Colored Stills Raid Leads to Several Arrests in City
Police with a search warrant entered a third floor room at 704 W Third Street and seized a still with over 30 gallons of mash. Alex Reglus John Brown and Louis Brown were arrested for possessing a still and liquor. Mrs Sallie Ray was jailed for liquor possession and a still as her husband fled. John Helvey was shot in the thigh during a home dispute over his affection with rival admirers Artie Newell and Lulu Moses. The Newell woman and Lulu Moses faced warrants on shooting to kill charges.
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Duback
Donovan, Ganderberger
Westerman
Third Street
Alex Reglus
John Brown
Louis Brown
Sallie Ray
Baymiller Street
Searjeant
Houston
Hoffman
Helvey
Artie Newell
Newell
Lulu Moses
Miss Moses
Debating a Monument to the Colored Mammy at Washington
A letter to Theodore Noyes denounces The Evening Star editorial backing a United Daughters of the Confederacy bill to erect a monument to the colored mammy in the nation’s capital. The writer argues for Black women’s progress and equality, citing Harvard and Harvard alumni reactions to race-based admissions, and condemns racist limits in education and society.
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Eleventh St
N. W
Theodore Noyes
the Star
Washington, D. C
Noyes
Evening Star
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Senate
John Sharp Williams
Mississippi
National Capital
South
Star
America
Pythian Bath House Corner Stone Laid at Hot Springs
In Hot Springs Arkansas on February 7 a crowd of over two thousand attended the corner stone laying of the Knights of Pythias funded Bath House and Sanitarium built at a cost of 48000. Col Roscoe Conkling Simmons of Chicago delivered the dedicatory address with remarks from Supreme Chancellor S W Green of New Orleans. Simmons urged that races talk to each other and framed a call to legal reforms to curb violence and property destruction.
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Ark
Pythian
Knights of Pythias
Roscoe Conkling Simmons
Chicago
S. W Green
New Orleans
Simmons
Arkansas
New York
Boston
Constitu
Quote from Governor Andrews on equality and character
A governor asserts personal integrity and universal respect, declaring he never despises anyone for poverty ignorance or race. The remark emphasizes moral equality and condemns prejudice. This archival line reflects mid era civic rhetoric.
Ku Klux Threat Targets Boston Mayor Curley
Boston Mayor Curley, who denounced the Ku Klux Klan as a national menace, received a threat to his six children after the mayor and his wife left for a southern trip. Police stationed officers at the Curley home in Jamaica Plain to guard against further threats.
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Boston
Curley
Jamaica Plain
Harvard and the Negro in 19th Century Senate
Blanche K Bruce, a light mulatto, was elected U S Senator from Mississippi in 1875. Roscoe Conkling assisted his swearing in and later aided with committee placements. The senator’s son was named Roscoe Conkling and his father, America’s wealthiest Black man, sent him to Harvard, graduating in 1992.
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Blanche K. Bruce
Mullatto
United States
Mississippi
James L. Alcorn
South Carolina
Senate
Alcorn
Roscoe Conklin
New York
Bruce
Roscoe Conkling
America
Harvard
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