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Edward Harthorn
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1901-09-21 Arkansas Democrat pg 2
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The candidates for U.S. Senate stop in Walnut Ridge and hold their third set of speeches, trading barbs and discussing issues such as a tariff bill and a canal through Nicaragua (a goal fulfilled several years later with the Panama Canal).
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Edward Harthorn
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Edward Harthorn
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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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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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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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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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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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Photo, Hoxie Roundhouse Workers, 1926
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The book "Images of America: Walnut Ridge & Hoxie" notes (pg 66) that those pictured include: "from left to right, (front row) John Anderson, Earl Burnett, Tom Smith, unidentified, Vance Broadway, H.O. Blankenship, J. Pierce, Gilly Chapel, and unidentified; (back row) Arch Talfirt, roundhouse foreman; O.E. Burnett, car shop foreman; a Mr. Marshel, roundhouse foreman; and an unidentified taxi driver." Property of Roy Osborn (http://royosborn.com/genealogy/burnett/index.html).
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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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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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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 of the Lawrence County Historical Society.
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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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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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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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Postcard, Walnut Ridge Air View Circa 1915-1940
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Photo postcard of an undated aerial view of Walnut Ridge.
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2020-05-03T19:33:34-07:00
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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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, 1908 Hoxie Methodist Church
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Depicts the church's first building, constructed in 1908 and destroyed by fire in 1927; image courtesy of Larry Dobbs.
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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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Photo, 1912 Walnut Ridge Baseball Club Team
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Photograph courtesy of the Arkansas Baseball Encyclopedia.
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Photo, Hoxie MoPac Railroad Tracks Circa 1925-1940, Image 56
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Billboards and a water tower near the Missouri Pacific tracks, date unknown; from the collection of the John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library.
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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; property of Jon Walter. See source for details: http://ataleoftwotowns.com/1912-hoxie-boas-hotel-letterhead/
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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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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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Document, Kansas City, Fort Scott, and Memphis Railroad Stock Certificate, Circa 1901-1909
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A stock certificate for the railroad that passed through Hoxie to the northwest and southeast.
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1903-03-30 Pittsburgh Daily Post PA pg 4
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A man is granted a divorce in Walnut Ridge when his wife refuses to leave Paris and her brutal assessment of Arkansas is handed to the judge.
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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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media/Early 1900s WR Courthouse Souvenir Plate - Tale of Two Towns_thumb.jpg
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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; property of Lesa Walter. Details at http://ataleoftwotowns.com/early-1900s-walnut-ridge-courthouse-souvenir-plate/.
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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, Boas Hotel, Hoxie, 1919, Front of Card
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A postcard image of the second Boas Hotel in Hoxie, built in 1913, postmarked June 28, 1919; image courtesy of Larry Dobbs.
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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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Photo, Donaghey-Bryan Special Train at Hoxie, 1910
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Depicts the crowd at Hoxie gathered around the train that carried Governor George Donaghey and William Jennings Bryan through Arkansas in September 1910. Image courtesy of the Arkansas State Archives; I of A WR&H pg 71.
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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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Photo, Frisco Train Heading West out of Hoxie, Circa 1930-1940
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Image courtesy of Lawrence County Historical Society.
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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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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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media/WR Baseball Team 1913 - Flickr AR Baseball Encyclopedia_thumb.jpg
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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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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 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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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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Object, Little Jack Bottling Works Bottle, Circa 1900
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Based on bottle shape, bottle estimated to have been produced in Hoxie circa 1900.
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Photo, Swan C. Dowell House, Walnut Ridge, Circa 1895-1905
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An undated photo of the stately Dowell abode, covering the block formed by SW 2nd St, SW 3rd St, Ash St, and Maple St.
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1900-07-17 Canonsburg Daily Notes PA pg 2
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Another newspaper shares the story of the stone cask of grain found in eastern AR, but erroneously states that the discover occurred in Walnut Ridge, rather than Marked Tree (See 1900-06-29 Arkansas Democrat pg 6).
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1888-11-06 Memphis Avalanche TN 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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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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Photo, Henry Family of Walnut Ridge With Car
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Circa 1915 photo (see license plate) 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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Picture, Depiction of First Schoolhouse at Hoxie Circa Pre-1887
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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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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 4 of 7
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Map depicts several churches, many houses, and the school building.
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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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Photo, Sharum-Benningfield Lumber Company, Hoxie, Circa 1900-1920
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Image courtesy of Dell Parker.
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Photo, Hoxie MoPac Railroad Tracks Circa 1925-1940, Image 55
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At the Hoxie junction looking northeast on the Missouri Pacific RR towards WR, date unknown; from the collection of the Barriger Rail Library.
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1902-05-16 Arkansas Democrat pg 7
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The Lawrence County World's Fair board sends a memo to the state's board requesting that Arkansas gum timber be represented in the fair's buildings.
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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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1912-03-20 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 2
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A. W. Shirey's great-niece wins an appeal to collect $10,000 from Shirey's estate for having recaptured her great-uncle's sensitive personal letters for him.
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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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Photo, MoPac Railroad Tracks Near Murta Circa 1925-1940, Image 54
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Looking towards Walnut Ridge, date unknown; from the collection of the Barriger Railroad Library.
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2020-06-23T15:14:56-07:00
Postcard, Walnut Ridge Alamo Tourist Court, Circa 1940
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Depicts the business's cottages that once served Highway 67 travelers.
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2020-05-08T14:22:02-07:00
Postcard, "Greetings from Walnut Ridge" With Sheep, Circa 1930-1940
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Features either a scene from a pasture near Walnut Ridge or perhaps a stock image; undated.
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2020-06-23T12:27:52-07:00
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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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2020-05-04T13:07:10-07:00
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 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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2020-05-09T12:57:11-07:00
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2020-07-10T07:46:15-07:00
Photo, Cotton Gin in Hoxie, Circa 1900-1920
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Depicts an unidentified cotton gin in Hoxie.
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2020-07-10T07:49:15-07:00
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2020-06-11T18:38:28-07:00
1912-09-25 Manning Times SC pg 6
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An elderly lady dies near Walnut Ridge, allegedly at the remarkable age of 122.
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2020-06-11T18:49:35-07:00
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2020-06-23T15:33:03-07:00
Photo, Hoxie School 1934 Home Economics Class
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Photo courtesy Juanita Johnson, via http://ataleoftwotowns.com.
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2020-06-23T15:35:37-07:00
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2020-06-11T21:17:46-07:00
1913-01-15 Fayetteville Weekly Observer NC pg 6
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The plans for the reconstructed Boas-Gibson Hotel in Hoxie are described.
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2020-06-11T21:41:45-07:00
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2020-07-08T15:23:04-07:00
Document, IOOF Postcard from Hoxie, May 19, 1908
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A postcard tells of the writer's promotion to the third degree at an Odd Fellows meeting, perhaps at Walnut Ridge or Hoxie based on the postmark; image courtesy of Larry Dobbs.
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2020-07-08T15:48:33-07:00
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2020-05-06T11:54:00-07:00
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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2020-05-09T14:42:13-07:00
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2020-06-04T14:30:46-07:00
1903-11-19 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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A Little Rock vs. North Little Rock legal debate hinges on the Hoxie-Walnut Ridge Act, passed in March 1903 by the state legislature.
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2020-06-04T14:37:03-07:00
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2020-06-05T11:12:07-07:00
1905-03-26 Arkansas Democrat pg 3
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About 100 Walnut Ridge businessmen sign a petition to repeal Arkansas's 1903 Walnut Ridge-Hoxie Act.
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2020-06-05T11:32:43-07:00
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2020-05-26T11:41:56-07:00
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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2020-05-26T11:44:49-07:00
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2020-05-11T08:17:27-07:00
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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2020-06-23T11:54:03-07:00
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2020-06-17T09:56:35-07:00
1929-12-10 Lincoln Journal Star NE pg 3
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A man is fined for ignoring a stop sign in Walnut Ridge, but he convinces the court that the officer who chased him should be fined for ignoring the sign as well.
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2020-06-17T10:00:18-07:00
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2020-05-13T12:07:58-07:00
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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2020-05-30T19:32:23-07:00
1898-02-23 Springfield Leader and Press MO pg 3
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A St. Louis mail clerk turned robber and his disguised wife are detected in Walnut Ridge as hobos, and the robber arrested.
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2020-05-30T19:42:17-07:00
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2020-07-10T08:51:17-07:00
Photo, Scruggs Service Station, Hoxie, Circa 1935
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A Phillips 66 service station built in the mid-1930s. Property of Joann Gardner; I of A WR&H pg 31.
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2020-05-26T16:01:48-07:00
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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2020-07-10T14:33:49-07:00
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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2020-12-02T11:04:03-08:00
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2020-06-16T14:46:11-07:00
1921-06-04 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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The Arkansas Gazette quips that the Alicia corespondent knew it was finally summertime by "noticing the flow of perspiration."
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2020-05-13T20:20:47-07:00
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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2020-05-13T20:24:34-07:00
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2020-05-07T20:37:35-07:00
1908-10-26 Memphis Commercial Appeal TN pg 7
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Lee Ridgeway is not expected to live after being shot by Alf Bagley.
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2020-05-31T20:05:37-07:00
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media/1897C Rand McNally AR Map, LawCo Detail_thumb.jpg
2020-05-08T13:00:25-07:00
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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2020-06-16T18:02:51-07:00
1922-03-10 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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The Walnut Ridge Blade makes a Groundhog Day quip about President Harding.
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2020-06-16T18:15:28-07:00
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2020-05-28T10:42:44-07:00
1894-06-28 Memphis Commercial TN pg 8
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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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2020-06-13T13:44:15-07:00
1917-04-16 Arkansas Democrat pg 6
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A Hoxie citizen staying in Hot Springs "to take the baths as a cure for rheumatism" goes missing.
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2020-06-18T12:38:22-07:00
1935-06-14 Fort Worth Star-Telegram TX pg 3
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A motorist dies when his car is struck by a passing train at the Main Street railroad crossing in Hoxie.
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2020-05-03T20:38:18-07:00
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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2020-05-09T20:34:45-07:00
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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2020-05-10T06:56:59-07:00
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2020-06-17T08:15:04-07:00
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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2020-05-29T15:16:24-07:00
1896-11-09 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 6
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A Walnut Ridge dentist is married to his bride from Paragould on a moving train near Jonesboro.
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2020-05-29T15:19:55-07:00
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media/Cotton Picking Near Hwy 63 WR - Pinterest_thumb.jpg
2020-05-08T15:11:40-07:00
Photo, Cotton Picking Near Highway 63
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Date unknown; five children carry their harvests of cotton bolls.
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2020-06-23T09:40:36-07:00
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media/R L Bailey Cotton and Cotton Seed Stenciled Door - Tale of Two Towns_thumb.jpg
2020-05-11T19:53:56-07:00
Photo, Robert L. Bailey Cotton and Cotton Seed, Door Stencilling Circa 1920s
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Office door in use from circa 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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2020-06-23T12:01:18-07:00
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media/WR Sexton and Andews Prescription Circa 1893-1915 - Tale of Two Towns FB May 2016_thumb.jpg
2020-07-08T14:41:26-07:00
Document, Sexton & Andrews Prescription, Circa 1893-1915
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A presciption including menthol, cocaine, acid tonic, powdered opium, and Vaseline. Property of Bob Rainwater; image courtesy of Jon Walter.
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2020-12-02T09:31:39-08:00
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2020-05-30T19:49:20-07:00
1898-03-11 Marysville Advocate KS pg 6
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A Kansas paper tells the saga, complete with a poem, of the ill-fated romance between Clara Mozely and her husband, the hobo/mail clerk/robber who was arrested in Walnut Ridge.
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2020-05-30T20:33:53-07:00
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media/WR Street View Main St 1918 - AHPP Hist Dist Natl Register Form_thumb.jpg
2020-07-10T09:41:55-07:00
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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2020-12-02T10:42:15-08:00
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2020-07-09T10:28:56-07:00
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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2020-12-02T11:07:50-08:00
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2020-05-07T20:25:10-07:00
1905-10-21 Memphis Commercial Appeal TN 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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2020-05-31T20:05:44-07:00
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2020-06-23T14:01:13-07:00
Photo, 1933 Walnut Ridge Football Team
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Depicts twenty-three members of the team; photo courtesy of Lori Prater.
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media/Early 1900s Walnut Ridge Cotton Gin Spoon - Ebay_thumb.jpg
2020-07-08T13:08:25-07:00
Object, Walnut Ridge Cotton Gin Souvenir Spoon, Circa 1900-1910
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Depicts one of the cotton gins built in Walnut Ridge; spoon found via online auction.
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media/1922-12-15 Physician and 3 Others Held for Plot to Smuggle Drugs from NY - Baldwin KS pg 6_thumb.png
2020-06-16T19:32:33-07:00
1922-12-15 Baldwin Ledger KS pg 6
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A local physician and three others are arrested in Walnut Ridge by federal agents for their role in "an alleged plot to smuggle drugs from Buffalo, N.Y., into Arkansas."
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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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2020-06-16T21:01:51-07:00
1925-09-21 St Louis Star & Times MO pg 2
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A deputy sheriff throws a night marshal into a Walnut Ridge jail cell as a joke, but a resulting fight with a prisoner results in the prisoner's death.
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2020-06-07T18:18:51-07:00
1908-10-21 Sedalia Democrat MO pg 3
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Another article notes that the murder of a man for smoking took place at a candy pull in Walnut Ridge.
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2020-06-07T18:21:15-07:00
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media/WR Sexton and Andews Prescription Col Ponders Liniment - Tale of Two Towns FB Jun 2016_thumb.jpg
2020-07-08T14:50:27-07:00
Document, Sexton & Andrews Prescription for Colonel Ponder, Circa 1886-1904
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A prescription for "Colonel Ponder's Liniment" made sometime before Ponder's death in 1904. Property of Bob Rainwater; image courtesy of Jon Walter.
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2020-12-02T09:34:39-08:00
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2020-06-17T12:34:22-07:00
1930-08-16 Dothan Eagle AL pg 8
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A Walnut Ridge garage owner is accused of murdering his half brother.
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2020-07-09T11:39:15-07:00
Photo, Hoxie 1927 Tornado Damage, School Building
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Shows damage from the May 9, 1927 tornado; the disaster killed two Hoxie students, among others.
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2020-12-02T10:13:03-08:00
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media/1931-01-15 Frisco RR Pays LawCo After US Supreme Court Appeal Fails - Poplar Bluff MO pg 4_thumb.png
2020-06-17T15:24:04-07:00
1931-01-15 Poplar Bluff Republican MO pg 4
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The Frisco Railroad pays Lawrence County a fine of $7834 (more than $125,000 today) after an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court fails.
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2020-07-09T10:37:42-07:00
Photo, Hoxie 1913 Tornado Damage, School Building
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Shows damages to the 1908 school building. Image property of James Whitlow; I of A WR&H pg 111.
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2020-12-02T11:16:36-08:00
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media/1870-07-28 Horse Thief and Counterfeiter Robbins at WR Shot - AR Gazette pg 2_thumb.jpg
2020-05-12T12:26:16-07:00
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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2020-05-06T12:31:25-07:00
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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2020-05-08T10:26:46-07:00
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2020-06-06T09:27:22-07:00
1906-09-01 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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The Walnut Ridge Special School District announces a request for sealed bids for the construction of the new school building.
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2020-06-06T09:58:11-07:00
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2020-06-06T13:08:12-07:00
1907-05-24 Arkansas Democrat pg 6
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A stockholders' meeting in Walnut Ridge is announced for the St. Louis & Memphis Railroad Company.
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2020-06-06T13:26:14-07:00
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2020-06-17T19:52:14-07:00
1935-08-23 Ogden Standard-Examiner UT pg 4
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The Powhatan jail is turned into a community house.
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2020-06-17T19:55:24-07:00
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2020-07-09T13:51:11-07:00
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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2020-07-08T07:07:14-07:00
1914-12-05 Jonesboro Daily Tribune pg 2
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Frank Pace of Jonesboro goes to Walnut Ridge to defend Dr. Hughes, with the case being declared "one of the most notable murder trials that has been held in the state in years."
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2020-07-08T07:13:18-07:00
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media/1912-02-15 Classified Ad, Movie Operator at WR Wants Job as Printer - AR Gazette pg 15_thumb.png
2020-06-11T13:13:33-07:00
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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2020-06-11T13:17:25-07:00
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2020-07-10T10:10:00-07:00
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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2020-06-11T15:17:19-07:00
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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2020-06-11T15:23:45-07:00
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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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2020-05-10T19:23:07-07:00
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 of courthousehistory.com.
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2020-07-08T13:34:24-07:00
Object, Grimes Drinks Sign, Circa 1920-1935
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A sign from Grimes Soda Company of Walnut Ridge, advertising their Cinderella drink; image courtesy of Ben Johnson.
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2020-07-08T13:39:37-07:00
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2020-06-12T07:52:59-07:00
1913-03-24 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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A Lawrence County grand jury gives 54 indictments, including one for Hoxie Marshal Lon Easley in the killing of C. G. Pinnell.
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2020-07-07T12:54:09-07:00
1913-03-23 Arkansas Gazette pg 13
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State Senator Clyde Going notes that "three murders occurred near Walnut Ridge shortly after the killing of Bagley," and declares that "this had the effect of creating sentiment against Benningfield."
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2020-06-12T19:01:00-07:00
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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2020-05-10T07:30:17-07:00
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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1927-05-12 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 39 pt 3
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A third picture of Hoxie-Walnut Ridge tornado damage in the Post-Dispatch shows a wrecked Walnut Ridge house.
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2020-06-17T08:29:59-07:00
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media/1882-06-02 Baby Owl Kept in Back Room in WR - St Louis Globe-Democrat pg 3_thumb.jpg
2020-05-12T14:37:30-07:00
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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1910-02-06 Arkansas Gazette pg 30
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Walnut Ridge citizens and a WR business are among those donating to tornado relief efforts for the town of Brinkley.
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2020-05-26T12:09:53-07:00
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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2020-05-26T12:15:38-07:00
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media/May 9 1903 Walnut Ridge Spoon - Jon Walter WR and Hoxie FB Jan 2018_thumb.jpg
2020-07-08T14:03:58-07:00
Object, Walnut Ridge Souvenir Spoon, May 9, 1903
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A souvenir spoon with the date engraved on the back side; property of Jon Walter.
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media/1892-08-18 Tramp Adams Killed in WR Train Wreck - Memphis Avalanche pg 4_thumb.png
2020-05-26T13:39:12-07:00
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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2020-05-26T13:42:29-07:00
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media/1930-08-18 Murder Charge Against WR Man May Be Dropped - Alexandria LA pg 1_thumb.png
2020-06-17T12:40:49-07:00
1930-08-18 Alexandria Town Talk LA pg 1
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Murder charges against Walnut Ridge garage owner George Hopps may be dropped due to additional evidence received.
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media/Hoxie Union Depot 1924-10-09 Depot Burning I - Larry Dobbs FB Apr 2013_thumb.jpg
2020-07-10T15:16:13-07:00
Photo, Hoxie Union Depot Burning 10/09/1924, Image 1 of 5
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Image property of James Whitlow.
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media/WR Houses West Second St - 1950s photo but earlier houses - Larry Dobbs FB May 2010_thumb.jpg
2020-07-10T14:25:05-07:00
Photo, Houses on West Second Street, Walnut Ridge, Circa 1910-1925
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A 1950s photo of a row of Craftsman-style houses built in the 1910s or 1920s; image property of James Whitlow.
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2020-12-02T10:47:08-08:00
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2020-05-13T16:06:26-07:00
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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media/WR Frisco Depot Photo Detail - Ebay_thumb.jpg
2020-07-09T13:34:19-07:00
Photo, Frisco Depot, Walnut Ridge, Circa 1896-1914
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A later photograph of the depot built along Main Street in Walnut Ridge for the rail line from Hoxie to Pocahontas. Image property of James Whitlow; I of A WR&H pg 68.
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2020-12-02T11:21:11-08:00
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2020-05-13T19:36:34-07:00
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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2020-05-13T19:39:30-07:00
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media/KC Fort Scott and Memphis Rail Line Through WR_thumb.jpg
2020-05-08T13:42:48-07:00
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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2020-05-08T13:47:14-07:00
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media/1882-01-08 KKK in Lawrence County - Topeka Daily Commonwealth KS pg 1_thumb.jpg
2020-05-13T21:02:46-07:00
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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2020-05-13T21:07:59-07:00
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media/1907-05-27 Non-English Speaker Exits Train in WR and Memphis, Not PB - Pine Bluff AR pg 5_thumb.png
2020-06-06T15:31:44-07:00
1907-05-27 Pine Bluff Daily Graphic AR pg 5
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A man with limited English proficiency deboards his train at Walnut Ridge instead of Pine Bluff, but is then brought to Memphis instead.
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2020-06-07T08:46:37-07:00
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2020-05-07T16:37:40-07:00
1905-03-09 Poplar Bluff Citizen MO pg 1
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A newspaper informant who was in Walnut Ridge when Ed Bagley was shot gives further details of the tragedy.
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2020-07-08T10:22:18-07:00
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media/WR Baseball Team 1894 - State Archives EofA_thumb.jpg
2020-05-10T20:40:54-07:00
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 of CALS Encyclopedia of AR.
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media/1913-04-05 Pinnell Murder in Hoxie, Episode 4 - AR Gazette pg 1_thumb.png
2020-06-12T08:07:42-07:00
1913-04-05 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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Former Hoxie Marshal Lon Easley is sentenced to twenty-one years in jail for the murder of C. G. Pinnell after witnesses declare that no weapon was found on Pinnell when he was shot.
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2020-06-12T08:11:01-07:00
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media/Hoxie Boas Hotel - FB Larry Dobbs Public Post Nov 2017_thumb.jpg
2020-06-23T13:22:47-07:00
Postcard, Boas Hotel, Hoxie, Second View
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A second undated postcard of the Boas Hotel's 1913 building, shown from a different vantage point; image courtesy Larry Dobbs.
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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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1926 AHTD Roads of AR Map, LawCo Detail
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Detail of central Lawrence County road connections.
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media/1889-11-27 List of Unclaimed Goods at LawCo Train Stations - Memphis Avalanche pg 3_thumb.png
2020-05-17T16:17:19-07:00
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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2020-06-04T15:02:18-07:00
1904-04-16 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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A man is sentenced to hang at Walnut Ridge for murdering another man over a craps game, and his statement on the matter is given to the press.
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2020-06-16T21:36:06-07:00
1926-09-24 Tampa Times FL pg 7
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Lawrence County farmers brace for a lean 1927 growing season; it is estimated that "less than 40 per cent of farmers in this county are able to pay their debts this year."
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media/1884-08-09 Juvenile Murder in WR - Bloomfield MO pg 3_thumb.jpg
2020-05-14T13:30:01-07:00
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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2020-05-14T13:35:24-07:00
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media/County Officers Nov 18 1910 Blade_thumb.jpg
2020-05-09T15:12:21-07:00
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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2020-05-10T17:30:15-07:00
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media/1895-03-10 Tightrope Walker Falls and Leg Amputated - St Louis Globe-Democrat pg 3_thumb.png
2020-05-29T13:27:39-07:00
1895-03-10 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 3
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A tightrope walker falls when performing in Walnut Ridge, and has his leg amputated due to injuries sustained in the fall.
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2020-05-29T13:58:36-07:00
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media/1886-09-11 Hoxie Rail Agent Advertises Low Rate for Kansas City Excursion - AR Gazette pg 5_thumb.jpg
2020-05-17T13:22:24-07:00
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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2020-05-17T13:27:06-07:00
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media/Stagecoach Line from 1884 Pocahontas Star-Herald - Pinterest Betty_thumb.jpg
2020-07-08T19:16:14-07:00
1884 Pocahontas Star-Herald, Stagecoach to Walnut Ridge Ad
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A stagecoach line from Pocahontas to Hoxie advertises daily routes in both directions.
