiers raided the Bulletin’s office, and two days later Dunne and manager Smith were arrested on sedition charges. Though they were convicted in Helena District Court, the Montana Supreme Court overturned Dunne and Smith’s convictions in May 1920. Serving as the official organ of the Montana State Federation of Labor, the National Trades Council of Butte, the Silver Bow Trades and Labor Assembly, and the State Metal Trades Council, the Bulletin struggled on, like the Butte miners’ union, until May 31, 1921, when it ceased publication.“We Preach the Class Struggle in the Interests of the Workers as a Class.” The Butte Daily Bulletin reported on local, regional, national, and international labor news (including the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia), as well as covering sports and including classified ads. The newspaper threw its support behind the Non-Partisan ticket in Montana elections in 1918. The Bulletin condemned the high cost of living in Butte and local political corruption. Governor Sam Stewart once proclaimed: “I defy anyone to produce a more radical or revolutionary sheet in the United States…Why it is allowed to circulate through the mails is more than I can understand.” Record 10449:8103415:

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https://www.myheritage.fr/research/collection-10449/chronicling-ame... 4 26 NOV 1920 Grand Forks Herald Publication : Grand Forks, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA Date : 26 nov 1920 Texte : "...affiTELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS Speedway, I^Os Angeles.—Gaston Chevrolet, fatnous racing driver and Lyall Jolls, mechanician for Eddie, O'Donneli were killed when Chevrolet's "and O'Donnell's maChines crashed together..." Record 10449:8984353:

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https://www.myheritage.fr/research/collection-10449/chronicling-ame... 4 26 NOV 1920 Great Falls Daily Tribune Publication : Great Falls, Cascade, Montana, USA Date : 26 nov 1920 Texte : "...is what happening inIreland today." This aroused cheera from the Liberals and labor members. Gaston Chevrolet Victim of Speedway Accident, One Mechanic Is Dead and Eddiè O'Donnell, Another Driver, May Not...was announced he had little chance for recovery. John Bresnahan, Chevrolet's mechanician, esLos Angeles, Nov. 25.—Gaston Chevrolet was killed Thursday near the end of the 250-mile automobile race at the Los..." À propos de cette sourceThe first issue of the Great Falls Tribune appeared on May 14, 1885. It was edited by newspaperman, Will Hanks, who began his career in Sun River, Montana. In this issue, Hanks hailed Montana as "the paradise of sportsmen and stock growers," as well as recognizing the Missouri River, which flowed through Great Falls, as a potential source of power. In a real estate ad, Hanks described the "falls of the Missouri" as the "greatest available water on the Continent." The four-page, seven-column weekly newspaper also lauded the area's mineral potential and specifically the Sand Coulee coal deposits.The city of Great Falls emerged with the arrival of Jim Hill's Great Northern Railroad in 1887 and following promotion by the city's founder, Paris Gibson, a St. Paul businessman and sheepman. Real estate agents advertised in the fledgling weekly that Great Falls would soon be the "manufacturing metropolis" of Montana. One year later, Great Falls boasted its first silver smelter, the Montana Smelting Company, and by 1891 it had its first copper smelter at the Boston and Montana Company, located adjacent to the first hydroelectric dam on the Missouri at Black Eagle Falls.On May 16, 1887, the Great Falls Tribune published its first daily edition in the same building that printed the weekly. The Tribune remained a Democratic voicethroughout, supporting Joseph K. Toole for governor and Martin Maginnis for Congress. The newspaper, like the city's founder, Paris Gibson, supported the opening of 18 million acres of Indian land tohomesteading, while printing racist tirades against Native populations in Montana. During its first year of operation, the Tribune ran the following headline and story on its front page: "Lo the PoorIndian - Stories That Give Insight into the Character of the Red Man - The Indian is progressive. He is fast becoming civilized. An Indian shot and killed his squaw and then blew his own brains out."What the story does not explain is the deplorable state of the reservation Indian whose source of livelihood, the buffalo, had been exterminated during the previous decade, and his land taken by the railroads and white homesteaders with the help of Congress. In 1889, the year of Montana statehood, the paper reported the great progress made by reservation Indians "who had given up horse stealing and the medicine lodge for domestic agriculture." Of course, the Tribune was not alone in its depiction of Montana Natives.In 1895, William Bole and Oliver S. Warden, both New England transplants, purchased the Tribune and quickly established the newspaper as a voice independent of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, which dominated Montana politics and the newspaper industry well into the 20th century Record 10449:8373550:

