Important years & events

1923 - 1929

1923 - 1924

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1912

Stage Parent-Teacher club program, Harrison. Pantomime: "how Betsy Made the Flag" Richard Skelton

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1923

Red Skelton turns 10.

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1923

School: District 2, Harrison.

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1923

Stage: Doc Lewis, Flora, IL.

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1923

Home: 621 S 7th.

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1923

Wed: Ida and Henry Albin.

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1923

President Harding makes a train stop in Vincennes. A young red headed boy tries to great him. The President says "How d'y do, Red".

Vincennes Commercial June 22 1923

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1923

Promoted "The Phantom of the Opera" for a Lawrenceville, Illinois theater

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1924

School: District 7

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1924

Home: 31 E. Lyndale.

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1924

Denny Skelton moves to Mansfield, OH.

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1924

Red Skelton turns 11.

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1924

Raymond Hitchcock at the Pantheon.

1925 - 1926

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1926

Stage: John Lawrence Stock Company?

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1926

Home: 1021 N 9th

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1926

Red turns 13.

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1926

Red changed his birth certificate.

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1926

School: Riley and Clark Jr. High School (7th grade, Safety patrol).

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Death

Jessie T. Eheart (Chris Eheart wife) age 34

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1926

Flower show, Riley school.

1927 - 1929

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1927

"Lessons in Magic" Tabell

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1927

Red Skelton turns 14

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1927

Marriage

Chris Eheart and Edna Louise Montgomery.

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1927

Death

Aunt, Carrie Lang.

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1928

(Uncle Denny) Motorcycle repairman. r 19 N. Weldon Ave.

Mansfield City Directory

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1928

Red turns 15.

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1928

Home: 1021 N 9th

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1928

Stage: Gibault Circus

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1929

Stage: WGBF radio, American Legion

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1929

School: District 5

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1929

Stage: Medicine Show, Granite City, IL

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1929

Marriage

(Uncle Denny) weds Irene Myrtle Rhodes

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1929

Red Skelton celebrates his 16th birthday

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1929

Coo-Coo Nuts newspaper column.

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1929

Stage

Majestic Theatre, Fort Wayne. "Two Funsters" with Eddie Ware. Dancer Irma Raystone and Babe McClure. Burlesque.

Poster. Omaha World-Herald, Jeff Jordon, 4/12/1981

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1929

Stage: YMCA Circus

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1929

Stage: Daughters of Isabella Minstrel-Revue

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1929

Birth

Jeannine Louis Skelton (Father Denny Skelton), Mansfield OH

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1929

Stout show

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1929

Death

Died: Raymond Hitchcock

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