Record
The Day Book (Chicago, Ill.)
1912-08-07
Page Page 11
The Day Book (Chicago), 7 August 1912, page 11: a fire and a Black Hand letter
COULDN'T FIND ALARM
- Paper
- The Day Book (Chicago, Ill.)
- Date
- 1912-08-07
- Page
- Page 11
- Headline
- COULDN'T FIND ALARM
- Rights
- A United States newspaper published in 1930 or earlier. Public domain in the United States. The Library of Congress serves the page from Chronicling America.
Page 11 of the Day Book, Wednesday, 7 August 1912. The story reports a $35,000 fire that gutted two buildings on Chicago’s West Side. The owner said he had received a Black Hand letter that morning and thought the fire might be the Black Hand’s work, and the paper says the fire attorney would investigate.
The Black Hand reference is the owner’s statement. The paper does not say it was borne out, and nothing filed here does. The item is filed as an example of the label being attached to an unexplained fire. The page prints street addresses of the buildings and the owner’s home, which are not reproduced here.
No scan of this page is stored: the Library of Congress image service was unavailable when the page was filed.