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1900-07-20 Arkansas Democrat pg 6
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A lemonade stand attendant is shot dead by a drunk man on the Fourth of July.
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1913-06 Sanborn Map of Hoxie, pg 1 of 1
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Fire insurance map shows the three-railroad intersection at Hoxie and the growth of businesses around it.
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1889-10 Goodspeed's Memoirs of NEA, Lawrence County Excerpts
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A leading source of info on late-18th-century Lawrence County, featuring a detailed sketch of the county's history and economy as well as numerous biographical sketches. Taken from the larger work, "Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas."
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1874 G .W. Colton AR Map, LawCo Detail
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Perhaps the earliest map to feature Walnut Ridge; note the additions of the other railroad towns since the 1869 map as well.
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1897-02 Sanborn Map of WR, pg 1 of 2
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A fire insurance map of the western half of Walnut Ridge; brick buildings are colored red and frame buildings yellow.
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1897-02 Sanborn Map of WR, pg 2 of 2
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Map of the eastern half of Walnut Ridge, featuring numerous storefronts, dwellings, the first WR courthouse, and even a saloon at the corner of Main St. and Front St.
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1916-11 Sanborn Map of Hoxie pg 1 of 1
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Hotels, warehouses, a YMCA, and a moving pictures theater are some of the many establishments noted in this map.
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1905-03-06 Jbr Daily Times-Enterprise pg 1
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WR City Marshal Lee Ridgeway kills unruly farmer Ed Bagley, touching off the decade-long Bagley-Ridgeway Feud.
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1869 G .W. Colton AR Map, LawCo Detail
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Map shows the planned location of the Cairo and Fulton Railroad through eastern Lawrence County.
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1916 AHTD Roads of AR Map, LawCo Detail
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Photo negative of map detail of roads and rail lines leading to and from Walnut Ridge and Hoxie.
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1919-05 Sanborn Map of WR pg 5 of 8
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Map reflects the construction of the Walnut Ridge Water Works at the corner of Vine St and W. 4th St.
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1908-04 Sanborn Map of WR pg 1 of 4
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Insurance map showing various locations around WR, including the W. R. Lane Ice Plant and the Cache Valley Lumber Co.
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1908-04 Sanborn Map of WR pg 2 of 4
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Map of eastern Walnut Ridge featuring such businesses as a billiard hall, a bakery, and a theater.
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1919-05 Sanborn Map of WR pg 6 of 8
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Map shows the area bounded by West 1st (Front) & 4th Streets and Elm & Free Streets, including First Baptist Church.
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1908-04 Sanborn Map of WR pg 3 of 4
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Map of West Main St. and environs, including establishments such as the Baptist and Presbyterian Churches and the Hotel Rhea.
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1908-04 Sanborn Map of WR pg 4 of 4
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Map shows the Phoenix Cotton Oil Company's continued growth when compared to the survey done four years prior.
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1925-1932 AHTD LawCo Map
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Map shows the location of the state highways and waterways around Walnut Ridge and Hoxie.
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1904-02 Sanborn Map of WR pg 1 of 4
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Map with details of various WR buildings including houses, the newly constructed courthouse, the Turnbull Wagon Company, and W. R. Lane's distillery.
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1904-02 Sanborn Map of WR pg 2 of 4
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Map showing the first three blocks north and south of East Main St., including the original locations of the school building and the Methodist Church.
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1924 Rand McNally Map of AR, LawCo Detail
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Map includes each county's townships; note the presence of the Cache Valley Railroad spur line at Sedgwick.
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1904-02 Sanborn Map of WR pg 3 of 4
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Map showing a mixture of businesses, houses, and even an opera house along West Main St in Walnut Ridge.
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1904-02 Sanborn Map of WR pg 4 of 4
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Map depicting blocks of dwellings all the way to E. Free St, and the layout of a cotton gin and cotton oil plant.
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1914-03 Sanborn Map of WR pg 4 of 7
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Map depicts several churches, many houses, and the school building.
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1914-03 Sanborn Map of WR pg 5 of 7
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Details the Phoenix Cotton Oil Company complex, two cotton gins, several blocks of houses, and a steam laundry.
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1914-03 Sanborn Map of WR pg 6 of 7
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Depicts the blocks from West Elm St to West Free St; map notes which sheds have automobiles stored inside.
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Document, 1895 Lawrence County Bank of WR Ad
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Advertisement card lists the names of its directors and officers at the time. Sourced from www.genealogytrails.com/ark/law/WALNUTRIDGEcomm.htm
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Postcard, Hotel Lawrence in Walnut Ridge
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A now-demolished hotel built in 1921 at the corner of SW Third St and Elm St in Walnut Ridge. Postcard courtesy Lawrence County Historical Society.
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1919-05 Sanborn Map of WR pg 7 of 8
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Map shows residences on the town's southeast side, including houses within the bounds of Ponder's southern addition.
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1914-03 Sanborn Map of WR pg 7 of 7
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Illustrates the houses on the east side of the tracks from E Elm St to E Free St; many sheds and outhouses are present on the lots.
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1919-05 Sanborn Map of WR pg 8 of 8
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Map shows the enormous Hoxie & WR Compress Co complex, two cotton gins, two oil companies, a sawmill, and a powerhouse.
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1919-05 Sanborn Map of WR pg 1 of 8
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Map shows the location of the other map pages and several blocks north and south of West Main St between 5th and 7th Streets.
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1914-03 Sanborn Map of WR pg 1 of 7
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Shows the distribution of the other six maps, as well as various cotton gins and sawmills and the WR Light, Power, & Transit Company's powerhouse.
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1919-05 Sanborn Map of WR pg 2 of 8
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Map of West Main St and the courthouse environs shows the advent of two more auto garages and even a vulcanizing shop since the 1914 map.
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1914-03 Sanborn Map of WR pg 2 of 7
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Shows the county courthouse and the blocks along Main St and Walnut St between W 2nd St and W 5th St.
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1919-05 Sanborn Map of WR pg 3 of 8
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Map of downtown Walnut Ridge shows numerous new businesses including a marble works, a candy factory, and an ice cream factory.
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1878 GLO Map of Arkansas, LawCo Detail
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Depicts Walnut Ridge as well as several now-vanished outlying communities such as Rhea and Buncombe Ridge.
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1914-03 Sanborn Map of WR pg 3 of 7
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Map of downtown Walnut Ridge, with the Main Street crossing of the Iron Mountain Railroad at center.
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1933 AHTD Roads of AR Map, LawCo Detail
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Map illustrates that in 1933, Highway 63 still went through Powhatan and thus bypassed Black Rock & Portia.
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1919-05 Sanborn Map of WR pg 4 of 8
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Map shows houses and churches from East Hazel St down to East Elm St.
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1886-09-11 Arkansas Gazette pg 5
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The Hoxie agent for the Kansas City, Springfield, & Memphis Railroad advertises reduced fares to and from the Great Kansas City Exposition and Fair.
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1889 Map of Kansas City, Fort Scott, and Memphis Railroad Route, Detail of NEA
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Detail of a map produced for the railroad showing Hoxie and other stops along the route.
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1877-12-13 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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The Gazette gives a brief assessment of Walnut Ridge's timber and prospects, of Col. Charles Coffin, and of the Walnut Ridge Journal & its editor.
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1900-07-20 Arkansas Democrat pg 6
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A lemonade stand attendant is shot dead by a drunk man on the Fourth of July.
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1879-07-31 Arkansas Democrat pg 4
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Minutes of the Arkansas Board of Health note Walnut Ridge citizens' threat to hang a quarantine runner if he didn't leave town.
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Postcard, Walnut Ridge First Baptist Church
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Depicts the church's second building, constructed after the previous building burned in 1908, occupied in 1910, and demolished in turn in the 1950s.
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Document, 1912 Boas-Gibson Hotel Letterhead
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Describes the many amenities of the now-modernized Boas Hotel in Hoxie; see source for details: http://ataleoftwotowns.com/1912-hoxie-boas-hotel-letterhead/
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1870-06-30 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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Walnut Ridge is included in a statewide list of post offices, perhaps the first mention in a newspaper of WR. Other Lawrence County post offices include Ash Flat, Canton, Clover Bend, Evening Shade, Laura Town, Powhatan, Rhea, and Smithville.
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1926 AHTD Roads of AR Map, LawCo Detail
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Detail of central Lawrence County road connections.
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Object, WR Lawrence County Courthouse Souvenir Plate, Circa Early 1900s
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A Wheelock China Company plate made for Mrs. Ed Marx of Walnut Ridge; photo courtesy of and details at http://ataleoftwotowns.com/early-1900s-walnut-ridge-courthouse-souvenir-plate/.
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1885-01-18 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 10
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An ad for the new direct St. Louis to Memphis train through Hoxie boasts of a "handsome day coach and elegant Pullman palace sleeping car."
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1891-07-16 Fort Scott Weekly Tribune KS pg 8
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An epilogue to the account of the Kansas businessman's mad dash through Hoxie en route to Texas states that he made it in time and saved the fortunes of a lumber business there.
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1893-04-01 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 3
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The burning of the Star Hotel in Walnut Ridge results in two deaths when a man enters the blaze to save a young boy but both are caught in the flames. The fire spreads across town and results in $125,000 in damage.
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Postcard, 1935 WR Times-Dispatch Building/Former Post Office
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Depicts the post office built on West Main St in Walnut Ridge in 1935; postcard date unknown.
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1909 George Cram & Ellis Davis Map of AR, LawCo Detail
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Original map is part of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, at www.davidrumsey.com.
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1882-01-08 Topeka Daily Commonwealth KS pg 1
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A Lawrence County KKK member refuses to take part in a plot to kill four people, but in a subsequent attempt to arrest the KKK members, three people are killed.
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1910-11-18 WR Blade, County Officers Photo
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Group portrait of Lawrence County officers. Source: http://ataleoftwotowns.com/1910-county-officers/
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1883-10-25 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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An attempted robbery at night of an Iron Mountain train fifteen miles north of Walnut Ridge is described.
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1897 Rand McNally AR Map, LawCo Detail
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Map shows the routes of the Kansas City, Ft Scott, & Memphis RR and the St. Louis, Iron Mtn, & Southern RR through Lawrence County.
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Document, 1895 S. C. Dowell Land Ad
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The card notes that Dowell is land agent for the Little Rock & Fort Smith RR as well as the Iron Mountain RR. Sourced from www.genealogytrails.com/ark/law/WALNUTRIDGEcomm.htm
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Postcard, Walnut Ridge First Methodist Church
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Depicts the current sanctuary built in 1922 at the corner of Vine and Southwest 2nd Streets.
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Document, Envelope With 1885 Walnut Ridge Postmark
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Addressed to H. J. Shirk, Peru, Indiana, with an April 15, 1885 postmark; found at auction.
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1889-11-27 Memphis Avalanche TN pg 3
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The Kansas City, Fort Scott, & Memphis Railroad advertises a list of unclaimed goods at their stations, including at Hoxie, Portia, Black Rock, and Imboden.
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1888-11-06 Memphis Avalanche pg 4
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The Walnut Ridge Telephone newspaper prints a racist editorial snub against L. P. Featherstone, 1888 Union Labor candidate for Arkansas's First Congressional District, near election day. (See Featherstone's Encyclopedia of Arkansas entry at https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/lewis-porter-featherstone-4621/ for additional information.)
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1924 AHTD Roads of AR Map, LawCo Detail
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Photo negative map detail of roads leading to and from Walnut Ridge & Hoxie.
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1892-01-13 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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"Much suffering among people and stock is expected" after a snowstorm results in ten inches of snow at Hoxie.
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1882-06-02 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 3
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A fair association is presented with a baby owl that was captured near WR and kept in a back room for visitors to look at.
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Photo, Walnut Ridge West Main Street With Streetcar Circa 1924-1926
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Depicts a bustling day in downtown WR in the mid-1920s; photo from the National Register of Historic Places registration form for the WR Commercial Historic District, 2010.
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1901-10-25 Arkansas Democrat pg 4
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A correspondent notes the removal of politics from a meeting of the county's World's Fair committee, the illness of Col. Ponder, the WR cotton gins' output, and the benefits of a new road law.
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1932 USGS WR and Hoxie Map, Detail
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U. S. Geological Survey Map that shows road layouts, creeks and sloughs, utility lines, and houses.
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The Arkansas Presbytery meets in Walnut Ridge; among other matters, a pastor is installed for the church at Walnut Ridge and the presbytery thanks "the good people of Walnut Ridge for their generous hospitality."
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Photo, Walnut Ridge Steam Laundry, Circa 1890
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Photograph of the facility with a horse & buggy and seven people, perhaps proprieters and staff, in front. Photo from the CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
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A nine-year-old boy shoots a five-year-old during a quarrel with the boy's brother.
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A tramp is killed when part of a freight train wrecks at Walnut Ridge.
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The Star Hotel cook confesses to starting the deadly fire but changes his story on who the other guilty parties are, and detectives are enlisted to investigate the matter.
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A young man is injured in attempting to hitch a ride on an Iron Mountain freight train.
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A Gazette correspondent notes the uneventful opening of two saloons in Walnut Ridge after the end of a two-year period where the town (and county) was dry, as well as noting progress made on the street car line, ditch dredging, and a Masonic gathering.
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A woman and her two children are injured when the horses towing their vehicle between WR & Powhatan run away.
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As part of the Bagley trial, Ridgeway's antemortem statement is read to the jury.
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Alf Bagley is acquitted for Ridgeway's murder, but only after the trial "was fought bitterly by both sides" by "the best legal talent in this section of the State."
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Lawrence County zinc ores are one highlight at a Little Rock exhibition.
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Walnut Ridge hosts spelling bees, perhaps at the school, and Colonel Ponder harvests a crop of clover.
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Walnut Ridge wins a baseball game against Jonesboro by a score of 18 to 11.
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A St. Louis Post-Dispatch news brief notes a fatal shooting in Walnut Ridge.
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A former Poplar Bluff resident dies of heavy drinking in Walnut Ridge.
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Photo, 1900 Walnut Ridge Courthouse View With Trees
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Depicts the second courthouse built in WR after the first one on East Main St burned. Photo courtesy courthousehistory.com.
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Lee Ridgeway is indicted for the murder of Ed Bagley, and bond is furnished.
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A railroad rate war begins when the Little Rock & Memphis Railroad undercuts the Kansas City & Memphis Railroad to transport four immigrants from Memphis to Hoxie.
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The examining trial is held for Alf Bagley's murder of Ridgeway, and "a trial of more than ordinary importance is expected" the following March.
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A new depot at Hoxie will be a joint effort between the Iron Mountain and Memphis & Kansas City railroads; it is noted, "the former furnished the plans, the latter will do the work, and each company pay half."
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A later news dispatch about the WR Star Hotel fire notes that thirteen houses were destroyed in the conflagration.
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A house is destroyed in Walnut Ridge by an accidental fire.
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Deputy Marshal J. L. White doubles down on his statement about Hoxie crime, and explains how the town's robbers work.
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Two farmers near Hoxie get in an argument about taxes; one is shot and drowns in a pond.
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A freight car accident near Hoxie leads to a several-hour delay.
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An Iron Mountain train runs into a cow and is partially wrecked.
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A trove of $130 of old coins from the 1700s to 1830 is found near Lauratown on the Black River.
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A visitor to Black Rock describes the state of the town and the surrounding countryside, including Bonita Springs.
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A Hoxie news brief notes the arrival of "the third great storm of this winter."
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A drunk prostitute goes to sleep on the railroad tracks near Hoxie, and has her legs sliced off by a passing freight train.
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Northbound Cairo & Fulton passenger trains begin to stop for supper at Henry Boas's eating-house in WR.
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Alf Bagley's defense is strengthened when a witness says Ridgeway had declared it was either 'kill or get killed' by Bagley.
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A classified ad from Hoxie advertises thoroughbred English pug pups for sale.
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Alf Bagley's case is strengthened by the new testimony of Ridgeway's widow, who stated that her husband had purchased several revolvers with the intent to kill Alf.
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A news brief notes that "Walnut Ridge, Hoxie, and all other towns in Lawrence County have gone dry by petition" for a period of two years.
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The Walnut Ridge Journal notes the frequency of livestock shipments in the town.
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A Lawrence County man arrives home after being gone two days and finds his wife's charred remains in the fireplace.
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A remarkably heavy rain falls on Walnut Ridge over the course of two days.
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Despite the state board of health's order that it is safe to do so, the people of Walnut Ridge refuse to allow in any mail from New Orleans due to the threat of yellow fever.
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Photo, First Presbyterian Church WR 1883 Sanctuary
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Shows the congregation's first sanctuary, built of pine in 1883 and later destroyed by fire. Courtesy FPC WR 130th Anniversary Commemorative Book.
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Construction updates are noted for the Memphis & Kansas City Railroad, routed through Hoxie.
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Postcard, Phoenix Cotton Oil Company, Walnut Ridge
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An undated postcard of the sprawling complex, which opened in 1903.
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Ridgeway is acquitted for Ed Bagley's murder-- and Alf Bagley is also acquitted of a killing that occurred nine days after his brother's murder.
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Photo, First Baptist Church WR, Woman's Missionary Union Circle Meeting Circa 1940
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From "March We Onward: A History of First Baptist WR 1889-1989," which states, "This photograph of a W.M.U. circle meeting was made around 1940. Among those in the photograph are: Rev. and Mrs. Vermillion, Mabel Bridges, Mrs. Cora Andrus, Martha Downing, Florence Guthrie, Naomi Moore, Hannah Floyd, Mrs. Butler, Lola Mullen, and Lola Thomas."
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It is learned from Prosecuting Attorney R. D. Jeffrey that Lee Ridgeway had moved to Texas for a time due to the Bagleys' threats.
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A classified ad asks for a German gardener in Hoxie, "near German settlement."
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A landlord disbands a dance at one of his houses in Black Rock, and a dispute between him and one of the guests escalates into a shooting the following day.
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The loss in the M. V. Camp house fire is $5,000, with no insurance.
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Not long after the deputy marshal's statements about Hoxie's robbers, one of the gang is caught and put in jail.
