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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled On This Day in Terre Haute History about Terre, Haute, Indiana with the genre: History, Americas.
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conversations.value: the author has lived in her adopted city, Terre Haute, Indiana, for more than fifty years. She is a graduate of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, the former curator of the Vigo County Historical Society and executive director of the Terre Haute YWCA. The author or co-author of six local history publications, she continues as a freelance writer for the Tribune-Star and Terre Haute Living magazine.
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conversations.value: Give me the first three paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: On This Day in Terre Haute History
  The Typographical Union of Terre Haute invited trade union members to meet at the Central Temperance Union Meeting Hall, the former Baldwin Presbyterian Church at Fifth and Ohio Streets, to form a "National Trade Union Congress." Outnumbered by members of trade associations who had another agenda, the trade unionists sent out what is known as the Terre Haute Resolution:
  The Federation of Organized Trade Unions of the United States of America and Canada was formed at this meeting. Five years later, it was reorganized as the American Federation of Labor.
  A near-capacity crowd almost filled Memorial Stadium on each of the three nights of this event. Robert Anderson, president, and members of the United Mine Workers of America, District 11, made up the picnic committee. On Friday was a Babe Ruth baseball game, and the Jess Knowles orchestra provided music for dancing each night. On Saturday, free tickets were given to the children for the rides; the fifth annual Indiana mine safety and first aid contest with four six-man teams; children's races; and contests to determine the miner who was the biggest liar, who had the baldest head, who was the oldest and who had the largest family. On Sunday, children from the Glenn Home were guests, and Little League games were played. Patsy Gardner was named queen; Eddy Jean Washley, a tap dancer, won the talent contest; and John Daniel and Marilyn Long came in first in the jitterbug competition. It was always a big weekend since the first picnic in 1916.
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conversations.value: It was a Tuesday morning. Explosions rocked the town of Fontanet, a town of about 1,500 people in Nevins Township. It was the home of the Laflin and Rand Mill, operated by the E.I. duPont de Nemours and Company to produce blasting power for area coal mines. An explosion in the glazing mill at 9:08 a.m. was followed thirty minutes later by a blast in the press mill. The debris from the explosions set fire to the magazine, causing the detonation of about twenty-five thousand kegs of dynamite. The explosions, recorded more than two hundred miles away, left twenty-seven dead, hundreds injured and buildings and homes totally destroyed. Physicians arrived by train from Terre Haute. Governor J. Frank Hanly called in Indiana National Guard units. Alfred duPont, company vice-president, came to the scene. When plans for the future were announced, the residents asked the company not to rebuild.
  The first inmate arrived at the U.S. Penitentiary, Terre Haute, from the penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Many more were subsequently received either by bus or train. Constructed in 1938–40, it was the sixth facility in the federal system and the first penitentiary for adult felons ever built without a wall. Seeking economic development during the Great Depression, the Chamber of Commerce had promoted the area as a potential prison site; a special committee raised some $50,000 toward land acquisition. The Hulman farm and the Durham and Bentley farms were the first to be acquired in 1938. The facility, originally designed to house 1,018 inmates, was financed by the U.S. Public Works Administration at a cost of $3 million. The project brought more jobs and new families moving into the area—reasons for the exceptional public support.
  Dr. L.P. Luckett reported as many as 2,000 cases of Spanish influenza in a light form in Terre Haute and that the right sort of precaution was in place. Just the week before, the State Board of Health had ordered "all schools, churches, theaters, moving picture houses and other places of public assembly closed and a ban on all public meetings." The local chapter of the American Red Cross prepared for more cases with isolation beds at two Union Hospital cottages and at Saint Anthony Hospital, the Phoenix Club and the Florence Crittenton Home, which was not in use at the time. Churches and theaters began reopening on November 3, and public schools and Indiana State Normal followed. On November 5, the Terre Haute Board of Health reported 583 cases in the city and thirty-five deaths at Terre Haute hospitals since October 1.
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conversations.value: Give me the last four paragraphs.
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conversations.value: One hundred years before, the eight-story fireproof Hotel Deming had been completed on the site of the former Congregational church property at Sixth and Cherry Streets. A large lobby served guests in the 250 rooms, 200 of which were equipped with baths.
  Representatives of all twelve township school corporations in the county unanimously agreed to transfer the assets, liabilities and operation of their school facilities over to the newly appointed Board of School Trustees of Vigo County. With two members dissenting, the Terre Haute Board of School Trustees also adopted a resolution to turn over all the assets of the city schools to the new Vigo County School Corporation as of January 1. Attorney Thomas A. Patrick had advised under the School Corporation Reorganization Act of 1959 that the trustees were "mandated to consummate the changeover." Max Gabbert was the acting superintendent of the new school corporation.
  For fifty-seven years, the Wabash Valley High School Basketball Tournament was in play. It became one of the largest non-state scholastic athletic competitions in the nation, but time was called after the 1972 event. Now, this tradition was resurrected at Terre Haute South Vigo High School with the first Pizza Hut Wabash Valley Classic. Teams from twelve high schools in Indiana and Illinois were competing, with Turkey Run and Sullivan playing the opening game. Host South Terre Haute, North Vigo, West Vigo, Hamilton Southeastern, South Vermillion, Cloverdale, Bloomfield and Rockville in Indiana and Marshall and Bridgeport Red Hill from Illinois also competed. The Bloomfield Cardinals and Hamilton Southeastern Royals advanced to the championship game, with the Royals winning 79–46. Jim Jones and Pat Rady, Terre Haute coaches, and Gary Fears of Pizza Hut were to be congratulated for renewing this Wabash Valley tradition.
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conversations.value: Add another sentence about Library, Stillman, Taylor, named, acting, established.
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conversations.value: One hundred years before, the eight-story fireproof Hotel Deming had been completed on the site of the former Congregational church property at Sixth and Cherry Streets. A large lobby served guests in the 250 rooms, 200 of which were equipped with baths. 
  Representatives of all twelve township school corporations in the county unanimously agreed to transfer the assets, liabilities and operation of their school facilities over to the newly appointed Board of School Trustees of Vigo County. With two members dissenting, the Terre Haute Board of School Trustees also adopted a resolution to turn over all the assets of the city schools to the new Vigo County School Corporation as of January 1. Attorney Thomas A. Patrick had advised under the School Corporation Reorganization Act of 1959 that the trustees were "mandated to consummate the changeover. " Max Gabbert was the acting superintendent of the new school corporation. 
  Stillman Taylor, librarian of the Emeline Fairbanks Memorial Library, was named acting librarian of the Vigo County Public Library, which had been established as part of the school reorganization transition. 
  For fifty-seven years, the Wabash Valley High School Basketball Tournament was in play. It became one of the largest non-state scholastic athletic competitions in the nation, but time was called after the 1972 event. Now, this tradition was resurrected at Terre Haute South Vigo High School with the first Pizza Hut Wabash Valley Classic. Teams from twelve high schools in Indiana and Illinois were competing, with Turkey Run and Sullivan playing the opening game. Host South Terre Haute, North Vigo, West Vigo, Hamilton Southeastern, South Vermillion, Cloverdale, Bloomfield and Rockville in Indiana and Marshall and Bridgeport Red Hill from Illinois also competed. The Bloomfield Cardinals and Hamilton Southeastern Royals advanced to the championship game, with the Royals winning 79–46. Jim Jones and Pat Rady, Terre Haute coaches, and Gary Fears of Pizza Hut were to be congratulated for renewing this Wabash Valley tradition.