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Confusion. In Elkhart, Ind., Druggist Charles Judd, his mind on his simples, mailed a sack of letters in a bank's night depository, deposited a sack of money in a mailbox...
Died. James Buchanan Elmore, 85, "The Bard of Alamo," one of the popular poets of the '90s; on his farm near Alamo, Ind. He enjoyed a latter-day revival when newspaper columnists reprinted him for the sake of such lines as: "He absconded to Cincinnati, and dentistry took, And left a true love he wilfully forsook...
Surprise. From Fort Bragg, N.C., Private Eugene Saunders sent his mother, in Huntington, Ind., a batch of cookies. He had joined the Army Cooks' and Bakers' School...
While the draft boards pondered ways of tightening up on deferred "borderline cases," many an artful dodger was busy. The FBI was investigating a nationwide deferment mill that promised 1-A-men that it would shove them into Government jobs before the Army nabbed them. In Lafayette, Ind. a 25-year-old named Chester Cleon Hill looked like the dodger-of-the-year. A grand jury indicted him for taking so many benzedrine sulfate tablets before his Army physical examination that he trembled his way into deferment...
...middle 1800s. But Cincinnati's show contained one style of architecture that was as indigenous to the Ohio River Valley as the river itself: Steamboat Gothic. Best example was a fine old mansion, "Hill-Forest," which stands on the muddy Ohio's banks near Aurora, Ind. (see cut). With circular tower and porches, wrought-iron balustrades, Steamboat Gothic represented the last word in elegance to riverboat captains of the 1850s, is one of the most elaborate forms of U.S. architecture ever built of wood...