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A church revival meeting is mysteriously and dramatically interrupted by a bolt of lightning and a storm out of nowhere.
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An African-American freemason from Newport is scheduled to go to Hoxie to give "an oration upon the division of the negro vote."
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An enigmatic camp of twenty-six armed strangers forms at the edge of the woods near Minturn, much to the concern of area residents.
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The rail ticket price from Kansas City to Hoxie is reduced from $10.25 to $7.
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A reporter describes President Cleveland's journey from Springfield to Memphis, including brief stops at Ravenden and Hoxie.
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John S. Gibson's hometown newspaper reprints his profile sketch written by the Walnut Ridge Telephone as part of an article on local lawyers.
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An elderly lady dies when trying to walk around a passenger train in Walnut Ridge.
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Would-be burglars at a Hoxie hotel flee in the dark after the porter shoots at them through a smoke-filled room.
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A colt races an Iron Mountain freight train from Minturn to Walnut Ridge, and is returned in the train's caboose.
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The Alf Bagley trial results in a mistrial after the jury disagrees on whether to convict.
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A group of Kansas hunters head to Hoxie and "expect to kill deer, turkeys, a few head of 'bar' and similar game."
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A shooting takes place in a Walnut Ridge saloon after a Canadian painter is refused another drink.
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A disastrous early morning fire strikes Walnut Ridge's business district.
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At the WR depot an African-American porter falls between the platform and moving train cars and is crushed to death.
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The Gazette remarks, "The Lawrence County Journal says the town of Walnut Ridge is liable to be 'taken in' by the Murphy movement."
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A robber named Andrew Jackson is recaptured and returned to Walnut Ridge after escaping from jail.
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A North Carolina newspaper gets a letter from a former resident that includes a description of Walnut Ridge and tips on how to prosper as a citizen of Arkansas.
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"Wanted: Six Swedes or Germans for saw-mill work," declares a classified ad by a Walnut Ridge firm.
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Photo, 1894 Walnut Ridge Baseball Club Team
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According to "Images of America: Walnut Ridge & Hoxie," team members pictured are, from left to right, Dr. Clinton Meriwether, Montie Sharum, David Bloom, Caroll McCaroll, and Solon Crook, first row; Bert Israel, George Ponder, Berg Israel, C. W. Cooper, and Bob Cooper, second row. Image courtesy CALS Encyclopedia of AR.
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Lee Ridgeway is shot by Alf Bagley, whose brother Ridgeway had slain.
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Photo, First Baptist Church WR, Easter 1928 Group Portrait
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From "March We Onward: A History of First Baptist WR 1889-1989," which states, "The pastor, W. E. Fuson, may be seen on the extreme right. He is wearing a frock coat, his traditional pulpit attire."
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A report from Pine Bluff suggests that a cotton processing facility may be established near the railway junction at Hoxie.
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1893-05-29 Lawrence Daily Journal KS pg 1
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A man tries to tame a wolf near Walnut Ridge, but he is bitten by it and later dies of rabies.
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1894-01-05 St Joseph Gazette-Herald MO pg 2
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Arsonists attempt to burn businesses throughout Walnut Ridge in the early hours of the morning.
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A letter to the editor of the Arkansas Gazette from "A Citizen of Hoxie" gives a savage reply to the Hoxie marshal's rebuttal of the town's crime record.
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Walnut Ridge wins a baseball game against Jonesboro, 10-4.
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A tree falls on the wagon of a man crossing a creek near Walnut Ridge, killing him and injuring his family.
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1895-01-20 Girard Daily World KS pg 3
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Alleged counterfeiters are captured in southern Lawrence County.
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1890-06-05 Ironton County Register MO pg 4
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A Hoxie railroad station agent is stabbed three times, with his outlook for survival grim.
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1888-02-02 National Tribune Washington DC pg 8
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A Walnut Ridge resident writes in to a Q & A column about Civil War veteran pensions and benefits.
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1891-10-07 Pittsburgh Dispatch PA pg 8
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Despairing over his increasing deafness and the market downturn affecting his Walnut Ridge lumber investments, a Pennsylvania man commits suicide.
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The Hoxie and Pocahontas Railway Company is formally incorporated, with $250,000 in capital stock.
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1892-11-10 Memphis Commercial TN pg 7
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Election results from Campbell Township show majorities for Cleveland for president and for McCulloch for Congress.
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1893-04-02 Memphis Commercial TN pg 1
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The Star Hotel's cook is arrested and accused of starting the fire that killed two and destroyed a good portion of the town.
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A meeting is held in Memphis to raise support for the financing of a Pocahontas to Hoxie railroad.
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1884-07-28 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 1
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A Walnut Ridge brothel is burnt down by a group of drunk men.
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Alf Bagley, still held in the Arkansas Penitentiary in Little Rock, applies for bond.
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1886-12-05 St. Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 4
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A Walnut Ridge saloon owner is slashed with a knife by an out-of-town customer.
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A twelve-year-old boy has both legs cut off by a train, and dies that evening despite efforts by several surgeons to save him.
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A theft of election results in Pulaski County is condemned as a "burning shame" by the people of Lawrence County in a letter to the editor of the Arkansas Gazette.
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1877-09-30 Arkansas Gazette pg 3
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Taxable property in Lawrence County increases $12,000 year over year, and bounties of dried peaches and cotton are noted.
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1893-02-12 Memphis Commercial TN pg 1
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A dispatch from Hoxie notes that "this has been the coldest and dryest winter known in this section for years."
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A Walnut Ridge woman burns to death when starting a fire.
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1879-12-03 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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A tramp is hired to bring two bales of cotton to Minturn, but he sells it in Walnut Ridge instead and runs off with the money.
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1882-07-04 Memphis Avalanche TN pg 2
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A man dies of sunstroke in Walnut Ridge, and his wife cuts short her visit in Tennessee upon receipt of the news.
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Photo, 1927 Tornado Damage in Hoxie
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View of the destruction and debris created along the Frisco tracks in Hoxie by the May 9, 1927 tornado. Photo from "March We Onward: A Centennial History of First Baptist Church of WR."
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1883-06-07 Memphis Avalanche TN pg 4
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Another update on the Kansas City & Memphis Railroad is given, and the article notes that "timber of all kinds, corn, fresh fish, cattle, hogs, rock, gravel, building stone, and all sorts of grain are to be found in the country traversed by this road."
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1908-10-26 Memphis Cmcl Appeal pg 7
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Lee Ridgeway is not expected to live after being shot by Alf Bagley.
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A later turn of events indicate that the alleged attempt at train robbery near Delaplaine was actually a group of loggers innocently stopping the train to see if any of the freight was for their camp.
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Photo, First Baptist Church WR, 1894 Sanctuary
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Depicts the first sanctuary, built in 1894 at the corner of Elm and SW 2nd Streets; from "March We Onward: A History of First Baptist WR 1889-1989."
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1884-06-27 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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Two men are killed in a boiler explosion at a Portia stave factory.
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1893-06-20 St Louis Anzeiger des Westens MO pg 6
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Walnut Ridge is once again mentioned in an article from a German-language newspaper out of St. Louis.
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1894-02-21 Memphis Commercial TN pg 4
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A counterfeiter is arrested in Hoxie, and is thought to perhaps be connected with a mysterious gang near Minturn.
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1894-05-19 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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Three more members of the Hoxie gang of robber-gamblers are arrested, with Walnut Ridge being "greatly wrought up for the last few days" over the matter.
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A letter from Black Rock to an Indiana newspaper describes the conditions in the town, as well as remarking on St. Louis and its exposition.
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1895-01-29 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 6
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"All travel on wagon roads is stopped" but train schedules continue after six inches of snow fall in Walnut Ridge.
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A twenty-two-year-old transplant to Hoxie dies and is mourned by his hometown.
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A letter from Walnut Ridge describes Christmas traditions in the region, which include a bounty of firecrackers.
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1891-11-19 Rolla Herald MO pg 3
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A letter to a Missouri newspaper warns that a man in the area pretending he is single actually has multiple wives at various railroad towns, including Walnut Ridge.
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1892-05-19 Salem Monitor MO pg 3
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An update on the Hoxie & Pocahontas Railroad notes that investigations are being made as to whether the railroad should extend up to Dent County, MO.
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1892-11-10 Memphis Commercial pg 4
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Train whistles assist in the celebration at Hoxie of Grover Cleveland's (re-)election as president.
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1893-04-04 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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More details are given on the businesses destroyed by the Star Hotel fire in Walnut Ridge, and investigations of potential culprits behind the fire continue.
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1886-01-05 Topeka Citizen KS pg 3
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A druggist attempts to break up a fight in his store, but is hit with a club and lashes back with a knife.
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1892-12-30 Memphis Commercial TN pg 1
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"The beautiful still lingers" after a snowfall in Hoxie.
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The Vicksburg Herald editorializes on the Bagley murder trial.
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1887-01-03 Arkansas Democrat pg 9
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The Boas windmill tower and hay barn at Hoxie accidentally burn down, with no insurance coverage.
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1876-08-29 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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A letter from WR to the Jonesboro Times discusses Walnut Ridge's improvements and its anticipation of a rail connection to Jonesboro.
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1877-10-21 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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Walnut Ridge merchants Z. Phelps & Sons are among the Arkansas outlets listed in an ad for Deere, Mansur, & Co. steel plows.
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1935-06-01 Ogden Standard-Examiner UT pg 7
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A lucky Black River angler catches a 93-pound, 5.75 ft-long catfish.
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Photo, Hoxie High School Building 1926/1927
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A photo of the school building shortly after its completion in December 1926.
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1878-08-21 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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The Arkansas Board of Health receives a letter from a Walnut Ridge doctor about preventing the spread of yellow fever in the town, especially via railroad passengers.
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1880-01-12 Arkansas Democrat pg 4
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The Arkansas Democrat reports that Mountain Home has not received mail from Walnut Ridge for over two weeks.
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Photo, 1908 Hoxie Methodist Church
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Depicts the church's first building, constructed in 1908 and destroyed by fire in 1927.
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1882-06-05 Topeka Daily Capital KS pg 1
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A fireman is killed on a 3 a.m. Iron Mountain train when the engine hits some cattle on the tracks.
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Photo, Circa 1909 WR First Presbyterian Church Manse
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Circa 1940s photo of the former manse of First Presbyterian Church of WR built circa 1909; backstory at http://www.imbodenlive.com/2012/06/26/a-home-with-an-interesting-history-walnut-ridge-arkansas
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1883-07-01 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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Another construction update notes the completion of the Hoxie to Springfield portion of the KC & Memphis RR, and that only seventeen miles remain until the route's overall completion.
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Lee Ridgeway dies from his wounds after being shot, and is buried.
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1884-02-11 Alton Evening Telegraph IL pg 2
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A fight in a Walnut Ridge saloon results in a man stabbed in the neck with a penknife.
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Photo, First Baptist Church WR, Pastor 1914-1917 Charles Elliott
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From "March We Onward: A History of First Baptist WR 1889-1989," which notes, "More than any other pastor he helped to bring structure and organization to the Walnut Ridge Church. He was also instrumental in founding the Black River Baptist Association."
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1884-07-13 St Joseph Gazette-Herald MO pg 1
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A mining expert says that gold at Jaynes Creek (likely around the area of Ravenden Springs) is intermixed with iron ore, and thus is not easy to pan for.
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1884 Pocahontas Star-Herald, Stagecoach Line
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Advertisement for a daily Pocahontas-Walnut Ridge-Hoxie stagecoach route; newspaper month and day unknown.
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1893-07-22 Memphis Commercial TN pg 3
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A Hoxie insurance agent is charged with forgery.
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1894-03-22 Memphis Commercial TN pg 4
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Ad Cain, charged with starting the fire that burned the Star Hotel and other WR businesses in April 1893, is sentenced to two years in prison.
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1894-05-25 Memphis Commercial TN pg 2
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A dispatch from Walnut Ridge describes another daring robbery in Hoxie and warns of potential vigilante action "if the gang cannot be forced to leave by law."
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A marriage between a "most popular as well as skillful" Walnut Ridge physician and "the belle of [Lawrence] county" takes place at the Walnut Ridge Methodist Church.
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A Kansas news editor berates the Walnut Ridge Telephone newspaper for its coverage of Jefferson Davis's death.
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Two men are found frozen to death along the railroad tracks, six miles from Hoxie.
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1890-11-13 Poplar Bluff Citizen MO pg 1
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A Missouri man is robbed in Walnut Ridge just before attempting to buy one of the town's saloons.
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1890-08-27 Arkansas Democrat pg 6
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A Hoxie man knocks out a Memphis boxer in the fourth round of their contest.
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A crowd of 3,000 watches five horse races at Ward's Park in Hoxie, and it is reported that "upwards of $5,000 changed hands."
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1892-11-19 Memphis Commercial TN pg 3
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A Cache Valley Railroad tie-maker is killed by a falling tree limb.
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A municipal election in Walnut Ridge features Australian (preferential) voting.
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A "young white woman" in Missouri that went missing had "been in correspondence with a negro of Hoxie, Ark., and is thought to have eloped with him."
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A "second hand whalebone or rattan sulky [two-wheeled lightweight horse cart]" is wanted in Hoxie.
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Alf Bagley is granted bail in the sum of $10,000, after the State warns that doing so would weaken its case against Bagley.
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A baseball game is scheduled between the Walnut Ridge and Black Rock club teams.
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Editor Baldwin of the Beebe Magnet newspaper moves his press to Walnut Ridge and starts the Lawrence County Journal.
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The Arkansas Presbytery forms a committee to investigate potentially organizing a Presbyterian church in Walnut Ridge after hearing citizens' requests for one.
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A man writes about his pleasant experience on an Iron Mountain train, and says he "got a good supper at Walnut Ridge."
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Postcard, Hoxie Depot Circa 1918
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Shows a passenger train pulling up to Hoxie's Union Station; image from the Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
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A Walnut Ridge dispatch notes, "the track laying on the Springfield and Memphis road, between a crossing below here and Black River, begins tomorrow."
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A German-language paper mentions the Iron Mountain Railroad and Walnut Ridge.
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Photo, 1912 Walnut Ridge Baseball Club Team
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Photograph courtesy of the Arkansas Baseball Encyclopedia.
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The Jonesboro Sun provides further details on the circumstances of Alf Bagley's murder of Lee Ridgeway on Main Street.
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A Walnut Ridge sawmill operator dies of a broken blood vessel while doing everyday repairs.
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Photo, First Baptist Church WR, Berean Sunday School Class 1921
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Group portrait taken on March 6, 1921; from "March We Onward: A History of First Baptist WR 1889-1989," which identifies those in the picture as follows: "From left to right in the front row: A. Legate, the class president; Bob Surridge, first president of the class and future mayor of Walnut Ridge; Mrs. W. E. Kirkpatrick, teacher of the class and wife of the pastor; Marcus Teenor, holding the left side of the banner; Dr. Relton McCarrol, Orville Cutsinger, Clifton Kirkpatrick, holding the right side of the banner; Roland Smith, Paul Kirkpatrick, G. E. Henry, Roy Cutsinger, Dr. Len Downen; among those in the three back rows are: Jimmy Buster, Everett Webb, Ray Bickers, Pete McLeod, Red Spence, Clarence Jung, Toots Elkins, Happy Matthews, John Carter, O. E. Redwine, L. King, B. Bloomeyer, H. Butler, Elmer Pope, W. Lee, C. Thorn, E. Briggs, E. Hall, R. Morgan, Eugene Sells, L. Smith, and Cicero McCullough."
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A Miss Dalton of Walnut Ridge commits suicide by taking arsenic, with her motive unknown.
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The Hoxie insurance agent charged with forgery commits suicide in jail.
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Hoxie is dealt another snowstorm.
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A news brief declares that the gang of swindlers at Hoxie "has been broken up and its members dispersed."
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Forest fires near Hoxie are fought back day and night by determined residents.
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A workforce of 1,000 tie-makers is wanted to help construct the Cache River Valley Railroad near Sedgwick.
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The two men found frozen to death along the railroad tracks were reportedly tramps driven from the railroad depot waiting room prior.
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The Walnut Ridge Telephone declares that the Arkansas people do not want another constitutional convention (the fourth, and current, state constitution had been adopted in 1874).
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As it turns out, the "Hoxie man" who beat West Memphis boxer Joe Tansey in a Hoxie fight was really a St. Louis boxer in disguise.
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An unknown man is run over and killed by a train near Portia.
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Alf Bagley's murder trial begins, "one of the most important cases to be tried in this part of the state in months."
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A jury is secured for Alf Bagley's second trial, a full year after the first trial.
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An African-American boy dies when attempting to sneak onto a train at Hoxie.
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The Walnut Ridge Journal newspaper highlights the town's extensive timber resources, especially in walnut, and its rail capabilities for exporting logs.
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A Walnut Ridge moonshiner is nabbed by an undercover Secret Service officer.
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Notes that in Walnut Ridge "a jealous husband attempted to commit suicide, but failing in that, tried to kill her, and made a second failure."
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1882-12-08 Harrisburg Telegraph PA pg 1
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A Pennsylvania paper describes an enigmatic, and apparently fatal, fight between Walnut Ridge women.
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Millions of butterflies, probably monarchs migrating south for the winter, pass through Walnut Ridge.
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Photo, 1913 Walnut Ridge Baseball Club Team
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Photograph courtesy of the Arkansas Baseball Encyclopedia.
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The Sun editorializes that Ridgeway "was not a good judge of human nature" when it came to Alf Bagley's revenge.
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1884-04-16 Decatur Herald and Review IL pg 1
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The Walnut Ridge postmaster/mayor skips town with a stolen $800.
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Picture, Depiction of First Schoolhouse at Hoxie
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Undated illustration of the first schoolhouse at Hoxie, a log cabin that perhaps even preceded the district's formal organization in 1887.
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News items include the shootings of S. S. Dowell of Clover Bend and WR counterfeiter/horse thief R. R. Robbins, as well as increased interest in a Pocahontas railroad.
