

An Apple a Day
Agriculture Report for 1888 · 37,578 acres of corn yielded 30 bushes per acre. · 26,849 acres of wheat or 4 percent less...

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Mar 10, 20231 min read
Eggs Twenty Cents a Dozen in 1883
Bridgeport News in the Rural Republican December 28, 1883 Several family reunions took place on Christmas. Only twenty-six Schmalhausen’s...

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Mar 6, 20232 min read
Unsolved Crime 1905
Death of Horace Bennett December 30, 1905 Sunday morning about 10 o’clock, the body of a man was discovered by some men in the woods...

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Mar 4, 20233 min read
Death by Duel
(Republished from the old blog) An Act for the Prevention of Vice and Immorality from 1787 for the Northwest Territory prohibited...

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Mar 2, 20234 min read


1889 February Happenings
February 1888 News Gleaned from Rural Republican Chas. Parkinson, merchant St. Francisville, carried the best thread on the market--...

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Feb 28, 20232 min read


Obituary for Dog 1889
February 1889 News Gleaned from the Sumner Press A Chapter of the O. E. S. (Eastern Star) instituted with fourteen members. Mrs. Rose...

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Feb 26, 20233 min read
Adoptions in Lawrence County
Vincennes Sun Commercial October 5, 1927 Mrs. S. S. Seller, Mt Carmel home visitor, Children's Visitation, Department of Public Welfare...

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Feb 24, 20232 min read
The Bunn Family of Lawrence County
Family records say that several Bunn families came from Ashland County, Ohio in nine covered wagons to Lawrence County early in the fall...

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Feb 22, 20232 min read


Checker Club
Checker Club 1902 (as reported in the Daily Record February 12, 1923) " The un- organized Lawrenceville Checker Club contained the...

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Feb 20, 20231 min read