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2020-08-30T13:42:26-07:00
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media/WR Blade 1905 Cover Image - FB WR-Hoxie Dwight Lane Jan 2013_thumb.jpg
2020-07-08T18:37:08-07:00
Document, Walnut Ridge Blade Newspaper Cover Image, Circa 1905
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A cover of what appears to be a special edition of the paper, depicting portraits of nine Walnut Ridge children; property of James Whitlow.
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media/Hoxie Union Depot 1924-10-09 Depot Burning II - Larry Dobbs FB Apr 2013_thumb.jpg
2020-07-10T15:16:13-07:00
Photo, Hoxie Union Depot Burning 10/09/1924, Image 2 of 5
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Image property of James Whitlow.
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media/1893-04-01 Gruesome Details of Star Hotel Burning WR - St. Louis Globe-Democrat pg 3_thumb.png
2020-05-26T14:54:45-07:00
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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media/Hoxie Highc School - Flickr_thumb.jpg
2020-05-08T15:00:43-07:00
Photo, Hoxie High School Building 1926/1927
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A photo of the school building shortly after its completion in December 1926. Image property of James Whitlow; I of A WR&H pg 80.
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media/1900-07-20 Man Shot at Lemonade Stand on July 4 - Arkansas Democrat pg 6_thumb.png
2020-05-13T18:51:13-07:00
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/1892-11-10 Train Whistles Assist In Cleveland Election Celebration - Memphis Commercial pg 4_thumb.png
2020-05-26T14:16:36-07:00
1892-11-10 Memphis Commercial TN 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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2020-05-31T19:54:07-07:00
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media/WR Phoenix Cotton Oil Co - City of WR_thumb.jpg
2020-05-10T19:46:13-07:00
Postcard, Phoenix Cotton Oil Company, Walnut Ridge
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An undated postcard of the sprawling complex, which opened in 1903; image courtesy City of Walnut Ridge website.
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media/WR First Presbyterian Church, 1883 - FPC WR_thumb.jpg
2020-05-10T10:15:22-07:00
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 of FPC WR 130th Anniversary Commemorative Book.
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media/1910-10-19 Train Car of Langstons Friends Go to WR to Prove Innocence - St Joseph MO pg 11_thumb.png
2020-06-10T11:27:08-07:00
1910-10-19 St Joseph News-Press MO pg 11
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A group of South Dakota and Nebraska citizens go to Walnut Ridge to prove J. C. Langston's innocence in the Shirey murder case.
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media/1904-12-19 Artist Chubby Spades Paints House of Portia Senator - Washington Post DC pg 6_thumb.png
2020-06-04T15:35:24-07:00
1904-12-19 Washington Post DC pg 6
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Artist Chubby Spades paints the house of Senator McCall of Portia.
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media/WR Street View Main St Blooms before 1930 - Betty Davidson FB WR-Hoxie Jan 2018_thumb.jpg
2020-07-10T09:57:40-07:00
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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media/Greetings from WR that looks like stock image - Google_thumb.jpg
2020-05-08T14:32:01-07:00
Postcard, "Greetings from Walnut Ridge" With Road on Slope, Circa 1930-1940
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Perhaps a road on a hill leading to Walnut Ridge, or more likely a generic image.
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2020-06-23T12:27:25-07:00
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media/Hoxie Union Depot 1924-10-09 Depot Burning III - Larry Dobbs FB Apr 2013_thumb.jpg
2020-07-10T15:16:01-07:00
Photo, Hoxie Union Depot Burning 10/09/1924, Image 3 of 5
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Image property of James Whitlow.
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media/Hoxie RR YMCA - Larry Dobbs FB May 2010_thumb.jpg
2020-06-23T18:39:36-07:00
Postcard, Hoxie 1904 Railroad YMCA Building
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Image property of James Whitlow; I of A WR&H pg 67.
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media/1894-12-23 Mysterious Camp of Armed Men in Minturn - St Louis Globe-Democrat pg 3_thumb.png
2020-05-28T11:53:23-07:00
1894-12-23 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 3
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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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media/1935-01-29 WR City Marshals Badge Taken From His Home - Decatur AL pg 8_thumb.png
2020-06-17T18:59:40-07:00
1935-01-29 Decatur Daily AL pg 8
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A thief breaks into the Walnut Ridge city marshal's house and takes the marshal's badge.
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2020-06-17T19:01:48-07:00
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media/WR Old Presbyterian Church- Pinterest_thumb.jpg
2020-05-10T10:12:12-07:00
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 of FPC WR 130th Anniversary Commemorative Book.
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2020-06-12T08:21:27-07:00
1913-04-15 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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Lon Easley gives a bond of $12,500 and awaits an appeal to the Arkansas Supreme Court.
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2020-06-12T08:26:18-07:00
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media/1895 S C Dowell Land Ad - Geneology Trails_thumb.jpg
2020-05-06T21:12:58-07:00
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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2020-05-28T11:34:50-07:00
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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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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media/WR Street View Main St Circa 1940 - AHPP Hist Dist Form_thumb.jpg
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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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media/1896-01-24 Account of Trouble At and Following Populist Meeting at Powhatan - Haven KS pg 3_thumb.png
2020-05-29T14:07:14-07:00
1896-01-24 Haven Weekly Record KS pg 3
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Trouble occurs at and following a Populist meeting in Powhatan after a group of young boys disturb the meeting and a man throws a stick of wood at one of them in return.
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media/1885 Walnut Ridge Postmark - Ebay_thumb.jpg
2020-05-11T20:31:29-07:00
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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media/1897-07-09 Pigeons Released from WR for 600 Mile Trip - Green Bay WI pg 5_thumb.png
2020-05-30T12:11:57-07:00
1897-07-09 Green Bay Press-Gazette WI pg 5
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Thirteen homing pigeons are released from Walnut Ridge for their 600-mile flight back to Green Bay, Wisconsin.
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media/1910-03-09 Wealthy Shirey Calls Himself Lothario After Being Shot - Cincinnati OH pg 1_thumb.png
2020-06-10T08:22:28-07:00
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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media/1906-02-15 Newsboy Shoots at Passenger on Train Near WR - Poplar Bluff Citizen MO pg 8_thumb.png
2020-06-05T14:27:07-07:00
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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media/Hoxie Union Depot 1924-10-09 Depot Burning IV - Larry Dobbs FB May 2013_thumb.jpg
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Photo, Hoxie Union Depot Burning 10/09/1924, Image 4 of 5
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Image property of James Whitlow.
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2020-12-02T10:33:27-08:00
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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
2020-05-13T14:46:09-07:00
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/Hoxie Depot With Streetcar 1914 Postcard - LCHS Pinterest_thumb.jpg
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Postcard, Hoxie Depot With Streetcar, 1914
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Image courtesy of the Lawrence County Historical Society; property of Jon Walter.
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2020-05-14T12:06:35-07:00
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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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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media/1917-12-10 Pocahontas Woman Gives Birth in Hoxie Between Trains - AR Gazette pg 6_thumb.png
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1917-12-10 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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A Pocahontas woman gives birth at Hoxie during a layover between trains.
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2020-06-15T11:41:49-07:00
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media/WR Ladies of the Maccabees Brass Piece Circa 1896-1926 - Jon Walter FB WR and Hoxie Oct 2014_thumb.jpg
2020-07-08T12:30:46-07:00
Object, Ladies of the Maccabees Brass Piece, Circa 1896-1926
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Found in Stewart Park in fill dirt likely transported from a Main Street construction site in WR; image courtesy of Jon Walter.
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media/Hoxie Portrait Unknown Infant 1906 - Larry Dobbs FB Jun 2010_thumb.jpg
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Photo, Hoxie Portrait of Unknown Infant, 1906
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Photograph courtesy of Larry Dobbs.
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media/Part 1 of Co K., 3rd BN, 153rd Infantry in 1938 Hoxie - Jon Walter FB WR and Hoxie Oct 2014_thumb.jpg
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Photo, Company K, 3rd Battalion, 153rd Infantry in Hoxie, 1938, pt 1 of 2
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A group picture of part of the company; image courtesy of Jon Walter, who notes: "The Company Commander was Boas E. Gibson. Other officers were 1LT Julian Beakley and 2LT Alfred L. King. The 1SG was Paul K. Kirkpatrick. In 1938 Co K. met at Hoxie, Arkansas. They deployed to Alaska in 1941. Pictured in this photo: FIRST ROW: L.G. Gray, H.J. Guntharp, R.B. Holder, B.R. Smith, L. Robert, A.D. Sauls, J. Christie, F. Paxton, W.E. Conrey. SECOND ROW: M. Manning, M.E. Guntharp, J.H. Marshall, C.A. Wagoner, G. Johnson, M. Wile, J. Johnson, M. Guntharp, O. Wagoner, J.H. Grigsby. THIRD ROW: H.C. Foster, C.C. Baird, T.E. Davidson, A. Chronister, T. Hutchisson, H.A. Edwards, D. Nichols, W.N. Workman, P.R. Guntharp, C.E. Waddell, P. Poteet."
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2020-06-17T20:28:15-07:00
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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2020-06-17T20:31:46-07:00
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2020-05-17T19:49:22-07:00
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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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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1897-07-13 Green Bay Press-Gazette WI pg 5
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An update on the status of the homing pigeons released from Walnut Ridge notes that none of the thirteen birds have yet returned to Green Bay.
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2020-05-30T12:26:51-07:00
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1930-05-26 Seminole Producer OK pg 5
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"Oldtime weather prophets" in Walnut Ridge predict a spell of dry weather based on observing crawfish burrows.
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2020-06-17T12:09:49-07:00
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Photo, Hoxie Union Depot Burning 10/09/1924, Image 5 of 5
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Image property of James Whitlow.
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2020-12-02T10:35:13-08:00
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Photo, Boas Hotel, Hoxie, Circa 1906
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Depicts the first Boas Hotel building. Image property of James Whitlow; I of A WR&H pg 14.
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1908-10-27 Memphis Commercial Appeal TN pg 7
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Lee Ridgeway dies from his wounds after being shot, and is buried.
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2020-05-31T20:05:30-07:00
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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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2020-05-08T14:11:08-07:00
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2020-06-11T12:03:22-07:00
1911-08-15 Tucson Arizona Daily Star AZ pg 6
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A forger caught in Arizona is wanted in Walnut Ridge for bank fraud.
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2020-06-11T12:05:07-07:00
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1917-05-14 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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A family is injured on a ride from Powhatan to Hoxie when their car strikes a log in the road.
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2020-06-13T13:53:55-07:00
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1914-12-05 Arkansas Democrat pgs 1 & 6
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More witnesses come forth in defense of Dr. J. C. Hughes, in a courtroom "so crowded that plaster began to fall below."
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2020-07-08T06:38:26-07:00
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1912-01-18 Arkansas Democrat pg 4
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Work continues rapidly on Eastern Lawrence County drainage projects, from Cache River dredging to the draining of Swan Pond Lake.
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2020-06-11T12:54:59-07:00
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2020-07-10T09:24:08-07:00
Photo, Walnut Ridge & Hoxie Streetcar, Circa 1904-1927
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An undated image of one of the streetcars in operation between Walnut Ridge and Hoxie; image courtesy of the Lawrence County Historical Society.
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2020-07-10T09:25:10-07:00
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2020-06-15T09:05:38-07:00
1917-06-23 Arkansas Democrat pg 12
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A large amount of contraband liquor is seized from an Iron Mountain Railroad passenger coach at Hoxie.
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2020-06-15T09:11:19-07:00
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1914-12-08 Jonesboro Evening Sun pgs 1 & 4
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"There is much speculation as to the verdict of the jury" in the Hughes murder case as their decision is awaited.
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2020-07-08T07:50:04-07:00
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2020-06-11T14:01:39-07:00
1912-03-26 Arkansas Gazette pg 10
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The Walnut Ridge Blade writes an editorial explaining its support for Governor Donaghey's re-election.
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1917-11-11 Arkansas Gazette pg 10
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The state convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union is held at Walnut Ridge.
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2020-06-15T09:57:00-07:00
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2020-07-08T09:01:28-07:00
1915-03-16 Batesville Daily Guard pg 1
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The Guard notes that the change of venue of Dr. Hughes' trial to Independence County "will bring a large number of witnesses and spectators to Batesville, and probably will create more interest than any case ever placed on the Independence circuit court docket."
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2020-07-08T09:02:20-07:00
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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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2020-06-11T15:49:10-07:00
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Postcard, "Greetings from Hoxie" With Cows, Circa 1930-1940
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A colorful undated postcard depicting a herd of cows near a pond.
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2020-06-23T13:28:53-07:00
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1918-02-22 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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Black Rock humorist Gad Angle says he is certain spring has arrived after hearing a lizard crawl.
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2020-06-15T11:46:25-07:00
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2020-07-08T09:54:11-07:00
1915-04-26 St Louis Star & Times pg 1
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The Star & Times notes that there might have been some connection between the Bagley-Ridgeway Feud and the murder of A. W. Shirey of Minturn.
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2020-07-08T09:56:53-07:00
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1918-12-09 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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A Minturn correspondent declares the Walnut Ridge Blade to be "one of the best county papers in the state."
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1910-09-15 Arkansas Gazette pg 3
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Dr. J. C. Hughes of Walnut Ridge fires six shots at Alf Bagley; the article notes "Bagley is alleged to have said that he would 'get Dr. Hughes before it frosted.'"
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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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2020-06-12T09:02:23-07:00
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2020-07-07T10:06:01-07:00
1912-08-06 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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Dr. J. C. Hughes of Walnut Ridge narrowly escapes a midnight assassination attempt.
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2020-07-07T10:08:16-07:00
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2020-06-10T09:26:23-07:00
1910-08-25 Osceola Times AR pg 4
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J. C. Langston, and his lawyer, are indicted by a jury for the A. W. Shirey murder.
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2020-06-10T09:28:08-07:00
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2020-07-08T19:40:14-07:00
1927-05 Walnut Ridge Blade, Section of Front Page
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A partial section of the front page of the Walnut Ridge Blade's edition shortly after the destructive May 9 tornado, likely published two days afterwards; image courtesy of Dwight Lane.
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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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2020-06-12T14:34:29-07:00
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2020-07-07T12:21:38-07:00
1913-03-16 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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Wolf Benningfield's murder case results in a mistrial, as the jury could not all agree on a charge of first/second degree murder or manslaughter.
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2020-07-07T12:22:23-07:00
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2020-06-10T11:46:50-07:00
1910-10-24 Arkansas Gazette pg 9
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A classified ad lists for sale a pointer dog and two pups from Walnut Ridge.
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2020-06-10T11:48:08-07:00
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2020-07-09T08:17:21-07:00
Photo, Hoxie School Group, Circa 1910
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Photo courtesy of Barbara Whittaker Brown, who notes, "Miss Cawley was the teacher and the girl sitting on the left was Grace Manning Bennett."
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2020-07-09T08:18:21-07:00
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2020-06-12T15:17:30-07:00
1914-03-19 Arkansas Democrat pg 8
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A pink pearl from the Black River "had been cast before swine" when it was overlooked among the boiled mussels fed to local hogs.
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2020-06-12T15:19:03-07:00
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1913-03-27 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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A jury for the Benningfield trial, "all young farmers and timber men," is finally achieved; three are excused from the jury due to "compunctions of conscience."
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2020-06-10T12:44:59-07:00
1911-04-09 Arkansas Gazette pg 47
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A new 1911 model 4 hp motorcycle is listed for sale in Walnut Ridge.
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2020-07-09T11:52:01-07:00
Postcard, "Held Up In Hoxie," Circa 1910s
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Postcard courtesy of Larry Dobbs.
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2020-07-09T11:52:47-07:00
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2020-06-12T18:37:45-07:00
1915-01-22 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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The Imboden correspondent to the Walnut Ridge Blade tells an anecdote about politics.
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1914-09-30 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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A coroner's jury continues to investigate the murder of Solon Crook nearly a week after his demise.
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2020-06-11T08:14:03-07:00
1911-06-10 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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A Walnut Ridge dentist and his wife kept their marriage a secret for two years.
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2020-06-11T08:16:07-07:00
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Photo, Danny's Place Restaurant, Walnut Ridge, Circa 1925-1930
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Printed in the Times-Dispatch, with a caption that notes, "Louise and Danny Tolson stand in front of their sandwich and drink establishment in the late 1920s. The business was located at the corner of Main & Front Streets in Walnut Ridge." Image courtesy of Wendell Tolson and James Whitlow.
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1916-02-15 Batesville Daily Guard pg 1
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Two burglars from Alicia knock the Lawrence County Sheriff in the head and escape into the darkness.
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1914-11-28 Jonesboro Evening Sun pg 1
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Walnut Ridge farmer and dairyman Lycurgus Bland is arrested under suspicion of being Solon Crook's murderer.
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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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2020-06-18T12:44:06-07:00
1935-06-15 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 20
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Another article on the death of a man at a Hoxie railroad crossing notes that a plane was chartered to bring the body to St. Louis.
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1922-09-22 Alva Daily Review-Courier OK pg 4
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A forecasted coal shortage leads Lawrence County cotton gins and mills to burn wood for fuel instead.
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2020-06-16T19:23:52-07:00
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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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1894-12-21 Bucyrus Evening Telegraph OH pg 1
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An Iron Mountain train runs into a cow and is partially wrecked.
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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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1889-06-30 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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The Walnut Ridge & Hoxie Street Car Company is incorporated.
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2020-06-18T13:28:13-07:00
1935-11-25 Sioux City Journal IA pg 6
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Ripley's Believe It or Not features a Walnut Ridge ice cream manufacturer who has not sampled any of his product in 40 years.
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2020-06-16T20:36:13-07:00
1923-08-26 Montgomery Advertiser AL pg 1
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A man killed on the Cache River is said to have killed seven people himself.
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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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1895-02-28 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 2
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Two sawmills, a shingle mill, and a barrel stave factory are destroyed by fire in Walnut Ridge, with no insurance to cover the loss.
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2020-06-07T18:03:07-07:00
1908-10-20 Indianapolis News IN pg 8
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A young man is killed in Walnut Ridge for smoking in front of women.
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1890-05-06 Arkansas Gazette pg 8
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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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1905-01-16 Mount Carmel Daily Republican-Register IL pg 3
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A Walnut Ridge barn and the vehicles and horses inside of it are consumed by fire.
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2020-06-18T14:31:43-07:00
1938-09-03 Fort Worth Star-Telegram TX pg 9
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A Little Rock couple is killed in a car crash five miles south of Hoxie.
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1927-05-10 Wilmington News Journal DE pg 1
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At least twenty-two are killed by a tornado in Egypt, Hoxie, and Walnut Ridge.
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2020-05-14T14:14:05-07:00
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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Postcard, Northwest Front Street, Walnut Ridge, Circa 1922-1930
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Image courtesy of Larry Dobbs.
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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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2020-05-29T15:06:40-07:00
1896-09-06 Atlanta Constitution GA pg 20
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A Hoxie resident gives a testimonial for Opiumoid, saying he was "cured of the morphine habit of three years taking."
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1909-06-04 St Louis Jewish Voice MO pg 2
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Two Walnut Ridge residents embark on a two-month tour of England, Germany, France, and Switzerland.
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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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2020-06-17T08:57:16-07:00
1927-12-15 Poplar Bluff Weekly Citizen Democrat MO pg 4 article 2
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A hunter charged with drunkenness says he "just happened" to find a bottle of liquor when he came to town.
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Document, Rhea Hotel Postcard, Walnut Ridge, 1919, Back of Card
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The postcard lists "Lennington & Powers" as proprietors of the hotel; image courtesy of Larry Dobbs.
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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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2020-05-30T12:29:28-07:00
1897-07-14 Green Bay Press-Gazette WI pg 5
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A second update on the status of the pigeons released from Walnut Ridge notes that one bird has now completed the 600-mile journey.
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1909-11-12 Poplar Bluff Weekly Citizen Democrat MO pg 1
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An invitation is extended to Poplar Bluff to attend a cornerstone-laying ceremony for the First Baptist Church of Walnut Ridge's new sanctuary building.
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1905-06-17 Arkansas Democrat pg 2
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Walnut Ridge wins a baseball game against Minturn, 3-0.
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2020-06-05T12:37:36-07:00
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2020-06-10T08:49:39-07:00
1910-03-18 Moline Advance KS pg 4
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A locomotive boiler explodes one mile south of Hoxie, killing one and fatally injuring two.
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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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The Hoxie and Pocahontas Railway Company is formally incorporated, with $250,000 in capital stock.
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Editor Riley of the Walnut Ridge Blade says that the Cache Valley Railroad may extend to WR and Paragould.
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1930-06-10 Sacramento Bee CA pg 6
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A justice of the peace drives a car with bullet holes and sections missing due to thievery, but "insists to ambitious motor salesmen that it is only beginning to perform."
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S. J. Killow of Walnut Ridge marries his twelfth wife, setting "what may be the marriage record of the United States."
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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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1898-07-15 Green Bay Press-Gazette WI pg 5
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Homing pigeons are again released from Walnut Ridge for a 600-mile flight to Wisconsin, but one bird is shot en route at Reyno.
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A Cache Valley Railroad tie-maker is killed by a falling tree limb.
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Frisco Railroad surveyors prepare a site for the new Hoxie Union Depot.
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The Walnut Ridge Telephone newspaper remarks on the discovery near Marked Tree of a stone cask of ancient corn.
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1930-11-01 Blytheville Courier News pg 1
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The young woman from Walnut Ridge who shot her brother waives her murder hearing.
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A pedestrian crossing a street in Walnut Ridge is injured by a passing auto.
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2020-06-16T08:28:09-07:00
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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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1898-12-09 Meriden Ledger KS pg 4
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A weather report from Hoxie notes "a severe blizzard, with sleet, rain, wind, and snow."
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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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1906-05-30 Arkansas Democrat pg 8
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A 96-year-old Walnut Ridge woman dies from fall injuries.
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1901-01-24 Davenport Morning Star IA pg 1
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Criminals attempting to wreck an express train near Walnut Ridge instead wreck a St. Louis to Mexico tourist train.
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2020-06-03T09:39:10-07:00
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1931-01-14 Bridgewater Courier-News NJ pg 11
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J. F. Israel, Lawrence County officer of the peace for fifty years, says that while he would excuse a thief with a genuine starvation plea, he has found such claims to be rarely credible.
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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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1899-09-29 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 5
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A sick soldier from Texas is taken care of by a kind Hoxie resident, but dies the next morning nevertheless.
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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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The Hoxie city marshal is married, and the couple honeymoons at the World's Fair in Chicago.
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A resident of Lawrence County since 1852 speaks of seeing herds of twenty-five deer and bears fighting yellow jackets in years past.
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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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The St. Louis Cardinals play an exhibition game at Hoxie against local talent and win 6-3.
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The mayor of Hoxie is accused of aiding in a murder, leading the city council to ask for his resignation.
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1894-04-20 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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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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1907-04-23 Sedalia Democrat MO pg 1
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A woman goes on an enigmatic eighteen-year-long quest to find her missing daughter, who was born in Walnut Ridge.
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1902-06-02 Arkansas Democrat pg 5
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It is reported that $100,000 will be spent by the Iron Mountain Railroad on various improvements at Walnut Ridge.
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1935-05-17 Charlotte News NC pg 4
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An article from Walnut Ridge notes that the Lawrence County town of Strawberry goes by two other names as well.
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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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1907-10-10 Versailles Morgan County Republican MO pg 2
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Another news account states that the man arrested for wearing the Elk lodge badge "is suspected of having stolen" it.
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2020-06-07T09:34:11-07:00
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1914-11-29 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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Lizzie Burell, "a woman of considerable wealth," is charged with being an accessory in Isom Bagley's murder.
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1911-10-11 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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The Belk murder case from Alicia goes up for re-trial in Walnut Ridge with a judge from Newport.
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1914-12-05 Arkansas Gazette pg 8
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Mrs. A. Vance of Hoxie and fifteen other witnesses testify that they saw Dr. Hughes at his office at the time of Isom Bagley's murder.
