Author Archives: jim.phillips
Agnes’ Secret
Agnes had a big secret that she never told her third husband, or her fourth, my maternal grandfather. As well as owning a concrete grain silo and bridge construction company, at the end of Prohibition, John “Papa” Kruzick built and owned the Indian Head Tavern in Winamac IN. His first wife, Rosa, died unexpectedly afterContinue reading “Agnes’ Secret”
The Bay Window
Great-Aunt Julia’s bay window which I knew as a child had a story once unknown to me.
The Darlingtons
After Lora (45) left Riley (68), two daughters (15 and 18) and a son (21) were headed in the wrong direction, while rumors circulated about Riley and his girls.
Widow lady, 62, kills large hawk!
Here’s a clever ad in one of the two competing weeklies in my hometown in 1924.
Jungle Pilot
In 1932 after the crash of his plane and a subsequent broken leg, Mac endured 17 days crawling through the Mexican jungle before being found.
‘Kicked’ by his Ford
Cars built before the early 1920s didn’t have electric starters to rotate the crankshaft and activate the fuel pump until the gasoline could fill the ignition chambers and explode, rotating the crankshaft, so the car could be driven. There was a crank at the center front of the car, at the base of the chassis. Continue reading “‘Kicked’ by his Ford”
After surviving World War II, this…
After his discharge, Dick resumed his job as manager of the ISIS theatre; after work one night, out for a drive, his car skidded into a ditch, where he lay pinned between the car and the ditch bank, dead by the time he was found in the morning; last year, in the same car, aContinue reading “After surviving World War II, this…”
Stalking Pulaski County 