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Atlantic News Telegraph in Atlantic, Iowa

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Newspaper

Atlantic News Telegraph

Location

Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jun 25, 1913

Page

8

End of the Game and a Black Man Hunted Down

A white woman’s assault triggers a manhunt as Dr. Kirby and a companion flee with dope. A Black man fleeing in the woods cries Elishyah and begs for salvation before being captured and hanged near Big Bethel church, exposing racial tensions and a failed scam.

Danny Bishop Atlanta Dr. Kirby Kirby Hosses Sam Crick Bishop Warren Big Bethel Church

Withers Home and a Poet Pastor in a Lynching Tension

In a rural Alabama setting, Dr. Kirby and a friend dine with Daddy Withers and his wife, learning the old man writes poetry. A Boston publisher’s clipping and pride clash with fear of public mockery as a night wagon ride ends at a makeshift schoolhouse meeting where a lynch inquiry begins.

Daddy Withers Withers Sam Jigger Lemuel Dr. Kirby Boston Ant Will Buck Hightower Buck

When We First Climb the Hill Phrase

A fragmentary quotation describes relief at a moment of choice not being within personal power. It captures a conscience relieved that the action was not one’s own to decide, reflecting internal musing on fate and responsibility.

Bishop Hlishyah Sam Elishyah Mebby Beck Witherses

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