EUGENE V. DEBS DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS, AGE 70
A. R. U. Strike Veteran Is Mourned by Labor
Eugene Victor Debs, national chairman of the socialist party, died Wednesday evening after going away several weeks earlier to recuperate from a nervous breakdown caused by a heart illness of long standing and a kidney disease. The report attributes his death to a disease of the heart intensified by over two years of imprisonment, and says his wife Katherine, his brother Theodore and two sisters were at his bedside, with messages arriving from all over the country.
National chairman of the socialist party, who had spent over two years in a penitentiary.
Eugene V. Debs, national chairman of the socialist party, is dead as a result of the ravages of a disease of the heart that was intensified by over two years' imprisonment in a capitalist penitentiary.
Debs, his gaunt frame all but a shadow, a faint smile parting his lips, breathed his last Wednesday evening at Lindlahr Sanitarium, Elmhurst, Ill.
Debs had gone to Elmhurst several weeks ago for rest to recuperate from a nervous breakdown caused by a heart illness of long standing and a kidney disease. If he had lived he would have been 71 years old on November 5.
At his bedside when the end came were his wife, Katherine, his faithful partner and brother, Theodore and two sisters. Messages of condolence began pouring into the bereaved relatives from all over the country when the sad news became known. * * * Eugene Victor Debs was born at Terre Haute, Ind., November 5, 1855, a son of Daniel and Marguerite Bette-(Continued from page 3)
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EUGENE V. DEBS DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS, AGE 70
A. R. U. Strike Veteran Is Mourned by Labor
Eugene Victor Debs, national chairman of the socialist party, died Wednesday evening after going away several weeks earlier to recuperate from a nervous breakdown caused by a heart illness of long standing and a kidney disease. The report attributes his death to a disease of the heart intensified by over two years of imprisonment, and says his wife Katherine, his brother Theodore and two sisters were at his bedside, with messages arriving from all over the country.
National chairman of the socialist party, who had spent over two years in a penitentiary.
Eugene V. Debs, national chairman of the socialist party, is dead as a result of the ravages of a disease of the heart that was intensified by over two years' imprisonment in a capitalist penitentiary.
Debs, his gaunt frame all but a shadow, a faint smile parting his lips, breathed his last Wednesday evening at Lindlahr Sanitarium, Elmhurst, Ill.
Debs had gone to Elmhurst several weeks ago for rest to recuperate from a nervous breakdown caused by a heart illness of long standing and a kidney disease. If he had lived he would have been 71 years old on November 5.
At his bedside when the end came were his wife, Katherine, his faithful partner and brother, Theodore and two sisters. Messages of condolence began pouring into the bereaved relatives from all over the country when the sad news became known. * * * Eugene Victor Debs was born at Terre Haute, Ind., November 5, 1855, a son of Daniel and Marguerite Bette-(Continued from page 3)
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EUGENE V. DEBS DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS, AGE 70
A. R. U. Strike Veteran Is Mourned by Labor
Eugene Victor Debs, national chairman of the socialist party, died Wednesday evening after going away several weeks earlier to recuperate from a nervous breakdown caused by a heart illness of long standing and a kidney disease. The report attributes his death to a disease of the heart intensified by over two years of imprisonment, and says his wife Katherine, his brother Theodore and two sisters were at his bedside, with messages arriving from all over the country.
National chairman of the socialist party, who had spent over two years in a penitentiary.
Eugene V. Debs, national chairman of the socialist party, is dead as a result of the ravages of a disease of the heart that was intensified by over two years' imprisonment in a capitalist penitentiary.
Debs, his gaunt frame all but a shadow, a faint smile parting his lips, breathed his last Wednesday evening at Lindlahr Sanitarium, Elmhurst, Ill.
Debs had gone to Elmhurst several weeks ago for rest to recuperate from a nervous breakdown caused by a heart illness of long standing and a kidney disease. If he had lived he would have been 71 years old on November 5.
At his bedside when the end came were his wife, Katherine, his faithful partner and brother, Theodore and two sisters. Messages of condolence began pouring into the bereaved relatives from all over the country when the sad news became known. * * * Eugene Victor Debs was born at Terre Haute, Ind., November 5, 1855, a son of Daniel and Marguerite Bette-(Continued from page 3)
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EUGENE V. DEBS DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS, AGE 70
A. R. U. Strike Veteran Is Mourned by Labor
Eugene Victor Debs, national chairman of the socialist party, died Wednesday evening after going away several weeks earlier to recuperate from a nervous breakdown caused by a heart illness of long standing and a kidney disease. The report attributes his death to a disease of the heart intensified by over two years of imprisonment, and says his wife Katherine, his brother Theodore and two sisters were at his bedside, with messages arriving from all over the country.
National chairman of the socialist party, who had spent over two years in a penitentiary.
Eugene V. Debs, national chairman of the socialist party, is dead as a result of the ravages of a disease of the heart that was intensified by over two years' imprisonment in a capitalist penitentiary.
Debs, his gaunt frame all but a shadow, a faint smile parting his lips, breathed his last Wednesday evening at Lindlahr Sanitarium, Elmhurst, Ill.
Debs had gone to Elmhurst several weeks ago for rest to recuperate from a nervous breakdown caused by a heart illness of long standing and a kidney disease. If he had lived he would have been 71 years old on November 5.
At his bedside when the end came were his wife, Katherine, his faithful partner and brother, Theodore and two sisters. Messages of condolence began pouring into the bereaved relatives from all over the country when the sad news became known. * * * Eugene Victor Debs was born at Terre Haute, Ind., November 5, 1855, a son of Daniel and Marguerite Bette-(Continued from page 3)
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Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
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EUGENE V. DEBS DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS, AGE 70
A. R. U. Strike Veteran Is Mourned by Labor
Eugene Victor Debs, national chairman of the socialist party, died Wednesday evening after going away several weeks earlier to recuperate from a nervous breakdown caused by a heart illness of long standing and a kidney disease. The report attributes his death to a disease of the heart intensified by over two years of imprisonment, and says his wife Katherine, his brother Theodore and two sisters were at his bedside, with messages arriving from all over the country.
National chairman of the socialist party, who had spent over two years in a penitentiary.
Eugene V. Debs, national chairman of the socialist party, is dead as a result of the ravages of a disease of the heart that was intensified by over two years' imprisonment in a capitalist penitentiary.
Debs, his gaunt frame all but a shadow, a faint smile parting his lips, breathed his last Wednesday evening at Lindlahr Sanitarium, Elmhurst, Ill.
Debs had gone to Elmhurst several weeks ago for rest to recuperate from a nervous breakdown caused by a heart illness of long standing and a kidney disease. If he had lived he would have been 71 years old on November 5.
At his bedside when the end came were his wife, Katherine, his faithful partner and brother, Theodore and two sisters. Messages of condolence began pouring into the bereaved relatives from all over the country when the sad news became known. * * * Eugene Victor Debs was born at Terre Haute, Ind., November 5, 1855, a son of Daniel and Marguerite Bette-(Continued from page 3)
Reproduced unchanged from The Daily Worker, October 23, 1926, page 1.
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Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
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