Jubilant Lincoln Victory Parade In Leavenworth
On November 12 1860 Leavenworth held a grand Republican parade celebrating Abraham Lincolns presidential win. Citizens gathered at Delaware and Third streets with illuminated Times building, fireworks and crowd cheers as speakers Col Delahay Marcus Parrott H P Johnson G W McLane and David H Bailey addressed the assembly unlocking fervent support for Lincoln Hamlin and statehood.
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Abraham Lincoln
United States
Kansas
Leavenworth
Mozart Hall
Union
Mark Delahay
Republican Party
Delahay
Marcus J. Parrott
Congress
Parrott
H. P. Johnson
G. W. McLane
David H. Bailey
Lincoln
Hamlin
Mud and flood woes sweep Kansas towns in 1861 reports
Excerpts from Emporia News and Lecompton National Democrat recount brutal winter thaw flood damage. Descriptions include streets turned to mud up to knees, swollen creeks and the Kansas river rising, delaying mail as ice breaks and floods inundate towns like Leavenworth Emporia and Lecompton with record highs and heavy runoff.
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Leavenworth Daily Times
Leavenworth
Kansas
Emporia
Emporia News
Atchison
Lecompton National Democrat
Banjo Mania Grips Fort Scott
Fort Scott residents were portrayed as swept up in a banjo craze in 1861. The editor warned of banjo mania spreading, noting instrument making and banjo culture in town, while predicting banjos and banjoists would flourish in two months. A week later he mocked dog lovers and proposed a drum mania to silence howling canines.
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Fort Scott
South Sea Island
Christie and
Wood
Hostile Indians and Violence Near El Dorado
A Lawrence Republican report cites affidavits of eyewitnesses about an Osage attack 40 miles west of El Dorado in which William Shaw was killed and A E Green burned. Leavenworth items describe a runaway wagon crash on Third Street and a saloon brawl linked to a unsettled bill, reflecting local turmoil and unruly crowds.
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el Dorado
Black Dog
Wm. Shaw
Burlington
A. E. Green
Leavenworth
Second and
Delaware
Delaware Street
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Lecompton
Banjo Mania
Lawrence Republican
Shaw
Green
Lawrence
Bismarck Grove
Kaw River
Midwest
Chicago
Grove
Kansas Turnpike
Art Hall
Old Grove
Dim Clark
Charlie Zook
Lyman Wiley
Charles Decker
Alpha Cahoon
Service Department
Marvin Humphrey
Bruce Clopper
Junior Brubeck
Curtis Wright
Lawrence Nixon
Jim Marshall
Don Hart
Bill Loney
Ricky Romero
Gerald Keizer
Joe Battiest
Jim Clark Imperial
Chrysler
Dodge
Dart
Lancer
Dodge Trucks
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