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1912-01-24 St Louis Star & Times MO pg 1
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An article about St. Louis rail freight rates notes that the bulk lumber rate from Walnut Ridge to St. Louis stands at thirteen cents.
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A Hoxie architect's brick bungalow is destroyed by fire.
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1914-12-09 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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When asked if he thought his case would result in a hung jury, Dr. Hughes replies that "it may be a hung doctor" instead.
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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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1917-11-20 Arkansas Gazette pg 8
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A railroad terminal change from Poplar Bluff to Hoxie is delayed.
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1915-03-17 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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The Gazette notes that "Dr. Hughes' attorneys asserted that sentiment is so strong against the doctor in this county that a fair trial would be impossible."
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1912-06-22 Topeka Kansas Farmer & Mail & Breeze KS pg 19
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The firm Jaggers & Hall of Walnut Ridge advertises that they have "200 farms to dispose of at once in Arkansas."
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Postcard, Walnut Ridge First Baptist Church Sanctuary Under Construction, Circa Early 1910
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Depicts the construction of the church's second sanctuary after the first structure burned in 1908; image courtesy Larry Dobbs.
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1918-03-27 Arkansas Gazette pg 15
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A classified ad lists feeding corn for sale in Walnut Ridge.
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1915-05-01 Arkansas Gazette pg 16
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The Lawrence County Judge estimates that the Hughes trial in Batesville cost the county $2500 (the equivalent of more than $60,000 today).
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1912-10-26 Tampa Times FL pg 3
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A 6 am fire at the Boas Hotel in Hoxie results in several guests jumping from second-story windows to escape the flames.
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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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1918-12-29 Tampa Tribune FL pg 22
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The Walnut Ridge Blade jokes that Gad Angle "used to be some singer before tunes came in fashion."
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Object, Lawrence County Courthouse Cornerstone, 1900
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A modern-day photograph of the cornerstone of the 1900 courthouse in WR, now located on the courthouse lawn.
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1913-02-09 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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C. G. Pinnell of Walnut Ridge resists arrest and attempts to shoot the Hoxie town marshal, but is fatally shot himself.
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1910-09-15 Jonesboro Daily Tribune pg 1
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A Jonesboro man who had been in WR at the time of the Hughes-Bagley shooting reports that there were several tense exchanges between the two men before shots were fired.
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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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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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1912-10-09 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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N. E. Bagley, widow of Isom Bagley, offers a $1000 reward for info leading to the identification and arrest of her late husband's murderer.
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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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2020-07-08T20:13:17-07:00
1882-08 News Article, How Hoxie Was Named
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An article explains how the town of Hoxie was named after the general manager of the Iron Mountain Railroad; image courtesy of Jon Walter.
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1913-11-19 Jonesboro Evening Sun pg 1
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The digging of Running Water Ditch begins, at a cost of $36,000.
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1913-03-17 Jonesboro Daily Tribune pg 3
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Congressman Caraway returns to Jonesboro after helping out in the Benningfield trial at Walnut Ridge.
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1910-10-26 Brainerd Daily Dispatch MN pg 1
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Another news account describes why the now-acquitted Langston had been considered a suspect in the Shirey murder case.
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Photo, J. D. Doyle House near Walnut Ridge, 1910
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Image courtesy of Larry Dobbs, who notes, "This is the home of County Judge J. D. Doyle in 1910. The Judge is at the right next to his horse. This home was located at the corner of Old Pocahontas Road and Rebecca Lane."
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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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1913-03-29 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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Wolf Benningfield is declared guilty of second-degree murder and is sentenced to twenty years in prison.
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1911-04-15 Topeka Kansas Farmer & Mail & Breeze KS pg 39
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A classified ad lists 240 acres of timbered land for sale half a mile from Hoxie.
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Postcard, "Welcomed with Open Arms" in Hoxie, Circa 1910s
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Postcard courtesy of Larry Dobbs.
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1915-04-30 Batesville Daily Guard pg 3
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The Walnut Ridge Blade pokes fun at editor John Hall of the Salem Sun in what appears to set off a war of words between the newspapers.
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1914-10-01 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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The superintendent of Pinkerton's National Detective Agency arrives in Walnut Ridge to help solve the mystery of Solon Crook's death.
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1911-06-18 Arkansas Gazette pg 36
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A classified ad requests construction bids for a new jail at Walnut Ridge.
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Photo, Walnut Ridge High School 1923 Building
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A color photo of the school building constructed in 1923, taken before the structure burned in 1957; image courtesy of Larry Dobbs.
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1916-04-12 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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Three houses in Hoxie burn, with only partial insurance coverage.
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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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A Batesville judge comments on the divorce case involving A. W. Shirey of Minturn.
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1887-11-06 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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Lawrence County zinc ores are one highlight at a Little Rock exhibition.
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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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1922-11-25 Arkansas Democrat pg 8
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An advertisement for Bond's Kidney & Bladder Remedy features a testimonial from a Walnut Ridge customer.
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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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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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1908-04-30 Nashville Baptist & Reflector TN pg 9
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Pastor Connell of First Baptist Church of Walnut Ridge notes that he has had 95 new church members join in his first four months.
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1889-07-08 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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A freight car accident near Hoxie leads to a several-hour delay.
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1904-01-22 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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A list of taxable values in Lawrence County notes property values, livestock quantities, and the number of people liable for poll taxes.
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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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1925-06-30 Kenosha News WI pg 8
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Another 500-mile pigeon race starts from Walnut Ridge.
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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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1895-03-11 Chanute Daily Tribune KS pg 1
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Hoxie enforces quarantine rules to combat smallpox, including banning tramps from entering town.
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1908-10-20 Shreveport Times LA pg 8
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The escalation that led to a young man's death in Walnut Ridge began when another man knocked a cigarette from the man's mouth.
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1890-05-17 Udall Record KS pg 1
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The rail ticket price from Kansas City to Hoxie is reduced from $10.25 to $7.
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1905-01-24 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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Guests at the Rhea Hotel in Walnut Ridge are stricken with poisoning after their supper, but are aided in time by local physicians.
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1938-10-31 Hope Star pg 1
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A fifteen-year-old from near Ravenden is held in Walnut Ridge on a charge of murdering his father.
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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, 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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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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1909-07-01 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 11
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A two-story brick hotel building goes up for sale in Walnut Ridge.
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1887-10-15 Atchison Daily Champion KS pg 1
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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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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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1928-06-23 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 14
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A thousand acres of land are flooded in Lawrence County, along the Black River.
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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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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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1897-07-19 Shreveport Journal LA pg 1
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Many Kansas City, Fort Scott, & Memphis Railroad employees at Hoxie and beyond are laid off due to hard times.
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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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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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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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1930-01-03 Oakland Tribune CA pg 10
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A Walnut Ridge man is fined twenty-five dollars because of his pet possum.
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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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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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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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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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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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1930-07-19 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 16
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A utility company acquires a Walnut Ridge water service and a fifty-year Hoxie water franchise.
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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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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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1898-08-04 Mt Carmel Register IL pg 3
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A young Pocahontas man is killed by a freight train at Hoxie.
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1892-11-23 Memphis Commercial TN pg 1
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An unknown man is run over and killed by a train near Portia.
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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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1900-07-14 Arkansas Democrat pg 6
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Suicide is suspected when the wife of a Black Rock barber drowns while pearling at the Black River.
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1930-11-05 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 30
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Percy Townsend, 21-year-old mayor of Black Rock, is praised for his administration's accomplishments, including reducing the town's debt.
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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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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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1899-01-04 Nashville Tennessean TN pg 4
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Four small children in WR eat a can of sardines and get food poisoning; three of them later die.
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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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1893-04-06 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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1906-05-31 Arkansas Democrat pg 5
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The Lawrence County Democratic Committee meets in Black Rock to elect officers and hear speeches by delegates.
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1901-05-09 Poplar Bluff Citizen MO pg 12
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A festive ball is held in Walnut Ridge, with special invitations sent out to members of Elk lodges and the Travelers Protective Association (based at the time out of St. Louis).
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1931-01-15 Blytheville Courier pg 1
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A car plunges one hundred feet from a bridge, perhaps at Powhatan, killing one and injuring another.
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1921-06-16 Ridgway News IL pg 6
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A Richwoods man tries to starve his nephews to death, but they manage to survive in their locked room by eating cotton seeds for a week.
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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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1899-11-03 Arkansas Democrat pg 4
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A Walnut Ridge teacher presents an address titled "Some Distinctive Ideas in Teaching" at an educators meeting in Jonesboro.
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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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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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1906-12-20 Arkansas Gazette pg 8
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The Cache Valley Railroad Company of Walnut Ridge announces an upcoming stockholders' meeting.
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1902-02-19 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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The Lawrence County Telephone newspaper comments on the Boer War in South Africa.
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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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1921-12-28 Indiana Progress PA pg 5
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A Walnut Ridge farmer's request to have his dog and chickens buried with him is honored, though his mule is spared.
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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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1894-04-25 Arkansas Gazette pg 8
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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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1907-05-04 Rock Island Argus IL pg 5
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A man fractures his arm after he walks too close to the railroad tracks and is struck by an object sticking out from a rail car.
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1902-06-24 Fort Smith Times pg 5
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The Jonesboro Enterprise notes that the Iron Mountain Railroad division point might end up in Hoxie rather than Walnut Ridge, and declares that WR "will be ruined as a town" if that is the case.
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1935-08-16 Winona Times MS pg 1
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578 Lawrence County residents apply for old age pensions.
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1922-03-12 Arkansas Democrat pg 29
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A ten-year-old from Walnut Ridge writes in to the children's page of the Arkansas Democrat.
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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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1917-02-09 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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A Black Rock man is taken to Jonesboro for an appendicitis operation, and asks if he can have his tooth pulled too.
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1914-11-30 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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An adjourned court term begins at Walnut Ridge to decide the matter of the Solon Crook murder case.
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1911-10-16 Shreveport Times LA pg 1
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A special train is chartered from Walnut Ridge to Black Rock to transport 500 people attending a baptismal service at the Black River.
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Document, Boas Hotel Postcard, Hoxie, 1919, Back of Card
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The back side of a Boas Hotel postcard postmarked June 28, 1919; image courtesy of Larry Dobbs.
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Hoxie bakers raise the price of bread from ten cents a loaf up to fifteen cents.
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The Post-Dispatch describes the circumstances leading to the fallout between Lizzie Burell and Isom Bagley, and notes that Isom's sons "were ready fighters when occasion demanded action."
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J. J. Tharp of Walnut Ridge takes out another classified ad to seek a bookkeeper position.
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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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A Hoxie woman mistakenly picks up a snake at night, and is bitten by it.
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After being out 26 hours, the jury in the Hughes murder trial finds that it still cannot agree on a verdict, as a charge of second degree murder is barred by the statute of limitations.
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Samuel J. Killow of Imboden marries his tenth wife, after having been bereaved four times and divorced five times.
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The skeleton of a Hoxie banker is found in a Hot Springs attic, nearly eight months after he went missing.
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With the second Hughes trial set to begin in Batesville, hotel rooms are reserved and "it is expected that the case will occupy more than one week."
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A Walnut Ridge resident writes in to a St. Louis newspaper's naming contest for Col. Roosevelt's new political party.
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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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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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Considering the costs of the previous court cases against Dr. Hughes, the Guard notes that "it is believed by many a great saving of public money would be consistently accomplished if the case in November is not allowed to come up for trial."
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1912-10-27 Arkansas Gazette pg 12
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A Jackson, Tennessee, land auction company stops in Walnut Ridge on an auction tour.
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1919-01-01 Wilmington Evening Journal DE pg 4
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An early morning earthquake causes a hotel clerk to stagger and shakes a dollar bill out of his hand.
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1913-02-12 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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The town marshal of Hoxie is bound over to a grand jury on a charge of manslaughter following his fatally shooting C. G. Pinnell.
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1910-10-23 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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Alf Bagley is shot and killed on the streets of Walnut Ridge, followed by the murder of his father I. J. Bagley two hours later.
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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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1913-06-25 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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A gas explosion at the Greasy Spoon Restaurant in Hoxie results in a small fire.
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John Bagley is shot five times by carpenter Wolf Benningfield while they and four others were gathered at contractor Solon Crook's office.
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1910-09-28 Chicago Tribune IL pg 4
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An advertisement for the Lawrence County exhibits at a land show in Chicago declares that the county is the "greatest watermelon district in Arkansas," and identifies other successful crops in the county as "berries of all sorts, muskmelons, sweet and Irish potatoes."
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The Walnut Ridge Blade relates an anecdote about Black Rock funnyman Gad Angle buying a cow.
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Five are charged with contempt of court after concerns are raised about jury tampering in the Benningfield trial.
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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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Photo, Snapp Motor Company, Walnut Ridge, 1938
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Image courtesy of Larry Dobbs, who identifies those pictured in the garage as "Richard Spurlock, Earl Campbell, John Lingo, Steve Smith, J. L. Foster and unknown. They are standing around a then modern machine called the Ford Laboratory Test Set."
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1914-05-04 Jonesboro Evening Sun pg 3
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The Walnut Ridge Blade describes a new sawmill being built in Lawrence County.
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1913-04-03 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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State Senator Clyde Going and four others are cited for contempt of court in Walnut Ridge, but appeal the ruling to the Arkansas Supreme Court.
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1911-04-16 Hutchinson Gazette KS pg 8
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A jury fails to convict an Alicia woman who stabbed another woman to death on a sidewalk.
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Photo, House in Hoxie, Circa 1890-1905
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A Queen Anne-style house with a spindlework porch in Hoxie; photo courtesy Larry Dobbs.
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1915-05-21 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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The Salem Sun fires back at the Walnut Ridge Blade in what is apparently a bit of a newspaper feud.
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1914-10-20 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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Dr. J. C. Hughes of WR is arrested for the murders of Alf and Isom Bagley four years prior, an action "said to be the result of investigations made recently by five Pinkerton detectives."
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1911-07-15 Monroe News-Star LA pg 1
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The Lawrence County Judge marries two people who have each been married four times previously.
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Postcard, Iron Mountain Depot, Walnut Ridge
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Depicts the depot built in 1908 for the St. Louis, Iron Mountain, & Southern Railway; to the left is the Airdome Theater. Image courtesy of Larry Dobbs.
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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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1907-12-03 Batesville Daily Guard pg 1
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The Walnut Ridge Blade has a correspondent stationed in Little Rock to survey the political landscape there.
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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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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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1938-11-19 Fayetteville NW Arkansas Times pg 6
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Blytheville wins 19-7 over Walnut Ridge in high school football.
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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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1908-06-05 Woodward News OK pg 1
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A real estate ad for the Childers farm near Powhatan notes the farm's many amenities.
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1889-07-17 Arkansas Democrat pg 5
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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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1904-03-10 Fort Smith Times pg 1
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A Hoxie boy dies after accidentally shooting himself while hunting.
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1937-03-26 Thayer News MO pg 1
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The obituary of a Thayer man mentions that, after the Civil War, he had brought his wagon to a camp yard at what became Walnut Ridge.
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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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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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1895-03-29 Springfield Leader and Press MO pg 1
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A man is charged with blowing the safe open at the county treasurer's office in Powhatan.
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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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1905-01-26 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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The 1903 Hoxie-Walnut Ridge Act passed by the Arkansas legislature is claimed to have been "secured by confessedly false and foul means" as a way to allow for Argenta's split from Little Rock.
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1939-01-02 Fayetteville NW Arkansas Times pg 6
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A woman is killed in a hit-and-run accident while walking to church along Highway 67 near Walnut Ridge.
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1927-05-12 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 39 pt 2
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A second picture of tornado damage in the Post-Dispatch shows a wrecked train blown off the track at Hoxie.
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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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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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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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1897-01-28 McPherson Opinion KS pg 1
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A blizzard hits Hoxie, with the temperature at 20 degrees Fahrenheit.
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1909-08-01 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 25
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A classified ad lists a 520-acre farm for sale near Walnut Ridge, most of it still forested.
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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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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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1928-06-25 Brooklyn Daily Eagle NY pg 3
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The Al Smith presidential campaign stops in Hoxie on its way through Arkansas and Missouri.
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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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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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1897-07-21 Green Bay Press-Gazette WI pg 5
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A third update on the pigeons released from Walnut Ridge notes that only six out of thirteen birds have returned after almost two weeks.
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1909-12-16 National Tribune Washington DC pg 7
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A classified ad from a Walnut Ridge woman requests information on veterans of an Illinois Civil War regiment.
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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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1905-06-29 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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A farmer near Walnut Ridge shoots his brother-in-law over a spat about money he owed.
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1930-01-30 Selma Times-Journal AL pg 5
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The medicine Thedford's Black Draught runs an ad featuring a testimonial from Walnut Ridge.
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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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1898-04-30 Arkansas Democrat pg 4
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A Walnut Ridge Athletic Association emerges victorious at a Little Rock amateur track meet.
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1910-04-29 Poplar Bluff Weekly Citizen Democrat MO pg 4
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The Lawrence County Sheriff arrests a watch thief on a Frisco train.
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1892-08-07 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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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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1906-01-12 Leighton News AL pg 2
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Walnut Ridge once again turns dry, and petitions circulate both for and against the renewal of the saloons' licenses.
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The Hoxie correspondent to the Walnut Ridge Blade quips that a friend of theirs would send sausage in lieu of flowers upon the paper's demise (the paper ended publication in 1929 instead).
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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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Three Arkansas gubernatorial candidates speak at Walnut Ridge during a barbecue held at the WR fairgrounds.
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Five Lawrence County saloon licenses are granted, four in Walnut Ridge and one in Hoxie.
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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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A weather report from Walnut Ridge gives crop updates on cotton, corn, wheat, peas, and watermelons.
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A fire destroys an entire city block on Main Street in Walnut Ridge.
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A quip from the Walnut Ridge Blade makes it into a Massachusetts newspaper's "sharpshooters" quote list.
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A lucky Black River angler catches a 93-pound, 5.75 ft-long catfish.
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A man loses a leg when trying to board a passenger train at Walnut Ridge.
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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 later news dispatch about the WR Star Hotel fire notes that thirteen houses were destroyed in the conflagration.
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A special election is held in Walnut Ridge to determine the site location for the new school building.
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A letter from Walnut Ridge describes Black River pearling, and the sensation it has caused in the area.
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A woman suspected to be a criminal wanted in Knoxville, Tennessee, is arrested in Walnut Ridge.
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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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A house is destroyed in Walnut Ridge by an accidental fire.
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A man goes to Walnut Ridge to buy mules, falls in love with the step-daughter of his Thanksgiving dinner host at WR, and the two are later married.
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A nearly half-century-old rose bush near Walnut Ridge sends out over 150 rose buds.
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The Odd Fellows organization sells more than 2,000 acres of land bequeathed to them by A. W. Shirey of Minturn.
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A St. Louis Post-Dispatch news brief notes a fatal shooting in Walnut Ridge.
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A Walnut Ridge woman burns to death when her clothing catches on 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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A German draftsman in Walnut Ridge advertises his search for a position as an assistant architect.
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A Missouri man is sentenced to life in prison for murdering a man during an Alicia bank robbery.
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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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A Hoxie man is not expected to live after his runaway horses run him over with a loaded wagon.
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Approximately one hundred witnesses are subpoenaed for the trial of Dr. Hughes concerning the double murder of Alf and Isom Bagley.
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A classified ad notes that a coatmaker is wanted in Walnut Ridge.
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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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Hoxie banker William McCrawn, missing for six weeks and counting, is feared to have drowned in the Ouachita River.
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A newspaper called the Hoxie News tells of a potential upcoming political campaign announcement.
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Dr. Hughes and Mrs. Burell give bond, and Judge Jeffery warns that "it might be proper to hull and eat peanuts in church or an opera house, but that it was clearly out of place in a court room."
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Private Fritz Fultz of Hoxie is wounded in a WWI battle.
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Two special Iron Mountain Railroad cars are reserved to transport the multitude of witnesses from Lawrence County to Batesville for the trial of Dr. Hughes.
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A Walnut Ridge tailor advertises a search for a cutter to join the business.
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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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The case against Dr. J. C. Hughes in the murder of Isom Bagley is nolle prossed, and the Guard states that "the acquittals of Dr. Hughes apparently brings to an end a desperate and stubborn feud that existed in Lawrence [County] for a number of years."
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The Arkansas Democrat and Walnut Ridge Blade make quips about the upcoming election day.
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Two men talk on the streets of Walnut Ridge about feeling unlucky.
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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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1882 Walnut Ridge-Ravenden Springs Stage Line Ad
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The newspaper ad, paper unknown, notes service six days a week to and from Walnut Ridge and Ravenden Springs, leaving at 7:30 in the morning both ways; image courtesy of Jon Walter.
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The Times-Dispatch jokes that four $1000 bills recently found in Memphis do not belong to them.
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John Bagley is later declared dead after having been shot by Wolf Benningfield.
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A classified ad from Walnut Ridge announces a request for a 1910 Hupmobile car.
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The Delaplaine correspondent to the Walnut Ridge Blade notes that typhoid fever has stricken four members of a family there.
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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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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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A railroad station agent goes turkey hunting, but ends up getting a wolf instead.
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Wolf Benningfield, in failing to pay a $12,500 bond, is taken to an Arkansas penitentiary.
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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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Postcard, Hoxie Public School, 1908
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Depicts the school building constructed in 1908 at the corner of Lindsey and Lawrence Streets; image courtesy of Larry Dobbs.
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The Batesville Guard notes that Solon Crook had been "assassinated at his home in Walnut Ridge while he was sitting in his room reading."
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1911-07-18 Evening Star Washington DC pg 2
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Both Arkansas senators call on President Taft to persuade him to sign the commission for a nominee for Walnut Ridge postmistress.
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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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Walnut Ridge wins a baseball game against Jonesboro, 10-4.
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Reverend Joseph Connell is congratulated by Tennessee friends on the occasion of his becoming pastor of First Baptist Church of Walnut Ridge.
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A disastrous early morning fire strikes Walnut Ridge's business district.
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The Walnut Ridge Blade newspaper notes examples of continued investment and growth in WR.
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A Niagara cotton duster (used for insecticides, etc) is listed for sale in Walnut Ridge.
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920 acres of Lawrence County land, including three houses and a barn, are listed for sale.
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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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Two men are found frozen to death along the railroad tracks, six miles from Hoxie.
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A Ravenden real estate agent is listed along with S. C. Dowell of Walnut Ridge in the classified ads of a Chicago newspaper.
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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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A young lady in Walnut Ridge hangs herself after a false accusation against her circulates.
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Two men are struck and killed while walking along Highway 67 between Walnut Ridge and Pocahontas.
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A belated murder confession in a Walnut Ridge courtroom saves an innocent man from prison.
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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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The Walnut Ridge Telephone newspaper comments on girls bicycling around town.
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A Walnut Ridge man has his leg severed by a freight train.
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A twenty-two-year-old transplant to Hoxie dies and is mourned by his hometown.
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1905-02-02 Arkansas Democrat pg 6
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Officials from Walnut Ridge and Hoxie visit Argenta (North Little Rock) to investigate whether a quarantine against the city is necessary due to smallpox.
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1939-10-06 Hope Star pg 1
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The Hope Star gives a description of the 1939 Walnut Ridge football team before game day.
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Photo, Hoxie Post Office and Union Depot, Circa 1906-1912
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The white frame building at right is the Hoxie post office, facing the depot across the street; image courtesy of Larry Dobbs.
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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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1897-02-18 Fort Scott Weekly Tribune KS pg 3
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A letter from Walnut Ridge describes examples of animal cruelty and neglect from around the city.
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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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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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1905-05-25 Arkansas Democrat pg 8
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A train is wrecked by a cow at Walnut Ridge, but is still able to continue to Little Rock.
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1928-09-12 Talladega Mountain Home AL pg 4
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A woman collapses and dies of a heart attack at a Walnut Ridge recital while singing "Death Let Me In."
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2020-06-17T09:20:03-07:00
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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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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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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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1930-01-31 Nashville Banner TN pg 13
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A man commits suicide after grappling with a blackmail plot against him and his son.
