Volume 17 , Issue 11

NW Okie's Journey

Hope you all had a Happy Easter this last weekend. This week we bring you research concerning "Typhoid Mary" and other happenings of one hundred years ago in Terre Haute, Indiana.

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Walking With Sadie

I'm not sure who actually said this following quote, but it says a lot about a great friend: "The best kind of friend is the one you could sit with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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100 Years Ago, Tuesday, 6 April 1915

One hundred years ago today we discover that The Tacoma Times, dated Tuesday, 6 April 1915, with the following headlines: "WM. II's Latest - Kaiser At Polis Battle Front." But the big headlines spread across the front page was about "Convict 27 Men of Election Frauds." Wondering what that was all about, huh?

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1915 - Witch In N.Y. (Typhoid Mary Mallon)

In The Tacoma Times, dated Tuesday, 6 April 1915, there was an interesting article on the front page that reported: "Witch In N.Y." K. W. Payne wrote the article about a Witch. In the Twentieth century, in the metropolis of America, in New York, they had captured a witch. Are you one of those that finds this weird? Read on.

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Typhoid Mary Mallon

Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary, was the first person in the United States identified as an symptomatic carrier of the pathogen associated with typhoid fever. Mary was born September 23, 1869, New York, and died November 11, 1938, North and South Brother Islands, New York.

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1915 - Microbe Carriers - The Newly Discovery

It was in the 11 July 1915, Sunday, in the Richmond Times Dispatch, page 42, that reported on "Microbe Carriers - The newly Discovery" where people who are fountains of germs, scattered disease and death all their lives, and the problem of what to do with them.

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Terre Haute Men Convicted 1915

According to The Daily Ardmoreite dated 6 April 1915, this was the story in Indiana: "Terre Haute Men Convicted." 27 defendants, including Mayor Roberts, were found guilty with sentences next Monday. The court would pass sentence on the 27 convicted as well as the eighty-nine who entered pleas of guilty.

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