Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1918 — AMERICA GOES WILD [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

AMERICA GOES WILD

Greatest _ Celebration Country Ever Has Known. • ■ "" Frenzied Crowds Pack Streets of Cities and Villages—Business Forgotten. Chicago, Not. 12. —When darkness fell last night and the dinner hour of normal days impended, America had just got a good running start on the Celebration which began with the sounding of the victory sirens and early Monday morning and the flaring of skyrockets and fireworks. But there was no such thing as dinner hour last night, and there was no place like home. The usual order of evening . traffic was reversed. With the streets in every city and town of the country so packed, it seemed a Wondei - the crowds could keep in motion. By sheer weight of their enthusiasm the newcomers managed to find shoulder room in the streets and an active part in the wildest spectacle America has ever staged, according to reports coming from every part of the country.