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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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2020-05-30T21:08:04-07:00
1898-05-31 Chattanooga Daily Times TN pg 5
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The Second Arkansas Regiment leaves for Tennessee, and Company C from Walnut Ridge brings a 3-ft-long carved replica of the U.S.S. Maine.
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1910-07-21 Pine Bluff Daily Graphic pg 4
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A grand jury is impaneled for the case against J. C. Langston in the murder of A. W. Shirey.
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1906-02-01 Muskogee Phoenix OK pg 1
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Carrie Nation, "noted temperance lecturer and joint smasher," is invited to speak at Walnut Ridge.
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1920-02-27 Winona Times MS pg 9
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The Walnut Ridge Blade makes a wisecrack about inventors' changing priorities.
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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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1898-08-06 Arkansas Democrat pg 4
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A Powhatan man is killed with a hammer at his own blacksmith shop.
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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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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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1930-12-03 Moberly Monitor-Index MO pg 8
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A Walnut Ridge gardener grows a 104-pound pumpkin.
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1921-01-22 Augusta Daily Gazette KS pg 1
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A man enters the Powhatan courthouse as a spectator, but is soon arrested instead.
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1899-08-05 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 2
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A Sedgwick man shoots and kills the man who had abducted and whipped his wife.
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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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1893-05-07 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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1906-06-14 Arkansas Democrat pg 8
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The Iron Mountain Railroad is fined $18,000 for failure to stop its trains in Walnut Ridge in accordance with a new state law.
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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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1931-01-17 Madison Wisconsin State Journal WI pg 10
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The engine, boxcars, and caboose seized from the Frisco Railroad become a white elephant for Lawrence County law enforcement.
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2020-06-16T15:08:21-07:00
1921-06-30 Wilkes-Barre Record PA pg 8
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The Hoxie correspondent to the Walnut Ridge Blade says that "it is easy to write news when there is news," but declares that there is not much happening around Hoxie at the time of writing.
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1893-12-20 Decatur Herald & Review IL pg 8
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The loss in the M. V. Camp house fire is $5,000, with no insurance.
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2020-06-06T10:05:49-07:00
1906-12-21 Pine Bluff Daily Graphic pg 6
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A Minturn-area man dies not long after daytime drinking, and his stomach is brought to Walnut Ridge for further analysis.
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1902-03-21 West Plains Journal-Gazette MO pg 3
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A Walnut Ridge widow settles with the Frisco Railroad over the death of her husband on the Hoxie depot platform by a passing train.
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1933-06-06 Hope Star pg 4 article 2
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A swarm of wild locusts invades Walnut Ridge and the surrounding countryside.
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1922-01-01 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 32
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360 acres of timberland near Walnut Ridge are listed for sale at $17 an acre.
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1900-03-03 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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Lawrence County courthouse commissioners hire a Little Rock architect to develop blueprints for a new Walnut Ridge courthouse.
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1894-05-11 Memphis Commercial TN pg 1
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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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1902-12-05 Arkansas Democrat pg 3
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The Arkansas Democrat publishes a detailed list of Lawrence County industries and notable farm operations.
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1935-06-18 Carlisle Sentinel PA pg 2
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A 107-year-old Civil War veteran dies in Walnut Ridge, with 212 descendants surviving him.
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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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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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1917-02-27 Batesville Daily Guard pg 2
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A Hoxie railroad car sealer is struck and killed by a switch engine.
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1914-12-03 Arkansas Democrat pg 9
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The first seven witnesses examined in the Hughes trial "swear to alleged facts which are damaging" to Hughes and Mrs. Lizzie Burell.
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1911-11-01 Arkansas Gazette pg 13
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Another runabout-style car is listed for sale in Walnut Ridge.
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Photo, Cotton Bales in Walnut Ridge, November 1908
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Depicts a massive amount of cotton awaiting shipment by the Iron Mountain Railroad; image courtesy of the Lawrence County Historical Society.
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1917-05-29 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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Three students graduate from Walnut Ridge High School, with commencement week addresses by the Presbyterian minister and Senator Ponder.
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1914-12-06 Arkansas Gazette pg 7
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A dramatic outburst occurs in the trial of Dr. Hughes, and testimonies are given by Mrs. Burell and her son-in-law, former sheriff W. K. Surridge.
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1912-02-25 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 31
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Walnut Ridge School District bonds are listed for sale in a St. Louis newspaper advertisement.
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2020-06-15T09:31:03-07:00
1917-10-14 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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Robbers blow open a Hoxie lumber company's safe, but find only thirteen dollars inside.
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1914-12-11 Jonesboro Evening Sun pg 1
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The Sun notes that "there was only a quiet demonstration among the relatives and friends when Judge Jefferys announced his decision to grant bail."
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1912-05-19 Arkansas Gazette pg 34
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A 200-acre rice farm, complete with pumping station, goes up for sale near Walnut Ridge.
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1918-01-26 Rochester Democrat & Chronicle NY pg 8
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Hoxie's constable finds lots of alcohol hidden on the passenger trains going through town.
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1915-04-21 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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A jury is secured for Dr. Hughes' trial out of sixty-two veniremen, and it is noted that there will be 143 witnesses in total who will participate in the case.
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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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Photo, Walnut Ridge Portrait of Unknown Women, Circa 1900-1910
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Photograph courtesy Larry Dobbs.
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1918-06-21 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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An Alicia correspondent to the Walnut Ridge Blade reports that gamblers have broken into the school building to play their games.
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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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1919-02-03 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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A WR Blade correspondent from Alicia notes that hunters in the area are familiar with not only nearby wildlife, but also nearby milking cows.
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Object, Grimes Drinks Sign, Circa 1935-1940
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A second sign from Grimes Soda Company of Walnut Ridge, advertising their Grimes Kola; image courtesy of Ben Johnson.
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1910-10-24 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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A multitude attends the double funeral for Alf and I. J. Bagley held at Mt. Zion Cemetery, located near the Bagley farm north of Walnut Ridge.
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1927 Walnut Ridge Blade Chevrolet Ad
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An advertisment for Carter Chevrolet of Hoxie showcases a new Imperial Landau model; image courtesy of Dwight Lane.
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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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1912-10-15 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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Wolf Benningfield is indicted, charged with first-degree murder in the killing of John Bagley.
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1910-10-13 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 11
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A classified ad lists 160 acres for sale near Walnut Ridge.
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1913-12-18 Arkansas Democrat pg 16
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The proprietor of the Greasy Spoon lunchroom in Hoxie says that he is "content to remain here, feed the hungry, and grow up with the town."
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1913-03-24 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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A second trial for Wolf Benningfield is set to begin; "great crowds are expected to attend the trial."
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1910-11-06 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 32
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S. C. Dowell of Walnut Ridge successfully grows fifty acres of rice, having harvested 5000 bushels total.
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Photo, Hoxie 1913 Tornado Damage, Hotel
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A photo of additional damage caused by the March 20 tornado; image courtesy of Larry Dobbs.
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1914-07-29 Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune MO pg 1
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A Walnut Ridge woman dies "from overjoy, ...her long cherished hope realized when she was told her daughter had professed religion."
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Senator Going and others involved in Wolf Benningfield's first trial find their charges of contempt of court upheld by the Arkansas Supreme Court.
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1911-05-14 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 14
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The Walnut Ridge postmaster resigns due to his wife's poor health.
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Photo, Walnut Ridge Grade School & Athletic Field, Circa 1940
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Depicts the 1907 school building; image courtesy of Larry Dobbs.
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The Walnut Ridge Blade shares anecdotes about the near-legendary Arkansas mosquito.
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1911-07-18 Arkansas Gazette pg 10
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A runabout-style car goes up for sale in Walnut Ridge.
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1922-05-02 Arkansas Gazette pg 13
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Snap corn is listed for sale in a classified ad from Walnut Ridge.
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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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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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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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1888-09-20 Arkansas Gazette pg 3
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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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1903-08-13 Houston Herald MO pg 2
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Walnut Ridge's amateur baseball team is defeated by a team from Houston, Missouri.
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1936-02-21 Hope Star pg 1
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A Portia man dies after leaping headfirst from a speeding train.
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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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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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1895-02-01 Huntsville Journal AL pg 1
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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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1908-07-31 Batesville Guard pg 4
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The Walnut Ridge Blade editor acknowledges a gift made to him of a large bass caught on a Sunday.
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1937-03-26 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 28
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A Walnut Ridge woman is charged with murdering a snagboat engineer in his houseboat.
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Photo, Iron Mountain Railroad Train, Hoxie, Circa 1930-1940
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An undated photo of a train rolling past the station at Hoxie; image courtesy of the Lawrence County Historical Society.
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1909-02-04 Nashville Baptist & Reflector TN pg 5
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The pastor of First Baptist Church in Walnut Ridge accepts a position in Fort Smith, but changes his mind after the congregation at WR entreats him to stay.
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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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1905-02-04 Arkansas Democrat pg 3
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Senator McCall of Portia brings up a bill in the AR legislature that requires trains to stop in Walnut Ridge, and is quizzed about the 1903 Hoxie-Walnut Ridge Act by other senators.
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1939-10-06 Hope Star pg 1- Headline
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The Hope Star's headlines include an announcement of the upcoming football game against Walnut Ridge, and a development in an ill-fated attempt at peace with Nazi Germany.
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1927-05-12 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 39 pt 4
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A fourth picture of tornado damage in Lawrence County shows an overturned car outside a Hoxie house.
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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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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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1897-03-26 Fort Scott Lantern KS pg 3
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At Hoxie, a man falls between railroad cars and dies.
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1909-09-02 Fayetteville Weekly Observer NC pg 4
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John S. Gibson of Hoxie delivers an address at the Blue & Gray Reunion in Mammoth Springs that brings back vivid memories to the Civil War veterans present.
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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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1905-05-28 Arkansas Democrat pg 5
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The Walnut Ridge Public School closes for the summer; only three teachers are listed as faculty.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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1905-07-18 Ozark Tribune AL pg 3
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A letter from Walnut Ridge, "a thrifty little city," details the outlook for the cotton crop in the mid-South.
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1930-02-13 Poplar Bluff Republican MO pg 4
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A Walnut Ridge farmer grows spinach and finds it to be the most valuable crop on his farm.
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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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1898-06-01 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 3
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Another paper mentions the Second Arkansas Regiment and its U.S.S. Maine model from Walnut Ridge.
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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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1906-02-02 Arkansas Democrat pg 2
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A Hoxie liquor license debate goes to the courts; meanwhile a saloon opens in South Hoxie three miles from town.
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1930-09-18 West Plains Journal-Gazette MO pg 5
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A band instructor at Walnut Ridge has an asthma attack and returns to West Plains, Missouri, to recover.
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1920-03-31 Arkansas Gazette pg 22
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A classified ad asks for an electrician/lineman in Walnut Ridge.
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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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1898-08-07 Arkansas Gazette pg 7
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A timetable of the Hoxie, Pocahontas, and Northern Railroad shows some trains going from Hoxie to Pocahontas in one hour.
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1906-05-13 Arkansas Democrat pg 5
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A special term of court is called in Powhatan to deal with cases related to an assault on a railroad worker at Black Rock.
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1900-07-20 Arkansas Democrat pg 7
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An update on the new Walnut Ridge courthouse tells of the burning of the former courthouse the previous May.
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1930-12-12 Richmond Palladium-Item IN pg 7
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A pilot takes up passengers at Walnut Ridge for a fare of one cent per pound of weight.
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1921-02-02 Arkansas Gazette pg 9
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The Craighead County Oil Company starts a test drill near Hoxie.
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1899-08-15 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 2
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A woman is charged with hiring an assassin to attempt to kill two Portia girls.
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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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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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1906-08-02 Nashville Baptist and Reflector TN pg 3
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A successful revival is held in Walnut Ridge that "had the fourth of July and Carrie A. Nation's visit to the town to contend against."
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1901-09-30 Arkansas Democrat pg 4
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A Walnut Ridge citizen, perhaps John S. Gibson, writes a letter to the AR Democrat about the AR Railroad Commission and U.S. Senate race.
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1931-02-05 Poplar Bluff Republican MO pg 6
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Lawrence County's county extension agent is removed from the payroll due to a lack of funds.
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1921-07-06 Pine Bluff Daily Graphic pg 3
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Federal veterinarians are brought to Lawrence County to help manage an outbreak of anthrax in the area.
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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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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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1906-12-22 Anaconda Standard MT pg 3
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Two rabbit hunters stumble across an infant boy buried alive in a bread tin; the article does not make clear if the child was alive or dead when found.
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1902-05-09 Arkansas Gazette pg 8
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The Iron Mountain Railroad superintendent stops in Walnut Ridge regarding the creation of a new division point there.
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1935-01-03 Newman West Side Index CA pg 7
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A Walnut Ridge squirrel hunter finds that cawing crows often lead him to his prey.
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1922-01-13 Arkansas Democrat pg 3
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Hoxie and Walnut Ridge investigate options for constructing a new gravel road between the two towns.
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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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1894-05-11 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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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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1907-05-28 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 2
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Another news account notes that the man who deboarded his train at Walnut Ridge rather than Pine Bluff had recently been released from a St. Louis asylum and had been placed in the care of a conductor for the trip.
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1902-12-10 Arkansas Democrat pg 8
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The Walnut Ridge & Hoxie Light, Power, & Transit Company is incorporated, with plans to build a 1.5-mile-long streetcar line between the two cities.
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1935-05-01 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 19
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The manager of the Lawrence Hotel in Walnut Ridge is accused of orchestrating the burning of a Pocahontas hotel.
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Photo, Hoxie Roundhouse Construction, 1901, Image 1 of 2
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Depicts the construction of the roundhouse's turntable; image courtesy of the Lawrence County Historical Society.
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1917-03-04 Arkansas Gazette pg 25
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A flurry of snow at Hoxie melts as it falls to the ground.
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1914-12-03 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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Congressman Caraway alleges that Dr. Hughes had "conspired with [Mrs. Burell] to kill the entire family" of Bagleys.
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1911-11-26 Arkansas Gazette pg 22
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The Times-Dispatch endorses former Lawrence County Sheriff W. K. Surridge in his candidacy for a state commissioner position.
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Photo, Modern Gin & Compress Plant, Hoxie, Circa 1900-1920
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Image courtesy of Rebecca Meeker.
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1917-05-29 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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A Walnut Ridge-Hoxie Compress Company is formed by a coalition of local and nonresident stockholders.
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1914-12-07 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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Farmer L. A. Bland, suspected in the death of Solon Crook, is released after insufficient evidence is found for an indictment.
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1912-03-10 Arkansas Gazette pg 37
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The Walnut Ridge firm Jaggers & Hall lists two properties for sale in the Arkansas Gazette.
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1917-10-29 Arkansas Gazette pg 5
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A Missouri Pacific Railroad freight conductor is promoted to the position of Hoxie yardmaster.
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1915-01-17 Arkansas Gazette pg 3
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The barn and house of L. A. "Kirby" Bland, who had been arrested in connection with the murder of Solon Crook, are burned by arsonists.
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1912-05-21 Arkansas Gazette pg 14
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A 1911 Harley-Davidson motorcycle, "in A1 condition," is advertised for sale in Walnut Ridge.
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1918-02-07 Arkansas Gazette pg 11
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Two Walnut Ridge farms are represented in a spread of ads for the Arkansas Cattleman & Swine Breeders Association Auction.
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1915-04-22 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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A number of witnesses testify in Dr. Hughes' trial, including Isom Bagley's widow, who explains her unsuccessful attempt to broker a peace between her family and Dr. Hughes.
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1912-08-18 Arkansas Gazette pg 30
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An Overland Model 38 car is offered for sale or trade in Walnut Ridge.
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Photo, WR Portrait of Bettie Guyman, Circa 1910
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Photograph courtesy Larry Dobbs.
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1918-06-29 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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A Hoxie woman visits friends in Paragould, but in doing so accidentally misses a relative passing through en route for France.
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Documents, Iron Mountain Railroad Brochures, Circa 1874-1917
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Period brochures from the Iron Mountain Railroad, featured on the back cover of "Down the Iron Mountain Route," by Charles Duckworth, courtesy of the Missouri Pacific Historical Society (www.mopac.org).
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1912-11-07 Salem Post & Democrat-Bulletin MO pg 2
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City marshal/First Baptist Church minister J. P. Biggers is shot and killed during a street carnival.
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1919-02-20 Harrisburg Telegraph PA pg 10
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The Walnut Ridge Blade introduces the new Black Rock marshal.
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Document, State of Arkansas v. Red, Lawrence County Circuit Court Indictment, March 1928
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Accuses a man named Red of selling liquor; document and image courtesy of the Northeast Arkansas Regional Archives, WRCC B89 F12.
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1913-04-10 Arkansas Gazette pg 9
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Former city marshal of Hoxie Lon Easley applies for bond.
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1910-10-25 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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A number of witnesses testify in the coroner's inquiry on the Bagley murders, but the murderer of Isom Bagley remains a mystery nevertheless.
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1927 Walnut Ridge Blade Whippet Ad
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An advertisment for Lehman Auto Company of Hoxie lists Whippet brand cars starting at $713 (the equivalent of slightly over $10,000 today); image courtesy of Dwight Lane.
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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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1912-10-21 Jonesboro Daily Tribune pg 4
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Colonel Surridge of Walnut Ridge, visiting Jonesboro, remarks that "things have about quieted down since the shooting of Bagley by Benningfield" several days prior.
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1913-12-18 Arkansas Democrat pg 16
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A Powhatan farmer visits Walnut Ridge to take Christmas tree orders.
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1913-03-25 Arkansas Gazette pg 12
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Ten jurors for the Benningfield re-trial are selected out of a venire of eighty men.
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1910-11-09 Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman OK pg 9
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A Lawrence County Publicity Committee assembles an "extensive exhibit" for a Chicago land congress event.
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Photo, Hoxie 1913 Tornado Damage, Union Depot
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Depicts the damage inflicted on the depot by the March 20 tornado; image courtesy of Larry Dobbs.
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1914-08-12 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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The Walnut Ridge Blade describes the increase in autos in WR in a year's time, declaring that "the auto fad or craze has come to stay."
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1913-10-09 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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A trial is prepared for Dr. Hughes of Walnut Ridge for his alleged attack on Solon Crook, a relative of the Bagleys, in September 1912.
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1911-05-29 Arkansas Gazette pg 9
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A classified ad lists for sale a 1911 Indian 5 hp motorcycle in Walnut Ridge.
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Photo, First Baptist Church of Walnut Ridge Picnic, 1908
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A photo of the congregation's picnic on July 7, 1908; image courtesy of Gilbert S. Rainey.
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1915-10-23 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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Another Black Rock story from Gad Angle tells of a man who got behind on his bills.
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1914-10-26 Arkansas Democrat pg 6
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The Democrat notes that "Dr. Hughes, although reticent, declared... that he is confident he will be exonerated when his trial is held."
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1911-07-22 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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The Walnut Ridge Blade notes that local artist Ed Lady "has developed into a fine artist with the brush."
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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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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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1894-10-26 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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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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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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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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1903-08-27 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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The efforts of the Business Men's League of Walnut Ridge help bring a prospective factory to town.
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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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1923-06-13 Poplar Bluff Weekly Citizen Democrat MO pg 3
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Accusations that a Lawrence County woman gave away whiskey are dismissed in a court hearing.
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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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1895-02-09 Oskaloosa Independent KS pg 3
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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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2020-06-07T12:56:04-07:00
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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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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1904-04-24 Arkansas Democrat pg 6
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A Republican convention takes place in Walnut Ridge for Arkansas's Second Congressional District.
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1937-08-08 Nashville Banner TN pg 27
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An all-black jury-- "first in Arkansas since Reconstruction days"-- is called and fines a man for deserting his wife.
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1927-02-08 Montgomery Advertiser AL pg 2
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Officers abandon a search for a prisoner that escaped into the woods four miles north of Walnut Ridge.
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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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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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1896-01-27 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 2
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A second, varied account of the Populist Meeting tragedy in Powhatan notes that the son of the sheriff that was involved was sixteen, that he and the other boys had been shooting stones, and other details.
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1909-02-05 New York Wall Street Journal NY pg 8
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The First National Bank of Walnut Ridge is formally established.
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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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1940-01-08 Fayetteville NW AR Times pg 2
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A Walnut Ridge resident dies from a hemorrhage caused by a fall in his home.
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1927-07-01 Green Bay Press-Gazette WI pg 8
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Another 600-mile pigeon race to Wisconsin begins in Walnut Ridge on a Saturday morning.
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1886-10-28 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 9
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A classified ad from Hoxie advertises thoroughbred English pug pups for sale.
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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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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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1897-03-31 Owensboro Twice-A-Week Messenger KY pg 4
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A Kentucky man declares that he will "take his family to Walnut Ridge, Ark., or somewhere in Missouri."
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1909-10-22 Poplar Bluff Weekly Citizen Democrat MO pg 1
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A Poplar Bluff architect/contractor is enlisted to help build the new sanctuary for First Baptist Church of Walnut Ridge.
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1890-08-29 Arkansas Democrat pg 6
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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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1905-06-04 Arkansas Democrat pg 16
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Another list of travelers to and from Walnut Ridge includes businessmen, those visiting friends, and one man just passing through.
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1929-06-21 Rutland Daily Herald VT pg 4
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The Walnut Ridge Blade makes a wisecrack about the ever-growing WR skyline.
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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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1897-09-26 St. Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 16
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Walnut Ridge merchant T. J. Sharum gives a detailed account of the pearl rush on the Black and Cache Rivers, and promotes the prospects of the region for agriculture.
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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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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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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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1905-08-13 St Louis Republic MO pg 30
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The board of health of eastern Lawrence County reassures the public that there are no cases of yellow fever in WR or Hoxie.
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1930-03-22 Bristol Herald-Courier TN pg 2
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A fleeing moonshiner is killed near Sedgwick by a deputy sheriff.
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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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1898-06-23 Arkansas Democrat pg 5
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A Walnut Ridge boy accidentally kills his younger brother when messing with a shotgun at home.
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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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An elaborate wedding takes place at the Dowell mansion in Walnut Ridge.
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A man is trapped in a refrigerated boxcar at Walnut Ridge and is rescued three days later in St. Louis.
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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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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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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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A news brief alleges that the dispute in which Powhatan blacksmith Douglas Horton was killed was about a watermelon.
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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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1906-05-13 Arkansas Democrat pg 5
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The Walnut Ridge town council establishes a curfew for youths and prohibits free-range hogs on town streets.
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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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1930-12-06 Hope Star AR pg 1
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A news article tells of an enigmatic grave near Davidsonville and its backstory.
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1921-02-09 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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Clover Bend hosts a literary program and a pie supper.
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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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1899-09-12 Pine Bluff Daily Graphic AR pg 2
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A Hoxie twelve-year-old dies of a burst blood vessel.
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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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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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1906-08-17 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 5
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An Alicia farmhand pleads guilty to murder, but implicates the wife of the murdered man as well.
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1901-09-21 Arkansas Democrat pg 2
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The candidates for U.S. Senate stop in Walnut Ridge and hold their third set of speeches, trading barbs and discussing issues such as a tariff bill and a canal through Nicaragua (a goal fulfilled several years later with the Panama Canal).
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1931-03-26 Poplar Bluff Republican MO pg 8
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A former WR restaurant owner is indicted for failing to mention, when selling the business, that the equipment is still mortgaged.
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1921-07-28 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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The Lawrence County Sheriff arrives at the jail to feed several prisoners, and in doing so foils a jailbreak.
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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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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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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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1922-02-21 Arkansas Gazette pg 10
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A classified ad seeks workers to make oak railroad ties at a location five miles east of Walnut Ridge.
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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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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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2020-06-07T09:10:18-07:00
1907-08-02 Batesville Guard pg 6
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The editor of the Walnut Ridge Blade explains why he declines to run for government office.
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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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1902-12-11 Poplar Bluff Citizen pg 5
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An African-American man working on a railroad tie train at WR was shot by the crew's cook for asking for a double serving of meat.
