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Indy Star: Indy when the Cubs were last champs

3 Nov

From Indy Star

Indy when the Cubs were last champs

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The last time the Chicago Cubs won the World Series was Oct. 14, 1908.The next day The Indianapolis Star reported the victory on Page 1. “Cubs Win Pennant Easily from Tigers,” the headline said. “Wherever they are talking about the world’s baseball championship tonight,” the story began, “they are cussing the wonderful Chicago Cubs.”Here are nine other things people were talking about that day, according to The Star. These are headlines only, except for the “Man Says He Was Robbed” and “Horse Stealing Disease” stories and the one about the man who fell over dead a moment after saying how well he felt and the one about the mugging of the too-trusting man from a small town. Those, due to their brevity, are reprinted in full.

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Indy Star: Indiana-made furniture still provides rustic comfort

29 Oct

From Indy Star

Indiana-made furniture still provides rustic comfort

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Few businesses have survived two world wars, the Great Depression and a recession, but the venerable Old Hickory Furniture Co. has persevered by turning out rustic lodge furniture.Legend has it that North Carolina native Billy Richardson and his father made hickory sapling hoop chairs for The Hermitage, the home of President Andrew Jackson, and used Jackson’s nickname, Old Hickory, as the company name. Richardson moved to Indiana and began selling his chairs in Martinsville in the 1890s. The company was founded in an abandoned Martinsville church in 1894, andit incorporated in 1898 when it started producing a full line of hickory sapling furniture.

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Fantastic Fall Fun. Indy Star: Check out this photo from Corn mazes around the USA

27 Oct

From Indy Star

Corn mazes around the USA

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Skelly’s Farm in Janesville,
Wisc., has been cutting corn mazes since 1998. They have a 6 acre “Adventure Corn Maze” and a larger 9 acre puzzle called “The Impossible Maze.”

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