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Newspaper
Hickory Democrat
Location
Hickory, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1908
Page
1
In Washington and Columbia, clashes erupt over Ohio Republican platform tactics and roiling debates on African American voting rights and the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. The piece notes Roosevelt and Taft alignments, fears of fiscal sellouts, and potential shifts in southern representation amid a volatile national political scene.
Vinol combines cod liver oil and iron without oil content. It aims to strengthen anemia weak blood and convalescence, claiming superior body-building effects for old people, delicate children, and those with chronic coughs and throat or lung troubles. Menzies Drug Co.
A historical wartime style column rails at black voters and Republican leaders. It reports Negro bishops warning the 1908 or related national convention not to nominate Roosevelt or Taft or risk loss of votes. The piece predicts Southern resistance and asserts no reopening of settled conditions.
A San Francisco endorsement touts Electric Bitters as a cure for kidney and bladder issues, liver and stomach troubles, claiming it cleanses blood and builds up the system. It highlights prominent architect Norman X. Coulter of the Delbert Building and urges readers to buy from local druggists at 60 cents.
A Congress complaint accuses the Indian Territory Citizenship Court and Chief Justice Spencer B Adams of bribery involving a $750000 fee paid from Choctaw and Chickasaw trust funds to Mansfield Murray & Cornish. The allegations claim judges were bribed for favorable rulings tied to these funds. Also noted are local brief items and an advertisement about Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea.
Howard University faculty member W. H. Hart, a Black attorney, buys a Pullman ticket to Fallis, Oklahoma, refuses to ride the segregated coach after crossing the state line, and drives to Guthrie to avoid the Jim Crow car, reflecting national tensions over racial seating laws and political reform debates.
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