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1935-05-04 Hope Star pgs 1 & 3
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John K. Gibson of Hoxie denies involvement in the burning of the Hotel Randolph in Pocahontas, and notes that he is not to be confused with the former owner of the Boas Hotel, John S. Gibson.
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Photo, Hoxie Roundhouse Construction, 1901, Image 2 of 2
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Shows the construction of the roundhouse's turntable, with the roundhouse looming behind; image courtesy of the Lawrence County Historical Society.
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1917-03-08 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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An Alicia man plans on planting five acres of garlic.
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1914-12-04 Arkansas Democrat pgs 1 & 15
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Mrs. Burell's brother alleges that she declared "No man ever crossed my path and got away with it except Colonel Ponder, and he died just before I got to him."
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1911-12-07 Nashville Baptist & Reflector TN pg 15
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A Jonesboro pastor also serves at Walnut Ridge First Baptist Church on a half-time basis.
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Photo, Railroad Water Tank and Locomotive, Hoxie, Circa 1900-1920
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Image courtesy of Larry Dobbs.
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1917-06-06 Arkansas Gazette pg 5
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WWI soldier registration and a "grand auto parade" take place at Hoxie; "every one seems imbued with patriotism."
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1914-12-07 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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As the Hughes murder trial continues, some spectators bring their lunches, "determined to hold their seats and miss none of the argument."
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1917-11-04 Pine Bluff Daily Graphic pg 1
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The Captain J. F. Medaris house burns in Walnut Ridge, with a loss of $15,000 (more than $300,000 today).
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1915-03-09 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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The circuit court of Lawrence County's Eastern District reconvenes, with 94 civil cases and 35 criminal cases on the docket, including Dr. Hughes' retrial.
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1912-05-30 Whitewater Independent KS pg 1
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Mrs. J. C. Riley, wife of the editor of the Walnut Ridge Blade, dies and is mourned by friends in Kansas.
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1918-02-21 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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A Portia doctor comments on a Supreme Court ruling regarding a "bone dry" alcohol law.
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2020-07-08T09:42:18-07:00
1915-04-23 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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More testimony is given in Dr. Hughes' case, including the allegation that shortly before his death Alf Bagley had threatened to kill Dr. Hughes using Hughes' old pistol.
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1912-09-13 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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Black Rock resident and humorist Gad Angle jokingly explains why he never remarried.
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Document, First National Bank of Walnut Ridge $10 Banknote
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A Walnut Ridge banknote featuring a portrait of President McKinley on the front; image courtesy Larry Dobbs.
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1918-07-12 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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The Walnut Ridge Blade encourages the young ladies of Hoxie to ask a young bachelor doctor for a ride in his automobile.
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Document, Walnut Ridge High School Commencement Program, 1931
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Includes the class role and program schedule; document courtesy of Gilbert S. Rainey.
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2020-07-08T12:23:52-07:00
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1912-11-22 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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Gad Angle of Black Rock sees the editor of the Walnut Ridge Blade and flees, due to recent shootings in Walnut Ridge.
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1919-04-22 Atlanta Constitution GA pg 8
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The Walnut Ridge Blade describes a very accident-prone man.
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Document, State of Arkansas v. Sam Phipps, Lawrence County Circuit Court Papers, October 1928
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Sam Phipps is accused of stealing "one animal of the cattle kind"; document and image courtesy of the Northeast Arkansas Regional Archives, WRCC B89 F14 & F15.
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1910-10-26 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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The coroner's jury exonerates Dr. Hughes of the murder of Alf Bagley, due to Hughes' plea of self-defense.
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2020-07-08T19:10:28-07:00
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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1913-07-16 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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An Arkansas Gazette broadside against the Times-Dispatch declares that the Walnut Ridge newspaper "is unique in Arkansas journalism because it is about the only paper published in the state that should be handled with tongs."
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1913-03-14 Arkansas Democrat pg 18
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The Lawrence County Eastern District's Circuit Court goes into session, with Wolf Benningfield's case expected to take up an entire week in itself.
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1910-10-20 Davenport Quad-City Times IA pg 12
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A Walnut Ridge man advertises to ask for a loan "to improve town property on ten years time at 6 per cent."
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2020-06-10T11:37:27-07:00
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Photo, Company K, 3rd Battalion, 153rd Infantry in Hoxie, 1938, pt 2 of 2
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A group picture of another part of the company; image courtesy of Jon Walter, who notes that those pictured include: "FIRST ROW: P.K. Kirkpatrick, A.G. Corbett, C.T. Manning, J.M. Wike, E.D. Pope, C.A. Johnson, L.R. Grigsby, G. Dulaney, A.R. Grigsby. SECOND ROW: W.M. Hennessee, M.E. Kisling, G.E. Henry, C.F. Cook, K.J. Foxx, C.B James, L.D. Cox, C.C. Gray, S.L. Austin, J.R. Johnson. THIRD ROW: M.D. Corbett, P.F. Rice, P.C. Slaton, J.N. Wyatt, Z.B. Bilbrey, T.W. Owens II, C. Conrey, J.F. Roberts, W.D. Hibbard, T.D. Felts."
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1914-02-06 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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Two men fight at Hoxie, "and when separated, it looked as if both had been up against a buzz saw."
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1913-03-26 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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The Benningfield trial's jury is completed, but one man is then excused on account of an illness in the family.
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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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2020-06-10T12:34:45-07:00
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Photo, Hoxie 1927 Tornado Damage, Houses
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Shows the wreckage in a residential area of Hoxie; image courtesy of Larry Dobbs.
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1914-12-15 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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The Gazette describes plans for a (never-built) three-story Hotel Rhea on Main Street in WR to replace the two-story edifice that burnt.
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1913-10-12 Memphis Commercial Appeal TN pg 16
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Dr. Hughes gets a $200 fine and an hour in jail for his September 1912 assault on Solon Crook "with attempt to kill."
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2020-06-10T13:42:38-07:00
1911-06-09 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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Arkansas senator Jeff Davis goes directly to President Taft to override the selection of the new Walnut Ridge postmaster.
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Postcard, Lawrence County Eastern District Courthouse, 1900
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Depicts the brick courthouse constructed in 1900, with numerous houses behind it; image courtesy of Larry Dobbs.
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2020-06-12T19:28:23-07:00
1915-12-10 Batesville Daily Guard pg 1
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A Lawrence County Justice of the Peace marries a couple who hold their hands uplifted in the fashion of a sworn oath during the entire ceremony.
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1914-10-26 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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The Gazette notes that Dr. Hughes says he "feels the indictments [against him] are the result of ill-feeling on the part of relatives of the Bagleys."
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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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1936-11-07 Blytheville Courier News pg 6
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The Walnut Ridge Bobcats defeat Paragould 6-0 in high school football.
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1922-07-27 St Albans Daily Messenger VT pg 5
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A "moving fever" spreads throughout the citizenry of Walnut Ridge.
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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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1894-11-16 Racine Journal Times WI pg 6
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Forest fires near Hoxie are fought back day and night by determined residents.
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1908-03-26 Nashville Baptist & Reflector TN pg 4
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A camp meeting hosted by First Baptist Church of Walnut Ridge results in 77 conversions and 67 new church members.
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1889-04-13 Fort Wayne Sentinel IN pg 1
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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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1903-09-06 Arkansas Democrat pg 8
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The Walnut Ridge Blade notes that the HP&N Railroad may replace the steel rails between Hoxie and Pocahontas.
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1937-06-15 McKinney Courier-Gazette TX pg 2
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H. F. Vermillion is called as the pastor of First Baptist Church of Walnut Ridge.
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1923-06-13 Poplar Bluff Weekly Citizen Democrat MO pg 3
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Preliminary work begins on a gravel road between Walnut Ridge and the town of Egypt.
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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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1908-10-16 Columbia Herald & Mail TN pg 6
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An elaborate reception is held in Walnut Ridge for newlyweds Judge and Mrs. Harry Lee Ponder.
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1889-12-27 New Orleans Times-Picayune LA pg 5
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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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1904-07-03 Arkansas Democrat pg 3
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The Arkansas Democrat notes Lawrence County's Republican ticket for the upcoming election.
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1938-03-31 Fayetteville NW Arkansas Times pg 4
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A tornado hits Minturn and passes south of Walnut Ridge, injuring at least ten people and killing two.
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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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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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1909-04-22 Wahpeton Times ND pg 1
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A feasibility study for a North Dakota streetcar line notes that the Walnut Ridge-Hoxie streetcar has an income of $4.35 per capita.
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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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1905-02-26 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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The Walnut Ridge Board of Health refuses to remove a smallpox patient from the Iron Mountain Railroad depot.
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1940-09-04 Fayetteville NW Arkansas Times pg 1
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An investigation is reopened into a double death in Lawrence County due to suspicious circumstances surrounding the case.
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1927-11-16 Batesville Guard pg 1
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The Walnut Ridge-Hoxie streetcar line ceases operations, despite its 99-year franchise.
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1886-12-03 Miami Republican Paola KS pg 3
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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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Photo, Phoenix Cotton Oil Company, Walnut Ridge, Circa 1900-1920
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An undated photo of barrels of cotton oil being loaded into a wagon; image courtesy of Larry Dobbs.
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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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1891-07-10 Fort Worth Daily Gazette TX pg 5
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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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1905-06-08 Van Buren Current Local MO pg 4
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A Portia man leases land in Southern Missouri for ore mining.
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1929-06-22 Kane Republican PA pg 2
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Recent tornadoes in Arkansas result in an uptick of storm cellar construction around Walnut Ridge and beyond.
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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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1897-11-14 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 2
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The Hoxie city marshal shoots a man who resists arrest, after the man threatens his wife with a pistol while at a dance.
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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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1892-03-17 Jackson Clarion-Ledger MS pg 1
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A Hoxie news brief notes the arrival of "the third great storm of this winter."
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1905-08-30 Reading Times PA pg 4
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Buildings at W. R. Lane's ice plant in Walnut Ridge are retrofitted for residences.
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1930-05-20 Baltimore Evening Sun MD pg 11
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A group of alleycats in Walnut Ridge "has driven virtually every dog out of town."
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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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1898-07-05 Arkansas Democrat pg 4
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A corporal from Walnut Ridge and his Paragould fiancee elope after a deciding coin flip, and drive overnight to WR en route to their marriage in Pocahontas.
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1892-11-08 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 3
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An elderly lady dies when trying to walk around a passenger train in Walnut Ridge.
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1900-03-07 St Louis Republic MO pg 14
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A different newspaper gives a very different account of John Pettis's boxcar journey from Walnut Ridge to St. Louis, saying he was trapped in the car for six days rather than three.
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1930-10-29 St Louis Star and Times MO pg 2
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A young lady in Walnut Ridge shoots her brother because of his date.
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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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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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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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1893-04-04 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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1906-05-27 Arkansas Democrat pg 2
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A list of Walnut Ridge social news notes that "quite a large party of young people spent Sunday fishing in Cache River, near Sedgwick."
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1900-07-24 Arkansas Democrat pg 2
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A Black Rock man is robbed of $50, but the robbers fail to find over $200 more in one of his pockets.
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1930-12-24 New York Daily News NY pg 36
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The Lawrence County Sheriff seizes a Frisco locomotive when the railroad fails to pay their fines.
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1921-04-21 Arkansas Gazette pg 12
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Fifteen hundred bushels of Honduras seed rice are advertised for sale in Walnut Ridge.
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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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1899-09-14 Poplar Bluff Citizen MO pg 5
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A man tells the story of how he once slept on chairs in Walnut Ridge since no beds were left.
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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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1893-07-22 Memphis Commercial TN pg 3
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A Hoxie insurance agent is charged with forgery.
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1906-09-26 Oklahoma City Western Christian Advocate OK pg 2
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The Woman's Christian Temperance Union chapter in Walnut Ridge thanks a local pastor for his support of their campaign by presenting him $25.
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1901-11-14 Poplar Bluff Citizen MO pg 1
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Another fire strikes Walnut Ridge at night, with the cause unknown.
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1931-04-14 Blytheville Courier News pg 1
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Walnut Ridge farmers turn to selling mushrooms and more than 200 crates of bullfrogs during a drought.
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1921-08-07 Arkansas Gazette pg 42
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The Lawrence Hotel in Walnut Ridge is listed for sale in an Arkansas Gazette classified ad.
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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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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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1907-04-07 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 32
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A classified ad for A. M. Le Fon of Walnut Ridge notes his real estate experience selling Northeast Arkansas bottomlands.
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1902-05-21 Arkansas Democrat pg 5
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Walnut Ridge votes to build a $10,000 school building, and the Hoxie school district votes to add a 1-mill tax for a building fund.
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1935-04-25 Menasha Record WI pg 4
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A 94-year-old Walnut Ridge woman walks a mile a day, "just for the exercise."
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1922-03-08 Pratt Union KS pg 3
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A Portia couple becomes the parents of triplets.
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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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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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1907-09-19 Atlanta Constitution GA pg 7
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A group of children at play discover a dead body in a Hoxie culvert.
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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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1903-03-19 Indianapolis Journal IN pg 1
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Two prisoners save the Lawrence County Sheriff and his wife, though are unable to save the couple's baby, when the group's boat overturns on the Black River.
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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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1917-03-26 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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A special agent for the Iron Mountain railroad has his arm amputated after a hobo shoots it and shatters the bone.
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1911-12-17 Arkansas Gazette pg 50
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A Walnut Ridge lumber mill operator with twenty years' experience advertises to seek a job as a mill manager or superintendent.
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Photo, WR-Hoxie Streetcar, American Car Co, St Louis MO, 1912
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An image of a streetcar built for the Walnut Ridge & Hoxie line, stamped March 13, 1912; image courtesy of the Lawrence County Historical Society.
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1917-06-12 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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A railroad employee is taken to a Little Rock hospital when his rail speeder car jumps off the track near Hoxie.
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1914-12-08 Arkansas Gazette pg 7
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Judge Jeffery warns that anyone caught with a pistol in the courtroom during the Hughes trial would get three months in jail and a $200 fine.
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1912-03-22 Arkansas Democrat pg 5
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The mayor of Walnut Ridge issues a statement in support of W. K. Surridge's candidacy to quell rumors that he was the author of a recent broadside against Surridge.
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A rally is held in Hoxie for a YMCA War Fund, and "Lawrence County will raise its part of the quota for this fund."
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1915-03-16 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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Dr. Hughes is scheduled to once again go on trial, three months after his bond was granted.
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1912-06-06 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 8
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Lawrence County residents band together to form a fair association.
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Postcard, Eagle Hotel, Hoxie
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A 1921 view of the Eagle Hotel on the corner of Texas St and Annie St in Hoxie, demolished by 1928; image courtesy Lawrence County Historical Society.
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1915-04-24 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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Dr. Hughes is acquitted of Alf Bagley's murder by a Batesville jury, but must still return that November for his retrial concerning Isom Bagley's murder.
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1912-09-25 Mattoon Journal-Gazette IL pg 8
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A Walnut Ridge pastor is also appointed city marshal.
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Photo, Locomotive at Hoxie, 1913
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Image courtesy Larry Dobbs.
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1918-10-23 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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The Walnut Ridge Blade shares an anecdote about Gad Angle and influenza.
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1912-12-26 Monticello Monticellonian AR pg 8
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Walnut Ridge Mayor J. F. Medearis "has become known very widely as the 'turnip raising mayor'" for growing twenty acres of the crop.
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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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1913-02-22 Fairbanks Daily Times AK pg 1
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A hanging takes place in the cupola of the Lawrence County courthouse in Walnut Ridge.
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1910-10-26 Jonesboro Daily Tribune pg 1
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At the inquest, Dr. Hughes "stated that he had been hounded by [Alf] Bagley for some time, and from threats that came to his ears, he made up his mind that he must either kill Bagley or Bagley would kill him."
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1881-04-08 Chicago Daily Tribune, Hairbrush Testimonial
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A testimonial for "Dr. Scott's Electric Hair Brush" mentions that Col. Ponder, mayor of Walnut Ridge, found the device able to cure his headache; further details available at http://ataleoftwotowns.com/1881-electric-hairbrush-testimonial/.
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1913-08-05 Montgomery Times AL pg 1
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Two out of three inmates escape from the Walnut Ridge jail using iron bars secretly given to them.
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1913-03-14 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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The Benningfield murder trial continues; it is noted that "the case has attracted wide attention and the capacity of the courtroom was taxed today."
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1910-10-22 Topeka Kansas Farmer & Mail & Breeze KS pg 27
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Another real estate ad for S. C. Dowell of Walnut Ridge notes that "he is the oldest real estate dealer in Walnut Ridge."
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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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1913-03-26 Jonesboro Daily Tribune pg 3
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Congressman Caraway returns to Walnut Ridge to assist in the Benningfield trial, and "it is stated that the work of Mr. Caraway has had a very gratifying effect on the citizenship of Walnut Ridge."
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1911-02-06 Jackson Daily News MS pg 1
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A five-year-old boy accidentally shoots and kills his older sister, and is seriously injured by the recoil.
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Postcard, "This is the Right Move in Hoxie," 1912
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Postcard courtesy of Larry Dobbs.
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1915-01-20 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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The Walnut Ridge Blade recounts how several local kids had never seen blue Civil War coats before.
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1914-09-23 Batesville Daily Guard pg 3
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Walnut Ridge resident Solon Crook, who "had long been a figure in the Bagley-Hughes feud," is shot and killed.
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1911-06-09 Chicago Tribune IL pg 18
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A businessman associated with Gulf Refining Co. in Walnut Ridge advertises to buy thousands of acres of stave timber lands.
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Photo, First National Bank Building in Walnut Ridge, Circa 1920s
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Image courtesy of Larry Dobbs.
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1915-12-21 Ferndale Enterprise CA pg 1
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A balloonist who accidentally cuts loose his parachute survives a fall of 500 feet at Walnut Ridge.
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1914-11-28 Jonesboro Daily Tribune pg 1
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More arrests are made in Walnut Ridge in connection to the Bagley-Ridgeway feud, including Mrs. Lizzie Burrell and an unnamed farmer.
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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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1887-08-30 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 8
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An African-American boy dies when attempting to sneak onto a train at Hoxie.
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1903-03-27 Arkansas Democrat pg 7
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A Walnut Ridge resident stopping by Little Rock gives a reporter an update on the WR-Hoxie streetcar line's progress.
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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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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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1894-12-13 Calera Shelby Sentinel AL pg 1
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A heavy rainfall breaks a long drought at Hoxie.
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1908-04-16 American Israelite Cincinnati OH pg P8
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Several Walnut Ridge residents donate towards a National Jewish Hospital for tuberculosis in Denver.
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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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1903-09-17 Arkansas Gazette pg 3
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A head-on train collision occurs between Walnut Ridge and Hoxie, with light injuries reported.
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1936-12-28 Montreal Gazette Quebec Canada pg 15
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A blind Walnut Ridge hen still raises a brood of chicks in her eighteenth year, the odds of which are thought to be 1 in 6 million.
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1923-06-13 Poplar Bluff Citizen Democrat MO pg 3
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Twelve school subject award medals, sponsored by local citizens and firms, are awarded to students at Walnut Ridge.
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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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1908-11-14 Martinsville Reporter-Times IN pg 2
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A three-year-old from Walnut Ridge confuses the first snow he's ever seen for cotton.
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1904-11-05 Huntington Daily News-Democrat IN pg 9
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A circus company presents a show at Walnut Ridge.
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1938-05-10 Hope Star pg 1
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The governor of Arkansas buys a Black Rock river ferry for the state, to compete with Powhatan's toll bridge.
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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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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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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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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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1909-04-24 Topeka Kansas Farmer & Mail & Breeze KS pg 46
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One of the many (identical) land advertisements sent out by S. C. Dowell of Walnut Ridge.
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1891-08-25 Vicksburg Daily Commercial Herald MS pg 1
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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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1905-03-14 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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The editor of the Walnut Ridge Blade comments on commerce, transportation, and smallpox in WR.
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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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1927-12-15 Poplar Bluff Weekly Citizen Democrat MO pg 4
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A deputy sheriff captures a Texas bank robber at a Hoxie boardinghouse.
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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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Postcard, Rhea Hotel, Walnut Ridge, 1914, Front of Card
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Front side of a postcard dated September 10, 1914; image courtesy of Larry Dobbs.
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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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1909-11-07 Spokane Spokesman-Review WA pg 23
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A Michigan minister who eloped with his third co-wife to Walnut Ridge, and later allegedly tried to poison her, faces charges of bigamy.
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1891-07-11 Brooklyn Times Union NY pg 1
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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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1905-06-14 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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The editor of the Walnut Ridge Blade predicts that Walnut Ridge and Hoxie will soon "grow together," but never consolidate.
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1929-10-01 Bridgewater Courier-News NJ pg 9
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Two Walnut Ridge sisters commit suicide after their parents follow them on a forbidden double-date.
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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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1898-01-14 Shreveport Journal LA pg 2
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A man takes out rivals with a stove leg at a country dance near Walnut Ridge.
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1910-03-12 Montgomery Advertiser AL pg 2
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A traveling salesman smothers to death in a folding bed at a Walnut Ridge hotel.
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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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1905-10-10 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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Political speeches are made at Walnut Ridge by the Arkansas Attorney General, a senator and two congressional candidates, and a candidate for governor.
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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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1898-07-13 Springfield News-Leader MO pg 8
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At Portia, the melon harvest begins, with 250 car-loads of melons expected to be exported by rail.
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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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1906-03-01 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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A Walnut Ridge dwelling burns to the ground, but neighbors are able to help salvage many of the family's belongings.
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1900-05-15 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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A Walnut Ridge man describes his experience visiting Honolulu and Manila.
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1930-10-30 Blytheville Courier News pg 1
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Thieves strike four Walnut Ridge houses in the same night and attempt to target six more.
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1920-09-26 Pittsburgh Press PA pg 26
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A classified ad seeks agents for a Walnut Ridge company.
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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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1898-11-23 Lawrence Daily Journal KS pg 1
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A man is shot and killed at the Ravenden railroad station over a can of salmon.
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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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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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1906-05-29 Arkansas Democrat pg 6
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The Farmer's Union holds a county meeting at Portia, including speeches and a dinner where "everything good to eat was there."
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1900-10-27 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 10
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Teams are wanted to haul one million railroad ties across eight counties, and are asked to apply in Hoxie.
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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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media/1921-05-21 Plate Glass Window in WR Attorneys Office Broken - Pittsburgh PA pg 6_thumb.png
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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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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/1899-09-14 Pearl Found in Black River Valued at Near 5K Dollars - Ironton MO pg 6_thumb.png
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1899-09-14 Ironton County Register MO pg 6
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A pearl found in the Black River is estimated to be worth $5000 (the equivalent of more than $150,000 today).
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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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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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1906-10-05 Pine Bluff Daily Graphic pg 7
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A farmer is kicked three times by his mule and dies from his injuries.
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1902-01-28 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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Two men are injured in Walnut Ridge, one by an impact with a train while walking on railroad tracks and the other by slipping on frozen sleet.
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media/1931-04-14 Old WR Blacksmith Optimistic of His Trade, Installs Gas Pumps - Richmond IN pg 13_thumb.png
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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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1921-08-15 Birmingham News AL pg 12
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Two sisters both file suit for breach of promise in the Lawrence County Circuit Court.
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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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1894-03-29 Memphis Commercial TN pg 5
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Hoxie is dealt another snowstorm.
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media/1907-04-18 WR Brakeman Loses Foot When Uncoupling - Greenville MO pg 1_thumb.png
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1907-04-18 Greenville Sun MO pg 1
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A Walnut Ridge brakeman loses his foot when uncoupling rail cars.
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media/1902-05-22 Concern about WR Getting RR Switch Yards - Poplar Bluff MO pg 1_thumb.png
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1902-05-22 Poplar Bluff Citizen MO pg 1
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A Poplar Bluff newspaper expresses its concern that the town may lose the Iron Mountain Railroad division point to Walnut Ridge.
