Lynch a Black Man in Arkansas Mob Violence Report
Clarendon Arkansas reports a mob lynching of a Black man named Harris who attacked white landlord John Coburn. Harris was captured after the assault, taken to Clarendon, and lynched by masked men. Sheriff Milwee aided the mob.
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Detroit
Clarendon
Ark
Dack Farris
America Cotton Company
John Coburn
Coburn
Morris
Cohurn
Harris
Milwee
Dail
Elarria
Cound
Ousted From Office in Detroit Scandal
Dewitt QI Moreland of Detroit removed from office by City Council after a two week probe. He faces charges of misapplied public funds and soliciting bribes from contractors. Mayor Maybury appoints William H Maybury as successor. Moreland is reportedly missing, possibly in Mexico.
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Detroit
Mich
Dewitt QI
Moreland
Maybury
Willian H H. Maybury
Democratic County Committee
Atte Cece
Mexico
Hla
Exposition Expenditures and Races Highlight Busy Era
The report shows the world's fair company spending nine million dollars in cash through the present month, with contracts laid to nearly complete the ten million dollar expenditure required by Congress before government funds release. Other items note a Chicago rally urging black arms against lynching, Yale oarsmen sweeping Thames races, Rockefeller gaining control of Colorado Fuel and Iron, and a Chicago strike settlement restoring waiter and baker positions.
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Rockefelier
Rockefeller Ia
Colorado Buel and Iron Company
John C. Osgood
John AW. Gnatea
lawley-Harriman
Notorious Delaware Mob Burns Black Suspect at Stake
A mob of about four thousand gathered in Wilmington after a coroner's inquest verdict. They stormed the New Castle workhouse, overpowered guards, and executed George White by tying him to a pine stake and burning him as hundreds looked on. Police were overwhelmed and several citizens were injured in the chaotic scene.
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Delaware
Binger
Joli Guarda
Wilmington
Del
George Wihtte
Helen
Bishop
Newengtla
Stretta
Willinington
Anon
Price
Helen Bishop
Jils
Othera
Slavery probe shines on Alabama peonage crimes
Federal grand jury evidence in Montgomery reveals brutal abuse in peonage cases, including tales of murder, whipping, and the sale of enslaved Black people. John W. Pace of Calla pecan County is named as a principal offender who has confessed, with others offering government testimony about a conspiracy to uphold a slave system.
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Montgomery
Ala
Crimea
Sarah Nealy
Lurner
Meteher Tuvener's
Allen Turner
Ake
Mr. Turner
John W. Pace
Callapecan County
Reese
Alabama
United States
Weather Warnings and Political Buzz in June News
June coverage recalls weather reputation and presidential buzz in the Republican party. Jett and White are charged with painting Breathitt County red, officials aim to finish the rainbow colors soon. Postal officers’ rafting talents and legal actions frame a broad, satirical roundup of current events.
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Republican Party
Jett
White
Breathitt County
Washington
Weather crops show backward corn and late wheat harvest
The weekly crop summary notes cool conditions east of the Rockies with milder weather in central valleys and the South. Heavy rains in two districts delayed farm work while the Oho and upper Mississippi valleys and gulf states saw favorable cultivation. Corn remains very late in northern districts but improving in central valleys. winter wheat harvest progresses with good yields in Missouri and Indiana. Spring wheat lacks rain in North Dakota and South Dakota but is doing well in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa.
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Weather Bureau
Rocky Mountains
Lake Region
Middle Atlantic
New England
Oho
Upper Mississippi
Gulf States
Dakotas
Minnesota
Central
East Gulf
Missouri
Timnets
Tudiana
North Lakota
South Dakota
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Iowa
Washington
Illinois
Kansas
Michigan
Ohio Valley
North
Carolin
Virginia
Arkansas
Iragis
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Town
Kentucky
New York
Virginias
Chio
Nervy Old Soldier Watches Amputations At Close Of War
Henry C. Nichols of Jersey City dies after enduring two conscious amputations at Christ Hospital to save his life following wounds from Civil War service. At Antietam and the Wilderness his courage under surgery and a fatal heart weakness are noted. Memorial Day parade honor marked his last miles as he willed to be home with comrades. Also a 12-year-old boy, Ed Thornton, drowns at Columbia Missouri.
