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Newspaper
Mena Star
Location
Mena, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1898
Page
7
The New York Press notes ten to fourteen year olds fighting with the insurgents in Cuba. Boys as spies and frontline fighters mimic veterans, driven by vengeance and hunger. One fifteen-year-old mulatto aided General Maceo, dying in the last charge as he conveyed critical messages. Record shows youths on Bayamo field among the fallen.
Details describe I'. Coy aged about six feet one inch tall weighing 165 pounds with a red complexion. He has a wife and two young boys, oldest 15, four mules including three black and a large lame white mule, a log wagon and a road wagon. A reward of 85 is offered for information on whereabouts, address given as 2-4 Prank Panaeen Gillham Ark. Also notes a dry goods and groceries business in Mena with low prices and summer excursion rates, listing Green & Lewis and H C Orr G P A and D J Carr, ticket agent in Mena Ark.
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