{"id":302,"date":"2023-02-25T17:46:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T21:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wideopenevansville.com\/blog\/?p=302"},"modified":"2023-02-25T17:48:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T21:48:07","slug":"the-ossenberg-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wideopenevansville.com\/blog\/blog\/2023\/02\/25\/the-ossenberg-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ossenberg &#8220;Machine&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">In 1913, the republican Ossenberg &#8220;machine&#8221; backed Bosse&#8217;s campaign for mayor of Evansville. They did the same thing in 1916, when they helped Bosse win re-election. However, when prohibition came to Indiana in April 1918, the Ossenbergs abruptly severed their ties with Mayor Bosse, with the elder Ossenberg brother eventually resigning from his position in Bosse&#8217;s administration as head of Evansville&#8217;s police detectives.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Federal agents had their take on why the Ossenbergs and Bosse had a falling out:<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wideopenevansville.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Fred-O-1-1024x443.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-307\" width=\"700\" height=\"332\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1913, the republican Ossenberg &#8220;machine&#8221; backed Bosse&#8217;s campaign for mayor of Evansville. They did the same thing in 1916, when they helped Bosse win re-election. However, when prohibition came to Indiana in April 1918, the Ossenbergs abruptly severed their ties with Mayor Bosse, with the elder Ossenberg brother eventually resigning from his position in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopenevansville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopenevansville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopenevansville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopenevansville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopenevansville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopenevansville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopenevansville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopenevansville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopenevansville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopenevansville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopenevansville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}