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Local historian Tim Vollet delves into the local reaction to President Hardings death.

Jesse W. Smith was born in 1872 in Washington Court House and grew up there.

Wallace M. Goldsberry was born Oct. 5, 1897, in Ross County and gained a reputation in his youth as a speed demon

The film, “Chillicothe’s Hero,” had its big screen debut the afternoon of April 5, 1923 at the Majestic.

Just four months, however, the idea of the Klan spreading in large numbers in Chillicothe was unthinkable and not being taken very seriously.

Tim Vollet takes us back to 1923 and the fight the Rev. C.C. McKinney was getting ready to wage.

A look at some of the stories that made headlines in 1922.

In the final weeks before the 1922 midterm elections, most Chillicothians likely paid scant attention to the ongoing election scandal brewing in Pike County.

Halloween “pranking” used to be much more tolerated as long as it did not go too far.

Lt. M.P. O’Connor, an architect in the Quartermaster Corps, U.S. Army, and he was in the city to oversee the erection of the Veterans Hospital.