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1893-08-06 Memphis Commercial TN pg 12
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The Hoxie city marshal is married, and the couple honeymoons at the World's Fair in Chicago.
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A deputy U.S. Marshal explains how "there is one town in Arkansas that needs ...attention" when it comes to crime: Hoxie.
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A rape takes place near Minturn, and a lynch mob forms to find and punish the perpetrator.
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A man is held up at the Hoxie depot, but asks for $2 back from the robbers and gets it.
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A medicine salesman is attacked and robbed when traveling between Walnut Ridge and Hoxie.
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A Kansas businessman pays for a special Hoxie-Texas express train in order to try to save his friend from financial ruin.
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An enigmatic obituary sourced from the Arkansas Thomas Cat, a tongue-in-cheek Hot Springs newspaper, notes the suicide of a Hoxie saloon-smasher.
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1893-01-04 Memphis Commercial TN pg 3
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Five Lawrence County saloon licenses are granted, four in Walnut Ridge and one in Hoxie.
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The jury for the Bagley trial is selected, after an examination of 112 men.
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Alf Bagley's second murder trial begins, and the reporter notes that "the case has aroused great interest in this [Lawrence] county."
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1887-09-27 Harrisburg Telegraph PA pg 1
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An Iron Mountain train carrying Grand Army of the Republic members wrecks near Walnut Ridge.
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Henry Boas's newly constructed three-story Depot Hotel in Walnut Ridge is completely burnt, but is fortunately insured.
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A married woman runs away with a neighbor but is intercepted in Mammoth Springs, and afterwards starts a boardinghouse in Hoxie.
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The Walnut Ridge Journal notes the arrival in Lawrence County of immigrants from several northern states, and encourages more to join them.
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1880-08-12 Memphis Public Ledger TN pg 1
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An article mentions the existence of a stagecoach line from Walnut Ridge to the new resort town of Ravenden Springs.
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Photo, First Presbyterian Church WR 1917 Sanctuary
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Color photograph of the second sanctuary of FPC WR that was completed in 1917, replaced by the current sanctuary built in 1967. Courtesy FPC WR 130th Anniversary Commemorative Book.
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1882-12-14 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 2
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A Walnut Ridge newspaper editor, recently appointed postmaster, mysteriously goes missing.
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Postcard, Walnut Ridge High School and Grammar School
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A picturesque view focusing on the high school building, constructed in 1923; postcard date unknown.
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Newspaper informant was in WR when Ed Bagley was shot and gives further details of the tragedy.
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A man kills his uncle near Walnut Ridge in a violent exchange involving a knife, a shovel, and a pistol.
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Photo, Rhea Hotel, Walnut Ridge
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Photo of the two-story Rhea Hotel on West Main Street taken sometime between its construction in 1904 and its destruction by fire in 1914. Photo courtesy City of Walnut Ridge website.
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Alf Bagley is held without bail after murdering Ridgeway and is brought to Little Rock for safekeeping.
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1884-05-02 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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A news brief notes, "A horse thief was captured near Walnut Ridge yesterday, but managed to throw himself from his horse and escape from his captors before they reached the jail."
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Photo, Hoxie Grade School Damage from 1927 Tornado
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Shows the damage done to the school building after the May 9, 1927 tornado. Photo courtesy CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
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1884-11-27 Topeka Weekly Capital-Commonwealth KS pg 1
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A change in railroad timetables results in a direct St. Louis to Memphis route that stops through Hoxie.
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1873-05-30 Memphis Avalanche TN pg 2
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Two men draw revolvers on each other on the Cairo & Fulton Railroad at Walnut Ridge, and one is shot.
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A Kansas newspaper comments on the Walnut Ridge Telephone and its editor, George Anderson.
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Hoxie's city marshal responds to the accusations made by Deputy Marshal J. L. White about crime in Hoxie, declaring that the marshal "should confine himself strictly to the truth, which is bad enough, but not half so bad as he colors it."
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The Walnut Ridge & Hoxie Street Car Company is incorporated.
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A heavy rainfall breaks a long drought at Hoxie.
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A coroner's jury declares that the cause of death is unknown for a man who was found dead on the railroad tracks at Hoxie.
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An update to the tale of the Kansas businessman's mad rush notes that "he interviewed the engineer and crossed the fireman's palm with gold," and only had a two-minute layover in Hoxie.
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1892-03-06 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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The Walnut Ridge Telephone newspaper recommends Democrat candidates Hill and Gray in an editorial.
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1892-09-08 Eminence Current Wave MO pg 3
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Another update on the Hoxie & Pocahontas Railroad notes continued developments, including an upcoming land survey for its route in Missouri.
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1893-03-02 Alton Empire KS pg 4
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A correspondent of the Walnut Ridge Telephone newspaper mocks the state legislature's proposed whisky ban.
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1893-04-06 Memphis Commercial TN pg 1
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A Hoxie doctor is nearly killed by a wolf when trying to rescue one of his calves from it.
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Edward Harthorn
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Walnut Ridge Tags
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1889-10 Goodspeed's Memoirs of NEA, Lawrence County Excerpts
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A leading source of info on late-18th-century Lawrence County, featuring a detailed sketch of the county's history and economy as well as numerous biographical sketches. Taken from the larger work, "Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas."
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1897-02 Sanborn Map of WR, pg 1 of 2
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A fire insurance map of the western half of Walnut Ridge; brick buildings are colored red and frame buildings yellow.
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1874 G .W. Colton AR Map, LawCo Detail
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Perhaps the earliest map to feature Walnut Ridge; note the additions of the other railroad towns since the 1869 map as well.
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1897-02 Sanborn Map of WR, pg 2 of 2
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Map of the eastern half of Walnut Ridge, featuring numerous storefronts, dwellings, the first WR courthouse, and even a saloon at the corner of Main St. and Front St.
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1905-03-06 Jbr Daily Times-Enterprise pg 1
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WR City Marshal Lee Ridgeway kills unruly farmer Ed Bagley, touching off the decade-long Bagley-Ridgeway Feud.
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1908-04 Sanborn Map of WR pg 3 of 4
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Map of West Main St. and environs, including establishments such as the Baptist and Presbyterian Churches and the Hotel Rhea.
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1908-04 Sanborn Map of WR pg 4 of 4
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Map shows the Phoenix Cotton Oil Company's continued growth when compared to the survey done four years prior.
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1904-02 Sanborn Map of WR pg 1 of 4
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Map with details of various WR buildings including houses, the newly constructed courthouse, the Turnbull Wagon Company, and W. R. Lane's distillery.
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1919-05 Sanborn Map of WR pg 5 of 8
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Map reflects the construction of the Walnut Ridge Water Works at the corner of Vine St and W. 4th St.
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1924 Rand McNally Map of AR, LawCo Detail
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Map includes each county's townships; note the presence of the Cache Valley Railroad spur line at Sedgwick.
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1904-02 Sanborn Map of WR pg 2 of 4
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Map showing the first three blocks north and south of East Main St., including the original locations of the school building and the Methodist Church.
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1919-05 Sanborn Map of WR pg 6 of 8
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Map shows the area bounded by West 1st (Front) & 4th Streets and Elm & Free Streets, including First Baptist Church.
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1904-02 Sanborn Map of WR pg 3 of 4
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Map showing a mixture of businesses, houses, and even an opera house along West Main St in Walnut Ridge.
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1904-02 Sanborn Map of WR pg 4 of 4
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Map depicting blocks of dwellings all the way to E. Free St, and the layout of a cotton gin and cotton oil plant.
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1908-04 Sanborn Map of WR pg 1 of 4
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Insurance map showing various locations around WR, including the W. R. Lane Ice Plant and the Cache Valley Lumber Co.
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1908-04 Sanborn Map of WR pg 2 of 4
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Map of eastern Walnut Ridge featuring such businesses as a billiard hall, a bakery, and a theater.
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1878 GLO Map of Arkansas, LawCo Detail
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Depicts Walnut Ridge as well as several now-vanished outlying communities such as Rhea and Buncombe Ridge.
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1914-03 Sanborn Map of WR pg 1 of 7
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Shows the distribution of the other six maps, as well as various cotton gins and sawmills and the WR Light, Power, & Transit Company's powerhouse.
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1919-05 Sanborn Map of WR pg 2 of 8
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Map of West Main St and the courthouse environs shows the advent of two more auto garages and even a vulcanizing shop since the 1914 map.
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Document, 1895 Lawrence County Bank of WR Ad
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Advertisement card lists the names of its directors and officers at the time. Sourced from www.genealogytrails.com/ark/law/WALNUTRIDGEcomm.htm
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1914-03 Sanborn Map of WR pg 2 of 7
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Shows the county courthouse and the blocks along Main St and Walnut St between W 2nd St and W 5th St.
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1919-05 Sanborn Map of WR pg 3 of 8
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Map of downtown Walnut Ridge shows numerous new businesses including a marble works, a candy factory, and an ice cream factory.
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1914-03 Sanborn Map of WR pg 3 of 7
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Map of downtown Walnut Ridge, with the Main Street crossing of the Iron Mountain Railroad at center.
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1919-05 Sanborn Map of WR pg 4 of 8
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Map shows houses and churches from East Hazel St down to East Elm St.
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Photo, WR and Hoxie Mule-drawn Streetcar, Circa 1890
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The man just to the right of the numeral 2 is snacking on a banana, probably delivered by the railroad. In the background is a "Smoke Bull Durham" ad. Photo courtesy the Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
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1914-03 Sanborn Map of WR pg 4 of 7
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Map depicts several churches, many houses, and the school building.
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1914-03 Sanborn Map of WR pg 5 of 7
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Details the Phoenix Cotton Oil Company complex, two cotton gins, several blocks of houses, and a steam laundry.
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1914-03 Sanborn Map of WR pg 6 of 7
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Depicts the blocks from West Elm St to West Free St; map notes which sheds have automobiles stored inside.
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1919-05 Sanborn Map of WR pg 7 of 8
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Map shows residences on the town's southeast side, including houses within the bounds of Ponder's southern addition.
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1914-03 Sanborn Map of WR pg 7 of 7
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Illustrates the houses on the east side of the tracks from E Elm St to E Free St; many sheds and outhouses are present on the lots.
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1919-05 Sanborn Map of WR pg 8 of 8
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Map shows the enormous Hoxie & WR Compress Co complex, two cotton gins, two oil companies, a sawmill, and a powerhouse.
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1919-05 Sanborn Map of WR pg 1 of 8
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Map shows the location of the other map pages and several blocks north and south of West Main St between 5th and 7th Streets.
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Postcard, Hotel Lawrence in Walnut Ridge
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A now-demolished hotel built in 1921 at the corner of SW Third St and Elm St in Walnut Ridge. Postcard courtesy Lawrence County Historical Society.
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1901-10-25 Arkansas Democrat pg 4
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A correspondent notes the removal of politics from a meeting of the county's World's Fair committee, the illness of Col. Ponder, the WR cotton gins' output, and the benefits of a new road law.
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1880-04-22 Arkansas Gazette pg 5
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The Arkansas Presbytery meets in Walnut Ridge; among other matters, a pastor is installed for the church at Walnut Ridge and the presbytery thanks "the good people of Walnut Ridge for their generous hospitality."
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Postcard, Walnut Ridge First Methodist Church
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Depicts the current sanctuary built in 1922 at the corner of Vine and Southwest 2nd Streets.
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Photo, Walnut Ridge Steam Laundry, Circa 1890
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Photograph of the facility with a horse & buggy and seven people, perhaps proprieters and staff, in front. Photo from the CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
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Photo, Henry Family of Walnut Ridge With Car
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Undated photo from "March We Onward: A History of First Baptist WR 1889-1989," which notes, "Sunday School Superintendent G. E. Henry out for an afternoon drive with his wife, Mrs. Bessie Henry, Sunday school teacher and active member of the W.M.U. Their daughter, Elizabeth, is the child in the photograph. Mrs. Lorraine Rainey, an active church member, is also in the picture. The man seated on the running board was Mr. H enry’s employer."
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Document, 1895 S. C. Dowell Land Ad
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The card notes that Dowell is land agent for the Little Rock & Fort Smith RR as well as the Iron Mountain RR. Sourced from www.genealogytrails.com/ark/law/WALNUTRIDGEcomm.htm
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Photo, Walnut Ridge West Main Street With Streetcar Circa 1924-1926
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Depicts a bustling day in downtown WR in the mid-1920s; photo from the National Register of Historic Places registration form for the WR Commercial Historic District, 2010.
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1909 George Cram & Ellis Davis Map of AR, LawCo Detail
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Original map is part of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, at www.davidrumsey.com.
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1900-07-20 Arkansas Democrat pg 6
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A lemonade stand attendant is shot dead by a drunk man on the Fourth of July.
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1879-07-31 Arkansas Democrat pg 4
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Minutes of the Arkansas Board of Health note Walnut Ridge citizens' threat to hang a quarantine runner if he didn't leave town.
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Postcard, "Greetings from Walnut Ridge" With Sheep
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Features either a scene from a pasture near Walnut Ridge or perhaps a stock image; undated.
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1884-08-09 Bloomfield Vindicator MO pg 3
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A nine-year-old boy shoots a five-year-old during a quarrel with the boy's brother.
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Postcard, Walnut Ridge First Baptist Church
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Depicts the church's second building, constructed after the previous building burned in 1908, occupied in 1910, and demolished in turn in the 1950s.
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1877-12-13 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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The Gazette gives a brief assessment of Walnut Ridge's timber and prospects, of Col. Charles Coffin, and of the Walnut Ridge Journal & its editor.
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1882-01-08 Topeka Daily Commonwealth KS pg 1
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A Lawrence County KKK member refuses to take part in a plot to kill four people, but in a subsequent attempt to arrest the KKK members, three people are killed.
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1890-01-14 Arkansas Gazette pg 3
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A Gazette correspondent notes the uneventful opening of two saloons in Walnut Ridge after the end of a two-year period where the town (and county) was dry, as well as noting progress made on the street car line, ditch dredging, and a Masonic gathering.
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1893-04-06 Memphis Commercial TN pg 4
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The Star Hotel cook confesses to starting the deadly fire but changes his story on who the other guilty parties are, and detectives are enlisted to investigate the matter.
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1882-06-02 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 3
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A fair association is presented with a baby owl that was captured near WR and kept in a back room for visitors to look at.
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1910-11-18 WR Blade, County Officers Photo
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Group portrait of Lawrence County officers. Source: http://ataleoftwotowns.com/1910-county-officers/
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1888-11-06 Memphis Avalanche pg 4
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The Walnut Ridge Telephone newspaper prints a racist editorial snub against L. P. Featherstone, 1888 Union Labor candidate for Arkansas's First Congressional District, near election day. (See Featherstone's Encyclopedia of Arkansas entry at https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/lewis-porter-featherstone-4621/ for additional information.)
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Object, WR Lawrence County Courthouse Souvenir Plate, Circa Early 1900s
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A Wheelock China Company plate made for Mrs. Ed Marx of Walnut Ridge; photo courtesy of and details at http://ataleoftwotowns.com/early-1900s-walnut-ridge-courthouse-souvenir-plate/.
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1893-04-01 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 3
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The burning of the Star Hotel in Walnut Ridge results in two deaths when a man enters the blaze to save a young boy but both are caught in the flames. The fire spreads across town and results in $125,000 in damage.
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1870-06-30 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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Walnut Ridge is included in a statewide list of post offices, perhaps the first mention in a newspaper of WR. Other Lawrence County post offices include Ash Flat, Canton, Clover Bend, Evening Shade, Laura Town, Powhatan, Rhea, and Smithville.
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Postcard, 1935 WR Times-Dispatch Building/Former Post Office
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Depicts the post office built on West Main St in Walnut Ridge in 1935; postcard date unknown.
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Photo, Train Wreck Near Walnut Ridge, Circa Early 1900s
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A crowd surveys the damage; date taken and photographer unknown.
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Photo, MoPac Railroad Tracks Near Murta, Image 54
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Looking towards Walnut Ridge, date unknown; from the collection of the Barriger Railroad Library.
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Photo, Swan C. Dowell House, Walnut Ridge
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The stately Dowell abode, covering the block formed by SW 2nd St, SW 3rd St, Ash St, and Maple St.
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1932 USGS WR and Hoxie Map, Detail
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U. S. Geological Survey Map that shows road layouts, creeks and sloughs, utility lines, and houses.
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1892-08-18 Memphis Avalanche TN pg 4
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A tramp is killed when part of a freight train wrecks at Walnut Ridge.
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Document, Envelope With 1885 Walnut Ridge Postmark
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Addressed to H. J. Shirk, Peru, Indiana, with an April 15, 1885 postmark; found at auction.
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1893-04-01 Vicksburg Daily Commercial Herald MS pg 2
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A news brief notes the burning of a Portia lumber mill, the same day a fire hits Walnut Ridge.
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1893-08-10 Smith Center Stewart's Bazoo KS pg 5
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A Kansas newspaper comments on the Walnut Ridge Telephone and its editor, George Anderson.
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A letter from WR to the Jonesboro Times discusses Walnut Ridge's improvements and its anticipation of a rail connection to Jonesboro.
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Walnut Ridge wins a baseball game against Jonesboro, 10-4.
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Walnut Ridge merchants Z. Phelps & Sons are among the Arkansas outlets listed in an ad for Deere, Mansur, & Co. steel plows.
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Notes that in Walnut Ridge "a jealous husband attempted to commit suicide, but failing in that, tried to kill her, and made a second failure."
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The Walnut Ridge postmaster/mayor skips town with a stolen $800.
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A Walnut Ridge newspaper editor, recently appointed postmaster, mysteriously goes missing.
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An Iron Mountain train carrying Grand Army of the Republic members wrecks near Walnut Ridge.
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The Walnut Ridge & Hoxie Street Car Company is incorporated.
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Photo, 1913 Walnut Ridge Baseball Club Team
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Photograph courtesy of the Arkansas Baseball Encyclopedia.
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Lee Ridgeway is shot by Alf Bagley, whose brother Ridgeway had slain.
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A Walnut Ridge resident writes in to a Q & A column about Civil War veteran pensions and benefits.
