Dakota Items Highlights Local Happenings and Weather
The Dakota Advocate notes a rest for Ore of itd and questions regain of life. The W. A. depot moved east to the track side and received repairs for a neat look. Mrs. W. P. McCalman travels to Penn to care for her ill father Rev. B. H. Cartwright, formerly of this place. T. J. Allen reports heavy hotel business as hot days strain customers. Merchants’ rapid sales worries locals about cannibalistic prices. Crops need rain soon as standing grain cries for moisture. More anon, F.
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Dakota Advocate
W. A
Bobby
W. P. McCalman
Penn
B. H. Cartwright
Thompson
M. E
T. J. Allen
Civil War in the Nation Over Civil Rights Debate
The Louisville Courier Journal cites warnings of war and revolution over the Civil Rights Bill while The World argues whites will rule or negroes ruin the South. The piece blames Democrats for postwar misrule and urges Republican unity to defend equal citizenship against sectional threats. It notes cross-state mobilizations and calls for safeguarding liberty and civil rights.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Democratic Journal
Kentucky
Washington
General Grant
the World
New York
Indiana
Alabama
Eaton
United States Senate
Connecticut
Democratic Party
Lee
Orr
General Longstreet
Congress
Union
Mr. Eaton
Our Brothers
Democratic
Louisville Courier Journal
Courier
Massachusetts
Harper's Weekly
War of Races and Election Politics
A analysis of racial strife linked to elections, noting frequent pre election “war of races” claims by Southern Conservatives. It cites riots and mobs from Memphis to Camilla to Mobile, alleged arms procurement, and the White Men’s party’s rise amid claims of intimidation and fraud in South states including Mississippi and Louisiana.
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Republican Party
South
Memphis
New Orleans
Camilla
Mobile
Grant Parish
Vicksburg
Louisiana
Austin
Miss
Hernando
Garfield Speech at Ohio District Convention on Currency and Industry
General James A Garfield addressed the Ohio Nineteenth District Republican Convention, his seventh nomination for Congress. He urged focus on industry development, transportation reform to reduce middleman costs, and a stable currency, advocating gradual moves toward a world money standard and warning against sudden policy shifts.
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James A. Garfield
Ohio
Congress
Color and Rights in Reconstruction Era Debates
The piece argues that Alabama and Indiana Democratic conventions express white supremacist views and oppose civil rights, while affirming constitutional equality for all citizens. It critiques party tactics, notes the federal push for equal rights, and warns that White-ruled platforms threaten reconstruction and social harmony amid ongoing Southern tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama
Democratic Party
Indiana
General Grant
King
Scribner’s Magazine
Georgia
Harper's Weekly
Kidnapping Case Shocks Indiana Farmer Near Leo
A farmer in Fort Wayne area reports his 11 year old daughter Ida missing after visiting a neighbor. He traced the child to Antwerp Ohio where he found her with a man and wife, Thompson and his wife, who denied knowledge of the girl. The man forced them to accompany him and they were jailed on abduction charges. The motive appears to be blackmail tied to the father Boyd Shannon who is well to do.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Boyd Shannon
Leo
Ida
Thompson
Antwerp
Shannon
Origin of the poor white people funeral discourse misspelled phrase
A Black minister delivering a funeral discourse recounts a Creation tale claiming Adam and Eve were Black at creation. He describes God placing them in the garden and reserving certain foods for white people, then departs to continue the task of saving souls, highlighting racial narratives.
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Darwin
Adam
Ebic
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National
John W. Farwell
L. D. Cortrigut
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Emerson W. Pieet
Chicago NL
la Salle Street
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Chicago
J. Bliss
Freeport
L. D. Line
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L.D. Line
W. Hirth
Cincinnati
O, Y
Peard’s Patent
Lane Baileyville
Ogle Co
Swarts & Stocking
Illinois
Ee Aaron
Geo
W. W. Robey
W. W. Hutchison
Stephenson Street
Munn's
Court Honge
Robey & Hutchison
C. M. Shaffer & Son
Munn’s Building
Court House
Masonic Relief Associatio
Norfolk
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Virginia
Masonic
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LDL
L. Roper
Henry V. Moore
Rec
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Northwestern
Tis Block
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Chita
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