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The Kokomo Tribune can trace its history back to October 1850, when the weekly Howard Tribune was founded in Kokomo to cover Howard County, Indiana.T.C. Philips (owner, 1856–1878) was credited with raising the paper's quality and rebuilding it after an 1862 tornado.
The Kokomo Perspective was a weekly newspaper serving Kokomo, Indiana, established in August 1989. [1] It ceased operating on November 29, 2021. The Perspective was distributed for free to 31,000 homes every Wednesday. Its rival was the Kokomo Tribune.
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Pearl Elliott (October 21, 1887 – August 10, 1935) was a notorious madam of Kokomo, Indiana, United States.She was best known as an early associate of the Prohibition era gangster Harry Pierpont and later of the bank robber John Dillinger.
Sylvia Mae Hughes was born on April 16, 1891, at Fairfield (now Oakford) in Howard County, Indiana.She was the daughter of Charley and Mary Hughes. [1] According to the 1900 census, the family was living in Taylor Township, where her father's occupation was listed as a horse jockey.
The city of Kokomo was named after the Miami man Ma-Ko-Ko-Mo, said to have been one of the four sons of Chief Richardville, last of the chiefs of the Miami people. [9] [10] Tradition holds that David Foster, the "Father of Kokomo," named the town Kokomo after the "ornriest Indian on earth" because Kokomo was "the ornriest town on earth."
Ryan White was born at St. Joseph Memorial Hospital in Kokomo, Indiana, to Hubert Wayne and Jeanne Elaine (Hale) White.When he was circumcised, the bleeding would not stop; when he was three days old, doctors diagnosed him with severe hemophilia A, a hereditary blood coagulation disorder associated with the X chromosome, which causes even minor injuries to result in severe bleeding.
Mary Northern Kinder (August 29, 1909 – May 21, 1981) was a Prohibition era gun moll, most noted for being the girlfriend of Harry Pierpont and associate of John Dillinger.