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Wilson v. Miller

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Record of the Month! Game Design Challenge Update: Although we didn’t receive any entries for the Game Design Challenge from our April Record Feature, we do have 3 new versions of Bingo to share! All materials are available through the Student Resources page of the Archives website. Each version of Bingo has 20 unique printable cards and caller’s cards.   Burr Wilson v Philip Miller circa 1893; The above file contains witness testimony and bone fragments, filed in 1896.  For the month of June we are featuring an unusual 1893 court file that was unearthed during the 2019 Licking County OHRAB project. While it is not out of the ordinary for court records to include evidence as part of the case file, the evidence submitted in 1896 that was attached to this civil dispute was bone-chilling. In August of 1893 Burr Wilson sued Philip Miller for damages in the amount of $150 ($4,273 in today’s money) for the loss of his horse, Jack, due to an incident involving another hors