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1934-06-08 Mountain Home Baxter Bulletin pg 1
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A former resident describes antebellum Powhatan, including former industries there and the fate of a planned road from Powhatan to Crowley's Ridge leading near what became Walnut Ridge.
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1922-03-09 Oklahoma City Times OK pg 21
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A murder suspect, later acquitted of the charges against him, is nominated to be a Hoxie alderman.
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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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1894-05-31 Moulton Advertiser AL pg 1
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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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1907-09-25 Vicksburg Herald MS pg 3
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An African-American man is arrested in Walnut Ridge for wearing an Elk lodge pin on his coat.
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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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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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media/1904-02 Walnut Ridge pg 2 of 4_thumb.jpg
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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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media/1908-04 Walnut Ridge pg 1 of 4_thumb.jpg
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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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media/1924C Rand McNally AR Map, LawCo Detail_thumb.jpg
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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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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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media/1904-02 Walnut Ridge pg 1 of 4_thumb.jpg
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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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media/Early 1900s WR Courthouse Souvenir Plate - Tale of Two Towns_thumb.jpg
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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; property of Lesa Walter. Details at http://ataleoftwotowns.com/early-1900s-walnut-ridge-courthouse-souvenir-plate/.
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media/1919-05 Walnut Ridge pg 2 of 8_thumb.jpg
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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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media/1914-03 Walnut Ridge pg 2 of 7_thumb.jpg
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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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media/1914-03 Walnut Ridge pg 3 of 7_thumb.jpg
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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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media/1901-10-25 Crowd Insists No Politics at World Fair Planning Meeting - AR Democrat pg 4_thumb.png
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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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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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media/1903-11-19 LR vs NLR Debate Hinges on the 1903 Hoxie-Walnut Ridge Act - AR Democrat pg 1-min_thumb.png
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1903-11-19 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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A Little Rock vs. North Little Rock legal debate hinges on the Hoxie-Walnut Ridge Act, passed in March 1903 by the state legislature.
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media/1904-12-19 Artist Chubby Spades Paints House of Portia Senator - Washington Post DC pg 6_thumb.png
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1904-12-19 Washington Post DC pg 6
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Artist Chubby Spades paints the house of Senator McCall of Portia.
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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/1935-08-23 Powhatan Jail Turned Into Community House - Ogden UT pg 4_thumb.png
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1935-08-23 Ogden Standard-Examiner UT pg 4
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The Powhatan jail is turned into a community house.
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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/1912-05-15 WR Mayor Swears in 100 Special Officers to Stop Citizen Attacks - Hutchinson KS pg 1_thumb.png
2020-06-11T15:17:19-07:00
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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media/1904-04-16 Last Words and Hanging of African-American Will Jones - Arkansas Democrat pg 1_thumb.png
2020-06-04T15:02:18-07:00
1904-04-16 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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A man is sentenced to hang at Walnut Ridge for murdering another man over a craps game, and his statement on the matter is given to the press.
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media/1905-03-26 100 WR Businessmen Sign Petition to Repeal Hoxie-WR Bill - AR Democrat pg 3_thumb.png
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1905-03-26 Arkansas Democrat pg 3
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About 100 Walnut Ridge businessmen sign a petition to repeal Arkansas's 1903 Walnut Ridge-Hoxie Act.
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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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media/1931-01-15 Frisco RR Pays LawCo After US Supreme Court Appeal Fails - Poplar Bluff MO pg 4_thumb.png
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1931-01-15 Poplar Bluff Republican MO pg 4
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The Frisco Railroad pays Lawrence County a fine of $7834 (more than $125,000 today) after an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court fails.
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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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2020-05-11T20:35:11-07:00
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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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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 of courthousehistory.com.
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media/1897-09-05 MINI JACKPOT, Great Town Description of Walnut Ridge - AR Gazette pg 12-min_thumb.png
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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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1902-12-10 Arkansas Democrat pg 8
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The Walnut Ridge & Hoxie Light, Power, & Transit Company is incorporated, with plans to build a 1.5-mile-long streetcar line between the two cities.
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media/1905-02-02 Hoxie and WR May Quarantine Against Argenta Due to Smallpox - AR Democrat pg 6_thumb.png
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1905-02-02 Arkansas Democrat pg 6
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Officials from Walnut Ridge and Hoxie visit Argenta (North Little Rock) to investigate whether a quarantine against the city is necessary due to smallpox.
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media/1905-08-13 No Yellow Fever in WR or Hoxie - St Louis Republic pg 30_thumb.png
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1905-08-13 St Louis Republic MO pg 30
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The board of health of eastern Lawrence County reassures the public that there are no cases of yellow fever in WR or Hoxie.
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media/1907-09-25 African-American Arrested for Wearing Elk Badge - Vicksburg MS pg 3_thumb.png
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1907-09-25 Vicksburg Herald MS pg 3
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An African-American man is arrested in Walnut Ridge for wearing an Elk lodge pin on his coat.
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2020-06-07T09:29:16-07:00
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1911-11-26 Arkansas Gazette pg 22
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The Times-Dispatch endorses former Lawrence County Sheriff W. K. Surridge in his candidacy for a state commissioner position.
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media/1915-12-10 JP Marries Couple Who Hold Hands Uplifted During Ceremony - Batesville pg 1_thumb.png
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1915-12-10 Batesville Daily Guard pg 1
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A Lawrence County Justice of the Peace marries a couple who hold their hands uplifted in the fashion of a sworn oath during the entire ceremony.
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1922-03-09 Oklahoma City Times OK pg 21
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A murder suspect, later acquitted of the charges against him, is nominated to be a Hoxie alderman.
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1935-08-16 Winona Times MS pg 1
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578 Lawrence County residents apply for old age pensions.
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1914-12-05 St Louis Post-Dispatch pg 3
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The Post-Dispatch describes the circumstances leading to the fallout between Lizzie Burell and Isom Bagley, and notes that Isom's sons "were ready fighters when occasion demanded action."
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media/1891-03-23 WR Telephone Against Constitutional Convention - Memphis TN pg 4_thumb.png
2020-05-17T20:37:10-07:00
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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1900-03-03 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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Lawrence County courthouse commissioners hire a Little Rock architect to develop blueprints for a new Walnut Ridge courthouse.
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1905-02-04 Arkansas Democrat pg 3
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Senator McCall of Portia brings up a bill in the AR legislature that requires trains to stop in Walnut Ridge, and is quizzed about the 1903 Hoxie-Walnut Ridge Act by other senators.
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1905-10-10 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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Political speeches are made at Walnut Ridge by the Arkansas Attorney General, a senator and two congressional candidates, and a candidate for governor.
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2020-06-05T13:28:20-07:00
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media/1910-10-20 Ad for WR Man Asking for a Loan to Improve Town Property - Davenport IA pg 12_thumb.png
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1910-10-20 Davenport Quad-City Times IA pg 12
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A Walnut Ridge man advertises to ask for a loan "to improve town property on ten years time at 6 per cent."
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2020-06-10T11:37:27-07:00
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1912-03-26 Arkansas Gazette pg 10
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The Walnut Ridge Blade writes an editorial explaining its support for Governor Donaghey's re-election.
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1917-05-29 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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Three students graduate from Walnut Ridge High School, with commencement week addresses by the Presbyterian minister and Senator Ponder.
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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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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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1915-05-01 Arkansas Gazette pg 16
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The Lawrence County Judge estimates that the Hughes trial in Batesville cost the county $2500 (the equivalent of more than $60,000 today).
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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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1900-07-20 Arkansas Democrat pg 7
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An update on the new Walnut Ridge courthouse tells of the burning of the former courthouse the previous May.
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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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1910-10-26 Brainerd Daily Dispatch MN pg 1
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Another news account describes why the now-acquitted Langston had been considered a suspect in the Shirey murder case.
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1917-11-08 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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A rally is held in Hoxie for a YMCA War Fund, and "Lawrence County will raise its part of the quota for this fund."
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1930-06-10 Sacramento Bee CA pg 6
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A justice of the peace drives a car with bullet holes and sections missing due to thievery, but "insists to ambitious motor salesmen that it is only beginning to perform."
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1915-05-07 Batesville Daily Guard pg 10
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Considering the costs of the previous court cases against Dr. Hughes, the Guard notes that "it is believed by many a great saving of public money would be consistently accomplished if the case in November is not allowed to come up for trial."
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1887-10-15 Atchison Daily Champion KS pg 1
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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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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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1904-01-22 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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A list of taxable values in Lawrence County notes property values, livestock quantities, and the number of people liable for poll taxes.
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1905-02-26 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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The Walnut Ridge Board of Health refuses to remove a smallpox patient from the Iron Mountain Railroad depot.
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1906-01-12 Leighton News AL pg 2
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Walnut Ridge once again turns dry, and petitions circulate both for and against the renewal of the saloons' licenses.
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1911-05-14 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 14
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The Walnut Ridge postmaster resigns due to his wife's poor health.
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1918-02-21 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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A Portia doctor comments on a Supreme Court ruling regarding a "bone dry" alcohol law.
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1930-11-05 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 30
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Percy Townsend, 21-year-old mayor of Black Rock, is praised for his administration's accomplishments, including reducing the town's debt.
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1937-03-26 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 28
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A Walnut Ridge woman is charged with murdering a snagboat engineer in his houseboat.
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2020-05-13T19:43:22-07:00
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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Object, Lawrence County Courthouse Cornerstone, 1900
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A modern-day photograph of the cornerstone of the 1900 courthouse in WR, now located on the courthouse lawn.
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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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2020-06-03T10:51:03-07:00
1901-09-30 Arkansas Democrat pg 4
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A Walnut Ridge citizen, perhaps John S. Gibson, writes a letter to the AR Democrat about the AR Railroad Commission and U.S. Senate race.
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1906-02-02 Arkansas Democrat pg 2
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A Hoxie liquor license debate goes to the courts; meanwhile a saloon opens in South Hoxie three miles from town.
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1911-06-09 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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Arkansas senator Jeff Davis goes directly to President Taft to override the selection of the new Walnut Ridge postmaster.
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1912-12-26 Monticello Monticellonian AR pg 8
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Walnut Ridge Mayor J. F. Medearis "has become known very widely as the 'turnip raising mayor'" for growing twenty acres of the crop.
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1921-06-30 Wilkes-Barre Record PA pg 8
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The Hoxie correspondent to the Walnut Ridge Blade says that "it is easy to write news when there is news," but declares that there is not much happening around Hoxie at the time of writing.
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1938-05-10 Hope Star pg 1
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The governor of Arkansas buys a Black Rock river ferry for the state, to compete with Powhatan's toll bridge.
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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, J. D. Doyle House near Walnut Ridge, 1910
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Image courtesy of Larry Dobbs, who notes, "This is the home of County Judge J. D. Doyle in 1910. The Judge is at the right next to his horse. This home was located at the corner of Old Pocahontas Road and Rebecca Lane."
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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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2020-06-03T11:18:07-07:00
1901-09-21 Arkansas Democrat pg 2
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The candidates for U.S. Senate stop in Walnut Ridge and hold their third set of speeches, trading barbs and discussing issues such as a tariff bill and a canal through Nicaragua (a goal fulfilled several years later with the Panama Canal).
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1906-05-13 Arkansas Democrat pg 5
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The Walnut Ridge town council establishes a curfew for youths and prohibits free-range hogs on town streets.
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1911-06-18 Arkansas Gazette pg 36
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A classified ad requests construction bids for a new jail at Walnut Ridge.
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1913-02-22 Fairbanks Daily Times AK pg 1
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A hanging takes place in the cupola of the Lawrence County courthouse in Walnut Ridge.
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1921-07-06 Pine Bluff Daily Graphic pg 3
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Federal veterinarians are brought to Lawrence County to help manage an outbreak of anthrax in the area.
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1940-09-04 Fayetteville NW Arkansas Times pg 1
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An investigation is reopened into a double death in Lawrence County due to suspicious circumstances surrounding the case.
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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, Lawrence County Eastern District Courthouse, 1900
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Depicts the brick courthouse constructed in 1900, with numerous houses behind it; image courtesy of Larry Dobbs.
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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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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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2020-06-05T12:31:03-07:00
1905-06-14 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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The editor of the Walnut Ridge Blade predicts that Walnut Ridge and Hoxie will soon "grow together," but never consolidate.
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1906-06-14 Arkansas Democrat pg 8
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The Iron Mountain Railroad is fined $18,000 for failure to stop its trains in Walnut Ridge in accordance with a new state law.
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1911-07-15 Monroe News-Star LA pg 1
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The Lawrence County Judge marries two people who have each been married four times previously.
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1913-08-05 Montgomery Times AL pg 1
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Two out of three inmates escape from the Walnut Ridge jail using iron bars secretly given to them.
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1921-09-02 Duncan Banner OK pg 1
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The mayor of Hoxie is accused of aiding in a murder, leading the city council to ask for his resignation.
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1931-02-05 Poplar Bluff Republican MO pg 6
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Lawrence County's county extension agent is removed from the payroll due to a lack of funds.
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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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1895-03-11 Chanute Daily Tribune KS pg 1
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Hoxie enforces quarantine rules to combat smallpox, including banning tramps from entering town.
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1897-02-18 Fort Scott Weekly Tribune KS pg 3
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A letter from Walnut Ridge describes examples of animal cruelty and neglect from around the city.
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1902-05-21 Arkansas Democrat pg 5
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Walnut Ridge votes to build a $10,000 school building, and the Hoxie school district votes to add a 1-mill tax for a building fund.
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1905-01-26 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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The 1903 Hoxie-Walnut Ridge Act passed by the Arkansas legislature is claimed to have been "secured by confessedly false and foul means" as a way to allow for Argenta's split from Little Rock.
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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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1907-08-02 Batesville Guard pg 6
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The editor of the Walnut Ridge Blade explains why he declines to run for government office.
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1911-07-18 Evening Star Washington DC pg 2
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Both Arkansas senators call on President Taft to persuade him to sign the commission for a nominee for Walnut Ridge postmistress.
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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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1922-01-13 Arkansas Democrat pg 3
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Hoxie and Walnut Ridge investigate options for constructing a new gravel road between the two towns.
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1935-05-17 Charlotte News NC pg 4
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An article from Walnut Ridge notes that the Lawrence County town of Strawberry goes by two other names as well.
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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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1913-03-17 Jonesboro Daily Tribune pg 3
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Congressman Caraway returns to Jonesboro after helping out in the Benningfield trial at 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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Photo, Hoxie Post Office and Union Depot, Circa 1906-1912
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The white frame building at right is the Hoxie post office, facing the depot across the street; image courtesy of Larry Dobbs.
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Cotton Farming & Processing Tags
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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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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 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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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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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 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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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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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 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 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 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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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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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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2020-05-09T12:38:11-07:00
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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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Object, Walnut Ridge Cotton Gin Souvenir Spoon, Circa 1900-1910
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Depicts one of the cotton gins built in Walnut Ridge; spoon found via online auction.
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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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1910-02-06 Arkansas Gazette pg 30
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Walnut Ridge citizens and a WR business are among those donating to tornado relief efforts for the town of Brinkley.
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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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Photo, Cotton Picking Near Highway 63
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Date unknown; five children carry their harvests of cotton bolls.
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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 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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1926-09-24 Tampa Times FL pg 7
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Lawrence County farmers brace for a lean 1927 growing season; it is estimated that "less than 40 per cent of farmers in this county are able to pay their debts this year."
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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; image courtesy City of Walnut Ridge website.
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Photo, Cotton Gin in Hoxie, Circa 1900-1920
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Depicts an unidentified cotton gin in Hoxie.
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1905-07-18 Ozark Tribune AL pg 3
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A letter from Walnut Ridge, "a thrifty little city," details the outlook for the cotton crop in the mid-South.
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1930-02-13 Poplar Bluff Republican MO pg 4
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A Walnut Ridge farmer grows spinach and finds it to be the most valuable crop on his farm.
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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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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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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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Photo, Cotton Bales in Walnut Ridge, November 1908
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Depicts a massive amount of cotton awaiting shipment by the Iron Mountain Railroad; image courtesy of the Lawrence County Historical Society.
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1894-11-16 Racine Journal Times WI pg 6
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Forest fires near Hoxie are fought back day and night by determined residents.
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1934-06-08 Mountain Home Baxter Bulletin pg 1
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A former resident describes antebellum Powhatan, including former industries there and the fate of a planned road from Powhatan to Crowley's Ridge leading near what became Walnut Ridge.
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Photo, Modern Gin & Compress Plant, Hoxie, Circa 1900-1920
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Image courtesy of Rebecca Meeker.
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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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1897-02-18 Fort Scott Weekly Tribune KS pg 3
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A letter from Walnut Ridge describes examples of animal cruelty and neglect from around the city.
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1912-02-25 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 31
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Walnut Ridge School District bonds are listed for sale in a St. Louis newspaper advertisement.
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1936-08-01 Blytheville Courier News pg 7
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A Niagara cotton duster (used for insecticides, etc) is listed for sale in Walnut Ridge.
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Photo, Phoenix Cotton Oil Company, Walnut Ridge, Circa 1900-1920
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An undated photo of barrels of cotton oil being loaded into a wagon; image courtesy of Larry Dobbs.
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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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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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1917-05-29 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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A Walnut Ridge-Hoxie Compress Company is formed by a coalition of local and nonresident stockholders.
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1940-01-08 Fayetteville NW AR Times pg 2
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A Walnut Ridge resident dies from a hemorrhage caused by a fall in his home.
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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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1897-09-26 St. Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 16
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Walnut Ridge merchant T. J. Sharum gives a detailed account of the pearl rush on the Black and Cache Rivers, and promotes the prospects of the region for agriculture.
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1922-09-22 Alva Daily Review-Courier OK pg 4
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A forecasted coal shortage leads Lawrence County cotton gins and mills to burn wood for fuel instead.
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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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1900-07-18 Arkansas Gazette pg 8
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A weather report from Walnut Ridge gives crop updates on cotton, corn, wheat, peas, and watermelons.
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1887-10-15 Atchison Daily Champion KS pg 1
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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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1901-09-21 Arkansas Democrat pg 2
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The candidates for U.S. Senate stop in Walnut Ridge and hold their third set of speeches, trading barbs and discussing issues such as a tariff bill and a canal through Nicaragua (a goal fulfilled several years later with the Panama Canal).
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1902-05-21 Arkansas Democrat pg 5
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Walnut Ridge votes to build a $10,000 school building, and the Hoxie school district votes to add a 1-mill tax for a building fund.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 of the Lawrence County Historical Society.
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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Postcard, Walnut Ridge Air View Circa 1915-1940
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Photo postcard of an undated aerial view of Walnut Ridge.
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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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2020-05-08T14:42:23-07:00
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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2020-05-03T18:25:00-07:00
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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2020-05-07T21:35:35-07:00
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2020-06-23T12:43:45-07:00
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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2020-12-02T09:58:29-08:00
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2020-05-03T18:30:25-07:00
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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2020-05-07T21:39:20-07:00
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2020-05-11T07:48:06-07:00
Photo, 1912 Walnut Ridge Baseball Club Team
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Photograph courtesy of the Arkansas Baseball Encyclopedia.
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2020-05-28T16:23:32-07:00
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2020-05-04T12:45:14-07:00
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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2020-05-09T13:10:01-07:00
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2020-06-11T13:35:46-07:00
1912-03-20 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 2
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A. W. Shirey's great-niece wins an appeal to collect $10,000 from Shirey's estate for having recaptured her great-uncle's sensitive personal letters for him.
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2020-06-11T13:44:50-07:00
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media/1900-07-17 Ancient Cask of Grain Unearthed in WR (Actually Marked Tree) - Canonsburg PA pg 2_thumb.png
2020-06-02T19:44:31-07:00
1900-07-17 Canonsburg Daily Notes PA pg 2
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Another newspaper shares the story of the stone cask of grain found in eastern AR, but erroneously states that the discover occurred in Walnut Ridge, rather than Marked Tree (See 1900-06-29 Arkansas Democrat pg 6).
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2020-06-02T20:04:26-07:00
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2020-05-04T12:24:45-07:00
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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2020-05-09T12:04:17-07:00
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2020-05-04T12:50:32-07:00
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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2020-05-09T13:25:12-07:00
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media/1895 LawCo Bank Ad - Geneology Trails_thumb.jpg
2020-05-06T20:37:54-07:00
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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2020-05-09T14:54:11-07:00
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media/1902-05-16 LawCo Letter for Timber Showcase at St Louis 1904 Expo - Arkansas Democrat pg 7_thumb.png
2020-06-03T17:34:07-07:00
1902-05-16 Arkansas Democrat pg 7
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The Lawrence County World's Fair board sends a memo to the state's board requesting that Arkansas gum timber be represented in the fair's buildings.
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2020-06-03T17:39:59-07:00
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2020-05-08T12:48:12-07:00
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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2020-05-08T14:05:59-07:00
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2020-05-04T12:27:29-07:00
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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2020-05-09T12:15:53-07:00
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2020-05-04T12:52:30-07:00
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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2020-05-09T13:44:39-07:00
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2020-05-11T16:41:55-07:00
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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2020-06-23T08:54:49-07:00
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2020-05-04T12:30:02-07:00
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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2020-05-09T12:31:24-07:00
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2020-05-04T12:57:30-07:00
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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2020-05-09T13:49:11-07:00
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media/1888-11-06 Racist Snub of Featherston in WR Telephone - Memphis Avalanche pg 4_thumb.png
2020-05-17T14:58:03-07:00
1888-11-06 Memphis Avalanche TN 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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2020-05-31T19:53:19-07:00
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media/Greetings from WR Sheep Postcard - Hippostcard_thumb.jpg
2020-05-08T14:22:02-07:00
Postcard, "Greetings from Walnut Ridge" With Sheep, Circa 1930-1940
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Features either a scene from a pasture near Walnut Ridge or perhaps a stock image; undated.
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2020-06-23T12:27:52-07:00
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media/WR Baseball Team 1913 - Flickr AR Baseball Encyclopedia_thumb.jpg
2020-05-11T07:51:47-07:00
Photo, 1913 Walnut Ridge Baseball Club Team
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Photograph courtesy of the Arkansas Baseball Encyclopedia.
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2020-06-23T09:41:01-07:00
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2020-05-04T12:31:27-07:00
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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2020-05-09T12:38:11-07:00
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media/WR Alamo Tourist Court Circa 1940 - Betty Davidson FB WR and Hoxie Nov 2018_thumb.jpg
2020-06-23T15:14:56-07:00
Postcard, Walnut Ridge Alamo Tourist Court, Circa 1940
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Depicts the business's cottages that once served Highway 67 travelers.
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2020-08-30T14:10:24-07:00
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2020-05-04T12:33:16-07:00
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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2020-05-09T12:44:29-07:00
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media/Early 1900s WR Courthouse Souvenir Plate - Tale of Two Towns_thumb.jpg
2020-05-11T20:18:51-07:00
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; property of Lesa Walter. Details at http://ataleoftwotowns.com/early-1900s-walnut-ridge-courthouse-souvenir-plate/.
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2020-12-02T09:29:28-08:00
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media/WR Ark-Mo Power and Ice Co - Pinterest_thumb.jpg
2020-05-11T20:04:19-07:00
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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2020-06-23T09:45:41-07:00
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media/WR Dowell House - AR Democrat-Gazette_thumb.jpg
2020-05-08T15:25:16-07:00
Photo, Swan C. Dowell House, Walnut Ridge, Circa 1895-1905
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An undated photo of the stately Dowell abode, covering the block formed by SW 2nd St, SW 3rd St, Ash St, and Maple St.
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2020-06-23T12:15:48-07:00
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media/1903-03-30 Divorce in WR After Wife Refuses to Leave Paris - Pittsburgh PA pg 4_thumb.png
2020-06-03T20:04:50-07:00
1903-03-30 Pittsburgh Daily Post PA pg 4
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A man is granted a divorce in Walnut Ridge when his wife refuses to leave Paris and her brutal assessment of Arkansas is handed to the judge.
