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Big Story
The big story 100 years ago this week (1910) involved the funeral of Count Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist and author of "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina." Peasants all day long passed through the death chamber where the Count lay on his bier. Tolstoy left a written wish that he be buried without pomp under a "poverty oak" on a hillock where he played as a child, and where the peasants were accustomed to congregate.See the full content of this document
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Iu President Urges Ban of `Serpent' Liquor From Purdue Game
100 Years Ago (1910)
n It has been decided by the trustees of the Southern Indiana Hospital for the Insane at Woodmere that the appropriation of $80...See the full content of this document
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