How the Packers Kill Hogs and Workers

I just found this article quoting John Curtis Kennedy just before he testified before the U.S. indsturial relations commision in 1915.  It doesn't take a literary critic to classify this as "sensational journalism".  It is definitely a more passionate report than others I have seen.  Read the full story here:

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045487/1915-04-15/ed-2/seq-1/

100th Wedding Anniversary Today!

Today is the 100th Anniversary of the marriage of Annabelle Van Horn to John Curtis Kennedy! They have been on my mind all day! I'm a hopeless nostalic romantic! Their transcribed marriage record is now in the searchable database on ancestry.com http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=1&new=1&MSAV=0&msT=1&gss=angs-c&gsfn=John+Curtis&gsln=Kennedy&mswpn__ftp=Chicaco&msbdy=1884&uidh=tk6&pcat=34&h=577244&recoff=8+9+10&db=FSCookILMarriage&indiv=1.

Van Horn - Kennedy Marriage License

John Curtis Kennedy & Annabelle Van Horn Kennedy

Uncle John Kennedy and Aunt Bell and Richard and Leah Barnes taken at Kennedy home in Seattle after Stanley returned from World War II.

Annabelle Van Horn Kennedy Working Medicinal Herbs

Annabelle Van Horn Kennedy working with medicinal herbs at Seattle home.

Cora Davis Anderson

Cora Davis Anderson, daughter of Newton Davis & Margaret Jane Clement Davis and sister of Lottie Belle Davis.

She's the little-sister-toddler in this picture:

http://mygrandmasoldfamilyphotos.blogspot.com/2010/02/lottie-belle-davis-van-horn.html

Newton Davis & Margaret Jane Clement Davis in North Loup

Newton Davis and Margaret Jane Clement Davis (parents of Lottie Belle Davis)

Picture taken at North Loup, Nebraska home. "Grandfather died at North Loup [1901]. Grandmother lived for a number of years, living for some time at North Loup, then spent her last years at Riverside, California where she died [1930]."