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Blue Star Mothers, wives, and visiting soldiers, Granada Relocation Center, Colorado, June 1943. Retired Army Capt. George H. Maines conceived the idea for the Blue Star Mothers after a conversation with General John Pershing. He ran a newspaper article in the Flint News Advertiser on January 22, 1942. A coupon was included in the article and ...
Eugene Smith Pulliam (September 7, 1914 – January 20, 1999) was the publisher of the Indianapolis Star and the Indianapolis News from 1975 until his death. He was also a supporter of First Amendment rights, an advocate of press freedom, and opposed McCarthyism.
Flanner frequently visited Los Angeles, where her mother Mary Flanner lived at 530 East Marigold St. in Altadena with her sister, poet Hildegarde Flanner, and brother-in-law, Frederick Monhoff. Flanner was a chain smoker. [25] In 1975, she returned to New York City permanently to be cared for by Natalia Danesi Murray. Flanner died on November 7 ...
More than a month after Emma Baum went missing, her family is still looking for answers. The 25-year-old woman was last seen on Oct. 10 in Gary, Indiana, on 25th Avenue and Connecticut Street, ABC ...
Front page of the Indianapolis Leader, one of Indiana's first African American newspapers. Newspaper rack with issues of the Gary Crusader in 2020. Various African American newspapers have been published in Indiana. The Evansville weekly Our Age, which was in circulation by 1878, is the first known African American newspaper in Indiana. [1]
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Oliver P. Morton, Governor of Indiana (Centerville) Harry S. New, U.S. Postmaster General (Indianapolis) Mike Pence, former congressman, former governor of Indiana, 2013–2017, and 48th vice president of the United States under Donald Trump ; Dennis Pennington, State Senator and early abolitionist (Central Barren)
Based on an Athabascan legend passed down from Wallis' mother, the book has sold over 1.5 million copies. ... What people like about me is Indianapolis," per Indiana History. Vonnegut died in 2007 ...