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An elderly lady dies when trying to walk around a passenger train in Walnut Ridge.
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1884 Pocahontas Star-Herald, Stagecoach Line
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Advertisement for a daily Pocahontas-Walnut Ridge-Hoxie stagecoach route; newspaper month and day unknown.
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1893-04-02 Memphis Commercial TN pg 1
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The Star Hotel's cook is arrested and accused of starting the fire that killed two and destroyed a good portion of the town.
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The Vicksburg Herald editorializes on the Bagley murder trial.
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A house is destroyed in Walnut Ridge by an accidental fire.
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1877-03-31 Osceola Times AR pg 3
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Editor Baldwin of the Beebe Magnet newspaper moves his press to Walnut Ridge and starts the Lawrence County Journal.
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A marriage between a "most popular as well as skillful" Walnut Ridge physician and "the belle of [Lawrence] county" takes place at the Walnut Ridge Methodist Church.
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The Arkansas Presbytery forms a committee to investigate potentially organizing a Presbyterian church in Walnut Ridge after hearing citizens' requests for one.
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An article mentions the existence of a stagecoach line from Walnut Ridge to the new resort town of Ravenden Springs.
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1884-05-02 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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A news brief notes, "A horse thief was captured near Walnut Ridge yesterday, but managed to throw himself from his horse and escape from his captors before they reached the jail."
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1883-02-01 Poplar Bluff Citizen MO pg 5
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A former Poplar Bluff resident dies of heavy drinking in Walnut Ridge.
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1888-01-05 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 2
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A news brief notes that "Walnut Ridge, Hoxie, and all other towns in Lawrence County have gone dry by petition" for a period of two years.
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Postcard, Walnut Ridge High School and Grammar School
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A picturesque view focusing on the high school building, constructed in 1923; postcard date unknown.
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1889-11-13 Clyde Herald KS pg 2
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A tree falls on the wagon of a man crossing a creek near Walnut Ridge, killing him and injuring his family.
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Photo, Rhea Hotel, Walnut Ridge
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Photo of the two-story Rhea Hotel on West Main Street taken sometime between its construction in 1904 and its destruction by fire in 1914. Photo courtesy City of Walnut Ridge website.
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Lee Ridgeway is not expected to live after being shot by Alf Bagley.
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A letter from Walnut Ridge describes Christmas traditions in the region, which include a bounty of firecrackers.
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Photo, Walnut Ridge Main Street Businesses Circa 1920s-1940s
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Date taken unknown; shows the Sam Levit dry goods store and other one-story shops built on the site of the Hotel Rhea, which burned in 1914. Photo courtesy CALS Encyclopedia of AR.
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Train whistles assist in the celebration at Hoxie of Grover Cleveland's (re-)election as president.
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1888-08-05 Louisville Courier-Journal KY pg 5
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A Miss Dalton of Walnut Ridge commits suicide by taking arsenic, with her motive unknown.
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1893-04-04 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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More details are given on the businesses destroyed by the Star Hotel fire in Walnut Ridge, and investigations of potential culprits behind the fire continue.
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Alf Bagley is granted bail in the sum of $10,000, after the State warns that doing so would weaken its case against Bagley.
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The loss in the M. V. Camp house fire is $5,000, with no insurance.
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1877-04-10 Memphis Daily Appeal TN pg 1
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The Walnut Ridge Journal newspaper highlights the town's extensive timber resources, especially in walnut, and its rail capabilities for exporting logs.
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1895-01-29 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 6
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"All travel on wagon roads is stopped" but train schedules continue after six inches of snow fall in Walnut Ridge.
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"Wanted: Six Swedes or Germans for saw-mill work," declares a classified ad by a Walnut Ridge firm.
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1881-09-24 The Tennessean Nashville TN pg 1
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A St. Louis Post-Dispatch news brief notes a fatal shooting in Walnut Ridge.
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Photo, First Presbyterian Church WR 1917 Sanctuary
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Color photograph of the second sanctuary of FPC WR that was completed in 1917, replaced by the current sanctuary built in 1967. Courtesy FPC WR 130th Anniversary Commemorative Book.
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1888-02-23 Ironton County Register MO pg 6
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A disastrous early morning fire strikes Walnut Ridge's business district.
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Photo, 1900 Walnut Ridge Courthouse View With Trees
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Depicts the second courthouse built in WR after the first one on East Main St burned. Photo courtesy courthousehistory.com.
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1889-12-19 Beloit Gazette KS pg 5
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A Kansas news editor berates the Walnut Ridge Telephone newspaper for its coverage of Jefferson Davis's death.
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Photo, First Baptist Church WR, Woman's Missionary Union Circle Meeting Circa 1940
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From "March We Onward: A History of First Baptist WR 1889-1989," which states, "This photograph of a W.M.U. circle meeting was made around 1940. Among those in the photograph are: Rev. and Mrs. Vermillion, Mabel Bridges, Mrs. Cora Andrus, Martha Downing, Florence Guthrie, Naomi Moore, Hannah Floyd, Mrs. Butler, Lola Mullen, and Lola Thomas."
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Lee Ridgeway dies from his wounds after being shot, and is buried.
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1891-10-07 Pittsburgh Dispatch PA pg 8
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Despairing over his increasing deafness and the market downturn affecting his Walnut Ridge lumber investments, a Pennsylvania man commits suicide.
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Photo, Robert L. Bailey Cotton and Cotton Seed, Door Stencilling Circa 1920s
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Office door in use from circa mid-1920s to early 1930s; photo by Jon Walter and James Whitlow and details at http://ataleoftwotowns.com/1920s-1930s-robert-l-bailey/
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1893-01-04 Memphis Commercial TN pg 3
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Five Lawrence County saloon licenses are granted, four in Walnut Ridge and one in Hoxie.
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1870-07-28 AR Gazette pg 2
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News items include the shootings of S. S. Dowell of Clover Bend and WR counterfeiter/horse thief R. R. Robbins, as well as increased interest in a Pocahontas railroad.
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1909-03-22 Jonesboro Daily News pgs 1 & 8
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Alf Bagley's murder trial begins, "one of the most important cases to be tried in this part of the state in months."
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1893-04-05 Memphis Commercial TN pg 1
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A municipal election in Walnut Ridge features Australian (preferential) voting.
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A jury is secured for Alf Bagley's second trial, a full year after the first trial.
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1894-01-05 St Joseph Gazette-Herald MO pg 2
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Arsonists attempt to burn businesses throughout Walnut Ridge in the early hours of the morning.
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Henry Boas's newly constructed three-story Depot Hotel in Walnut Ridge is completely burnt, but is fortunately insured.
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The Walnut Ridge Journal notes the arrival in Lawrence County of immigrants from several northern states, and encourages more to join them.
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1901-07-31 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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A remarkably heavy rain falls on Walnut Ridge over the course of two days.
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2020-05-13T19:43:22-07:00
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Despite the state board of health's order that it is safe to do so, the people of Walnut Ridge refuse to allow in any mail from New Orleans due to the threat of yellow fever.
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A German-language paper mentions the Iron Mountain Railroad and Walnut Ridge.
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A theft of election results in Pulaski County is condemned as a "burning shame" by the people of Lawrence County in a letter to the editor of the Arkansas Gazette.
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Postcard, Walnut Ridge Air View
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Photo postcard of an undated aerial view of Walnut Ridge.
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Photo, First Baptist Church WR, Easter 1928 Group Portrait
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From "March We Onward: A History of First Baptist WR 1889-1989," which states, "The pastor, W. E. Fuson, may be seen on the extreme right. He is wearing a frock coat, his traditional pulpit attire."
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The Jonesboro Sun provides further details on the circumstances of Alf Bagley's murder of Lee Ridgeway on Main Street.
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1891-11-19 Rolla Herald MO pg 3
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A letter to a Missouri newspaper warns that a man in the area pretending he is single actually has multiple wives at various railroad towns, including Walnut Ridge.
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Postcard, Arkansas-Missouri Power and Ice Company Circa 1920s
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Shows the company's building, the smokestack of which is still visible in WR, after the company had changed its name; it was previously known as the Walnut Ridge & Hoxie Light, Power, and Transit Company.
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1893-03-02 Alton Empire KS pg 4
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A correspondent of the Walnut Ridge Telephone newspaper mocks the state legislature's proposed whisky ban.
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1873-05-30 Memphis Avalanche TN pg 2
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Two men draw revolvers on each other on the Cairo & Fulton Railroad at Walnut Ridge, and one is shot.
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1909-03-23 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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The jury for the Bagley trial is selected, after an examination of 112 men.
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1910-03-24 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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Alf Bagley's second murder trial begins, and the reporter notes that "the case has aroused great interest in this [Lawrence] county."
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Alf Bagley is acquitted for Ridgeway's murder, but only after the trial "was fought bitterly by both sides" by "the best legal talent in this section of the State."
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1894-03-22 Memphis Commercial TN pg 4
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Ad Cain, charged with starting the fire that burned the Star Hotel and other WR businesses in April 1893, is sentenced to two years in prison.
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1877-06-22 Arkansas Gazette pg 3
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Walnut Ridge hosts spelling bees, perhaps at the school, and Colonel Ponder harvests a crop of clover.
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Postcard, "Greetings from Walnut Ridge" With Road on Slope
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Perhaps a road on a hill leading to Walnut Ridge, or more likely a generic image.
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1878-05-19 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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A robber named Andrew Jackson is recaptured and returned to Walnut Ridge after escaping from jail.
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1879-11-27 Fayetteville Gazette NC pg 1
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A North Carolina newspaper gets a letter from a former resident that includes a description of Walnut Ridge and tips on how to prosper as a citizen of Arkansas.
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1883-10-06 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 5
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Millions of butterflies, probably monarchs migrating south for the winter, pass through Walnut Ridge.
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1886-01-05 Topeka Citizen KS pg 3
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A druggist attempts to break up a fight in his store, but is hit with a club and lashes back with a knife.
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Photo, First Presbyterian Church WR 1883 Sanctuary
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Shows the congregation's first sanctuary, built of pine in 1883 and later destroyed by fire. Courtesy FPC WR 130th Anniversary Commemorative Book.
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Postcard, Phoenix Cotton Oil Company, Walnut Ridge
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An undated postcard of the sprawling complex, which opened in 1903.
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Photo, First Baptist Church WR, 1894 Sanctuary
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Depicts the first sanctuary, built in 1894 at the corner of Elm and SW 2nd Streets; from "March We Onward: A History of First Baptist WR 1889-1989."
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1908-10-28 Jonesboro Weekly Sun pg 2- Editorial
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The Sun editorializes that Ridgeway "was not a good judge of human nature" when it came to Alf Bagley's revenge.
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1892-03-06 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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The Walnut Ridge Telephone newspaper recommends Democrat candidates Hill and Gray in an editorial.
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2020-05-26T12:40:39-07:00
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media/1874-09-26 Horses Traveling Between WR and Powhatan Run Away With Vehicle - AR Gazette pg 4_thumb.jpg
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1874-09-26 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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A woman and her two children are injured when the horses towing their vehicle between WR & Powhatan run away.
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1909-03-24 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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As part of the Bagley trial, Ridgeway's antemortem statement is read to the jury.
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1910-03-27 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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Alf Bagley's case is strengthened by the new testimony of Ridgeway's widow, who stated that her husband had purchased several revolvers with the intent to kill Alf.
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1894-05-19 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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Three more members of the Hoxie gang of robber-gamblers are arrested, with Walnut Ridge being "greatly wrought up for the last few days" over the matter.
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1877-08-03 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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The Walnut Ridge Journal notes the frequency of livestock shipments in the town.
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media/1879-12-18 Woman Burned to a Crisp - Topeka State Journal KS pg 1_thumb.jpg
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1879-12-18 Topeka State Journal KS pg 1
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A Lawrence County man arrives home after being gone two days and finds his wife's charred remains in the fireplace.
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media/1878-06-08 WR Woman Burned to Death Kindling Fire With Coal Oil - Osceola Times AR pg 3_thumb.jpg
2020-05-13T19:08:17-07:00
1878-06-08 Osceola Times AR pg 3
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A Walnut Ridge woman burns to death when starting a fire.
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media/1879-12-03 Tramp Asked to Bring Cotton to Minturn, Sells in WR and Runs Off - AR Democrat pg 1_thumb.jpg
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1879-12-03 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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A tramp is hired to bring two bales of cotton to Minturn, but he sells it in Walnut Ridge instead and runs off with the money.
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media/1883-12-26 Man Kills His Uncle Near WR - St Louis Globe-Democrat pg 4_thumb.jpg
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1883-12-26 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 4
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A man kills his uncle near Walnut Ridge in a violent exchange involving a knife, a shovel, and a pistol.
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media/1882-07-04 Death by Sunstroke in WR - Memphis Avalanche TN pg 2_thumb.jpg
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1882-07-04 Memphis Avalanche TN pg 2
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A man dies of sunstroke in Walnut Ridge, and his wife cuts short her visit in Tennessee upon receipt of the news.
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Photo, 1894 Walnut Ridge Baseball Club Team
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According to "Images of America: Walnut Ridge & Hoxie," team members pictured are, from left to right, Dr. Clinton Meriwether, Montie Sharum, David Bloom, Caroll McCaroll, and Solon Crook, first row; Bert Israel, George Ponder, Berg Israel, C. W. Cooper, and Bob Cooper, second row. Image courtesy CALS Encyclopedia of AR.
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1905-03-09 Poplar Bluff Citizen MO pg 1
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Newspaper informant was in WR when Ed Bagley was shot and gives further details of the tragedy.
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1890-11-13 Poplar Bluff Citizen MO pg 1
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A Missouri man is robbed in Walnut Ridge just before attempting to buy one of the town's saloons.
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Photo, First Baptist Church WR, Pastor 1914-1917 Charles Elliott
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From "March We Onward: A History of First Baptist WR 1889-1989," which notes, "More than any other pastor he helped to bring structure and organization to the Walnut Ridge Church. He was also instrumental in founding the Black River Baptist Association."
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1908-10-30 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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Alf Bagley is held without bail after murdering Ridgeway and is brought to Little Rock for safekeeping.
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1892-04-07 Fayetteville Weekly Observer NC pg 3
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John S. Gibson's hometown newspaper reprints his profile sketch written by the Walnut Ridge Telephone as part of an article on local lawyers.
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1874-11-10 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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Northbound Cairo & Fulton passenger trains begin to stop for supper at Henry Boas's eating-house in WR.
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1909-03-25 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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Alf Bagley's defense is strengthened when a witness says Ridgeway had declared it was either 'kill or get killed' by Bagley.
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1893-04-15 Mendocino Coast Beacon CA pg 1
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A later news dispatch about the WR Star Hotel fire notes that thirteen houses were destroyed in the conflagration.
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1873-05-30 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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A shooting takes place in a Walnut Ridge saloon after a Canadian painter is refused another drink.
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1894-05-25 Memphis Commercial TN pg 2
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A dispatch from Walnut Ridge describes another daring robbery in Hoxie and warns of potential vigilante action "if the gang cannot be forced to leave by law."
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1877-08-11 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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At the WR depot an African-American porter falls between the platform and moving train cars and is crushed to death.
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media/1878-01-19 LawCo Journal Says WR Likely to Join in Murphy Movement - AR Gazette pg 2_thumb.jpg
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1878-01-19 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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The Gazette remarks, "The Lawrence County Journal says the town of Walnut Ridge is liable to be 'taken in' by the Murphy movement."
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1878-08-21 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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The Arkansas Board of Health receives a letter from a Walnut Ridge doctor about preventing the spread of yellow fever in the town, especially via railroad passengers.
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1880-01-12 Arkansas Democrat pg 4
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The Arkansas Democrat reports that Mountain Home has not received mail from Walnut Ridge for over two weeks.
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media/1884-02-11 John Rhea Stabbs Mr. Bottoms in Saloon - Alton IL pg 2_thumb.jpg
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1884-02-11 Alton Evening Telegraph IL pg 2
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A fight in a Walnut Ridge saloon results in a man stabbed in the neck with a penknife.
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media/1882-07-19 RR Track to Memphis Begins - Memphis Public Ledger pg 1_thumb.jpg
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1882-07-19 Memphis Public Ledger TN pg 1
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A Walnut Ridge dispatch notes, "the track laying on the Springfield and Memphis road, between a crossing below here and Black River, begins tomorrow."
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1886-12-05 St. Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 4
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A Walnut Ridge saloon owner is slashed with a knife by an out-of-town customer.
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Photo, Circa 1909 WR First Presbyterian Church Manse
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Circa 1940s photo of the former manse of First Presbyterian Church of WR built circa 1909; backstory at http://www.imbodenlive.com/2012/06/26/a-home-with-an-interesting-history-walnut-ridge-arkansas
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1888-12-31 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 4
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A Walnut Ridge moonshiner is nabbed by an undercover Secret Service officer.
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1905-03-14 Jonesboro Evening Sun pg 1
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Lee Ridgeway is indicted for the murder of Ed Bagley, and bond is furnished.
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1891-03-23 Memphis Appeal-Avalanche TN pg 4
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The Walnut Ridge Telephone declares that the Arkansas people do not want another constitutional convention (the fourth, and current, state constitution had been adopted in 1874).
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Photo, First Baptist Church WR, Berean Sunday School Class 1921
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Group portrait taken on March 6, 1921; from "March We Onward: A History of First Baptist WR 1889-1989," which identifies those in the picture as follows: "From left to right in the front row: A. Legate, the class president; Bob Surridge, first president of the class and future mayor of Walnut Ridge; Mrs. W. E. Kirkpatrick, teacher of the class and wife of the pastor; Marcus Teenor, holding the left side of the banner; Dr. Relton McCarrol, Orville Cutsinger, Clifton Kirkpatrick, holding the right side of the banner; Roland Smith, Paul Kirkpatrick, G. E. Henry, Roy Cutsinger, Dr. Len Downen; among those in the three back rows are: Jimmy Buster, Everett Webb, Ray Bickers, Pete McLeod, Red Spence, Clarence Jung, Toots Elkins, Happy Matthews, John Carter, O. E. Redwine, L. King, B. Bloomeyer, H. Butler, Elmer Pope, W. Lee, C. Thorn, E. Briggs, E. Hall, R. Morgan, Eugene Sells, L. Smith, and Cicero McCullough."
