Posted in: Historic Miscellania Bacteria, Blood & Bad Dreams: The Unsolved Murder of Helen Knabe

How did one of Indiana’s pioneer investigators into STDs and rabies come to a gory end?  The mystery of Dr. Helen Knabe’s death remains one of the great cold cases in Indianapolis murder history.  So,...

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Posted in: Historic Miscellania Rufus Cantrell, Intruder in the Dust

In 1935, the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges weighed in on what mathematicians later called chaos theory: the results of some phenomena are simply impossible to predict, control, or even explain.  Take the freak reasoning of...

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Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Adverts: What Is It!?

Here are your hints: – 100 years ago – Cold and flu season – Epidemics – Bugs – Funeral homes – Outhouses Answer: Behold the Formacone disinfectant and (peee-yoooo!) deodorizer. Very soon the windows must...

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