39 CASE ONE: A Comparison between Indiana (1907) and Norway (1934)Alexandra Minna Stern has examined the records of the Committee on Mental Defectives, begun in Indiana in 1915 by then Governor Samuel Ralston as well as other records reaching in to the 1950s and found that in 1920, the ...
Housed in a glass-enclosed pavilion in Kokomo’s Highland Park is a pair of oddities. Old Ben, a steer born in 1902 on an area farm, weighed 125 pounds at birth and gained 100 pounds a month, weighing two tons by the age of 4 and topping out at over 4,500 pounds by the time of...
39 CASE ONE: A Comparison between Indiana (1907) and Norway (1934)Alexandra Minna Stern has examined the records of the Committee on Mental Defectives, begun in Indiana in 1915 by then Governor Samuel Ralston as well as other records reaching in to the 1950s and found that in 1920, the...