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1908-11-04 Jonesboro Weekly Sun pg 4
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The examining trial is held for Alf Bagley's murder of Ridgeway, and "a trial of more than ordinary importance is expected" the following March.
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1876-05-16 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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A colt races an Iron Mountain freight train from Minturn to Walnut Ridge, and is returned in the train's caboose.
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1909-03-27 Jonesboro Daily News pg 1
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The Alf Bagley trial results in a mistrial after the jury disagrees on whether to convict.
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1893-05-29 Lawrence Daily Journal KS pg 1
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A man tries to tame a wolf near Walnut Ridge, but he is bitten by it and later dies of rabies.
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1873-06-07Arkadelphia Southern Standard AR pg 1
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A twelve-year-old boy has both legs cut off by a train, and dies that evening despite efforts by several surgeons to save him.
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1894-08-05 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 6
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A church revival meeting is mysteriously and dramatically interrupted by a bolt of lightning and a storm out of nowhere.
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1877-09-30 Arkansas Gazette pg 3
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Taxable property in Lawrence County increases $12,000 year over year, and bounties of dried peaches and cotton are noted.
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1878-12-02 Arkansas Democrat pg 4
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A man writes about his pleasant experience on an Iron Mountain train, and says he "got a good supper at Walnut Ridge."
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1884-04-10 Chanute Weekly Times KS pg 5
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A Walnut Ridge sawmill operator dies of a broken blood vessel while doing everyday repairs.
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1882-12-08 Harrisburg Telegraph PA pg 1
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A Pennsylvania paper describes an enigmatic, and apparently fatal, fight between Walnut Ridge women.
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1887-06-02 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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A baseball game is scheduled between the Walnut Ridge and Black Rock club teams.
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1889-06-26 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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Walnut Ridge wins a baseball game against Jonesboro by a score of 18 to 11.
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Photo, 1912 Walnut Ridge Baseball Club Team
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Photograph courtesy of the Arkansas Baseball Encyclopedia.
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1905-10-21 Memphis Cmcl Appeal pg 3
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Ridgeway is acquitted for Ed Bagley's murder-- and Alf Bagley is also acquitted of a killing that occurred nine days after his brother's murder.
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1891-06-20 Topeka Daily Capital KS pg 8
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A medicine salesman is attacked and robbed when traveling between Walnut Ridge and Hoxie.
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1908-11-06 Batesville Daily Guard pg 1
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It is learned from Prosecuting Attorney R. D. Jeffrey that Lee Ridgeway had moved to Texas for a time due to the Bagleys' threats.
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1884-07-28 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 1
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A Walnut Ridge brothel is burnt down by a group of drunk men.
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1909-04-18 Arkansas Democrat pg 2
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Alf Bagley, still held in the Arkansas Penitentiary in Little Rock, applies for bond.
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1893-06-20 St Louis Anzeiger des Westens MO pg 6
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Walnut Ridge is once again mentioned in an article from a German-language newspaper out of St. Louis.
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1889-10 Goodspeed's Memoirs of NEA, Lawrence County Excerpts
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A leading source of info on late-18th-century Lawrence County, featuring a detailed sketch of the county's history and economy as well as numerous biographical sketches. Taken from the larger work, "Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas."
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1905-03-06 Jbr Daily Times-Enterprise pg 1
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WR City Marshal Lee Ridgeway kills unruly farmer Ed Bagley, touching off the decade-long Bagley-Ridgeway Feud.
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1884-08-09 Bloomfield Vindicator MO pg 3
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A nine-year-old boy shoots a five-year-old during a quarrel with the boy's brother.
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1900-07-20 Arkansas Democrat pg 6
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A lemonade stand attendant is shot dead by a drunk man on the Fourth of July.
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1882-01-08 Topeka Daily Commonwealth KS pg 1
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A Lawrence County KKK member refuses to take part in a plot to kill four people, but in a subsequent attempt to arrest the KKK members, three people are killed.
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1908-10-27 Memphis Cmcl Appeal pg 7
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Lee Ridgeway dies from his wounds after being shot, and is buried.
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1882-06-05 Topeka Daily Capital KS pg 1
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A fireman is killed on a 3 a.m. Iron Mountain train when the engine hits some cattle on the tracks.
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1908-10-28 Jonesboro Weekly Sun pg 2
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The Jonesboro Sun provides further details on the circumstances of Alf Bagley's murder of Lee Ridgeway on Main Street.
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1882-12-08 Harrisburg Telegraph PA pg 1
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A Pennsylvania paper describes an enigmatic, and apparently fatal, fight between Walnut Ridge women.
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media/1885-04-02 African-American Porter Shoots at Hoxie Safe-Crackers - Ironton MO pg 4_thumb.jpg
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1885-04-02 Ironton County Register MO pg 4
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Would-be burglars at a Hoxie hotel flee in the dark after the porter shoots at them through a smoke-filled room.
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1888-08-05 Louisville Courier-Journal KY pg 5
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A Miss Dalton of Walnut Ridge commits suicide by taking arsenic, with her motive unknown.
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media/1878-06-08 WR Woman Burned to Death Kindling Fire With Coal Oil - Osceola Times AR pg 3_thumb.jpg
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1878-06-08 Osceola Times AR pg 3
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A Walnut Ridge woman burns to death when starting a fire.
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media/1883-02-01 Poplar Bluff Man Dies Drinking in WR - Poplar Bluff Citizen MO pg 5_thumb.jpg
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1883-02-01 Poplar Bluff Citizen MO pg 5
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A former Poplar Bluff resident dies of heavy drinking in Walnut Ridge.
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media/1886-01-05 Fight in Sexton Drug Store with Frank Israel - Topeka KS pg 3_thumb.jpg
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1886-01-05 Topeka Citizen KS pg 3
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A druggist attempts to break up a fight in his store, but is hit with a club and lashes back with a knife.
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1873-05-30 Memphis Avalanche TN pg 2
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Two men draw revolvers on each other on the Cairo & Fulton Railroad at Walnut Ridge, and one is shot.
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media/1879-06-18 Jealous WR Man Tries to Kill Himself and Wife, Fails at Both - AR Democrat pg 1_thumb.jpg
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1879-06-18 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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Notes that in Walnut Ridge "a jealous husband attempted to commit suicide, but failing in that, tried to kill her, and made a second failure."
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1883-12-26 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 4
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A man kills his uncle near Walnut Ridge in a violent exchange involving a knife, a shovel, and a pistol.
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media/1874-09-26 Horses Traveling Between WR and Powhatan Run Away With Vehicle - AR Gazette pg 4_thumb.jpg
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1874-09-26 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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A woman and her two children are injured when the horses towing their vehicle between WR & Powhatan run away.
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media/1881-09-24 Shooting in WR - Nashville TN pg 1_thumb.jpg
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1881-09-24 The Tennessean Nashville TN pg 1
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A St. Louis Post-Dispatch news brief notes a fatal shooting in Walnut Ridge.
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media/1884-02-11 John Rhea Stabbs Mr. Bottoms in Saloon - Alton IL pg 2_thumb.jpg
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1884-02-11 Alton Evening Telegraph IL pg 2
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A fight in a Walnut Ridge saloon results in a man stabbed in the neck with a penknife.
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1905-03-09 Poplar Bluff Citizen MO pg 1
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Newspaper informant was in WR when Ed Bagley was shot and gives further details of the tragedy.
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1873-05-30 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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A shooting takes place in a Walnut Ridge saloon after a Canadian painter is refused another drink.
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media/1884-04-10 Man Dies in WR of Ruptured Blood Vessel - Chanute KS pg 5_thumb.jpg
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1884-04-10 Chanute Weekly Times KS pg 5
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A Walnut Ridge sawmill operator dies of a broken blood vessel while doing everyday repairs.
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1908-10-26 Jonesboro Daily News pg 3
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Lee Ridgeway is shot by Alf Bagley, whose brother Ridgeway had slain.
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1877-08-11 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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At the WR depot an African-American porter falls between the platform and moving train cars and is crushed to death.
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media/1884-06-27 Portia Boiler Explosion - Arkansas Democrat pg 1_thumb.jpg
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1884-06-27 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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Two men are killed in a boiler explosion at a Portia stave factory.
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1908-10-26 Memphis Cmcl Appeal pg 7
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Lee Ridgeway is not expected to live after being shot by Alf Bagley.
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1879-12-18 Topeka State Journal KS pg 1
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A Lawrence County man arrives home after being gone two days and finds his wife's charred remains in the fireplace.
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media/1882-07-04 Death by Sunstroke in WR - Memphis Avalanche TN pg 2_thumb.jpg
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1882-07-04 Memphis Avalanche TN pg 2
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A man dies of sunstroke in Walnut Ridge, and his wife cuts short her visit in Tennessee upon receipt of the news.
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media/1905-03-06 Jbr Daily Times-Enterprise pg 1- Tragedy at Walnut Ridge_thumb.png
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1905-03-06 Jbr Daily Times-Enterprise pg 1
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WR City Marshal Lee Ridgeway kills unruly farmer Ed Bagley, touching off the decade-long Bagley-Ridgeway Feud.
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media/1882-06-02 Baby Owl Kept in Back Room in WR - St Louis Globe-Democrat pg 3_thumb.jpg
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1882-06-02 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 3
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A fair association is presented with a baby owl that was captured near WR and kept in a back room for visitors to look at.
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1901-10-25 Arkansas Democrat pg 4
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A correspondent notes the removal of politics from a meeting of the county's World's Fair committee, the illness of Col. Ponder, the WR cotton gins' output, and the benefits of a new road law.
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1880-04-22 Arkansas Gazette pg 5
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The Arkansas Presbytery meets in Walnut Ridge; among other matters, a pastor is installed for the church at Walnut Ridge and the presbytery thanks "the good people of Walnut Ridge for their generous hospitality."
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media/1884-08-09 Juvenile Murder in WR - Bloomfield MO pg 3_thumb.jpg
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1884-08-09 Bloomfield Vindicator MO pg 3
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A nine-year-old boy shoots a five-year-old during a quarrel with the boy's brother.
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media/1877-12-13 Brief Assessment of WR, Lawyer Col. Coffin, and LawCo Journal Editor - AR Gazette pg 4_thumb.jpg
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1877-12-13 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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The Gazette gives a brief assessment of Walnut Ridge's timber and prospects, of Col. Charles Coffin, and of the Walnut Ridge Journal & its editor.
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media/1900-07-20 Man Shot at Lemonade Stand on July 4 - Arkansas Democrat pg 6_thumb.png
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1900-07-20 Arkansas Democrat pg 6
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A lemonade stand attendant is shot dead by a drunk man on the Fourth of July.
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media/1879-07-31 AR Board of Health Notes WR Threat to Hang Quarantine-Runner - AR Democrat pg 4_thumb.png
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1879-07-31 Arkansas Democrat pg 4
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Minutes of the Arkansas Board of Health note Walnut Ridge citizens' threat to hang a quarantine runner if he didn't leave town.
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media/1870-06-30 WR in List of AR Post Office Locations Perhaps First Mention of WR - AR Gazette pg 4_thumb.png
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1870-06-30 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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Walnut Ridge is included in a statewide list of post offices, perhaps the first mention in a newspaper of WR. Other Lawrence County post offices include Ash Flat, Canton, Clover Bend, Evening Shade, Laura Town, Powhatan, Rhea, and Smithville.
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media/1885-01-18 Iron Mountain Route Has Pullman Palace Sleeping Car - St Louis MO pg 10_thumb.jpg
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1885-01-18 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 10
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An ad for the new direct St. Louis to Memphis train through Hoxie boasts of a "handsome day coach and elegant Pullman palace sleeping car."
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1882-01-08 Topeka Daily Commonwealth KS pg 1
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A Lawrence County KKK member refuses to take part in a plot to kill four people, but in a subsequent attempt to arrest the KKK members, three people are killed.
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1883-10-25 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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An attempted robbery at night of an Iron Mountain train fifteen miles north of Walnut Ridge is described.
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1910-11-18 WR Blade, County Officers Photo
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Group portrait of Lawrence County officers. Source: http://ataleoftwotowns.com/1910-county-officers/
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media/1885-07-22 Ad, Rattan Sulky Cart Wanted in Hoxie - St Louis Post-Dispatch pg 6_thumb.jpg
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1885-07-22 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 6
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A "second hand whalebone or rattan sulky [two-wheeled lightweight horse cart]" is wanted in Hoxie.
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media/1877-04-10 WR Journal Showcases Walnut Trees - Memphis Daily Appeal TN pg 1_thumb.jpg
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1877-04-10 Memphis Daily Appeal TN pg 1
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The Walnut Ridge Journal newspaper highlights the town's extensive timber resources, especially in walnut, and its rail capabilities for exporting logs.
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media/1879-06-18 Jealous WR Man Tries to Kill Himself and Wife, Fails at Both - AR Democrat pg 1_thumb.jpg
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1879-06-18 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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Notes that in Walnut Ridge "a jealous husband attempted to commit suicide, but failing in that, tried to kill her, and made a second failure."
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media/1882-12-08 Enigmatic Fatal Fight between WR Women - Harrisburg, PA pg 1_thumb.jpg
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1882-12-08 Harrisburg Telegraph PA pg 1
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A Pennsylvania paper describes an enigmatic, and apparently fatal, fight between Walnut Ridge women.
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1905-10-21 Memphis Cmcl Appeal pg 3
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Ridgeway is acquitted for Ed Bagley's murder-- and Alf Bagley is also acquitted of a killing that occurred nine days after his brother's murder.
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media/1883-10-06 Clouds of Migrating Butterflies Pass Town - St Louis Post-Dispatch pg 5_thumb.jpg
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1883-10-06 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 5
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Millions of butterflies, probably monarchs migrating south for the winter, pass through Walnut Ridge.
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1908-11-06 Batesville Daily Guard pg 1
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It is learned from Prosecuting Attorney R. D. Jeffrey that Lee Ridgeway had moved to Texas for a time due to the Bagleys' threats.
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media/1884-04-16 WR Postmaster and Mayor Steals Away - Decatur IL pg 1_thumb.jpg
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1884-04-16 Decatur Herald and Review IL pg 1
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The Walnut Ridge postmaster/mayor skips town with a stolen $800.
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1909-05-12 Arkansas Democrat pg 6
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Alf Bagley is granted bail in the sum of $10,000, after the State warns that doing so would weaken its case against Bagley.
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1888-08-05 Louisville Courier-Journal KY pg 5
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A Miss Dalton of Walnut Ridge commits suicide by taking arsenic, with her motive unknown.
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media/1877-05-12 Depot Hotel Burns in WR - St. Louis Globe-Democrat pg 8_thumb.jpg
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1877-05-12 St. Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 8
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Henry Boas's newly constructed three-story Depot Hotel in Walnut Ridge is completely burnt, but is fortunately insured.
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media/1877-12-16 Immigrants from Northern States Contemplate Settling in LawCo - AR Gazette pg 2_thumb.jpg
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1877-12-16 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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The Walnut Ridge Journal notes the arrival in Lawrence County of immigrants from several northern states, and encourages more to join them.
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1880-08-12 Memphis Public Ledger TN pg 1
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An article mentions the existence of a stagecoach line from Walnut Ridge to the new resort town of Ravenden Springs.
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1882-12-14 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 2
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A Walnut Ridge newspaper editor, recently appointed postmaster, mysteriously goes missing.
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1908-10-26 Jonesboro Daily News pg 3
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Lee Ridgeway is shot by Alf Bagley, whose brother Ridgeway had slain.
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media/1883-12-26 Man Kills His Uncle Near WR - St Louis Globe-Democrat pg 4_thumb.jpg
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1883-12-26 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 4
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A man kills his uncle near Walnut Ridge in a violent exchange involving a knife, a shovel, and a pistol.
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1909-03-22 Jonesboro Daily News pgs 1 & 8
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Alf Bagley's murder trial begins, "one of the most important cases to be tried in this part of the state in months."
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media/1884-05-02 Horse Thief Captured Near WR But Escapes From Captors - AR Democrat pg 1_thumb.jpg
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1884-05-02 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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A news brief notes, "A horse thief was captured near Walnut Ridge yesterday, but managed to throw himself from his horse and escape from his captors before they reached the jail."
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1910-03-23 Jonesboro Daily Tribune pg 1
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A jury is secured for Alf Bagley's second trial, a full year after the first trial.
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media/1884-11-27 Change in Railroad Timetables Affects Hoxie - Topeka KS pg 1_thumb.jpg
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1884-11-27 Topeka Weekly Capital-Commonwealth KS pg 1
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A change in railroad timetables results in a direct St. Louis to Memphis route that stops through Hoxie.
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media/1870-07-28 Horse Thief and Counterfeiter Robbins at WR Shot - AR Gazette pg 2_thumb.jpg
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1870-07-28 AR Gazette pg 2
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News items include the shootings of S. S. Dowell of Clover Bend and WR counterfeiter/horse thief R. R. Robbins, as well as increased interest in a Pocahontas railroad.
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media/1877-06-22 WR Spelling Bee, Col Ponder Harvests Clover Crop - AR Gazette pg 3_thumb.jpg
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1877-06-22 Arkansas Gazette pg 3
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Walnut Ridge hosts spelling bees, perhaps at the school, and Colonel Ponder harvests a crop of clover.
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media/1881-09-24 Shooting in WR - Nashville TN pg 1_thumb.jpg
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1881-09-24 The Tennessean Nashville TN pg 1
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A St. Louis Post-Dispatch news brief notes a fatal shooting in Walnut Ridge.
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media/1883-02-01 Poplar Bluff Man Dies Drinking in WR - Poplar Bluff Citizen MO pg 5_thumb.jpg
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1883-02-01 Poplar Bluff Citizen MO pg 5
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A former Poplar Bluff resident dies of heavy drinking in Walnut Ridge.
