Events 90 Years Ago 'Kept Tongues Wagging'

Events 90 Years Ago 'Kept Tongues Wagging'

Ottawa, Kansas

Lathrop, Charles

Lathrop, Hamilton

Clark and Sessions Undertakers

Chalmers and Co. Undertakers

Sherman, Ben

Newspaper article written by John Mark Lambertson about an altercation between Ben Sherman and brothers Charles and Hamilton Lathrop in Ottawa that resulted in the death of Charles Lathrop. Two rival undertakers then got into a fight over the corpse, during which one of them was stabbed. Newspaper article includes photo of the building on the east side of the 100 block of south Main Street that housed Lathrop Bros. Grocery.

Lambertson, John Mark

Ottawa Herald

11/21/1984

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2011.100.05.02

Ottawa, Kansas

1894