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Hellraisers Journal – Monday January 19, 1914
Calumet, Michigan – Annie Clemenc Seriously Ill at Her Mother’s Home
From the Dayton Daily News of January 18, 1914:
Saturday January 19, 1914 – Calumet, Michigan
–Annie Clemenc, Seriously Ill, Cared for at Her Mother’s Home
We are left to wonder how much of a role the Italian Hall Massacre plays in her illness. Annie, as President of the Calumet Women’s Auxiliary (W. F. of M.), was the driving force behind organizing the Christmas Party for the strikers’ children. The evening began with so much joy, but then ended with Annie holding a dead child in her arms, and attempting hopelessly to revive the little one.
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Quote Poem Ellis B Harris re Annie Clemenc n Women of Calumet
Miners Magazine p14, Nov 27, 1913
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112043506416&view=1up&seq=454
Dayton Daily News
(Dayton, Ohio)
-Jan 18, 1914
https://www.newspapers.com/image/397906217/
-Lyndon Comstock
Lyndon Comstock, Jun 12, 2013
(search: ill mother’s house) p113
https://books.google.com/books?id=0-FGAgAAQBAJ
Note: Comstock mentions a 10-day jail sentence reportedly served by Annie during January 1914. I find no mention of Annie in jail, not from Calumet News, nor from the Miners Bulletin. Annie in jail for 10-days would have been big news.
https://books.google.com/books?newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&id=0-FGAgAAQBAJ&dq=annie+clemenc+jail+sentence&q=jail+ten+days#v=snippet&q=jail%20ten%20days&f=false
WE NEVER FORGET: Big Annie Clemenc, Heroine
of Michigan’s Copper Country, and Christmas Eve, 1913, Italian Hall Tragedy
Conditions in Copper Mines of Michigan
Hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on mines and mining, House of Representatives, Sixty-third Congress, Second session pursuant to H. Res. 387.
(Feb 9-Mar 23, 1914)
Volumes I-VI
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011597245
Search: annie clements. Note no mention of 10-day jail sentence.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt/search?id=uc1.aa0016263089&q1=clements&sz=25&start=1&sort=seq&hl=true&page=search&seq=1&orient=0
https://books.google.com/books?id=JlROAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22people+v+annie+clements%22&q=clements#v=snippet&q=clements&f=false
Pearson’s Magazine, Volume 31
(New York, New York)
Pearson Publishing Company, 1914
https://books.google.com/books?id=0ZQkAQAAIAAJ
–p437: from April 1914 Edition
(search: calumet russell)
“The Associated Press and Calumet”
-by Charles Edward Russell
—p443-444: re Annie Clemenc ill. Note: no mention of 10-day jail sentence.
(search: january nervous collapse)
…..The attacks made upon her never seemed to daunt her spirit, but the broke her physical strength. Early in January she suffered a nervous collapse, and the last time I saw her, on January 10, she lay in her mother’s house, unconscious part of the time and part of the time shaken with nervous convulsions…..
The Outlook, Volume 106
(New York, New York)
Outlook Company, 1914
https://books.google.com/books?id=qbsRAAAAYAAJ
(search: inis weed) p247-250, + 251 (after photos)
-Jan 31, 1914, Edition
“The Reasons Why the Copper Miners Struck”
-by Inis Weed
-p250 re “Big Annie” –Note: no mention of 10-day jail sentence.
https://archive.org/details/sim_new-outlook_1914-01-31_106_5/page/246/mode/2up?view=theater
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044009730482&seq=322&q1=big+annie&start=1&view=2up
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