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1908-10-26 Memphis Cmcl Appeal pg 7
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Lee Ridgeway is not expected to live after being shot by Alf Bagley.
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media/1884-02-09 Railroad Rate War Begins When 4 Immigrants Brought to Hoxie - AR Gazette pg 1_thumb.jpg
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1884-02-09 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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A railroad rate war begins when the Little Rock & Memphis Railroad undercuts the Kansas City & Memphis Railroad to transport four immigrants from Memphis to Hoxie.
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1909-03-23 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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The jury for the Bagley trial is selected, after an examination of 112 men.
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1884-05-29 Arkansas Gazette pg 5
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A new depot at Hoxie will be a joint effort between the Iron Mountain and Memphis & Kansas City railroads; it is noted, "the former furnished the plans, the latter will do the work, and each company pay half."
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1910-03-24 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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Alf Bagley's second murder trial begins, and the reporter notes that "the case has aroused great interest in this [Lawrence] county."
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1873-05-30 Memphis Avalanche TN pg 2
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Two men draw revolvers on each other on the Cairo & Fulton Railroad at Walnut Ridge, and one is shot.
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media/1877-08-03 Stock Shipments Arriving in WR From Izard County - AR Gazette pg 2_thumb.jpg
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1877-08-03 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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The Walnut Ridge Journal notes the frequency of livestock shipments in the town.
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1879-12-18 Topeka State Journal KS pg 1
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A Lawrence County man arrives home after being gone two days and finds his wife's charred remains in the fireplace.
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1901-07-31 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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A remarkably heavy rain falls on Walnut Ridge over the course of two days.
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media/1879-09-24 WR Refuses to Accept New Orleans Mail Due to Yellow Fever Threat - AR Gazette pg 8_thumb.jpg
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1879-09-24 Arkansas Gazette pg 8
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Despite the state board of health's order that it is safe to do so, the people of Walnut Ridge refuse to allow in any mail from New Orleans due to the threat of yellow fever.
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1883-03-28 Memphis Avalanche TN pg 2
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Construction updates are noted for the Memphis & Kansas City Railroad, routed through Hoxie.
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1908-10-27 Memphis Cmcl Appeal pg 7
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Lee Ridgeway dies from his wounds after being shot, and is buried.
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2020-05-07T20:43:25-07:00
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1909-03-24 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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As part of the Bagley trial, Ridgeway's antemortem statement is read to the jury.
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2020-05-08T09:08:59-07:00
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1884-06-04 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 6
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A classified ad asks for a German gardener in Hoxie, "near German settlement."
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2020-05-14T12:47:57-07:00
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1910-03-27 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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Alf Bagley is acquitted for Ridgeway's murder, but only after the trial "was fought bitterly by both sides" by "the best legal talent in this section of the State."
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media/1874-09-26 Horses Traveling Between WR and Powhatan Run Away With Vehicle - AR Gazette pg 4_thumb.jpg
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1874-09-26 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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A woman and her two children are injured when the horses towing their vehicle between WR & Powhatan run away.
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2020-05-12T12:54:40-07:00
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media/1874-11-10 Passenger Trains Begin Stopping for Supper in WR Instead of Moark - AR Gazette pg 4_thumb.jpg
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1874-11-10 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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Northbound Cairo & Fulton passenger trains begin to stop for supper at Henry Boas's eating-house in WR.
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2020-05-13T12:20:37-07:00
1873-05-30 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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A shooting takes place in a Walnut Ridge saloon after a Canadian painter is refused another drink.
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2020-05-13T12:27:23-07:00
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media/1877-08-11 African-American Porter Falls Between RR Cars and Platform, Dies - AR Gazette pg 2_thumb.jpg
2020-05-13T14:08:19-07:00
1877-08-11 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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At the WR depot an African-American porter falls between the platform and moving train cars and is crushed to death.
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2020-05-13T14:11:02-07:00
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1878-01-19 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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The Gazette remarks, "The Lawrence County Journal says the town of Walnut Ridge is liable to be 'taken in' by the Murphy movement."
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1878-05-19 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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A robber named Andrew Jackson is recaptured and returned to Walnut Ridge after escaping from jail.
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1879-11-27 Fayetteville Gazette NC pg 1
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A North Carolina newspaper gets a letter from a former resident that includes a description of Walnut Ridge and tips on how to prosper as a citizen of Arkansas.
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2020-05-13T19:57:16-07:00
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2020-05-14T09:27:06-07:00
1883-06-05 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 6
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"Wanted: Six Swedes or Germans for saw-mill work," declares a classified ad by a Walnut Ridge firm.
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2020-05-14T09:29:31-07:00
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2020-05-07T20:46:16-07:00
1908-10-28 Jonesboro Weekly Sun pg 2
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The Jonesboro Sun provides further details on the circumstances of Alf Bagley's murder of Lee Ridgeway on Main Street.
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2020-05-07T20:48:22-07:00
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2020-05-08T09:16:27-07:00
1909-03-25 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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Alf Bagley's defense is strengthened when a witness says Ridgeway had declared it was either 'kill or get killed' by Bagley.
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2020-05-08T09:21:08-07:00
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1884-06-12 Memphis Avalanche TN pg 2
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A report from Pine Bluff suggests that a cotton processing facility may be established near the railway junction at Hoxie.
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2020-05-14T12:53:14-07:00
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1910-03-27 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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Alf Bagley's case is strengthened by the new testimony of Ridgeway's widow, who stated that her husband had purchased several revolvers with the intent to kill Alf.
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2020-05-14T13:58:43-07:00
1885-04-02 Ironton County Register MO pg 4
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Would-be burglars at a Hoxie hotel flee in the dark after the porter shoots at them through a smoke-filled room.
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2020-05-14T14:03:11-07:00
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media/1876-05-16 Colt Races Against Train from Minturn to Walnut Ridge - AR Gazette pg 2_thumb.jpg
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1876-05-16 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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A colt races an Iron Mountain freight train from Minturn to Walnut Ridge, and is returned in the train's caboose.
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2020-05-12T13:27:30-07:00
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2020-05-13T12:34:06-07:00
1873-06-07Arkadelphia Southern Standard AR pg 1
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A twelve-year-old boy has both legs cut off by a train, and dies that evening despite efforts by several surgeons to save him.
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2020-05-13T12:40:06-07:00
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1877-09-30 Arkansas Gazette pg 3
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Taxable property in Lawrence County increases $12,000 year over year, and bounties of dried peaches and cotton are noted.
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1893-02-12 Memphis Commercial TN pg 1
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A dispatch from Hoxie notes that "this has been the coldest and dryest winter known in this section for years."
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media/1878-06-08 WR Woman Burned to Death Kindling Fire With Coal Oil - Osceola Times AR pg 3_thumb.jpg
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1878-06-08 Osceola Times AR pg 3
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A Walnut Ridge woman burns to death when starting a fire.
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2020-05-13T19:10:33-07:00
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media/1879-12-03 Tramp Asked to Bring Cotton to Minturn, Sells in WR and Runs Off - AR Democrat pg 1_thumb.jpg
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1879-12-03 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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A tramp is hired to bring two bales of cotton to Minturn, but he sells it in Walnut Ridge instead and runs off with the money.
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1882-07-04 Memphis Avalanche TN pg 2
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A man dies of sunstroke in Walnut Ridge, and his wife cuts short her visit in Tennessee upon receipt of the news.
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1883-06-07 Memphis Avalanche TN pg 4
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Another update on the Kansas City & Memphis Railroad is given, and the article notes that "timber of all kinds, corn, fresh fish, cattle, hogs, rock, gravel, building stone, and all sorts of grain are to be found in the country traversed by this road."
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1908-10-28 Jonesboro Weekly Sun pg 2- Editorial
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The Sun editorializes that Ridgeway "was not a good judge of human nature" when it came to Alf Bagley's revenge.
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1883-10-26 St Louis Post-Dispatch pg 1
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A later turn of events indicate that the alleged attempt at train robbery near Delaplaine was actually a group of loggers innocently stopping the train to see if any of the freight was for their camp.
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1909-03-27 Jonesboro Daily News pg 1
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The Alf Bagley trial results in a mistrial after the jury disagrees on whether to convict.
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1884-06-27 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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Two men are killed in a boiler explosion at a Portia stave factory.
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1885-10-30 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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A meeting is held in Memphis to raise support for the financing of a Pocahontas to Hoxie railroad.
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2020-05-14T14:27:37-07:00
1886-01-05 Topeka Citizen KS pg 3
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A druggist attempts to break up a fight in his store, but is hit with a club and lashes back with a knife.
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2020-05-14T14:31:33-07:00
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2020-05-12T13:33:16-07:00
1884-07-28 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 1
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A Walnut Ridge brothel is burnt down by a group of drunk men.
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1876-08-29 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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A letter from WR to the Jonesboro Times discusses Walnut Ridge's improvements and its anticipation of a rail connection to Jonesboro.
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2020-05-13T12:50:35-07:00
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2020-05-13T14:29:29-07:00
1877-10-21 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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Walnut Ridge merchants Z. Phelps & Sons are among the Arkansas outlets listed in an ad for Deere, Mansur, & Co. steel plows.
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1935-06-01 Ogden Standard-Examiner UT pg 7
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A lucky Black River angler catches a 93-pound, 5.75 ft-long catfish.
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1878-08-21 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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The Arkansas Board of Health receives a letter from a Walnut Ridge doctor about preventing the spread of yellow fever in the town, especially via railroad passengers.
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media/1880-01-12 Mountain Home Complains That No Mail from WR in 2 Weeks - AR Democrat pg 4_thumb.jpg
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1880-01-12 Arkansas Democrat pg 4
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The Arkansas Democrat reports that Mountain Home has not received mail from Walnut Ridge for over two weeks.
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media/1882-06-05 Cattle Cause Train Wreck Near Okean - Topeka KS pg 1_thumb.jpg
2020-05-14T08:36:23-07:00
1882-06-05 Topeka Daily Capital KS pg 1
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A fireman is killed on a 3 a.m. Iron Mountain train when the engine hits some cattle on the tracks.
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1905-03-09 Poplar Bluff Citizen MO pg 1
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Newspaper informant was in WR when Ed Bagley was shot and gives further details of the tragedy.
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1883-07-01 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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Another construction update notes the completion of the Hoxie to Springfield portion of the KC & Memphis RR, and that only seventeen miles remain until the route's overall completion.
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2020-05-07T20:54:03-07:00
1908-10-30 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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Alf Bagley is held without bail after murdering Ridgeway and is brought to Little Rock for safekeeping.
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media/1884-02-11 John Rhea Stabbs Mr. Bottoms in Saloon - Alton IL pg 2_thumb.jpg
2020-05-14T12:14:18-07:00
1884-02-11 Alton Evening Telegraph IL pg 2
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A fight in a Walnut Ridge saloon results in a man stabbed in the neck with a penknife.
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1909-04-18 Arkansas Democrat pg 2
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Alf Bagley, still held in the Arkansas Penitentiary in Little Rock, applies for bond.
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media/1884-07-13 Mining Expert Says Gold at Jaynes Creek Only in Iron Ore - St Joseph MO pg 1_thumb.jpg
2020-05-14T13:16:49-07:00
1884-07-13 St Joseph Gazette-Herald MO pg 1
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A mining expert says that gold at Jaynes Creek (likely around the area of Ravenden Springs) is intermixed with iron ore, and thus is not easy to pan for.
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2020-05-14T13:21:09-07:00
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2020-05-14T14:36:24-07:00
1886-09-02 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 7
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A "young white woman" in Missouri that went missing had "been in correspondence with a negro of Hoxie, Ark., and is thought to have eloped with him."
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1892-12-30 Memphis Commercial TN pg 1
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"The beautiful still lingers" after a snowfall in Hoxie.
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2020-05-12T13:41:42-07:00
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2020-05-13T13:15:18-07:00
1877-03-31 Osceola Times AR pg 3
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Editor Baldwin of the Beebe Magnet newspaper moves his press to Walnut Ridge and starts the Lawrence County Journal.
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2020-05-13T13:34:40-07:00
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1877-10-25 Batesville Guard pg 2
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The Arkansas Presbytery forms a committee to investigate potentially organizing a Presbyterian church in Walnut Ridge after hearing citizens' requests for one.
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2020-05-13T14:38:54-07:00
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1878-12-02 Arkansas Democrat pg 4
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A man writes about his pleasant experience on an Iron Mountain train, and says he "got a good supper at Walnut Ridge."
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1882-07-19 Memphis Public Ledger TN pg 1
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A Walnut Ridge dispatch notes, "the track laying on the Springfield and Memphis road, between a crossing below here and Black River, begins tomorrow."
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1905-03-14 Jonesboro Evening Sun pg 1
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Lee Ridgeway is indicted for the murder of Ed Bagley, and bond is furnished.
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2020-05-07T20:18:05-07:00
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1883-07-27 Westliche Post St Louis MO pg 4
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A German-language paper mentions the Iron Mountain Railroad and Walnut Ridge.
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1908-11-04 Jonesboro Weekly Sun pg 4
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The examining trial is held for Alf Bagley's murder of Ridgeway, and "a trial of more than ordinary importance is expected" the following March.
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1884-04-10 Chanute Weekly Times KS pg 5
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A Walnut Ridge sawmill operator dies of a broken blood vessel while doing everyday repairs.
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2020-05-14T12:23:09-07:00
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1909-04-28 Vicksburg Herald MS pg 8
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The Vicksburg Herald editorializes on the Bagley murder trial.
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1884 Pocahontas Star-Herald, Stagecoach Line
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Advertisement for a daily Pocahontas-Walnut Ridge-Hoxie stagecoach route; newspaper month and day unknown.
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2020-05-02T21:14:18-07:00
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media/1913-06 Hoxie1_thumb.jpg
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1913-06 Sanborn Map of Hoxie, pg 1 of 1
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Fire insurance map shows the three-railroad intersection at Hoxie and the growth of businesses around it.
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1889-10 Goodspeed's Memoirs of NEA, Lawrence County Excerpts
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A leading source of info on late-18th-century Lawrence County, featuring a detailed sketch of the county's history and economy as well as numerous biographical sketches. Taken from the larger work, "Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas."
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Photo, Walnut Ridge 1891 Front Street Panorama, pt 3 of 3
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Part of a three-frame panorama taken by W. S. Hubbs; note the dozens of cotton bales in the street. Property of James Whitlow; I of A WR&H pg 13.
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1897-02 Sanborn Map of WR, pg 1 of 2
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A fire insurance map of the western half of Walnut Ridge; brick buildings are colored red and frame buildings yellow.
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2020-05-07T21:22:20-07:00
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Photo, Walnut Ridge 1891 Front Street Panorama, pt 2 of 3
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Part of a three-frame panorama taken by W. S. Hubbs; pictured from left to right are the Star Hotel, an unnamed building, the Yellow Front Restaurant, and a drugstore. Property of James Whitlow; I of A WR&H pg 13.
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1897-02 Sanborn Map of WR, pg 2 of 2
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Map of the eastern half of Walnut Ridge, featuring numerous storefronts, dwellings, the first WR courthouse, and even a saloon at the corner of Main St. and Front St.
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1916-11 Sanborn Map of Hoxie pg 1 of 1
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Hotels, warehouses, a YMCA, and a moving pictures theater are some of the many establishments noted in this map.
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2020-05-07T21:57:07-07:00
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Photo, West Main Street With Streetcar, Walnut Ridge, 1926
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Depicts a bustling day in downtown WR in 1926; photo from the National Register of Historic Places registration form for the WR Commercial Historic District, 2010.
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2020-07-10T09:33:32-07:00
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2020-05-03T15:43:11-07:00
1904-02 Sanborn Map of WR pg 2 of 4
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Map showing the first three blocks north and south of East Main St., including the original locations of the school building and the Methodist Church.
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Photo, WR and Hoxie Mule-drawn Streetcar, Circa 1890
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The man just to the right of the numeral 2 is snacking on a banana, probably delivered by the railroad. In the background is a "Smoke Bull Durham" ad. Photo courtesy the Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
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1904-02 Sanborn Map of WR pg 3 of 4
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Map showing a mixture of businesses, houses, and even an opera house along West Main St in Walnut Ridge.
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2020-05-03T18:39:51-07:00
1908-04 Sanborn Map of WR pg 2 of 4
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Map of eastern Walnut Ridge featuring such businesses as a billiard hall, a bakery, and a theater.
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Photo, Barber Shop in Walnut Ridge, January 1925
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Mose Weir is among those depicted; property of Helen Weir.
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Photo, Walnut Ridge Steam Laundry, Circa 1904
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Photograph of the facility with a horse & buggy and seven people, perhaps proprieters and staff, in front. Photo from the CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
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1908-04 Sanborn Map of WR pg 3 of 4
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Map of West Main St. and environs, including establishments such as the Baptist and Presbyterian Churches and the Hotel Rhea.
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1919-05 Sanborn Map of WR pg 5 of 8
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Map reflects the construction of the Walnut Ridge Water Works at the corner of Vine St and W. 4th St.
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Photo, Walnut Ridge Steam Laundry, Circa 1915
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An undated photo of the WR Steam Laundry's second facility, reconstructed after the 1913 tornado. Property of Jon Walter; I of A WR&H pg 27.
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1919-05 Sanborn Map of WR pg 6 of 8
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Map shows the area bounded by West 1st (Front) & 4th Streets and Elm & Free Streets, including First Baptist Church.
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1914-03 Sanborn Map of WR pg 2 of 7
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Shows the county courthouse and the blocks along Main St and Walnut St between W 2nd St and W 5th St.
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1919-05 Sanborn Map of WR pg 8 of 8
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Map shows the enormous Hoxie & WR Compress Co complex, two cotton gins, two oil companies, a sawmill, and a powerhouse.
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1914-03 Sanborn Map of WR pg 3 of 7
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Map of downtown Walnut Ridge, with the Main Street crossing of the Iron Mountain Railroad at center.
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1914-03 Sanborn Map of WR pg 5 of 7
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Details the Phoenix Cotton Oil Company complex, two cotton gins, several blocks of houses, and a steam laundry.
