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Newspaper
Monroe City Democrat
Location
Monroe City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1903
Page
6
The Macon Times-Democrat warns against slander as a corrosive force on society. It contrasts vile tongue lashing with the duty to aid fallen neighbors, urging restraint, kindness, and lifting others toward virtue rather than condemning them.
The passage jokes about women not kissing openly, noting hat rubbing as the current display of affection. Vanity Pair laments male disappearance, speculating that the dead retreat to Scotland as gasnippers. In Shelbina, electric lights are shut off at midnight while warm weather drives young people to flirt by the tire fly light.
Fred J. Kern mayor and former congressman defends the mob that lynched David F. Wyatt a Black teacher in Belleville after the shooting of Charles Hertel county superintendent of schools He labels the act an irregular execution and says authorities bore no blame for Wyatt’s death He condemns violence yet asserts the city would not be fit without fury in such a case and urges restraint by police while accepting the lynching as necessary politics and race relations are noted with references to Missouri and Mississippi comments and local notices about seeds and visits from Fulton friends
The writer laments continual coverage of white violence against Black people in Missouri and Mississippi. It notes known perpetrators who burned a Black school teacher and shot a professor, while Belleville Illinois officials are urged to act and Rev Dr Hillis to denounce the events vigorously.
A terse trade notice proclaims Chamberlains Pain Balm as an antiseptic liniment that speeds healing of cuts bruises and burns without maturation. Sold by all dealers as a quick remedy.
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