Ohio Bicentennial orators wedding and leisure highlight
Ohio marked 200 years since statehood with reflection on history while thousands enjoyed sunny Fourth of July weather. Paul Revere wed Sandra Campbell at King's Island near Cincinnati. Ohio official Alan Norris urged a constitutional convention. Traffic deaths rose to at least 21 as cultural events and school awards celebrated the bicentennial across counties.
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Norris
Ohio
Bicentennial Commission
United States
Siamese cat Fujui makes 1079 mile cross country train trip
Fujui the male Siamese cat left home when a plumber’s truck carried him to a distant freight line. He boarded a Kaiser plant boxcar and rode a long distance to Spokane before being found by Union Pacific and flown home. Gene North, the owner, recalls the unbelievable two week journey and hopes the cat will one day speak.
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Greenville
UPI
Fujui
United States
Gene North
Dayton International Airport
Oho
United Airlines
Union Pacific Railroad
Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp
Spokane
North
Union Pacific
Old Violin Returned to Blanchardville Family
Thom as Kammerud, 77, recovered a violin lost for about 80 years. The Handanger dragon-headed instrument, brought from Norway in 1893, was identified by a local resident and purchased back by the Kammerud family. The violin is said to be 160 to 200 years old.
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Blanchardville
Wis
Thomas Kammerud
Kammerud
Norway
Protests mark opening of Sandra Dupree murder trial
In Henderson North Carolina blacks protested the trial of Sandra Dupree white minister's wife charged with first degree murder in the March 11 slaying of Harry Dickens 21 in Scotland Neck Nine jurors were sworn one black amid heavy security Dupree faces life or death penalties amid court ruling last week abolishing mandatory death sentences and a related neighborhood clash over a published local paper involving her son prior to the killing.
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Dupree
Harvey
Ton
Henderson
N.C
Sandra
Vance County
Sandra Dupree
Harry L. Dickens
Scotland Neck
Little Building Restroom Restored In Genoa Bicentennial
Genoa Ohio dedicated The Little Building, a Romanique Revival privy once used as a school restroom and later an incinerator, restored by the Bicentennial Committee and local volunteers. The tiny landmark, on school grounds behind Camper Elementary, dated to 1870 and is on the National Register of Historic Landmarks.
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Genoa
Ohio
UPI
Ottawa County
Genoa Area
Eldo Bergman
Walter
Pickle) Milter
Bergman
Camper
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Logan County
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Jonathan Thomas Myers
Lakeview
Argelle Emmet Petroschek
Girl Scouts
Galion
Crawford County
Meek
Norwalk
Cat
U.S
Wash
State of
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Lorain Westgate Center
Vermilion South Shore Center
Sheffield Lake
N. Ridgeville
Shoreway Center
Ridgeview Center
Bockbusters
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Colgate
Tampax
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