Indiana; Descriptive Statistics; Age-specific death rate; Cause-specific death rate; Infant mortality; Homicide; Suicide; Accidents, Railroad; Allen County; Allen County Orphan's Home; Animal-Related Deaths; Arsenic Poisoning; Bartholomew County...
Abstract of mortality statistics for August 1904 p.85 / The statistics show the following summaries for August p.86 / Smallpox p.86 / Tuberculosis p.86 / Typhoid feverp.86 / Pneumonia p.86 / Deaths by violence p.86 / The wise physicians p.86 /...
Korean War, 1950-1953--United States; Correspondence; Camp Drake (Japan)
George talks about the weather. He is stationed at Camp Drake about 17 miles from Tokyo, Japan. He says his barracks were built by the Japanese during the last war and used to be a golf course. He mentions seeing many people from Indiana. He has...
Korean War, 1950-1953--United States; Correspondence; Kamakura (Japan); Military leaves and furloughs
George discusses a vacation he has just taken through the Army’s R&R program. He spent time in Tokyo with a Japanese woman he knows. He talks about the food and customs she shows him. He visits Kamakura and sees Raymond King from St. Joe as well...
Korean War, 1950-1953--United States; Speedometer (Louisville Cement Company employee newsletter); Correspondence; United States. Army--Military life; Camp Higashi-Chitose (Japan); Honshū (Japan); Weather
Carl has learned his brother, Elmer, has been inducted. His other brother is in the service as well. He feels this will cause a hardship on his mother and father to maintain the farm. Carl notes that General Ridgeway says they are now defense...
Newsletters; World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Naval warfare--Pacific Area; Warships--American; USS Hornet; USS Hornet--History; World War, 1939-1945--Pacific Area; Panama Canal (Panama)--Description and...
The Jesse G. Dorsey Collection of World War II Correspondence consists of correspondence from 348 service members and their relatives, written to Jesse Dorsey during World War II. Mr. Dorsey was the Director of Recreation and Welfare and editor of...
Shadyside Park was dedicated in 1923 to the Veterans of all Wars. It covers 38.1 acres and is Anderson's largest park. The Japanese Gardens are still part of the park and have been recently re-furbished.
Soldiers--Correspondence; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives; Philippine Islands; United States Army in World War II. War in the Pacific; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Solomon Islands--Guadalcanal; Fighter planes--Japanese--1940-1950
Bert is in the Philippine Islands now and discribes landing at Guadalcanal and making camp in a coconut grove. He discribes seeing Japanese planes being shot down. He wants to know about Frank's spring plowing.He tells how he has eaten enough...
Soldiers--Correspondence; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives; United States. Army--Military life; Japanese; Unemployment; Manila (Philippine); Indiana Army Ammunition Plant--Indiana--Charlestown
James is still in the service but has enough points to go home. He thought he might get home by Christmas. Charlestown has become a ghost town because the Powder Plant shut down from the war being over. James is unsure of what job he will do when...
Soldiers--Correspondence; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives; United States. Navy--Military life; United States Navy in World War II. War in the Pacific; Peleliu Island (Palau); Indiana Army Ammunition Plant--Indiana--Charlestown; Prisoners...
William is at Peleliu Island. He talks about the DuPont plant in Charlestown. Frank's tobacco crop wasn't so good. He asked about Frank's squirrel hunting and would like to join him. He says he gets to fish. They use hand grenades in the ocean to...
United States Army in World War II. War in the Pacific; Soldiers--Correspondence; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives; Japanese; Food; Indiana Army Ammunition Plant--Indiana--Charlestown; Philippine Islands
James is in the Philippines. He just got over blood poisoning. He has been commisioned a 2nd Lt. He also received a Purlple Heart for a shrapnel wound in the hip. The Japanese are keeping them busy. He describes the fishing they do with TNT. He...
