Tom Dixon’s Leopard Lots Prompts Southern Debate
A Knoxville reader reviews The Leopard’s Lots by Thomas Dixon Jr. from Atlanta Journal. The work centers on race in the postwar South, praising Dixon’s Southern perspective and portraying Reconstruction tensions, lynching, and white supremacy as portrayed by a southern author. The piece highlights Dixon’s vivid rhetoric and likens his lectures to a live wire of energy.
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Atlanta Journal
Thomas Dixon, Jr
South
Union
North Carolina
George Harris
Mr. Dixon
Tom Dixon
New York Central
Tom
Will of Dennis Simmons Provides Funds to Baptist Institutions
The Wilmington Messenger reports the will of Dennis Simmons, Williamston, probated May 19, devotes about 65,000 dollars to the Baptist orphanage at Thomasville and 15,000 dollars to the Baptist university at Raleigh, North Carolina.
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Wilmington Messenger
Dennis Simmons
Williamston
N.C
Baptist Orphanage
Thomasville
N. C
Baptist University
Raleigh
Great Mine Horror and Local News Roundup
A multi-item column reports Mrs. Alice Beavers killed by a moving train in Concord, a strawberry shipment tally through Rocky for the East Carolina Truck and Full Growers Association, turtles hauled to Charlotte by W. M. Long, and a Jefferson Davis note from Raleigh. It closes with a Fraterville coal mine explosion near Coal Creek, detailing 175 to 40 missing, a single survivor, coffins, and community relief efforts.
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Alice Beavers
Concord
Wilmington Star of Sunday
H.T. Bauman
East Carolina
Charlotte Observer
W. M. Long
Kileigh
State Library
Mel Garland Jones
Jefferson Davis
North Carolina
United States
Bsauvaria
Miss
Messrs
Wharton Green
James U. MacRae
C. W. Broadfoot
Neill W. Ray
W C. McDuffy
M.O. Sherrill
Knoxville
Fenn
Fraterville
Coal Creek
William Morgan
Morgan
Hugger
Briceville
Keep Your Bowels Strong Constipation or diarrhoea remedy
Ad for Cas carets Candy Cathartic urging bowel strength with genuine tablets stamped C C C. Sold widely with a bold claim of natural action and quick relief.
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Deena
Race Riot in Atlanta Ends With Eight Dead
In Atlanta on May 17 a deadly riot erupted after officers tried to arrest armed black suspects barricaded in a two story house. Eight men died including three policemen and a white citizen, with six wounded as a block burned and state troops restored order. The conflict began when county officers raided the hideout near McDaniel Street and escalated despite city police and governor’s orders.
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Atlanta
McDuaniel Street
S. A. Kerlin
Raids and Rain Mark Ringwood Area Report
Bigewoon North Carolina May 19 rainfall and tobacco near harvest. Farmers rush as growing grass damages crops. A raid on C A Williams plant bed took plants. Revenue officer Lewis burned two moonshine stills nearby last week. meal beer and whiskey seized. two men shot while fleeing but not seriously hurt. Miss Nannie Whitehead teacher and Miss Maggie Bullock led a successful entertainment last week, to be repeated in Enfield Wednesday night.
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Dence
Commonwealth
Bigewoon
N.C
C. A. Williams
Lewis
Here
Nannie Whitehead
Maggie Bullock
Enfield
Dr Kings New Discovery Promises Cures for Consumption
A boastful notice proclaims Dr King’s New Discovery cures for consumption and lung diseases. It claims to cut phlegm and infected mucus, enrich blood with oxygen, and heal inflamed throats and lungs. Bottles priced 5 cents and 1.00, with trial bottles available through E T Whiteheed Coe.
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Dr. King
E. T. Whiteheed
Coe
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