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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1871
Page
1
Readable reports from Mississippi counties describe intimidation and arson against colored and white teachers, threats to close free schools, and mass disruption by masked groups linked to the Ku Klux Klan. Accounts cite specific counties, teachers, burned schoolhouses, and warnings to stop teaching.
In Reno Venango county a woman threw scalding water at dogs and a child nearby was nearly burned. Exhumations of Confederate dead from Gettysburg regions are sent home. Local papers report heavy weights of radish and near-destruction by oil blaze at Muhlenburg College. Military drills occur near Jane’s Mills Westmoreland county. Winged ants fall in Chester county and raspberry crops recover after hail. Reading Times notes Seburz’s school teaching and Bayard Taylor’s clerkship. An elderly voter in Lewisburg recalls 1810, and Strecker of Reading possesses a large private butterfly collection valued at 35000. Clothing and fabric production values in Philadelphia in 1870 total 40 million. Wyoming and a pair of townships resist school law. The last duel on Pennsylvanian soil occurred 1805 near Lewisburg with no injuries. Timothy Bradley’s death in 1871 at 101, a veteran of four wars. A Peshtigo rescue describes a girl saving her sister and siblings perishing in a night fire.
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