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2 JUL 2019 14:19:51 GMT -0500 Journaux Australiens MyHeritage Les journaux sont de fantastiques sources de renseignements généalogiques et d'histoires de famille. Les annonces de naissance, de mariage, de décès et de nécrologies sont couramment utilisées pour la généalogie. Cependant, les ancêtres peuvent également être mentionnés dans les articles rapportant des nouvelles et des événements locaux (c.-à-sociaux, communautaire, scolaire, sport,affaires ou des événements associés). Collection 10450

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https://www.myheritage.fr/research/collection-10450/journaux-austra... 4 5 DEC 1920 Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW) Publication : 5 déc 1920 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Texte : "...to hand that two more well-known drivers have been killed whilst engaged racing on the Los Angeles speedway. The ill-fated men were Gaston Chevrolet and E. O'Donnell. The former was one of the most pro..." À propos de cette sourceDescription: 1 online resource : illustrations Notes: Title from title screen. Digitised as part of the "Digitised newspapers and more" which allows access to historic Australian periodicals. Alsoavailable in print and on microfilm. Life Dates: No. 442 (January 6, 1895)-no. 2389 (June 1, 1930) Place: Australia New South Wales Sydney. Record 10450:1056247:

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https://www.myheritage.fr/research/collection-10450/journaux-austra... 4 3 DEC 1920 Richmond River Herald And Northern Districts Advertiser (NSW) Publication : 3 déc 1920 - Coraki, New South Wales, Australia Texte : "...be fore an immense crowct. Two of the best known motor racers wore instantly killed- — Ed-lie O'Donnell and Gaston Chevrolet, after whom the popular auto mobile is named. O'Donnell 's car stiiielc the..." À propos de cette sourceDescription: 1 online resource : illustrations Notes: Title from title screen. Digitised as part of the "Digitised newspapers and more" which allows access to historic Australian periodicals. Frequency varies. Also available in print and on microfilm. Life Dates: Vol. 1, no. 1 (July 9, 1886) - June 26th , 1942. Also Titled: Richmond River herald Place: Australia New South Wales Coraki Record 10450:27012944:

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https://www.myheritage.fr/research/collection-10450/journaux-austra... 4 27 NOV 1920 Northern Star (Lismore, NSW) Publication : 27 nov 1920 - Lismore, New South Wales, Australia Texte : "...Angeles. Before an immense crowd two of the best known racers were instantly killed. They were Eddie O'Donuell ami Gaston Chevrolet, after whom the popular automobile is named. O'Don donuell's car struck a..." À propos de cette sourcePublisher: Lismore, N.S.W. : Northern Star Ltd., 1876- Description: v. ; 57 cm. Notes: Description based on: Vol. 60 (May 20, 1936) Contains supplements with varying titles, including: Homefront,and TV & Entertainment. Saturday issue title varies slightly: Weekend star. Souvenir liftout (31 May 2006) to celebrate the Star's 130th birthday entitled: '130 years of news' Also available on microfilm. Balgowlah, NSW.: W. & F. Pascoe Pty. Ltd. Life Dates: Vol. 1, no. 1 (May 13, 1876)- Also Titled: Northern star and Richmond and Tweed advocate Weekend Northern star Weekend star Place: Australia New South Wales Lismore Record 10450:24319239:

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https://www.myheritage.fr/research/collection-10450/journaux-austra... 4 3 DEC 1920 The Telegraph (Brisbane, QLD) Publication : 3 déc 1920 - Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Texte : "...hand that two more well known d titers hate boon killed, whilst engaged racing on the Los Angeles -speedway. The Ill-fated men "were Gaston Chevrolet and E. O'Donnull The former was ono of tho most..." Record 10450:56721271:

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https://www.myheritage.fr/research/collection-10450/journaux-austra... 4 3 DEC 1920 The Telegraph (Brisbane, QLD) Publication : 3 déc 1920 - Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Texte : "...to hand that two moro well known drivers have been killed, whilst engaged racing .on the Los Angeles speedway. Tho Ill-fated men were Gaston Chevrolet and E. O'Donncll The former was one of tho most prominent..." Record 10450:56721261:

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Gaston L Chevrolet's Timeline

1892	October 4, 1892	Birth of Gaston L Chevrolet Côte-d'Or, Burgundy, France
1902	May 23, 1902 Age 9	immigrated on 5/23/1902 New York, New York, United States
1910	1910 Age 17	counted in census on 1910 Brooklyn Ward 9, Kings, New York, United States
1918	1918 Age 25	resided on c. 1918 Union County, New Jersey, United States
1920	November 25, 1920 Age 28	Death of Gaston L Chevrolet Beverly Hills, CA, United States
	November 1920 Age 28	Burial of Gaston L Chevrolet Holy Cross and St Joseph Cemetery, Indianapolis, IN, United States
????		emigrated Le Havre
????		Gaston L Chevrolet worked as Mechaniker, Rennfahrer

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