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GENEALOGY: Sept, 30, 2012: Websites further acts of genealogical kindness
Several years ago, I reported about a website called Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness (RAOGK). This site was up for 11 years, offering volunteers willing to do a good deed for any person visiting and making a request. Sadly, the site was taken off line last November when the founder, Bridgett Schneider, passed away.
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HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES: Sept. 30, 2012: A look back at the Great Flood of August 1875
The damage inflicted by two major 20th century floods diminished the importance of several previous Wabash River deluges.
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HISTORICAL TREASURE: Alice Fischer had a passion for theater
Alice Fischer was born on Jan. 16, 1865, in Terre Haute, where she also attended school. Fischer had a passion for theater and appeared in amateur productions when she was only 8 years old. In 1879, she, gifted soprano Helen Jeffers, and Hoosier Jenny Lind formed the Morris Hughett Concert Co. They were escorted throughout Indiana and Illinois by Eugene V. Debs, then a city clerk.
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LOOKING BACK: 1987: Trekkers beam in for first TH fan convention
Dorothy Jerse looks back at local history from 10, 25 and 50 years ago as reported in the Tribune and Tribune-Star.
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HISTORICAL TREASURE: Ear trumpet will help you listen up
In a basement cabinet display of numerous antiquated medical devices rests a rather primitive, metal, multi-sectioned tube with a shower-head-shaped terminus.
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GENEALOGY: Polish immigrants instigated first ever strike
This week is a continuation of the discussion of when various nationalities first immigrated to North America and the early roles they played in American history.
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HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE: Friganza and Suratt at Grand Opera House in same week
During the early 20th Century, Trixie Friganza, Valeska Suratt and Eva Tanguay were advanced as vaudeville’s three biggest female stars.
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HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE: Dresser Field hosts 1925 and 1930 Ford National Tours
Previous columns have discussed Terre Haute’s participation in the first national Powder Puff Derby in 1929 and the first transcontinental flight of an airplane-towed glider in April of 1930.
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HISTORICAL TREASURE: Banquet makes the front page
The second annual Licensed Saloonkeepers’ League of Indiana meeting was staged in Terre Haute on Sept. 14-16, 1893.
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GENEALOGY: Listening to the rhapsody of Czech arrivals
This week is a continuation of the discussion of when various nationalities first immigrated to North America.
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LOOKING BACK: 1962: ‘Sabin Oral Sundays’ launched in Vigo County
Dorothy Jerse looks back at local history from 10, 25 and 50 years ago as reported in the Tribune and Tribune-Star.
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HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE: At the Four-Cornered track in 1895
During the first week of October 1895, metropolitan newspapers and harness racing periodicals from coast-to-coast gathered at Terre Haute’s Four-Cornered track at Brown and Wabash avenues.
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GENEALOGY: Here to pump you up about arrival of Austrians
This week is a continuation of examining when different nationality groups first immigrated to North America.
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HISTORICAL TREASURE: A jet trip into history
A beautiful piece of jewelry displayed on the lower floor of the Historical Museum stands as a example of one of the more exotic uses of coal, a commodity that has been of great historical importance to the development of the Wabash Valley.
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TODAY IN HISTORY: 1962: Back to school typewriters going for $49
Dorothy Jerse looks back at local history from 10, 25 and 50 years ago as reported in the Tribune and Tribune-Star.
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LOOKING BACK: 1962: 5,000 fans out for Football Jamboree
Dorothy Jerse looks back at local history from 10, 25 and 50 years ago as reported in the Tribune and Tribune-Star.
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HISTORICAL TREASURE: ‘Fort Harrison in 1812’ offers look at the past
Sept. 4 marks the 200th anniversary of the battle of Fort Harrison. In recent weeks, historian Mike McCormick, Barbara Carney, assistant director of the Vigo County Historical Museum, and Museum volunteer Jan Buffington have written about the men, women and children who helped defend the fort.
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GENEALOGY: A look at the United States arrival ‘firsts’
Many people wonder when their particular nationality or ethnic group first came to North America and first settled in what is now the United States. I’ll be covering some of these “firsts” over the next weeks, in no particular order.
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HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE: Revisiting the Struggles of Polly Strong
On at least two occasions, we have written about the successful effort by attorney Amory Kinney before the Indiana Supreme Court to secure freedom for Polly Strong, a slave of Vincennes innkeeper Hyacinth Lasselle.
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HISTORICAL TREASURE: Zachary Taylor and the Battle of Fort Harrison
As the Vigo County Historical Society commemorates the 200th Anniversary of the War of 1812, we recall one of the most important figures in the Battle of Fort Harrison.
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HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE: The Siege at Fort Harrison in 1812 (Part III)
At 6 a.m. on Sept. 5, 1812, the imposing Native American war party had failed to overcome the small force defending Fort Harrison.
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GENEALOGY: Indiana Genealogy and Local History Fair set
Sponsored by the Indiana State Library, the Indiana Genealogy and Local History Fair will be from 9 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. Oct. 27 in downtown Indianapolis.
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LOOKING BACK: 1962: ‘Defrosting drudgery gone forever’
Dorothy Jerse looks back at local history from 10, 25 and 50 years ago as reported in the Tribune and Tribune-Star.
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Historical perspective: Aug, 12, 2012: The Siege at Fort Harrison in 1812 (Part II)
Part II
Inside Fort Harrison on the evening of Sept. 4, 1812, Capt. Zachary Taylor was uneasy. -
Looking back: Aug. 12, 2012: 1987: NAACP discusses Ku Klux Klan resurgence
Dorothy Jerse looks back at local history from 10, 25 and 50 years ago as reported in the Tribune and Tribune-Star.
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Historical Treasure: Aug. 12, 2012 : Remembering the last survivor
While digging through the Museum’s files on Fort Harrison in preparation for the Annual Dinner on Sept. 2, I found a copy of the obituary of the last survivor of the Battle of Fort Harrison.
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Genealogy: Aug. 12, 2012: Help sought on Archer, Chance, Ray, Ferguson families
• I am trying to find the grave locations or any additional information for my husband’s three-times great grandparents, Thomas Jefferson Dayhoff and Serrilda L. Moser. I have been told they are buried on farmland in Pimento, Ind.
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LOOKING BACK: 2002: Stuckey wins 4th straight Women’s City
Dorothy Jerse looks back at local history from 10, 25 and 50 years ago as reported in the Tribune and Tribune-Star.
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HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE: The siege at Fort Harrison in 1812
The night was pitch black. Rain clouds threatened.
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BRIAN HOWEY: Napoleonic Bauer is dethroned (for now)
You remember Napoleon? The tyrant who invaded nations, installed relatives as kings, marched a million men into Russia, and came back with a few thousand.
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GENEALOGY: Sept, 30, 2012: Websites further acts of genealogical kindness
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Singer Psy Has An Imposter
President Obama Heckled at National Security Speech
Morgan Freeman falls asleep on air
