Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1913 — Billy Rugh an Idol Who Did Not Touch Pocketbook. [ARTICLE]

Billy Rugh an Idol Who Did Not Touch Pocketbook.

Lake County Times. At the cement show which is now holding forth at the Coliseum in Chicago they are exhibiting a concrete model of the memorial designed by eminent sculptors to commemorate the heroic act of Billy Rugh, Gary’s dead newsboy. Gary and Chicago made a great fuss over. Billy to the tune of $86.60 after he had died. Words were plentiful in praising him but shelling out for a memorial was a different thing. Heroes are never appreciated until they are 'dead about 200 years. It will be best to cast the memorial model in the lake.