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1919-05 Sanborn Map of WR pg 1 of 8
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Map shows the location of the other map pages and several blocks north and south of West Main St between 5th and 7th Streets.
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1919-05 Sanborn Map of WR pg 2 of 8
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Map of West Main St and the courthouse environs shows the advent of two more auto garages and even a vulcanizing shop since the 1914 map.
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1919-05 Sanborn Map of WR pg 3 of 8
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Map of downtown Walnut Ridge shows numerous new businesses including a marble works, a candy factory, and an ice cream factory.
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Photo, Walnut Ridge Main Street Businesses Circa 1920s-1940s
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Date taken unknown; shows the Sam Levit dry goods store and other one-story shops built on the site of the Hotel Rhea, which burned in 1914. Photo courtesy CALS Encyclopedia of AR.
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1927-05-12 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 39 pt 1
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Picture 1 of a Post-Dispatch news spread on Arkansas/Missouri tornado damage shows what is left of the Downing Grocery Store in Hoxie.
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Photo, Bloom's Department Store, Walnut Ridge, Circa 1905-1930
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The department store was located on West Main Street, and burned in 1930; what appear to be several dogs and a hog are roaming in the street.
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1893-04-01 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 3
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The burning of the Star Hotel in Walnut Ridge results in two deaths when a man enters the blaze to save a young boy but both are caught in the flames. The fire spreads across town and results in $125,000 in damage.
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1936-04-11 Pittsburgh Courier PA pg 7
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The National Sales Company of Walnut Ridge advertises a free thirty-day trial of their expertise.
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1910-03-09 Cincinnati Enquirer OH pg 1
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Minturn resident A. W. Shirey, "perhaps the wealthiest man in Northeast Arkansas," is shot to death at his store.
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Photo, West Main Street, Walnut Ridge, 1921
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A view down Main Street, with the Lawrence County Courthouse in the background and a gazebo in the middle of the road. Photo from the National Register of Historic Places registration form for the WR Commercial Historic District, 2010; cropped from the original square photo owned by Jon Walter.
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1915-06-30 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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A woman finds that her neighbor's goats have eaten all the wallpaper off the walls of a house she owns.
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1906-02-15 Poplar Bluff Citizen MO pg 8
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A newsboy shoots at a passenger on a train near Walnut Ridge, but misses him and leaves a hole in the hat of another passenger instead.
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1893-04-01 Vicksburg Daily Commercial Herald MS pg 2
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A news brief notes the burning of a Portia lumber mill, the same day a fire hits Walnut Ridge.
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1896-07-03 Arkadelphia Southern Standard AR pg 1
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A group of men sitting under a porch awning in Hoxie are injured when a bolt of lightning strikes nearby.
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Photo, West Main Street Looking East, Walnut Ridge, 1910
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The Hotel Rhea is pictured at right. Image property of James Whitlow; I of A WR&H pg 72.
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1882-06-02 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 3
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A fair association is presented with a baby owl that was captured near WR and kept in a back room for visitors to look at.
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Postcard, West Main Street, Walnut Ridge, 1909
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A postcard image looking west on W. Main; note the drugstore ad on the wall at right. Image courtesy of the City of WR website.
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Photo, Hoxie 1913 Tornado Damage, Plunkett-Jerrell Grocery Warehouses
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Shows damages to the grocery company's warehouses near the railroad junction at Hoxie. Image courtesy of James Whitlow; I of A WR&H pg 110.
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1889-11-27 Memphis Avalanche TN pg 3
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The Kansas City, Fort Scott, & Memphis Railroad advertises a list of unclaimed goods at their stations, including at Hoxie, Portia, Black Rock, and Imboden.
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1914-12-04 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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J. J. Tharp of Walnut Ridge states that he saw Dr. Hughes in his office at the time of the shooting of Isom Bagley, 235 ft from the scene of the crime.
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1912-02-15 Arkansas Gazette pg 15
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A classified ad from Walnut Ridge states that a "moving picture machine operator would like a job [as a printer] in a small, live town."
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1877-12-13 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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The Gazette gives a brief assessment of Walnut Ridge's timber and prospects, of Col. Charles Coffin, and of the Walnut Ridge Journal & its editor.
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Photo, West Main Street, Walnut Ridge, Circa 1933-1940
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Photo from the National Register of Historic Places registration form for the WR Commercial Historic District, 2010.
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Photo, Rhea Hotel, Walnut Ridge
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Photo of the two-story Rhea Hotel on West Main Street taken sometime between its construction in 1904 and its destruction by fire in 1914. Photo courtesy City of Walnut Ridge website.
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Photo, WR Portrait of Unknown Woman, Circa 1880-1900
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Another portrait by W. S. Hubbs; photo courtesy Larry Dobbs.
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Photo, Walnut Ridge 1891 Front Street Panorama, pt 1 of 3
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Part of a three-frame panorama taken by W. S. Hubbs; image courtesy of Gilbert S. Rainey. The book "Images of America: Walnut Ridge & Hoxie" notes for this photograph that "the view in this picture is looking down West Main Street at the intersection of SW and NW Front Streets. Visible are, from left to right, the Rhea Stables, owned by John A. Rhea; Z. C. Phelps & Company General Merchandise; and, partly, the Star Hotel across Main Street, with S. Ruffner's Groceries on the first floor."
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1894-01-05 St Joseph Gazette-Herald MO pg 2
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Arsonists attempt to burn businesses throughout Walnut Ridge in the early hours of the morning.
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1902-02-07 Arkansas Democrat pg 5
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Robbers attempt to break open the Walnut Ridge post office's safe, but are scared off before they can do so.
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1905-12-29 Mattoon Journal Gazette IL pg 1
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A man murders a Hoxie telegraph operator, "because he did not receive a reply to a telegram as quickly as he wished."
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Document, 1936 Hoxie Yearbook Ads
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Includes ads from a variety of Hoxie and Walnut Ridge businesses; image courtesy of Danny Hibbard.
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Photo, Northeast Front Street, Walnut Ridge, Circa 1893-1920
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Shows businesses on the corner of Northeast Front and East Main Streets; photo from the National Register of Historic Places registration form for the WR Commercial Historic District, 2010.
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1908-03-22 Arkansas Gazette pg 24
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R. M. Tharp of Walnut Ridge advertises to seek employment in a general store.
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Postcard, Northwest Front Street, Walnut Ridge, Circa 1922-1930
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Image courtesy of Larry Dobbs.
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1910-03-09 Natchez Democrat MS pg 1
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The murdered A. W. Shirey of Minturn had garnered enemies from multiple lawsuits, and "his life is said to have been threatened on numerous occasions."
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1911-08-10 Ironton County Register MO pg 5
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The proprietor of Walnut Ridge's city bakery, born in Germany, passes away, and all the stores in town close out of respect during the funeral.
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1912-08-11 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 18
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A classified ad from Walnut Ridge seeks agents to sell a "new patent silver polish; 500 per cent profit."
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1914-05-28 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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A railroad station agent goes turkey hunting, but ends up getting a wolf instead.
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1920-12-19 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 78
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A variety store goes up for sale in Walnut Ridge.
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1881-09-24 The Tennessean Nashville TN pg 1
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A St. Louis Post-Dispatch news brief notes a fatal shooting in Walnut Ridge.
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1928-09-27 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 3
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U.S. Senator from Arkansas and vice-presidential candidate Joseph T. Robinson gives an impromptu campaign speech in Hoxie.
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1894-10-10 Muncie Morning News IN pg 5
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A letter from Black Rock to an Indiana newspaper describes the conditions in the town, as well as remarking on St. Louis and its exposition.
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1902-09-24 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 6
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A German draftsman in Walnut Ridge advertises his search for a position as an assistant architect.
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1927-05-12 Walnut Ridge Times-Dispatch, Piggly Wiggly Store Ad & Clipping
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A total of 1,676 people enter the Walnut Ridge Piggly Wiggly during its opening day; images courtesy of Jon Walter.
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1908-04-17 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 20
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A help wanted ad from Walnut Ridge requests a blacksmith "that can do general blacksmithing, shoeing, plow work and do some wood work."
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Photo, West Main Street, Walnut Ridge, 1904
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Image courtesy of the CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas (https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net).
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1911-08-13 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 26
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A blacksmith is wanted in Walnut Ridge "to do general blacksmithing, shoeing, and some wood work."
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1912-11-01 Junction City Daily Union KS pg 1
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A Walnut Ridge merchant shoots his sister, his wife, and himself in what is described as "a fit of temporary insanity."
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1921-05-21 Pittsburgh Daily Post PA pg 6
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A recently installed window at the office of a Walnut Ridge attorney is mysteriously broken.
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1882-12-14 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 2
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A Walnut Ridge newspaper editor, recently appointed postmaster, mysteriously goes missing.
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1930-08-16 Dothan Eagle AL pg 8
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A Walnut Ridge auto dealer is accused of murdering his half brother.
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1936-02-13 Hope Star pg 3
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A partially-deaf blacksmith is killed by a passing train while crossing the tracks in the fog.
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1903-05-12 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 8
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A help wanted ad asks for a "first-class baker" to come to Walnut Ridge.
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Photo, Hoxie Red Star Filling Station, Circa 1925-1930
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Image courtesy Dell Parker.
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Photo, Hoxie 1913 Tornado Damage, Front St
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Depicts downtown Hoxie buildings damaged by the March 20, 1913, tornado that swept through the area; image courtesy of Larry Dobbs.
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1908-09-13 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 26
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A classified ad lists a Walnut Ridge tin shop for sale, the only one in town.
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Photo, West Front Street with Streetcar, Walnut Ridge, Circa 1912-1920
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Image courtesy of the Arkansas State Archives.
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1910-04-29 Poplar Bluff Weekly Citizen Democrat MO pg 1
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Pieces of a broken shotgun, thought to have been used to murder A. W. Shirey, are found near a bridge at Minturn.
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1911-10-26 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 12
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A classified ad notes that a coatmaker is wanted in Walnut Ridge.
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1913-03-21 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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The Arkansas Democrat gives details of tornado/storm damages at Hoxie, Walnut Ridge, Minturn, and elsewhere.
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1917-05-14 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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Hoxie bakers raise the price of bread from ten cents a loaf up to fifteen cents.
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1877-03-31 Osceola Times AR pg 3
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Editor Baldwin of the Beebe Magnet newspaper moves his press to Walnut Ridge and starts the Lawrence County Journal.
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1922-04-04 Northfield News VT pg 7
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A Lawrence County Justice of the Peace plans to open a new shop and grist mill.
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1884-04-10 Chanute Weekly Times KS pg 5
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A Walnut Ridge sawmill operator dies of a broken blood vessel while doing everyday repairs.
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1930-09-21 Paducah Sun-Democrat KY pg 15
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A Walnut Ridge salesman seeks agents to sell New York greeting cards.
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1937-03-24 Talladega Mountain Home AL pg 3
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A trio of juvenile burglars end up in jail after one of them seeks medical care, due to having rolled into a campfire in his sleep.
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1903-08-06 Arkansas Democrat pg 5
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Telephone lines are installed from Walnut Ridge to Black Rock, Powhatan, and Pocahontas.
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Postcard, Hoxie's Main Street, Circa 1914
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Includes several storefronts, the streetcar track, and the Boas Hotel near the horizon line; image courtesy of Fred Weeks.
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2020-06-05T15:08:02-07:00
1906-03-23 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 8
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A classified ad states that "two pants and vest makers" are wanted in Walnut Ridge.
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1909-08-16 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 10
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A help wanted ad from Walnut Ridge asks for a "good singer, who has some money to assist me in my work as a lecturer."
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Postcard, East Front Street, Walnut Ridge, 1910
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Postmarked September 8, 1910; note the opera house pictured at right. Image courtesy of Larry Dobbs.
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1910-09-08 West Plains Journal MO pg 1
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A habitual horse thief steals a horse and buggy he hired from a Walnut Ridge livery barn, and steals several more horses before his capture in Missouri.
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2020-06-10T09:47:06-07:00
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2020-06-11T13:06:24-07:00
1912-01-27 Arkansas Gazette pg 15
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J. J. Tharp of Walnut Ridge takes out another classified ad to seek a bookkeeper position.
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2020-06-12T10:48:20-07:00
1913-03-24 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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Electric light and streetcar services resume in Walnut Ridge following post-storm/tornado cleanup efforts.
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2020-06-15T09:14:02-07:00
1917-06-29 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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A Hoxie architect's brick bungalow is destroyed by fire.
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2020-06-15T09:15:19-07:00
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2020-05-13T14:29:29-07:00
1877-10-21 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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Walnut Ridge merchants Z. Phelps & Sons are among the Arkansas outlets listed in an ad for Deere, Mansur, & Co. steel plows.
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2020-05-13T14:31:52-07:00
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2020-06-16T19:01:06-07:00
1922-06-09 Arkansas Gazette pg 10
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The Arkansas Gazette publishes a list of all known Lawrence County newspapers through 1922, giving a brief summary of each paper.
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1888-02-23 Ironton County Register MO pg 6
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A disastrous early morning fire strikes Walnut Ridge's business district.
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2020-06-17T13:31:18-07:00
1930-11-20 Dexter Messenger MO pg 4
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A fire destroys an entire city block on Main Street in Walnut Ridge.
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1893-04-04 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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More details are given on the businesses destroyed by the Star Hotel fire in Walnut Ridge, and investigations of potential culprits behind the fire continue.
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2020-06-18T15:05:53-07:00
1940-12-05 Fayetteville NW Arkansas Times pg 6
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A Walnut Ridge furniture dealer helps a truck out a mudhole near Bono, but in doing so dies of a heart attack.
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1897-09-05 Arkansas Gazette pg 12
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The Arkansas Gazette gives an affable and detailed description of Walnut Ridge, "a hustling city with one thousand inhabitants."
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1905-05-14 Arkansas Democrat pg 14
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A listing of travel news briefs from Walnut Ridge shows some of the cities and towns that WR residents frequented.
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1910-10-23 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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The Arkansas Gazette's account of the double murder of Alf and Isom Bagley notes that Isom had come downtown to buy a suit to bury his son in, but was then murdered on the street as well.
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Photo, Hoxie Business Block, Circa 1890-1913
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Includes two wood-framed buildings in Hoxie; image courtesy of Larry Dobbs.
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2020-06-05T15:13:12-07:00
1906-04-07 Arkansas Democrat pg 5
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A news list of Walnut Ridge residents' travels and social events includes a card club gathering hosted by Mrs. Charley Brown.
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2020-06-07T20:04:51-07:00
1909-10-24 Evening Star Washington DC pg 76
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A classified ad from Walnut Ridge asks for agents to promote an unnamed staple article that "sells like wildfire."
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Postcard, West Front Street, Walnut Ridge, Circa 1910
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Image courtesy of Larry Dobbs.
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2020-06-10T12:05:22-07:00
1910-10-27 Monticello Monticellonian AR pg 1
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The Walnut Ridge Blade is said to be making "extensive preparations" to issue a special industrial edition.
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1913-07-07 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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The Walnut Ridge Blade remarks on the fact that two old-timers "had grown old gracefully in Lawrence County and were still willing to stay with it."
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1919-07-17 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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A mule runs away with a buggy through Hoxie, wrecking it against a car in the process.
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2020-06-16T20:04:55-07:00
1923-04-05 Joplin Globe MO pg 11
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A Walnut Ridge woman advertises to seek a job as a stenographer and bookkeeper.
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2020-06-17T14:44:17-07:00
1931-01-08 Poplar Bluff Republican MO pg 8
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A fire, the third in downtown Walnut Ridge in three months, destroys the store of S. N. Pitzele & Co.
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2020-05-27T08:07:09-07:00
1893-07-22 Memphis Commercial TN pg 3
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A Hoxie insurance agent is charged with forgery.
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1898-11-13 Sedalia Democrat MO pg 7
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A Walnut Ridge photographer is found dead beside the railroad tracks in what is thought to be an accident.
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Photo, WR Portrait of Unknown Infant, Circa 1880-1900
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A portrait by the studio of W. S. Hubbs; photo courtesy Larry Dobbs.
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1905-05-21 Arkansas Democrat pg 15
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Another collection of travel and social news briefs from Walnut Ridge describes everything from a recital at the courthouse hall to a man coming from San Francisco to sell lands at Sedgwick.
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Photo, Marketing Cotton at Hoxie, Circa 1907
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At upper right is the Hoxie Union Depot; image courtesy of Larry Dobbs.
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1906-05-12 Arkansas Democrat pg 6
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A family's horses are scared by the Walnut Ridge-Hoxie electric streetcar and bolt, tossing people and groceries out of the wagon.
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2020-06-07T20:30:09-07:00
1909-11-24 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 11
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A Walnut Ridge hotel advertises for a "young lady of good appearance" to work at their cigar stand.
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1908-10-28 Jonesboro Weekly Sun pg 2
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The Jonesboro Sun provides further details on the circumstances of Alf Bagley's murder of Lee Ridgeway on Main Street.
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2020-05-07T20:48:22-07:00
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2020-06-10T12:17:12-07:00
1910-11-04 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 12
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A St. Louis classified ad notes that a coat and pants maker is wanted in Walnut Ridge.
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1913-10-27 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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The Lawrence County Fair prepares to open at Walnut Ridge with a carnival, numerous exhibits, a wireless telegraph station, and what appears to be a daily airshow.
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1884 Pocahontas Star-Herald, Stagecoach Line
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Advertisement for a daily Pocahontas-Walnut Ridge-Hoxie stagecoach route; newspaper month and day unknown.
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1920-06-08 Arkansas Gazette pg 15
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A tin and plumbing shop is listed for sale in Walnut Ridge.
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2020-06-16T21:50:19-07:00
1927-03-04 Dothan Eagle AL pg 7
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A Walnut Ridge merchant possesses an old U.S. half-dollar coin from 1795.
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2020-06-17T08:04:02-07:00
1927-03-17 Poplar Bluff Republican MO pg 5
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A Walnut Ridge business opens an additional store at Poplar Bluff.
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2020-05-26T08:25:20-07:00
1886-02-10 Memphis Daily Appeal TN pg 4
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A visitor to Black Rock describes the state of the town and the surrounding countryside, including Bonita Springs.
