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Newlin - Orville


Source: Waveland Independent newspaper, Waveland, Montgomery County, Indiana, July 23, 1936

 
Two WPA workers of Crawfordsville, Orville NEWLIN and Warren  McINTYRE, were instantly killed two miles south of Crawfordsville  on No. 43 when the truck in which they were riding was run into  by a beer truck coming from the south. Six others were injured,  one of them Merle Lawton seriously. The men were on their way to  work on the New Market water work project. The driver of the beer  truck was asleep having driven all night from Evansville to  deliver beer in Lebanon Saturday morning. -- don't you wonder if the beer driver was nippin? - kbz - so sad
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