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Gronnie
Henry C. Nichols
Jersey City
Antietam
Wilderness
Christ Hospital
Nichols
Grand Army of the Republic
Prison for a planter in Georgia is a five year term
Alabaman planter J. W. Pace of Tullapooas, Alabama, was found guilty in federal court of holding enslaved people in peonage and sentenced to five years in prison. He pleaded guilty to eleven indictments and received a concurrent five year term due to age. On appeal he was released on $5,000 bail. In Macon, Judge Speer fined three young men $1,000 each for involuntary servitude, suspended during good behavior with $100 payments, noting this as the first such Georgia case and signaling deterrence while opposing harsh measures.
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Meoware
J. OW. Pace
Tullapooas
Alu
Pace
Owens Green
Macon
United States
Speer
William Shy
Arthur Clawson
Robert Urner
Georgia
Resignations and returns mark globe spanning events
President J A Beattle of Hiram College submitted his resignation to the board. James J Van Alen, reported missing, arrived in Newport Rhode Island after a world tour. A gun engine explosion on Mnuch Rove farm in Marion township Osle caused fires to a well five oil tanks and an engine house. Lightning struck a district school chimney at Lauderdale North Dakota injuring a teacher and pupil. Twenty five pupils unconscious after the incident. Porter Brothers of San Jose California, after a favorable receivership review, will resume business. D S Gay grain and seed warehouse at Winchester Kentucky burned, destroying a large stock valued over one hundred thousand dollars with insurance of seven hundred sixty five thousand. Delegates to a Dengar city-county charter convention support a non-partisan civic ticket by large margins over Republicans.
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J. A. Beattle
Hiram College
James J. van Alen
Newport
R. L
Maerion Township
Oslo
Lauderdale
Porter’ Brothers
San Jose
Cal
D. 8 Gay
Winchester
Liue
Dengar
Industrial Review Signals Mixed Trade Prospects
TheWeekly Review notes delayed merchandise distribution due to unseasonably low temps and heavy rains, with rail traffic up 68 percent over last June. Iron and steel markets show confusion yet improvement ahead, while cotton mills remain active and footwear and woolen goods report solid results. Foreign trade holds firm amid varied crop outlooks, though corn remains weak and Europe hedges on crop prospects.
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RG. Dan & Co
Roslow
United States
Canada
Chicago to New York Grain and Livestock Price Snapshot
A dense list of commodity quotes across cities including Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Toledo Buffalo New York with cattle hogs sheep wheat corn oats rye and related product prices. Notable ranges include Chicago cattle 3.00 to 5.35 dollars and New York cattle 4.00 to 5.05 dollars alongside assorted cereals and produce prices.
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W. L. Pittsburg
Cincinnati
New York
Boston
Chicage
Philadelphia
Brooklyn
Cleveland
Detroit
St. Louis
Washington
Chicago
Ste
Indianapolis
Bsc
Toledo
Judgment on June as time’s bar weighs a lunar theft
The fragmentary verse depicts a judge assessing guilt, with lines about theft of paradise blooms and Elysian pilfering. A woman named Aud is sentenced to thirty days, as reflected in a Chicago Ledger style line. The piece presents archaic diction and dramatic phrasing without clear contemporary context.
Woman's back pain relief story promotes Dodd's Kidney Pills
Mrs. Fred Chalker of this place suffered long with back pains and fatigue. After trying many remedies she read of another woman helped by Dodd's Kidney Pills and began treatment. After two boxes she improved and ultimately was cured, praising the pills as a cure for back pain.
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Dubit
Fred Chalker
Dodd
Synonym Lesson From a Shy Spelling Mother
In a playful dialogue Mamma explains to Floramay that a synonym is a word that can replace another when spelling is uncertain. The mother, modest about orthography, offers a simple definition to aid her child.
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Mamma
Floramay
Allen's Foot Base promotes foot comfort and shoe fit
An 1890s style ad for Allen's Foot Base claims it rests the feet and relieves corns bunions and aching feet. It promises easier fitting shoes and lists druggists and shoe stores as sellers with a sample offer. Mrs Helen Thornton Campbell has died leaving $100000 to Buffalo homes for the worthy poor.
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Allen
An& Shoe Stores
FREY
Allen 8
Olmsted
le Roy
Helen Thornton Campbell
Buffalo Hones
Advice to Women in Change of Life by Lydia E Pinkham
A fragmentary advertisement extols Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for change of life symptoms. It cites a customer letter praising relief from dizziness, back pain, hot flashes, and kidney discomfort after six bottles, urging other women to try the medicine.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Ara Hoss
Mont~clair Ave
Roulindale
Mass
Brenan Gennieanen
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