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2020-06-03T20:20:34-07:00
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2020-05-04T12:39:46-07:00
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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2020-05-09T12:49:46-07:00
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2020-05-04T13:03:15-07:00
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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2020-05-09T14:14:34-07:00
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media/WR FBC Sunday School Supertdnt G E, Bessie, and Elizabeth Henry, Lorraine Rainey, and employer seated - FBC WR_thumb.jpg
2020-05-11T09:26:55-07:00
Photo, Henry Family of Walnut Ridge With Car
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Circa 1915 photo (see license plate) 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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2020-06-23T10:01:55-07:00
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2020-05-04T12:41:35-07:00
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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2020-05-09T12:57:11-07:00
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2020-05-04T13:07:10-07:00
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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2020-05-09T14:23:49-07:00
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media/Murta Junction North of WR - UofMo STL Rail Library MP54_thumb.jpg
2020-05-06T12:35:56-07:00
Photo, MoPac Railroad Tracks Near Murta Circa 1925-1940, Image 54
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Looking towards Walnut Ridge, date unknown; from the collection of the Barriger Railroad Library.
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2020-06-23T10:19:59-07:00
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media/1893-04-01 Gruesome Details of Star Hotel Burning WR - St. Louis Globe-Democrat pg 3_thumb.png
2020-05-26T14:54:45-07:00
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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2020-05-26T15:14:24-07:00
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media/WR Post Office and TD Postcard- MarlynMartin_thumb.jpg
2020-05-06T12:31:25-07:00
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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2020-05-08T10:26:46-07:00
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media/WR and Hoxie 1932 Map Thematic Screenshot_thumb.png
2020-05-03T20:38:18-07:00
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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2020-05-09T14:45:56-07:00
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media/1884-08-09 Juvenile Murder in WR - Bloomfield MO pg 3_thumb.jpg
2020-05-14T13:30:01-07:00
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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2020-05-14T13:35:24-07:00
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media/1930-08-16 WR Auto Dealer Accused of Murder - Dothan Eagle AL pg 8_thumb.png
2020-06-17T12:34:22-07:00
1930-08-16 Dothan Eagle AL pg 8
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A Walnut Ridge garage owner is accused of murdering his half brother.
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2020-06-17T12:49:36-07:00
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2020-07-07T12:54:09-07:00
1913-03-23 Arkansas Gazette pg 13
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State Senator Clyde Going notes that "three murders occurred near Walnut Ridge shortly after the killing of Bagley," and declares that "this had the effect of creating sentiment against Benningfield."
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2020-07-07T13:00:58-07:00
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media/Stagecoach Line from 1884 Pocahontas Star-Herald - Pinterest Betty_thumb.jpg
2020-07-08T19:16:14-07:00
1884 Pocahontas Star-Herald, Stagecoach to Walnut Ridge Ad
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A stagecoach line from Pocahontas to Hoxie advertises daily routes in both directions.
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2020-08-30T13:42:26-07:00
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media/May 9 1903 Walnut Ridge Spoon - Jon Walter WR and Hoxie FB Jan 2018_thumb.jpg
2020-07-08T14:03:58-07:00
Object, Walnut Ridge Souvenir Spoon, May 9, 1903
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A souvenir spoon with the date engraved on the back side; property of Jon Walter.
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2020-12-02T09:37:16-08:00
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media/WR Street View Main St 1918 - AHPP Hist Dist Natl Register Form_thumb.jpg
2020-07-10T09:41:55-07:00
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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2020-12-02T10:42:15-08:00
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2020-06-12T08:21:27-07:00
1913-04-15 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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Lon Easley gives a bond of $12,500 and awaits an appeal to the Arkansas Supreme Court.
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2020-06-12T08:26:18-07:00
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2020-05-11T08:17:27-07:00
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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2020-06-23T11:54:03-07:00
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media/Old WR Courthouse With Trees - CourthouseHistory_thumb.jpg
2020-05-10T19:23:07-07:00
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 of courthousehistory.com.
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2020-06-23T19:01:34-07:00
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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
2020-05-13T12:07:58-07:00
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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2020-05-13T12:13:23-07:00
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media/1893-04-01 Portia Lumber Mill Burns Along with Downtown WR - Vicksburg MS pg 2_thumb.png
2020-05-26T15:17:08-07:00
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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2020-05-26T15:22:38-07:00
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media/1897-07-09 Pigeons Released from WR for 600 Mile Trip - Green Bay WI pg 5_thumb.png
2020-05-30T12:11:57-07:00
1897-07-09 Green Bay Press-Gazette WI pg 5
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Thirteen homing pigeons are released from Walnut Ridge for their 600-mile flight back to Green Bay, Wisconsin.
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2020-05-30T12:15:36-07:00
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2020-05-09T15:12:21-07:00
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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2020-05-10T17:30:15-07:00
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media/1890-01-14 Correspondent Says Peace Still Prevails in WR With Saloons Open - AR Gazette pg 3_thumb.png
2020-05-17T19:49:22-07:00
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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2020-06-17T12:40:49-07:00
1930-08-18 Alexandria Town Talk LA pg 1
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Murder charges against Walnut Ridge garage owner George Hopps may be dropped due to additional evidence received.
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2020-06-17T12:54:38-07:00
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media/WR Street View Main St Blooms before 1930 - Betty Davidson FB WR-Hoxie Jan 2018_thumb.jpg
2020-07-10T09:57:40-07:00
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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2020-08-30T13:51:21-07:00
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media/WR Blade 1905 Cover Image - FB WR-Hoxie Dwight Lane Jan 2013_thumb.jpg
2020-07-08T18:37:08-07:00
Document, Walnut Ridge Blade Newspaper Cover Image, Circa 1905
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A cover of what appears to be a special edition of the paper, depicting portraits of nine Walnut Ridge children; property of James Whitlow.
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2020-12-02T09:40:14-08:00
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media/WR Baseball Team 1894 - State Archives EofA_thumb.jpg
2020-05-10T20:40:54-07:00
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 of CALS Encyclopedia of AR.
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2020-06-23T19:01:49-07:00
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2020-05-13T16:06:26-07:00
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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2020-05-13T16:21:21-07:00
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2020-05-13T19:36:34-07:00
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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2020-05-13T19:39:30-07:00
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media/1882-01-08 KKK in Lawrence County - Topeka Daily Commonwealth KS pg 1_thumb.jpg
2020-05-13T21:02:46-07:00
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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2020-05-13T21:07:59-07:00
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media/1895 S C Dowell Land Ad - Geneology Trails_thumb.jpg
2020-05-06T21:12:58-07:00
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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2020-05-09T14:55:37-07:00
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media/1882-06-02 Baby Owl Kept in Back Room in WR - St Louis Globe-Democrat pg 3_thumb.jpg
2020-05-12T14:37:30-07:00
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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2020-05-14T14:49:01-07:00
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media/1870-07-28 Horse Thief and Counterfeiter Robbins at WR Shot - AR Gazette pg 2_thumb.jpg
2020-05-12T12:26:16-07:00
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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media/WR First Presbyterian Church, 1883 - FPC WR_thumb.jpg
2020-05-10T10:15:22-07:00
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 of FPC WR 130th Anniversary Commemorative Book.
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2020-06-23T19:03:19-07:00
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media/1908-10-21 Candy Pull Smoking Shooting Account II - Sedalia Democrat MO pg 3_thumb.png
2020-06-07T18:18:51-07:00
1908-10-21 Sedalia Democrat MO pg 3
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Another article notes that the murder of a man for smoking took place at a candy pull in Walnut Ridge.
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2020-06-07T18:21:15-07:00
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media/1912-09-25 Woman dies near WR at age 122 - Manning SC pg 6_thumb.png
2020-06-11T18:38:28-07:00
1912-09-25 Manning Times SC pg 6
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An elderly lady dies near Walnut Ridge, allegedly at the remarkable age of 122.
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2020-06-11T18:49:35-07:00
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2020-07-07T14:46:19-07:00
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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media/WR Houses West Second St - 1950s photo but earlier houses - Larry Dobbs FB May 2010_thumb.jpg
2020-07-10T14:25:05-07:00
Photo, Houses on West Second Street, Walnut Ridge, Circa 1910-1925
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A 1950s photo of a row of Craftsman-style houses built in the 1910s or 1920s; image property of James Whitlow.
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2020-12-02T10:47:08-08:00
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media/Greetings from WR that looks like stock image - Google_thumb.jpg
2020-05-08T14:32:01-07:00
Postcard, "Greetings from Walnut Ridge" With Road on Slope, Circa 1930-1940
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Perhaps a road on a hill leading to Walnut Ridge, or more likely a generic image.
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2020-06-23T12:27:25-07:00
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media/R L Bailey Cotton and Cotton Seed Stenciled Door - Tale of Two Towns_thumb.jpg
2020-05-11T19:53:56-07:00
Photo, Robert L. Bailey Cotton and Cotton Seed, Door Stencilling Circa 1920s
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Office door in use from circa 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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2020-06-23T12:01:18-07:00
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media/Early 1900s Walnut Ridge Cotton Gin Spoon - Ebay_thumb.jpg
2020-07-08T13:08:25-07:00
Object, Walnut Ridge Cotton Gin Souvenir Spoon, Circa 1900-1910
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Depicts one of the cotton gins built in Walnut Ridge; spoon found via online auction.
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2020-07-08T13:14:05-07:00
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media/1892-08-18 Tramp Adams Killed in WR Train Wreck - Memphis Avalanche pg 4_thumb.png
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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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2020-05-26T13:42:29-07:00
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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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2020-05-13T18:55:01-07:00
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2020-05-29T13:27:39-07:00
1895-03-10 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 3
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A tightrope walker falls when performing in Walnut Ridge, and has his leg amputated due to injuries sustained in the fall.
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2020-05-29T13:58:36-07:00
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media/1904-04-16 Last Words and Hanging of African-American Will Jones - Arkansas Democrat pg 1_thumb.png
2020-06-04T15:02:18-07:00
1904-04-16 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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A man is sentenced to hang at Walnut Ridge for murdering another man over a craps game, and his statement on the matter is given to the press.
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2020-06-04T15:14:45-07:00
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media/1897-07-13 WR Pigeons Update 1 - Green Bay WI pg 5_thumb.png
2020-05-30T12:24:35-07:00
1897-07-13 Green Bay Press-Gazette WI pg 5
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An update on the status of the homing pigeons released from Walnut Ridge notes that none of the thirteen birds have yet returned to Green Bay.
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2020-05-30T12:26:51-07:00
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media/1898-02-23 Mail Clerk Hobo Robber and Disguised Wife Arrested in WR - Springfield MO pg 3_thumb.png
2020-05-30T19:32:23-07:00
1898-02-23 Springfield Leader and Press MO pg 3
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A St. Louis mail clerk turned robber and his disguised wife are detected in Walnut Ridge as hobos, and the robber arrested.
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2020-05-30T19:42:17-07:00
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media/WR Old Presbyterian Church- Pinterest_thumb.jpg
2020-05-10T10:12:12-07:00
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 of FPC WR 130th Anniversary Commemorative Book.
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2020-06-23T19:03:29-07:00
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media/1906-09-01 Ad for WR School Construction Bids - Arkansas Gazette pg 6_thumb.png
2020-06-06T09:27:22-07:00
1906-09-01 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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The Walnut Ridge Special School District announces a request for sealed bids for the construction of the new school building.
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2020-06-06T09:58:11-07:00
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media/1907-05-24 STL and Memphis RR Stockholders Mtg Announced - Arkansas Democrat pg 6_thumb.png
2020-06-06T13:08:12-07:00
1907-05-24 Arkansas Democrat pg 6
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A stockholders' meeting in Walnut Ridge is announced for the St. Louis & Memphis Railroad Company.
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2020-06-06T13:26:14-07:00
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media/1930-05-26 WR Old-Timers Say Crawfish Predicting Dry Weather - Seminole Producer OK pg 5_thumb.png
2020-06-17T12:06:55-07:00
1930-05-26 Seminole Producer OK pg 5
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"Oldtime weather prophets" in Walnut Ridge predict a spell of dry weather based on observing crawfish burrows.
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2020-06-17T12:09:49-07:00
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media/WR Street View 1910 Main St Looking East - City of WR via Larry Dobbs_thumb.jpg
2020-07-10T14:33:49-07:00
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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2020-12-02T11:04:03-08:00
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media/1913-03-24 Pinnell Murder in Hoxie, Episode 3 - AR Gazette pg 2_thumb.png
2020-06-12T07:52:59-07:00
1913-03-24 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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A Lawrence County grand jury gives 54 indictments, including one for Hoxie Marshal Lon Easley in the killing of C. G. Pinnell.
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2020-06-12T08:00:36-07:00
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media/1910-02-06 Brinkley Cyclone Relief Donors from WR - Arkansas Gazette pg 30_thumb.png
2020-06-07T20:48:40-07:00
1910-02-06 Arkansas Gazette pg 30
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Walnut Ridge citizens and a WR business are among those donating to tornado relief efforts for the town of Brinkley.
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2020-06-07T20:55:56-07:00
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2020-07-08T07:07:14-07:00
1914-12-05 Jonesboro Daily Tribune pg 2
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Frank Pace of Jonesboro goes to Walnut Ridge to defend Dr. Hughes, with the case being declared "one of the most notable murder trials that has been held in the state in years."
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2020-07-08T07:13:18-07:00
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media/1922-12-15 Physician and 3 Others Held for Plot to Smuggle Drugs from NY - Baldwin KS pg 6_thumb.png
2020-06-16T19:32:33-07:00
1922-12-15 Baldwin Ledger KS pg 6
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A local physician and three others are arrested in Walnut Ridge by federal agents for their role in "an alleged plot to smuggle drugs from Buffalo, N.Y., into Arkansas."
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2020-06-16T19:36:58-07:00
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media/1925-09-21 Night Marshal Thrown in Cell, Prisoner Dies in Fight - St Louis Star and Times pg 2_thumb.png
2020-06-16T21:01:51-07:00
1925-09-21 St Louis Star & Times MO pg 2
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A deputy sheriff throws a night marshal into a Walnut Ridge jail cell as a joke, but a resulting fight with a prisoner results in the prisoner's death.
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2020-06-16T21:13:20-07:00
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media/1927-05-12 Picture 3 of Hoxie-WR Tornado Damage - St Louis Post-Dispatch pg 39_thumb.png
2020-06-17T08:27:08-07:00
1927-05-12 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 39 pt 3
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A third picture of Hoxie-Walnut Ridge tornado damage in the Post-Dispatch shows a wrecked Walnut Ridge house.
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2020-06-17T08:29:59-07:00
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media/1909C Ellis Davis AR Map, LawCo Detail_thumb.jpg
2020-05-08T13:24:55-07:00
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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2020-05-08T14:11:08-07:00
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media/1892-11-10 Train Whistles Assist In Cleveland Election Celebration - Memphis Commercial pg 4_thumb.png
2020-05-26T14:16:36-07:00
1892-11-10 Memphis Commercial TN 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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2020-05-31T19:54:07-07:00
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media/Grimes Soda Co WR - Ben Johnson FB WR-Hoxie Aug 2018_thumb.jpg
2020-07-08T13:34:24-07:00
Object, Grimes Drinks Sign, Circa 1920-1935
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A sign from Grimes Soda Company of Walnut Ridge, advertising their Cinderella drink; image courtesy of Ben Johnson.
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2020-07-08T13:39:37-07:00
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media/1929-12-10 WR Man Fined for Ignoring Stop Sign, But Cop Fined Too - Lincoln NE pg 3_thumb.png
2020-06-17T09:56:35-07:00
1929-12-10 Lincoln Journal Star NE pg 3
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A man is fined for ignoring a stop sign in Walnut Ridge, but he convinces the court that the officer who chased him should be fined for ignoring the sign as well.
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2020-06-17T10:00:18-07:00
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media/WR Frisco Depot Photo Detail - Ebay_thumb.jpg
2020-07-09T13:34:19-07:00
Photo, Frisco Depot, Walnut Ridge, Circa 1896-1914
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A later photograph of the depot built along Main Street in Walnut Ridge for the rail line from Hoxie to Pocahontas. Image property of James Whitlow; I of A WR&H pg 68.
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2020-12-02T11:21:11-08:00
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media/1906-02-15 Newsboy Shoots at Passenger on Train Near WR - Poplar Bluff Citizen MO pg 8_thumb.png
2020-06-05T14:27:07-07:00
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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2020-06-05T14:30:53-07:00
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media/1893-04-06 African-American Cook Confesses to Fire, Says Others Guilty Too - Memphis TN pg 4_thumb.png
2020-05-26T16:01:48-07:00
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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2020-05-26T16:07:14-07:00
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media/1896-11-09 Walnut Ridge Dentist Married on Train - St Louis Post-Dispatch pg 6_thumb.png
2020-05-29T15:16:24-07:00
1896-11-09 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 6
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A Walnut Ridge dentist is married to his bride from Paragould on a moving train near Jonesboro.
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2020-05-29T15:19:55-07:00
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media/WR Methodist Church - City of WR and MarlynMartin_thumb.jpg
2020-05-09T20:34:45-07:00
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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2020-05-10T06:56:59-07:00
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media/1898-03-11 Saga and Poem About Hobo Robbers Wife - Marysville KS pg 6_thumb.png
2020-05-30T19:49:20-07:00
1898-03-11 Marysville Advocate KS pg 6
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A Kansas paper tells the saga, complete with a poem, of the ill-fated romance between Clara Mozely and her husband, the hobo/mail clerk/robber who was arrested in Walnut Ridge.
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2020-05-30T20:33:53-07:00
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2020-05-07T20:41:59-07:00
1908-10-27 Memphis Commercial Appeal TN pg 7
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Lee Ridgeway dies from his wounds after being shot, and is buried.
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2020-05-31T20:05:30-07:00
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media/1907-05-27 Non-English Speaker Exits Train in WR and Memphis, Not PB - Pine Bluff AR pg 5_thumb.png
2020-06-06T15:31:44-07:00
1907-05-27 Pine Bluff Daily Graphic AR pg 5
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A man with limited English proficiency deboards his train at Walnut Ridge instead of Pine Bluff, but is then brought to Memphis instead.
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2020-06-07T08:46:37-07:00
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media/1912-02-15 Classified Ad, Movie Operator at WR Wants Job as Printer - AR Gazette pg 15_thumb.png
2020-06-11T13:13:33-07:00
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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2020-06-11T13:17:25-07:00
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media/1912-05-15 WR Mayor Swears in 100 Special Officers to Stop Citizen Attacks - Hutchinson KS pg 1_thumb.png
2020-06-11T15:17:19-07:00
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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2020-06-11T15:23:45-07:00
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media/1935-01-29 WR City Marshals Badge Taken From His Home - Decatur AL pg 8_thumb.png
2020-06-17T18:59:40-07:00
1935-01-29 Decatur Daily AL pg 8
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A thief breaks into the Walnut Ridge city marshal's house and takes the marshal's badge.
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2020-06-17T19:01:48-07:00
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media/WR Street View 1909 - Larry Dobbs FB June 2010 and City of WR_thumb.jpg
2020-07-10T10:10:00-07:00
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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2020-07-10T11:54:56-07:00
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media/1936-04-11 Ad for National Sales Company of Walnut Ridge - Pittsburgh Courier PA pg 7_thumb.png
2020-06-17T20:28:15-07:00
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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2020-06-17T20:31:46-07:00
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media/1913-04-05 Pinnell Murder in Hoxie, Episode 4 - AR Gazette pg 1_thumb.png
2020-06-12T08:07:42-07:00
1913-04-05 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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Former Hoxie Marshal Lon Easley is sentenced to twenty-one years in jail for the murder of C. G. Pinnell after witnesses declare that no weapon was found on Pinnell when he was shot.
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2020-06-12T08:11:01-07:00
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media/1910-03-09 Wealthy Shirey Calls Himself Lothario After Being Shot - Cincinnati OH pg 1_thumb.png
2020-06-10T08:22:28-07:00
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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2020-06-10T08:36:46-07:00
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media/WR Phoenix Cotton Oil Co - City of WR_thumb.jpg
2020-05-10T19:46:13-07:00
Postcard, Phoenix Cotton Oil Company, Walnut Ridge
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An undated postcard of the sprawling complex, which opened in 1903; image courtesy City of Walnut Ridge website.
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2020-06-23T12:36:16-07:00
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2020-05-07T16:37:40-07:00
1905-03-09 Poplar Bluff Citizen MO pg 1
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A newspaper informant who was in Walnut Ridge when Ed Bagley was shot gives further details of the tragedy.
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2020-07-08T10:22:18-07:00
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media/1885 Walnut Ridge Postmark - Ebay_thumb.jpg
2020-05-11T20:31:29-07:00
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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2020-05-11T20:35:11-07:00
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media/1908-10-26 Memphis Cmcl Appeal pg 7 - Lee Ridgeway Shot_thumb.png
2020-05-07T20:37:35-07:00
1908-10-26 Memphis Commercial Appeal TN pg 7
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Lee Ridgeway is not expected to live after being shot by Alf Bagley.
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2020-05-31T20:05:37-07:00
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media/WR Sexton and Andews Prescription Circa 1893-1915 - Tale of Two Towns FB May 2016_thumb.jpg
2020-07-08T14:41:26-07:00
Document, Sexton & Andrews Prescription, Circa 1893-1915
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A presciption including menthol, cocaine, acid tonic, powdered opium, and Vaseline. Property of Bob Rainwater; image courtesy of Jon Walter.
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2020-12-02T09:31:39-08:00
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2020-07-08T05:48:43-07:00
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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2020-07-08T05:51:02-07:00
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media/WR Portrait by W.S. Hubbs Unknown Woman Circa 1880s-1890s - Larry Dobbs FB WR-Hoxie Nov 2013_thumb.jpg
2020-06-23T14:09:53-07:00
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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2020-06-23T14:15:55-07:00
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media/1926-09-24 WR Area Farmers Expect Lean Growing Year - Tampa Times FL pg 7_thumb.png
2020-06-16T21:36:06-07:00
1926-09-24 Tampa Times FL pg 7
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Lawrence County farmers brace for a lean 1927 growing season; it is estimated that "less than 40 per cent of farmers in this county are able to pay their debts this year."
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2020-06-16T21:42:40-07:00
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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
2020-05-13T14:46:09-07:00
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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2020-05-13T15:04:00-07:00
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media/Circa 1920s Train Wreck at or near Walnut Ridge - Ebay_thumb.jpg
2020-05-08T14:51:39-07:00
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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2020-05-08T14:54:19-07:00
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media/1880-04-22 Presbytery Meets in WR - AR Gazette pg 5_thumb.png
2020-05-13T20:20:47-07:00
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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2020-05-13T20:24:34-07:00
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media/1903-11-19 LR vs NLR Debate Hinges on the 1903 Hoxie-Walnut Ridge Act - AR Democrat pg 1-min_thumb.png
2020-06-04T14:30:46-07:00
1903-11-19 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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A Little Rock vs. North Little Rock legal debate hinges on the Hoxie-Walnut Ridge Act, passed in March 1903 by the state legislature.
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2020-06-04T14:37:03-07:00
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media/WR Baptist Church - City of WR2_thumb.jpg
2020-05-10T07:30:17-07:00
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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2020-05-10T10:18:59-07:00
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media/1905-03-26 100 WR Businessmen Sign Petition to Repeal Hoxie-WR Bill - AR Democrat pg 3_thumb.png
2020-06-05T11:12:07-07:00
1905-03-26 Arkansas Democrat pg 3
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About 100 Walnut Ridge businessmen sign a petition to repeal Arkansas's 1903 Walnut Ridge-Hoxie Act.
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2020-06-05T11:32:43-07:00
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2020-05-07T20:25:10-07:00
1905-10-21 Memphis Commercial Appeal TN 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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2020-05-31T20:05:44-07:00
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media/WR Street View Front St Circa 1890 - Gilbert S Rainey FB WR and Hoxie Jul 2015_thumb.jpg
2020-07-09T13:51:11-07:00
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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2020-07-09T20:16:08-07:00
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media/WR Sexton and Andews Prescription Col Ponders Liniment - Tale of Two Towns FB Jun 2016_thumb.jpg
2020-07-08T14:50:27-07:00
Document, Sexton & Andrews Prescription for Colonel Ponder, Circa 1886-1904
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A prescription for "Colonel Ponder's Liniment" made sometime before Ponder's death in 1904. Property of Bob Rainwater; image courtesy of Jon Walter.
