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The Garden Island began publication in 1902. It was formerly owned by Scripps League Newspapers , which was acquired by Pulitzer in 1996; Lee Enterprises acquired Pulitzer in 2005. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Oahu Publications Inc., publisher of the Honolulu Star-Advertiser , acquired The Garden Island newspaper from Lee Enterprises in January 2013.
Service Corporation International is an American provider of funeral goods and services as well as cemetery property and services. It is headquartered in Neartown, Houston, Texas, and operates secondary corporate offices in Jefferson, Louisiana (near New Orleans). [5] [6] SCI operates more than 1500 funeral homes and 400 cemeteries. [1]
The state never properly explained property tax law to the islanders. Other patches of land were abandoned. The last Garden Island resident, Peter Monatou, died in the 1940s. Most of the old-growth timber on Garden Island was cut and sawn by a short-lived sawmill that operated on the island in 1912-1913. A small town, now a true ghost town, was ...
Alan F. January and Justin E. Walsh, A Century of Achievement: Black Hoosiers in the Indiana General Assembly, 1881-1986 (Indianapolis, 1986) Justin E. Walsh (1987), The centennial history of the Indiana General Assembly, 1816-1978 , Indiana Historical Bureau – via Indiana Memory (Indiana State Library) .
Forest Lawn Memorial Park was founded in 1906 as a not-for-profit cemetery by a group of businessmen from San Francisco. Hubert Eaton and C.B. Sims entered into a sales contract with the cemetery in 1912. Eaton took over its management in 1917.
The Garden Island Indian Cemetery, also designated 20CX12, is an archaeological site and Ojibwe burial site. [4] located on Garden Island in Charlevoix County, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. [1] The Indian Cemetery holds about 3500 graves, and has been called the largest Indian cemetery in the ...
Logansport Community High School is the home of the oldest known high school mascot in Indiana, the animated Felix the Cat. [12] Three competing legends claim to tell its origin story, however all accounts agree that Felix was brought into the high school's tradition at some point between 1925 and 1926.
In 1913, the Great Flood hit Seymour causing widespread death and destruction. It was the deadliest natural disaster to ever hit the area. The East Fork of the White River reached 27.50 feet (8.38 m) above the level recorded in the flood of 1884. [58]