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Cora: Until the Corn Grew Too High to See Them (9)
Read the full Cora Stallman series here. Thursday, Aug. 27, 1925. Humboldt, IL On the first day of Cora Stallman’s inquest, Edith Lilley was in the witness chair twice. Both times she had plenty to tell — and yet, she hardly figures in the resulting newspaper accounts. Her testimony was mentioned only at the ends…
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Cora: The Rain and the Corn (8)
Read the full Cora Stallman series here. The wind and the corn talk things over together. And the rain and the corn and the sun and the corn Talk things over together. — Carl Sandburg Aug. 10-27, 1925. Coles County, IL. Coles County had rolled into the deepest part of summer, with days of 90…
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Cora: How Deceptive Appearances May Be (7)
Read the full Cora Stallman series here. Friday-Sunday, Aug. 7-9, 1925. Coles County, IL. On Friday morning, Edith Lilley hit her limit. The question of how Cora Stallman did, or did not, die had hung over the Lilleys’ farm for a week. It pulled Edith’s husband, Bos, out of bed early the Saturday before, and…
