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According to Rees, her 98-year-old father — a Purple Heart recipient who has carried German shrapnel in his knee for 79 years — "wasn't disabled enough."

Anthony Hellis, at the time the youngest officer on the Muncie Police Department, was fatally shot while searching for a suspect on Sept. 30, 1923.

August 27-Sept 2 August 27 1906 - A woman by the name of Anna Fuzee is arrested in Toledo and reported to be a “living statue.” Held on a “lunacy charge”, she just stares off into space. Deputies say it feels like her body has turned to stone.

A Muncie mystery - exactly why there have been two spellings of the local name "Whitel(e)y over the years - is investigated. And the answer is ...

August 21 1838- Fever and ague epidemic in Northwest Ohio continues. Many in Toledo area sick and dying. 1909 - King Wamba of Spain makes first visit to Toledo for the first annual gala called the Wamba Carnival of Toledo.

We continue our Abandoned History coverage of the Ford Cruise-O-Matic transmission today, shortly after the three-speed automatic established itself as a reliable motivation source for Ford, Lincoln, and Mercury products. Developed by the Warner Gear division of Borg-Warner, the new automatic caught Ford up to the competition as far as an automatic offering was concerned. Efficient and economical to build, Studebaker got in on the Cruise-O-Matic action for their cars too.After the box proved it...

As we finished up our coverage of General Motors' Turbo-Hydramatic family of transmissions, I asked which gearbox you might like to see covered next by Abandoned History. The comments honed in on Ford, and the various versions of the C family of automatics. Fine by me! Today we head back to the Fifties to learn about the genesis of all the Cs. It was the extremely Fifties sounding Cruise-O-Matic, built with pride in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Muncie native Peggy Goldwater returned to her hometown in October 1964 to campaign for her husband, Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater.

Employees at one of the Seattle coffee chain’s San Antonio stores are working to...

autoevolution 6 Jan 2021, 15:00 UTC · by Not to be confused with the Fairlane line of vehicles for the Australian market, the full-size car for North America replaced the Crestline series in 1955. The Victoria hardtop coupe in the gallery is one of the best-preserved examples from the first generation of the Fairlane, and believe it or not, this blast from the past still features the original invoice. 21 photos RK Motors Charlotte, the selling vendor, describes chassis number M6DV222852 ...