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Newspaper
The Weekly Echo
Location
Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1870
Page
2
Notice of debts and postwar civic notes from 1868
A broad notice warns debtors to pay up for legal advertisements dating to 1868. The column remarks on President Grant’s departure to Washington, a Texan loyalist oath ruling, Loyal Leaguers reorganization with J. G. Tracy and G. W. Honey, and concerns over an Indian war as Cheyenne agency prisoners are reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flake
Texas
J. G. Tracy
Houston Union
G. W. Honey
League
Major Randall
Congress grants Mrs Lincoln annual pension of three thousand
The House voted three thousand dollars per year for Mrs Lincoln. The act aims to support her as widow of the former president, now living abroad in Germany, a decision seen as a humiliating page in American history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States House of Representatives
Lincoln
Germany
Supreme Council Meeting in Baltimore May 2 19th Century Masonry
A fragmented note reports a Supreme Council gathering of the Scottish Rite in Baltimore on May 2 with representatives from northern and southern regions. Names such as J. C. Ogee, Ale Buist and others appear amid scattered references to fines or fees totaling 1659 in the text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Council of the
Bopthern
Scottish Rite of Free Masons
Disaster at Capitol destroys lawmakers in deadly collapse
Fragmentary eyewitness account describes a floor collapse at the House of Delegates causing many deaths and hundreds injured. The panic led to fires alarms, mass gatherings in Capital Square, church altars full of corpses, and widespread mourning as communities rally for relief and political reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eilishn
Cahoon
Thair
House of Delecates
Capital
Frederickaburg
Fragmented 15th Amendment discourse in Evening Journal
The Evening Journal quotes remarks on the Fifteenth Amendment noting distinctions among races. It asserts natural differences will persist in social and family life, and suggests political and domestic spheres will reflect racial separation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thilastre
Alhway Evening Journal
VPho Movs Scottin pold mine duced about $220,000 Last yer
A fragment notes a figure near 220000 related to Scottin and a mine. Details are unclear due to damaged text. It references last year and a financial outcome but lacks verifiable entities or clear actions.
Decay of Republicanism and Jim Crow Critique
A Boston Courier editorial argues that decay means the decline of the Republican party or popular government amid alleged corruption in legislatures and bayonet rule in the reconstructed South. It cites a Boston Radical visiting Columbia South Carolina and condemns Southern state legislatures as forcing a Jim Crow system on voters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Courier
the Courier
Boston
Radics
Columbia
Colombia
General Lee Arrives in Charleston and Wilmington Visit
The message notes General Robert E. Lee arriving in Charleston on Tuesday and General Lee reaching Wilmington North Carolina on Thursday night. A Virginia paper quotes Lee as having gained some strength but remaining despondent about his situation. The letter mentions Mrs Lee and potential elopement concerns if her husband does not survive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. RE. Lee
Lee
Charleston
Washington
Eltot
Wilmington
North Carolina
Dover
Attakapas State Fair Display Highlights Machinery
Readers recount the Attakapas Fair showing with praise for labor saving machinery. Steinman’s cotton worm destroyer attracts attention, claiming to clear worms and eggs using steam vapor, while the People’s Loom and Morgan Loom draw crowds. Navy findings blame the Bombay accident on the Bombay alone, defending officers’ conduct.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iana
Attakapas
Steinman
Ttias
Democratic Convention Calls for Delegates and Parish Tie
A fragmented notice urges Lan lainay Drwoonstw Brame ing of the said Convention to meet by the second Monday next. It directs each Representative to the Parish and ties parishes to delegate numbers. The Democratic Journals appeal for a statewide convention to unite the party and prepare for action led by P. H. Hatom, President Tromas rer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lan Lainay
Igisiina
Pari Pat Ot Ae
Eive
Ercadin
Tion
P. H. Hatom
Tromas Rer
Lake Charles Academy Opens With Discipline Emphasis
Lake Charles Louisiana January 25 1870 announces Male and Female Academy Nine MT Moon Principal rey Academy now open. Strict discipline emphasized with focus on English branches. Tuition 30 dollars payable monthly with sickness deduction policy. Names given include Kunwar Bar J Rem W Dav H Dav and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Bar
Kunwar
A. W. An
H. Dav J. Rem
Louws
Granas
W. Wants
Lake Charles
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