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Fifty years ago in southern Indiana lived an Orange County farmer named Ballard, who had five sons. One of them, Edward, early showed enterprise. He used to deliver the laundry which his mother did for people who were taking the cure at neighboring French Lick. Soon he was graduated into a saloon in adjoining West Baden, next became a croupier in a gambling room run by a Negro in the West Baden Springs Hotel. In his mid-twenties he bought the gambling club for himself. After a decade or so more, he bought Brown's Hotel in French Lick...
Situated across the street from the great French Lick Springs Hotel belonging to Indiana's late Democratic Boss Tom Taggart, Brown's prospered. Spring and autumn, businessmen and politicians of the Midwest flocked to French Lick to drink Pluto water, rest, golf, enjoy themselves losing money at Brown's. Illinois' politicians still confer there regularly...
Depression cut into the revenues of Ballard's French Lick and West Baden business and one day in August 1934, realizing that he was over 60, he came suddenly to a decision. No Catholic, Ballard on the inspiration of the moment presented his huge circular West Baden Springs Hotel (once valued at $3,000,000) as a gift to the Jesuits, to be turned into a college. Before the day was out he called his cousin and employe, Norman Ballard, into his office and sold him Brown's and the Gorge, a neighboring gambling place. By nightfall...
Died. Charles Edward ("Ed") Ballard, 63, oldtime hotelman, gambling house and circus proprietor of French Lick, Ind.; from a bullet fired by his onetime Partner Robert ("Silver Bob") Alexander of Detroit, who next shot himself; in Hot Springs...
This theory has been born out by Professor H.N. Russell who has also written a book on the same subject. Some of the other subjects discussed were the eclipse of June 19, the twenty-inch camera at the Lick Obserratory, the discovery of a red nebulosity around Antares, the appearance of a wave of bright novae, appearing in the Milky Way, and the misbehavior of the star Gamma...