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Communal struggle: Newspapers tell the story of the Brown Sisters

By JOSH COTTON jcotton@timesobserver.com Why do the young and the fair and the gifted die? Why are those for whom life opens so full of promise and pleasure and usefulness, suddenly taken “over there,” while the poor and the old and the infirm, to whom life is already a burden, linger ...

World War I boosts need for Carnes Artificial Arm

International events proceeded to enhance the reputation - and sales - of the Carnes Artificial Arm. The international event? World War I. The Warren Times-Mirror spoke with Carnes when he was in Warren for a couple weeks in June 1917. At that point, Carnes had been able to sell the ...

Russell native Hall cut down on final day of fighting at Gettysburg

Over 3,000 Union soldiers were killed at the Battle of Gettysburg. Almost nothing is known about some. Little is known about others. Looking at the muster rolls, the notation for what happened to Robert Hall is succinct, almost clinical - “killed at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863.” Hall was ...

Jackson enshrined at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington

Free speech and religion cases continue to be among the most prominent cases decided by the Supreme Court of the United States. There’s the cake decorator and website designer in the marriage context, the football coach who wanted to pray on the field and the angry cheerleader who cussed ...

Last county soldier dies in Vietnam in 1969

Troop levels in Vietnam started to fall in 1969. And that’s when the loss of Warren County natives would stop. No more servicemen from the county would die after Sept. 1969. But there was no way for people here to know that. And as 1969 rolled along, the news of soldier after soldier ...