100 Years Ago: 1923 Warren G. Harding, president of the United States, died instantaneously and without warning tonight at 7:30 o’clock, a victim of a stroke of apoplexy, which took him down in his weakened condition after an illness of exactly a week. The chief executive of the nation and by virtue of his office […]
Read more about Nov. 9, 1997, in the SunJournal.com archives. 100 Years Ago: 1922 (From an excerpt from a war veterans letter) Four years ago when the news was flashed to us that the Armistice had been signed everyone turned out of bed and into the chilly streets with the utmost haste. Heats were glad […]
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100 Years Ago: 1921
Enrico Caruso died today. The great singer, whose ultimate recovery had been hoped for under the benign influences of his own Italy passed away at nine o’clock this morning at the Hotel Vesuvius. He had been brought here hurriedly from Sorrento, on the Bay of Naples, where less than a week ago he avowed his returning strength and expressed’ the conviction that he would sing again as in the old days. He had been able to visit the famous Sanctuary of Our Lady of Pompei, giving thanks offering for his recovery. He also went to the wonderful Island of Capri when he attended a luncheon, in his honor, but afterwards unfavorable symptoms in the form of a high fever manifested themselves, and his wife telegraphed to a Rome specialist to come to Sorrento. It was then discovered that a new internal abscess had developed.