This spooky item ran May 18, 1900, in the Marshall County Independent (repeated from the Enquirer). No follow up was found, so perhaps the ghost hunters turned up nothing—or perhaps they never returned at all.... "Millan" Crum might be Milon... Continue Reading →
This matter-of-fact item appeared in the short-lived Semi-Weekly Independent of Plymouth on April 4, 1896. Click on the image to display a larger version. The story made it all the way to San Francisco, where it ran more briefly but... Continue Reading →
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of air mail service in the US—and in an effort to promote the service during the Great Depression—the US Postmaster General designated May 15-21, 1938, "Air Mail Week". Campaigns were launched with local postmasters,... Continue Reading →
The new display for the police department includes a list of all the Bremen marshals and chiefs of police. To date, there have been 33 marshals and 5 chiefs of police. We all know the role of the town marshals... Continue Reading →
This story about Bremen runaways Edwina Keyser (13) and Lowell Mast (14) ran in the Sunday Mail of Brisbane, Australia - 6 March 1938. (Note: they translate the money into Australian shillings and pence. Australia converted to the decimalized Australian... Continue Reading →
The Plymouth Tribune, on February 19, 1903, ran this glowing article on Bremen's townsfolk and businesses. Flanking the article was a similar one about the town of Bourbon. Click on an image below to see a larger version. You may... Continue Reading →
August 1920: Drunken youths from Bremen harass motorists at Lake Maxinkuckee... and get arrested. The miscreants were Ed Miller, Clyde Coverstone, Ollie Klopfenstine, Rudy Klopfenstine, Walter Kimes, and Harold Heckaman (the Pharos-Trib gets their names a little wrong; the Enquirer... Continue Reading →
In 1922, German township farmer Foster Dumph was accidentally shot in the head... Click an image to display a larger version. Foster survived and lived until 1979, turning from farming to furniture making at Coppes by 1940. His brother Russell... Continue Reading →
Nearly 120 years ago, German township wasn't quite so wild as the Wild West, but it wasn't so mild, either. One notorious figure was John Swoverland, who would start fights and threaten honest citizens whenever the mood took him... until... Continue Reading →
On Wednesday, May 26, 1954, Peter Kovach disappeared from work and wasn't located until Saturday, when his body was found hanging in the woods. Doc Bowen was called to the scene and pronounced the mysterious death a suicide.
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