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2020-06-17T16:05:34-07:00
1931-04-14 Richmond Palladium-Item IN pg 13
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A WR blacksmith remains optimistic about the future of his trade fifty years after he started in it, though he installs some gas pumps as well.
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1893-07-23 St Paul Globe MN pg 8
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The Hoxie insurance agent charged with forgery commits suicide in jail.
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2020-06-02T20:14:37-07:00
1900-07-21 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 6
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A help wanted ad asks for a clarinet player/clothes-washer to join the Walnut Ridge band and orchestra.
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2020-06-05T12:41:03-07:00
1905-06-18 Arkansas Democrat pg 13
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A list of social and travel news briefs from Walnut Ridge includes college students returning from Batesville and Fayetteville.
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2020-07-08T15:35:14-07:00
Document, Walnut Ridge "Live-Wire" School Newspaper, Feb 1911, pt 1 of 2
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The front and back covers of the first issue of a school newspaper, featuring several news articles and ads from local businesses; image courtesy of James Whitlow.
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1907-02-19 Arkansas Democrat pg 3
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John S. Gibson of Hoxie has forty-six turkeys named after traveling salesmen.
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1910-02-25 Cincinnati Enquirer OH pg 1
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A trio of thieves from Ohio, captured in Hoxie, tried to hide their stolen goods in a boxcar at the Hoxie rail yards.
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Photo, West Main Street, Walnut Ridge, Circa 1915-1920
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Photo from "March We Onward: A Centennial History of First Baptist Church of WR."
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2020-06-10T12:33:12-07:00
1910-12-18 Arkansas Gazette pg 35
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A Walnut Ridge man advertises to seek a position as a bookkeeper.
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1909-03-24 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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As part of the Bagley trial, Ridgeway's antemortem statement is read to the jury.
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1912-06-06 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 16
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After fifteen years in operation, the Lawrence County Telephone Company merges with Southwestern Bell.
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1914-02-23 Jonesboro Evening Sun pg 1
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A fire destroys the back section of a Walnut Ridge store after spreading from a nearby restaurant.
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1920-06-26 Arkansas Gazette pg 12
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A Walnut Ridge jewelry store is listed as a dealer of Columbia Grafonola record players.
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1900-07-20 Arkansas Democrat pg 6
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A lemonade stand attendant is shot dead by a drunk man on the Fourth of July.
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1892-04-07 Fayetteville Weekly Observer NC pg 3
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John S. Gibson's hometown newspaper reprints his profile sketch written by the Walnut Ridge Telephone as part of an article on local lawyers.
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2020-06-17T18:06:19-07:00
1932-10-06 Poplar Bluff Republican MO pg 8
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In trying to blast open a safe, bank robbers at Hoxie start a downtown fire that destroys five buildings.
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1893-08-10 Smith Center Stewart's Bazoo KS pg 5
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A Kansas newspaper comments on the Walnut Ridge Telephone and its editor, George Anderson.
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2020-06-03T10:11:26-07:00
1901-09-24 Arkansas Democrat pg 5
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An Arkansas Democrat correspondent visits Walnut Ridge and Pocahontas and describes the two towns.
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1905-07-16 Arkansas Democrat pg 10
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Document, Walnut Ridge "Live-Wire" School Newspaper, Feb 1911, pt 2 of 2
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The inside pages of the first issue of a school newspaper, featuring news briefs, editorials, and ads; image courtesy of James Whitlow.
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1908-02-01 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 8
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A help wanted ad asks for a "watchmaker, optician, and engraver" in Walnut Ridge.
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Postcard, West Main Street, Walnut Ridge, Circa 1922-1925
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Depicts West Main Street looking west from its junction with Front Street; businesses shown include Cooper Pharmacy at left and a cafe at right.
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Photo, West Main Street, Walnut Ridge, Circa 1925-1935
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Picture printed in the March 27, 1991 edition of the Times-Dispatch (page 9B); note the hamburger stand located at right.
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2020-06-10T13:18:42-07:00
1911-04-23 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 44
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A Walnut Ridge business lists for sale a "dandy set of cigar stand fixtures."
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2020-06-11T18:14:04-07:00
1912-07-15 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 10
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A Walnut Ridge tailor advertises a search for a cutter to join the business.
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1914-04-25 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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The Walnut Ridge Blade relates a conversation among some men circled around an office stove.
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A classified ad seeks agents for a Walnut Ridge company.
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A North Carolina newspaper gets a letter from a former resident that includes a description of Walnut Ridge and tips on how to prosper as a citizen of Arkansas.
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A lemonade stand attendant is shot dead by a drunk man on the Fourth of July.
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A letter from Walnut Ridge describes Christmas traditions in the region, which include a bounty of firecrackers.
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1889-10 Goodspeed's Memoirs of NEA, Lawrence County Excerpts
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A leading source of info on late-18th-century Lawrence County, featuring a detailed sketch of the county's history and economy as well as numerous biographical sketches. Taken from the larger work, "Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas."
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1905-03-06 Jbr Daily Times-Enterprise pg 1
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WR City Marshal Lee Ridgeway kills unruly farmer Ed Bagley, touching off the decade-long Bagley-Ridgeway Feud.
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1900-07-20 Arkansas Democrat pg 6
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A lemonade stand attendant is shot dead by a drunk man on the Fourth of July.
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1914-10-22 Arkansas Democrat pg 8
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Dr. Hughes is brought to Little Rock to stay at the state penitentiary until the time of his trial, as "mob violence is feared" in Walnut Ridge.
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1879-07-31 Arkansas Democrat pg 4
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Minutes of the Arkansas Board of Health note Walnut Ridge citizens' threat to hang a quarantine runner if he didn't leave town.
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1912-05-15 Hutchinson Gazette KS pg 1
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The Walnut Ridge mayor swears in one hundred special officers "to repel any further attacks of night riders on negro farmers."
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1894-12-09 Austin American-Statesman TX pg 1
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A rape takes place near Minturn, and a lynch mob forms to find and punish the perpetrator.
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1882-01-08 Topeka Daily Commonwealth KS pg 1
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A Lawrence County KKK member refuses to take part in a plot to kill four people, but in a subsequent attempt to arrest the KKK members, three people are killed.
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1870-07-28 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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News items include the shootings of S. S. Dowell of Clover Bend and WR counterfeiter/horse thief R. R. Robbins, as well as increased interest in a Pocahontas railroad.
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1883-10-25 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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An attempted robbery at night of an Iron Mountain train fifteen miles north of Walnut Ridge is described.
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1883-10-26 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 1
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A later turn of events indicate that the alleged attempt at train robbery near Delaplaine was actually a group of loggers innocently stopping the train to see if any of the freight was for their camp.
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1893-04-02 Memphis Commercial TN pg 1
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The Star Hotel's cook is arrested and accused of starting the fire that killed two and destroyed a good portion of the town.
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1912-05-09 Bamberg Herald SC pg 3
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A newspaper account describes a sequence of conflicts between a group of violent nightriders and an anti-nightrider coalition of black and white citizens, local law enforcement, and the state militia, in what became known as the Walnut Ridge Race War of 1912 (see https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/walnut-ridge-race-war-of-1912-7418/ for details).
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1894-05-25 Memphis Commercial TN pg 2
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A dispatch from Walnut Ridge describes another daring robbery in Hoxie and warns of potential vigilante action "if the gang cannot be forced to leave by law."
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1913-07-09 Brazil Daily Times IN pg 2
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The Lawrence County Sheriff is shot in a gunfight with four bandits who had blown open a post office safe.
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1897-07-22 Brooklyn Standard Union NY pg 5
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A local group of the Ku Klux Klan commits atrocities in Randolph and Lawrence Counties, including the area of Richwoods north of Walnut Ridge.
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1918-05-03 Spokane Spokesman-Review WA pg 8
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Four men charged with violating the Espionage Act are tarred and feathered by a Walnut Ridge mob.
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1908-10-28 Jonesboro Weekly Sun pg 2
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The Jonesboro Sun provides further details on the circumstances of Alf Bagley's murder of Lee Ridgeway on Main Street.
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1918-06-01 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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Another Gad Angle anecdote in the Walnut Ridge Blade tells of a "whipping campaign that had been started in Hoxie," perhaps related to the Espionage Act.
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1922-07-10 Muskogee Times-Democrat OK pg 12
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Fifty Missouri Pacific strikebreakers are forced out of Hoxie by those striking.
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1905-12-29 Mattoon Journal Gazette IL pg 1
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A man murders a Hoxie telegraph operator, "because he did not receive a reply to a telegram as quickly as he wished."
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1884-08-09 Bloomfield Vindicator MO pg 3
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A nine-year-old boy shoots a five-year-old during a quarrel with the boy's brother.
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1900-07-20 Arkansas Democrat pg 6
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A lemonade stand attendant is shot dead by a drunk man on the Fourth of July.
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1881-09-24 The Tennessean Nashville TN pg 1
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A St. Louis Post-Dispatch news brief notes a fatal shooting in Walnut Ridge.
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1890-06-05 Ironton County Register MO pg 4
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A Hoxie railroad station agent is stabbed three times, with his outlook for survival grim.
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1883-12-26 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 4
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A man kills his uncle near Walnut Ridge in a violent exchange involving a knife, a shovel, and a pistol.
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1893-05-07 Memphis Commercial TN pg 5
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A landlord disbands a dance at one of his houses in Black Rock, and a dispute between him and one of the guests escalates into a shooting the following day.
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1884-02-11 Alton Evening Telegraph IL pg 2
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A fight in a Walnut Ridge saloon results in a man stabbed in the neck with a penknife.
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1894-07-19 Scottsboro Citizen AL pg 1
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Two farmers near Hoxie get in an argument about taxes; one is shot and drowns in a pond.
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1870-07-28 AR Gazette pg 2
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News items include the shootings of S. S. Dowell of Clover Bend and WR counterfeiter/horse thief R. R. Robbins, as well as increased interest in a Pocahontas railroad.
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1873-05-30 Memphis Avalanche TN pg 2
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Two men draw revolvers on each other on the Cairo & Fulton Railroad at Walnut Ridge, and one is shot.
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1873-05-30 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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A shooting takes place in a Walnut Ridge saloon after a Canadian painter is refused another drink.
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1885-04-02 Ironton County Register MO pg 4
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Would-be burglars at a Hoxie hotel flee in the dark after the porter shoots at them through a smoke-filled room.
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1886-01-05 Topeka Citizen KS pg 3
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A druggist attempts to break up a fight in his store, but is hit with a club and lashes back with a knife.
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1886-12-05 St. Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 4
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A Walnut Ridge saloon owner is slashed with a knife by an out-of-town customer.
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1900-07-20 Arkansas Democrat pg 6
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A lemonade stand attendant is shot dead by a drunk man on the Fourth of July.
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1909-03-22 Jonesboro Daily News pgs 1 & 8
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Alf Bagley's murder trial begins, "one of the most important cases to be tried in this part of the state in months."
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1910-03-23 Jonesboro Daily Tribune pg 1
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A jury is secured for Alf Bagley's second trial, a full year after the first trial.
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1894-03-22 Memphis Commercial TN pg 4
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Ad Cain, charged with starting the fire that burned the Star Hotel and other WR businesses in April 1893, is sentenced to two years in prison.
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The jury for the Bagley trial is selected, after an examination of 112 men.
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1910-03-24 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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Alf Bagley's second murder trial begins, and the reporter notes that "the case has aroused great interest in this [Lawrence] county."
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Not long after the deputy marshal's statements about Hoxie's robbers, one of the gang is caught and put in jail.
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As part of the Bagley trial, Ridgeway's antemortem statement is read to the jury.
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1910-03-27 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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Alf Bagley is acquitted for Ridgeway's murder, but only after the trial "was fought bitterly by both sides" by "the best legal talent in this section of the State."
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1894-05-19 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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Three more members of the Hoxie gang of robber-gamblers are arrested, with Walnut Ridge being "greatly wrought up for the last few days" over the matter.
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Lee Ridgeway is indicted for the murder of Ed Bagley, and bond is furnished.
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1909-03-25 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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Alf Bagley's defense is strengthened when a witness says Ridgeway had declared it was either 'kill or get killed' by Bagley.
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Alf Bagley's case is strengthened by the new testimony of Ridgeway's widow, who stated that her husband had purchased several revolvers with the intent to kill Alf.
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1905-10-21 Memphis Cmcl Appeal pg 3
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Ridgeway is acquitted for Ed Bagley's murder-- and Alf Bagley is also acquitted of a killing that occurred nine days after his brother's murder.
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1909-03-27 Jonesboro Daily News pg 1
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The Alf Bagley trial results in a mistrial after the jury disagrees on whether to convict.
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1873-05-30 Memphis Avalanche TN pg 2
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Two men draw revolvers on each other on the Cairo & Fulton Railroad at Walnut Ridge, and one is shot.
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1908-10-30 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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Alf Bagley is held without bail after murdering Ridgeway and is brought to Little Rock for safekeeping.
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1909-04-18 Arkansas Democrat pg 2
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Alf Bagley, still held in the Arkansas Penitentiary in Little Rock, applies for bond.
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1873-05-30 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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A shooting takes place in a Walnut Ridge saloon after a Canadian painter is refused another drink.
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1908-11-04 Jonesboro Weekly Sun pg 4
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The examining trial is held for Alf Bagley's murder of Ridgeway, and "a trial of more than ordinary importance is expected" the following March.
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1909-04-28 Vicksburg Herald MS pg 8
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The Vicksburg Herald editorializes on the Bagley murder trial.
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1908-11-06 Batesville Daily Guard pg 1
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It is learned from Prosecuting Attorney R. D. Jeffrey that Lee Ridgeway had moved to Texas for a time due to the Bagleys' threats.
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1909-05-12 Arkansas Democrat pg 6
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Alf Bagley is granted bail in the sum of $10,000, after the State warns that doing so would weaken its case against Bagley.
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1889-10 Goodspeed's Memoirs of NEA, Lawrence County Excerpts
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A leading source of info on late-18th-century Lawrence County, featuring a detailed sketch of the county's history and economy as well as numerous biographical sketches. Taken from the larger work, "Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas."
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1897-02 Sanborn Map of WR, pg 1 of 2
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A fire insurance map of the western half of Walnut Ridge; brick buildings are colored red and frame buildings yellow.
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1897-02 Sanborn Map of WR, pg 2 of 2
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Map of the eastern half of Walnut Ridge, featuring numerous storefronts, dwellings, the first WR courthouse, and even a saloon at the corner of Main St. and Front St.
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1904-02 Sanborn Map of WR pg 1 of 4
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Map with details of various WR buildings including houses, the newly constructed courthouse, the Turnbull Wagon Company, and W. R. Lane's distillery.
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1900-07-20 Arkansas Democrat pg 6
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A lemonade stand attendant is shot dead by a drunk man on the Fourth of July.
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1890-01-14 Arkansas Gazette pg 3
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A Gazette correspondent notes the uneventful opening of two saloons in Walnut Ridge after the end of a two-year period where the town (and county) was dry, as well as noting progress made on the street car line, ditch dredging, and a Masonic gathering.
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1893-04-01 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 3
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The burning of the Star Hotel in Walnut Ridge results in two deaths when a man enters the blaze to save a young boy but both are caught in the flames. The fire spreads across town and results in $125,000 in damage.
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1893-04-06 Memphis Commercial TN pg 4
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The Star Hotel cook confesses to starting the deadly fire but changes his story on who the other guilty parties are, and detectives are enlisted to investigate the matter.
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1882-06-02 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 3
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A fair association is presented with a baby owl that was captured near WR and kept in a back room for visitors to look at.
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1905-03-09 Poplar Bluff Citizen MO pg 1
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Newspaper informant was in WR when Ed Bagley was shot and gives further details of the tragedy.
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1883-02-01 Poplar Bluff Citizen MO pg 5
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A former Poplar Bluff resident dies of heavy drinking in Walnut Ridge.
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1890-11-13 Poplar Bluff Citizen MO pg 1
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A Missouri man is robbed in Walnut Ridge just before attempting to buy one of the town's saloons.
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1893-04-04 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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More details are given on the businesses destroyed by the Star Hotel fire in Walnut Ridge, and investigations of potential culprits behind the fire continue.
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1884-02-11 Alton Evening Telegraph IL pg 2
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A fight in a Walnut Ridge saloon results in a man stabbed in the neck with a penknife.
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1890-01-16 Beloit Gazette KS pg 2
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A letter from Walnut Ridge describes Christmas traditions in the region, which include a bounty of firecrackers.
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1892-03-04 Scranton Tribune PA pg 4
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An enigmatic obituary sourced from the Arkansas Thomas Cat, a tongue-in-cheek Hot Springs newspaper, notes the suicide of a Hoxie saloon-smasher.
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1894-10-10 Muncie Morning News IN pg 5
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A letter from Black Rock to an Indiana newspaper describes the conditions in the town, as well as remarking on St. Louis and its exposition.
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1884-07-28 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 1
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A Walnut Ridge brothel is burnt down by a group of drunk men.
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1886-12-05 St. Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 4
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A Walnut Ridge saloon owner is slashed with a knife by an out-of-town customer.
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1892-10-23 Memphis Commercial TN pg 5
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A drunk prostitute goes to sleep on the railroad tracks near Hoxie, and has her legs sliced off by a passing freight train.
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1888-01-05 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 2
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A news brief notes that "Walnut Ridge, Hoxie, and all other towns in Lawrence County have gone dry by petition" for a period of two years.
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1893-01-04 Memphis Commercial TN pg 3
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Five Lawrence County saloon licenses are granted, four in Walnut Ridge and one in Hoxie.
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1873-05-30 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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A shooting takes place in a Walnut Ridge saloon after a Canadian painter is refused another drink.
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1888-12-31 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 4
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A Walnut Ridge moonshiner is nabbed by an undercover Secret Service officer.
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1893-03-02 Alton Empire KS pg 4
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A correspondent of the Walnut Ridge Telephone newspaper mocks the state legislature's proposed whisky ban.
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