Charleston, Illinois October 3, 1887

3,   Monday,  6 AM, Ther.  53.  71.  60.
Partly clear.  I got  breakfast.  Tue  complains of feeling some better.  Trade second hand men two old stoves for one paying 25c. boot.  Cran helps  get stove into kitchen and fastens up (?).   Frank Lindblom and wife have come to live with Uncle John.  Tue wrote to Maggie's teacher.  Baby not very well she has been saying Mama and Papa for several days.  Mrs. Eastin went to Chicago today for a week or so.  Tue fixed her muskmellon pickles.  Take some stovepipe from store down home.  Pleasant day goto bed 8.30 P.M.  Mattie Kennedy was buried today.

July 3, 1912 and 1887 in Charleston, Illinois

100 Years Ago

Wednesday, July 3,1912  5.30 A..  Ther.  72.  80.  72. = 74 2/3

Cloudy. S.W.3 Alfred Smith comes and "finishes" yard pay him 55c.  Heavy thunder shower about 11 AM. (.53)  Tue was up town.  No wind Harman phones , says have plowed all their corn twice and some three times.They have been cutting weeds too wet to plow.  Shave self P.M. after which drove E of town with usual result getting home 6 P.M.~  mare very scarey of fire crax.  Balt. Dem. Convention have named Wilson and Marshall for P. + V.P. Mostly cloudy day  Gobed 8.30 P.M.

125 Years Ago

Sunday, July 3, 1887    6  A.M.  76.  88.  75.  

Cloudy most of forenoon wind S.  Girls didn't go to Sunday School.  Tue  put up a few raspberries.  Sprinkle rain several times during day ans showers at night.  Have been trying to decide where to build a stable.  Not feeling very well today my self.  Quit chewing tobacco to night: didn't  quit  the other day when said I would.  Cut hole in wood house roof for stove pipe.  Bim was down yesterday and helped us move stove out of kitchen.  Gobed 10 P.M.

I found this photo of the 1912 Democratic Convention in Baltimore.