Public Library Order Form for Brownsburg Indiana. Order was written in india ink on Brownsburg Public Library Letterhead. Board Members are at the top of the heading. This order was one of the orders for the old Carnegie building.
Indiana; Descriptive Statistics; Age-Specific Death Rate; Cause-Specific Death Rate; Infant Mortality Rate; Homicide; Suicide; Food Inspection; Food Analysis; Infectious Disease; Birth Certificates; Death Certificate; Rabies Vaccine; Pneumonia;...
Births for February, 1919 p. 13 / Abstract of Mortality Statistics for February p. 13 / Summary of Morbidity and Mortality for February p. 13 / Health Officers, Attention p. 13 / Delayed Birth and Death Returns p. 14 / Report of Bacteriological...
Before the locks and dams were built along the Ohio, a frozen river and ice build-up were big problems for navigation. This happened often. It was said that farmers in Trimble County, Kentucky, waited for the river to freeze so they could drive...
This boat was built in 1910 by Howard as the "J. H. Menge" and later the "M. A. Burke," a cotton packet. It was sold to the Louisville and Cincinnati Packet Company in 1919 and then was sent to Mount City for extensive alterations before being...
The "Princess" and "Island Queen" are shown in the grip of ice during the winter of 1917-1918. The "Island Queen" surivived only to face the inferno at the Cincinnati docks on November 4, 1922. The "Princess" was lost when the ice gorge broke. ...
The "Hattie Brown" was built in 1884 and made a regular run from Warsaw to Madison, Indiana and back daily. She was converted to an oil engine in 1915; two years later she was lost in the terrible freeze of 1917-1918 when the Ohio River froze for...
This scene is the Ohio River during the terrible winter of 1917-1918. You can see the "Princess" locked in the ice. That winter was exceptionally cold and the river and its tributaries froze "stem to stern". It caused much destruction along the...
The "Princess" has a front row seat for the 1910 Madison Regatta. The "Princess" was sister to the "Island Queen" in the Coney Island trade. She was built in 1900. During the terrible winter of 1917-1918 she was wintering at the mouth of the...
Here you can see some of the devastation the ice caused during the harsh winter of 1917-1918. The ferryboat "Trimble" is caught and nearly buried in the thick ice. She did survive but was badly damaged. On February 20, 1918 the newspaper reported,...