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2020-12-02T09:34:39-08:00
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media/WR Street View Main St Circa 1940 - AHPP Hist Dist Form_thumb.jpg
2020-07-10T12:34:46-07:00
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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2020-07-10T12:45:59-07:00
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media/1910-10-19 Train Car of Langstons Friends Go to WR to Prove Innocence - St Joseph MO pg 11_thumb.png
2020-06-10T11:27:08-07:00
1910-10-19 St Joseph News-Press MO pg 11
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A group of South Dakota and Nebraska citizens go to Walnut Ridge to prove J. C. Langston's innocence in the Shirey murder case.
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2020-06-10T11:31:55-07:00
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media/WR Ladies of the Maccabees Brass Piece Circa 1896-1926 - Jon Walter FB WR and Hoxie Oct 2014_thumb.jpg
2020-07-08T12:30:46-07:00
Object, Ladies of the Maccabees Brass Piece, Circa 1896-1926
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Found in Stewart Park in fill dirt likely transported from a Main Street construction site in WR; image courtesy of Jon Walter.
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2020-07-08T12:38:53-07:00
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media/WR 1933 Football Team - FB Lori Prater WR-Hoxie Apr 2014_thumb.jpg
2020-06-23T14:01:13-07:00
Photo, 1933 Walnut Ridge Football Team
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Depicts twenty-three members of the team; photo courtesy of Lori Prater.
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2020-06-23T18:55:59-07:00
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media/1891-11-19 Man Has Different Spouses at Different RR Stops - Rolla MO pg 3_thumb.png
2020-05-26T12:02:31-07:00
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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2020-05-26T12:06:17-07:00
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media/1877-06-22 WR Spelling Bee, Col Ponder Harvests Clover Crop - AR Gazette pg 3_thumb.jpg
2020-05-13T13:55:29-07:00
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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2020-05-13T13:57:39-07:00
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media/1901-09-21 Minutes of Senate Candidates Stop in WR - Arkansas Democrat pg 2-min_thumb.png
2020-06-03T11:18:07-07:00
1901-09-21 Arkansas Democrat pg 2
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The candidates for U.S. Senate stop in Walnut Ridge and hold their third set of speeches, trading barbs and discussing issues such as a tariff bill and a canal through Nicaragua (a goal fulfilled several years later with the Panama Canal).
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2020-06-03T11:28:30-07:00
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2020-05-08T09:24:26-07:00
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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2020-05-08T09:25:29-07:00
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media/1879-12-18 Woman Burned to a Crisp - Topeka State Journal KS pg 1_thumb.jpg
2020-05-13T15:15:28-07:00
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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2020-05-13T15:17:49-07:00
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2020-05-27T08:02:20-07:00
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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2020-05-27T08:02:58-07:00
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media/1878-12-02 Man Describes RR Experience in Letter, Had Good Supper in WR - AR Democrat pg 4_thumb.jpg
2020-05-13T19:22:16-07:00
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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2020-05-13T19:24:28-07:00
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2020-06-03T18:47:02-07:00
1902-12-05 Arkansas Democrat pg 3
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The Arkansas Democrat publishes a detailed list of Lawrence County industries and notable farm operations.
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2020-06-03T18:55:02-07:00
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2020-05-28T10:56:31-07:00
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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2020-05-28T11:00:36-07:00
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media/1880-08-12 Stage Line from WR to Ravens Den - Memphis Public Ledger TN pg 1_thumb.jpg
2020-05-13T20:29:54-07:00
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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2020-05-13T20:32:03-07:00
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2020-06-03T20:28:07-07:00
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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2020-06-03T20:29:40-07:00
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2020-05-29T01:15:16-07:00
1895-02-28 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 2
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Two sawmills, a shingle mill, and a barrel stave factory are destroyed by fire in Walnut Ridge, with no insurance to cover the loss.
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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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A list of taxable values in Lawrence County notes property values, livestock quantities, and the number of people liable for poll taxes.
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Guests at the Rhea Hotel in Walnut Ridge are stricken with poisoning after their supper, but are aided in time by local physicians.
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1897-09-26 St. Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 16
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Walnut Ridge merchant T. J. Sharum gives a detailed account of the pearl rush on the Black and Cache Rivers, and promotes the prospects of the region for agriculture.
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1888-09-20 Arkansas Gazette pg 3
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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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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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1898-06-01 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 3
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Another paper mentions the Second Arkansas Regiment and its U.S.S. Maine model from Walnut Ridge.
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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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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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1899-09-14 Poplar Bluff Citizen MO pg 5
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A man tells the story of how he once slept on chairs in Walnut Ridge since no beds were left.
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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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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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1900-02-10 Cape Girardeau Democrat MO pg 2
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A Walnut Ridge woman burns to death when her clothing catches on fire.
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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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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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1929-06-21 Rutland Daily Herald VT pg 4
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The Walnut Ridge Blade makes a wisecrack about the ever-growing WR skyline.
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1913-06-25 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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The Times-Dispatch jokes that four $1000 bills recently found in Memphis do not belong to them.
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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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1910-10-24 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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A multitude attends the double funeral for Alf and I. J. Bagley held at Mt. Zion Cemetery, located near the Bagley farm north of Walnut Ridge.
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1907-04-23 Sedalia Democrat MO pg 1
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A woman goes on an enigmatic eighteen-year-long quest to find her missing daughter, who was born in Walnut Ridge.
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1930-02-13 Poplar Bluff Republican MO pg 4
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A Walnut Ridge farmer grows spinach and finds it to be the most valuable crop on his farm.
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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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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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1911-12-17 Arkansas Gazette pg 50
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A Walnut Ridge lumber mill operator with twenty years' experience advertises to seek a job as a mill manager or superintendent.
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1912-10-15 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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Wolf Benningfield is indicted, charged with first-degree murder in the killing of John Bagley.
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1907-09-25 Vicksburg Herald MS pg 3
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An African-American man is arrested in Walnut Ridge for wearing an Elk lodge pin on his coat.
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1915-05-21 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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The Salem Sun fires back at the Walnut Ridge Blade in what is apparently a bit of a newspaper feud.
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Photo, First Baptist Church of Walnut Ridge Picnic, 1908
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A photo of the congregation's picnic on July 7, 1908; image courtesy of Gilbert S. Rainey.
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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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1930-12-03 Moberly Monitor-Index MO pg 8
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A Walnut Ridge gardener grows a 104-pound pumpkin.
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1918-03-27 Arkansas Gazette pg 15
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A classified ad lists feeding corn for sale in Walnut Ridge.
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1912-05-30 Whitewater Independent KS pg 1
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Mrs. J. C. Riley, wife of the editor of the Walnut Ridge Blade, dies and is mourned by friends in Kansas.
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1913-04-11 Arkansas Gazette pg 3
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Wolf Benningfield, in failing to pay a $12,500 bond, is taken to an Arkansas penitentiary.
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1908-10-20 Shreveport Times LA pg 8
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The escalation that led to a young man's death in Walnut Ridge began when another man knocked a cigarette from the man's mouth.
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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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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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1914-10-20 Batesville Daily Guard pg 1
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The Batesville Guard notes that Solon Crook had been "assassinated at his home in Walnut Ridge while he was sitting in his room reading."
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1909-06-04 St Louis Jewish Voice MO pg 2
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Two Walnut Ridge residents embark on a two-month tour of England, Germany, France, and Switzerland.
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1935-08-16 Winona Times MS pg 1
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578 Lawrence County residents apply for old age pensions.
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1921-06-16 Selma Times-Journal AL pg 5
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A woman suspected to be a criminal wanted in Knoxville, Tennessee, is arrested 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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1912-12-26 Monticello Monticellonian AR pg 8
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Walnut Ridge Mayor J. F. Medearis "has become known very widely as the 'turnip raising mayor'" for growing twenty acres of the crop.
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1914-11-30 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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An adjourned court term begins at Walnut Ridge to decide the matter of the Solon Crook murder case.
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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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1936-08-01 Blytheville Courier News pg 7
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A Niagara cotton duster (used for insecticides, etc) is listed for sale in Walnut Ridge.
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1922-01-13 Arkansas Democrat pg 3
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Hoxie and Walnut Ridge investigate options for constructing a new gravel road between the two towns.
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1914-12-05 Arkansas Gazette pg 8
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Mrs. A. Vance of Hoxie and fifteen other witnesses testify that they saw Dr. Hughes at his office at the time of Isom Bagley's murder.
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1910-07-21 Pine Bluff Daily Graphic pg 4
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A grand jury is impaneled for the case against J. C. Langston in the murder of A. W. Shirey.
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1937-03-26 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 28
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A Walnut Ridge woman is charged with murdering a snagboat engineer in his houseboat.
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1922-09-22 Alva Daily Review-Courier OK pg 4
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A forecasted coal shortage leads Lawrence County cotton gins and mills to burn wood for fuel instead.
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1914-12-08 Jonesboro Evening Sun pgs 1 & 4
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"There is much speculation as to the verdict of the jury" in the Hughes murder case as their decision is awaited.
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1910-10-20 Davenport Quad-City Times IA pg 12
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A Walnut Ridge man advertises to ask for a loan "to improve town property on ten years time at 6 per cent."
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1906-02-01 Muskogee Phoenix OK pg 1
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Carrie Nation, "noted temperance lecturer and joint smasher," is invited to speak at Walnut Ridge.
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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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1923-06-13 Poplar Bluff Citizen Democrat MO pg 3
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Twelve school subject award medals, sponsored by local citizens and firms, are awarded to students at Walnut Ridge.
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1915-03-16 Batesville Daily Guard pg 1
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The Guard notes that the change of venue of Dr. Hughes' trial to Independence County "will bring a large number of witnesses and spectators to Batesville, and probably will create more interest than any case ever placed on the Independence circuit court docket."
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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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Photo, WR Portrait of Bettie Guyman, Circa 1910
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Photograph courtesy 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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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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Object, Lawrence County Courthouse Cornerstone, 1900
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A modern-day photograph of the cornerstone of the 1900 courthouse in WR, now located on the courthouse lawn.
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1911-06-09 Chicago Tribune IL pg 18
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A businessman associated with Gulf Refining Co. in Walnut Ridge advertises to buy thousands of acres of stave timber lands.
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1906-09-26 Oklahoma City Western Christian Advocate OK pg 2
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The Woman's Christian Temperance Union chapter in Walnut Ridge thanks a local pastor for his support of their campaign by presenting him $25.
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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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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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1901-11-14 Poplar Bluff Citizen MO pg 1
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Another fire strikes Walnut Ridge at night, with the cause unknown.
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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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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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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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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 & Hoxie Light, Power, & Transit Company is incorporated, with plans to build a 1.5-mile-long streetcar line between the two cities.
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Walnut Ridge wins a baseball game against Jonesboro, 10-4.
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A St. Louis Post-Dispatch news brief notes a fatal shooting in Walnut Ridge.
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The Walnut Ridge Blade newspaper notes examples of continued investment and growth in WR.
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A German-language paper mentions the Iron Mountain Railroad and Walnut Ridge.
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A young lady in Walnut Ridge hangs herself after a false accusation against her circulates.
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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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The 1903 Hoxie-Walnut Ridge Act passed by the Arkansas legislature is claimed to have been "secured by confessedly false and foul means" as a way to allow for Argenta's split from Little Rock.
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A man takes out rivals with a stove leg at a country dance near Walnut Ridge.
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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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A Walnut Ridge boy accidentally kills his younger brother when messing with a shotgun at home.
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A farmer near Walnut Ridge shoots his brother-in-law over a spat about money he owed.
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A Walnut Ridge teacher presents an address titled "Some Distinctive Ideas in Teaching" at an educators meeting in Jonesboro.
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Lawrence County courthouse commissioners hire a Little Rock architect to develop blueprints for a new Walnut Ridge courthouse.
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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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Recent tornadoes in Arkansas result in an uptick of storm cellar construction around Walnut Ridge and beyond.
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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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1911-08-15 Tucson Arizona Daily Star AZ pg 6
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A forger caught in Arizona is wanted in Walnut Ridge for bank fraud.
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A number of witnesses testify in the coroner's inquiry on the Bagley murders, but the murderer of Isom Bagley remains a mystery nevertheless.
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1907-05-04 Rock Island Argus IL pg 5
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A man fractures his arm after he walks too close to the railroad tracks and is struck by an object sticking out from a rail car.
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1930-05-20 Baltimore Evening Sun MD pg 11
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A group of alleycats in Walnut Ridge "has driven virtually every dog out of town."
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The Walnut Ridge Blade describes a new sawmill being built in Lawrence County.
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Work continues rapidly on Eastern Lawrence County drainage projects, from Cache River dredging to the draining of Swan Pond Lake.
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Colonel Surridge of Walnut Ridge, visiting Jonesboro, remarks that "things have about quieted down since the shooting of Bagley by Benningfield" several days prior.
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1907-10-10 Versailles Morgan County Republican MO pg 2
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Another news account states that the man arrested for wearing the Elk lodge badge "is suspected of having stolen" it.
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1915-12-10 Batesville Daily Guard pg 1
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A Lawrence County Justice of the Peace marries a couple who hold their hands uplifted in the fashion of a sworn oath during the entire ceremony.
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Postcard, Lawrence County Eastern District Courthouse, 1900
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Depicts the brick courthouse constructed in 1900, with numerous houses behind it; image courtesy of Larry Dobbs.
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The mayor of Walnut Ridge issues a statement in support of W. K. Surridge's candidacy to quell rumors that he was the author of a recent broadside against Surridge.
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A second trial for Wolf Benningfield is set to begin; "great crowds are expected to attend the trial."
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1908-04-30 Nashville Baptist & Reflector TN pg 9
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Pastor Connell of First Baptist Church of Walnut Ridge notes that he has had 95 new church members join in his first four months.
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1930-12-12 Richmond Palladium-Item IN pg 7
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A pilot takes up passengers at Walnut Ridge for a fare of one cent per pound of weight.
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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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1912-06-06 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 8
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Lawrence County residents band together to form a fair association.
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Senator Going and others involved in Wolf Benningfield's first trial find their charges of contempt of court upheld by the Arkansas Supreme Court.
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1933-06-06 Hope Star pg 4 article 1
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A nearly half-century-old rose bush near Walnut Ridge sends out over 150 rose buds.
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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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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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1912-09-25 Mattoon Journal-Gazette IL pg 8
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A Walnut Ridge pastor is also appointed city marshal.
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1909-07-01 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 11
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A two-story brick hotel building goes up for sale in Walnut Ridge.
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1935-06-18 Carlisle Sentinel PA pg 2
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A 107-year-old Civil War veteran dies in Walnut Ridge, with 212 descendants surviving him.
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Federal veterinarians are brought to Lawrence County to help manage an outbreak of anthrax in the area.
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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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1913-02-09 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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C. G. Pinnell of Walnut Ridge resists arrest and attempts to shoot the Hoxie town marshal, but is fatally shot himself.
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Approximately one hundred witnesses are subpoenaed for the trial of Dr. Hughes concerning the double murder of Alf and Isom Bagley.
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1909-12-16 National Tribune Washington DC pg 7
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A classified ad from a Walnut Ridge woman requests information on veterans of an Illinois Civil War regiment.
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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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A classified ad seeks workers to make oak railroad ties at a location five miles east of Walnut Ridge.
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1913-02-22 Fairbanks Daily Times AK pg 1
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A hanging takes place in the cupola of the Lawrence County courthouse in Walnut Ridge.
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The Post-Dispatch describes the circumstances leading to the fallout between Lizzie Burell and Isom Bagley, and notes that Isom's sons "were ready fighters when occasion demanded action."
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J. C. Langston, and his lawyer, are indicted by a jury for the A. W. Shirey murder.
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1937-08-08 Nashville Banner TN pg 27
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An all-black jury-- "first in Arkansas since Reconstruction days"-- is called and fines a man for deserting his wife.
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1922-11-25 Arkansas Democrat pg 8
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An advertisement for Bond's Kidney & Bladder Remedy features a testimonial from a Walnut Ridge customer.
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When asked if he thought his case would result in a hung jury, Dr. Hughes replies that "it may be a hung doctor" instead.
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1910-10-22 Topeka Kansas Farmer & Mail & Breeze KS pg 27
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Another real estate ad for S. C. Dowell of Walnut Ridge notes that "he is the oldest real estate dealer in Walnut Ridge."
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A Hoxie liquor license debate goes to the courts; meanwhile a saloon opens in South Hoxie three miles from town.
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Another 500-mile pigeon race starts from Walnut Ridge.
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The Gazette notes that "Dr. Hughes' attorneys asserted that sentiment is so strong against the doctor in this county that a fair trial would be impossible."
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1911-02-06 Jackson Daily News MS pg 1
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A five-year-old boy accidentally shoots and kills his older sister, and is seriously injured by the recoil.
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Document, First National Bank of Walnut Ridge $10 Banknote
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A Walnut Ridge banknote featuring a portrait of President McKinley on the front; image courtesy Larry Dobbs.
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1906-05-13 Arkansas Democrat pg 5
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The Walnut Ridge town council establishes a curfew for youths and prohibits free-range hogs on town streets.
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1927-05-10 Wilmington News Journal DE pg 1
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At least twenty-two are killed by a tornado in Egypt, Hoxie, and Walnut Ridge.
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1911-06-10 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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A Walnut Ridge dentist and his wife kept their marriage a secret for two years.
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A farmer is kicked three times by his mule and dies from his injuries.
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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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1900-07-20 Arkansas Democrat pg 7
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An update on the new Walnut Ridge courthouse tells of the burning of the former courthouse the previous May.
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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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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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1902-01-28 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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Two men are injured in Walnut Ridge, one by an impact with a train while walking on railroad tracks and the other by slipping on frozen sleet.
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The Vicksburg Herald editorializes on the Bagley murder trial.
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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 house is destroyed in Walnut Ridge by an accidental fire.
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An African-American man working on a railroad tie train at WR was shot by the crew's cook for asking for a double serving of meat.
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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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1903-08-13 Houston Herald MO pg 2
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Walnut Ridge's amateur baseball team is defeated by a team from Houston, Missouri.
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1895-07-14 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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The Walnut Ridge Telephone newspaper comments on girls bicycling around town.
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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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1905-02-02 Arkansas Democrat pg 6
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Officials from Walnut Ridge and Hoxie visit Argenta (North Little Rock) to investigate whether a quarantine against the city is necessary due to smallpox.
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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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1905-05-25 Arkansas Democrat pg 8
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A train is wrecked by a cow at Walnut Ridge, but is still able to continue to Little Rock.
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1898-07-05 Arkansas Democrat pg 4
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A corporal from Walnut Ridge and his Paragould fiancee elope after a deciding coin flip, and drive overnight to WR en route to their marriage in Pocahontas.
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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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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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1900-03-07 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 8
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A man is trapped in a refrigerated boxcar at Walnut Ridge and is rescued three days later in St. Louis.
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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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1906-12-20 Arkansas Gazette pg 8
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The Cache Valley Railroad Company of Walnut Ridge announces an upcoming stockholders' meeting.
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2020-06-17T09:49:07-07:00
1929-10-01 Bridgewater Courier-News NJ pg 9
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Two Walnut Ridge sisters commit suicide after their parents follow them on a forbidden double-date.
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1913-07-16 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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An Arkansas Gazette broadside against the Times-Dispatch declares that the Walnut Ridge newspaper "is unique in Arkansas journalism because it is about the only paper published in the state that should be handled with tongs."
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Document, State of Arkansas v. Red, Lawrence County Circuit Court Indictment, March 1928
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Accuses a man named Red of selling liquor; document and image courtesy of the Northeast Arkansas Regional Archives, WRCC B89 F12.
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1911-10-11 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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The Belk murder case from Alicia goes up for re-trial in Walnut Ridge with a judge from Newport.
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1910-10-26 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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The coroner's jury exonerates Dr. Hughes of the murder of Alf Bagley, due to Hughes' plea of self-defense.
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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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1881-04-08 Chicago Daily Tribune, Hairbrush Testimonial
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A testimonial for "Dr. Scott's Electric Hair Brush" mentions that Col. Ponder, mayor of Walnut Ridge, found the device able to cure his headache; further details available at http://ataleoftwotowns.com/1881-electric-hairbrush-testimonial/.
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1912-01-24 St Louis Star & Times MO pg 1
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An article about St. Louis rail freight rates notes that the bulk lumber rate from Walnut Ridge to St. Louis stands at thirteen cents.
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1913-03-14 Arkansas Democrat pg 18
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The Lawrence County Eastern District's Circuit Court goes into session, with Wolf Benningfield's case expected to take up an entire week in itself.
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1907-12-03 Batesville Daily Guard pg 1
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The Walnut Ridge Blade has a correspondent stationed in Little Rock to survey the political landscape there.
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1930-09-18 West Plains Journal-Gazette MO pg 5
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A band instructor at Walnut Ridge has an asthma attack and returns to West Plains, Missouri, to recover.
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1915-12-21 Ferndale Enterprise CA pg 1
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A balloonist who accidentally cuts loose his parachute survives a fall of 500 feet at Walnut Ridge.
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Photo, First National Bank Building in Walnut Ridge, Circa 1920s
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Image courtesy of Larry Dobbs.
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1912-03-26 Arkansas Gazette pg 10
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The Walnut Ridge Blade writes an editorial explaining its support for Governor Donaghey's re-election.
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Ten jurors for the Benningfield re-trial are selected out of a venire of eighty men.
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1908-07-26 Inter Ocean Chicago IL pg 23
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A Ravenden real estate agent is listed along with S. C. Dowell of Walnut Ridge in the classified ads of a Chicago newspaper.
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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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1918-12-09 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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A Minturn correspondent declares the Walnut Ridge Blade to be "one of the best county papers in the state."
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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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1913-10-09 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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A trial is prepared for Dr. Hughes of Walnut Ridge for his alleged attack on Solon Crook, a relative of the Bagleys, in September 1912.
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1933-06-06 Hope Star pg 4 article 2
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A swarm of wild locusts invades Walnut Ridge and the surrounding countryside.
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1920-09-26 Pittsburgh Press PA pg 26
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A classified ad seeks agents for a Walnut Ridge company.
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1909-08-01 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 25
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A classified ad lists a 520-acre farm for sale near Walnut Ridge, most of it still forested.
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1935-05-01 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 19
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The manager of the Lawrence Hotel in Walnut Ridge is accused of orchestrating the burning of a Pocahontas hotel.
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1921-07-28 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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The Lawrence County Sheriff arrives at the jail to feed several prisoners, and in doing so foils a jailbreak.
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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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1914-12-03 Arkansas Democrat pg 9
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The first seven witnesses examined in the Hughes trial "swear to alleged facts which are damaging" to Hughes and Mrs. Lizzie Burell.
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1937-06-15 McKinney Courier-Gazette TX pg 2
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H. F. Vermillion is called as the pastor of First Baptist Church of Walnut Ridge.
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1922-03-12 Arkansas Democrat pg 29
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A ten-year-old from Walnut Ridge writes in to the children's page of the Arkansas Democrat.
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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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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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1938-03-31 Fayetteville NW Arkansas Times pg 4
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A tornado hits Minturn and passes south of Walnut Ridge, injuring at least ten people and killing two.
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1914-12-10 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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After being out 26 hours, the jury in the Hughes murder trial finds that it still cannot agree on a verdict, as a charge of second degree murder is barred by the statute of limitations.
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1910-10-24 Arkansas Gazette pg 9
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A classified ad lists for sale a pointer dog and two pups from Walnut Ridge.
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Postcard, Walnut Ridge First Baptist Church Sanctuary Under Construction, Circa Early 1910
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Depicts the construction of the church's second sanctuary after the first structure burned in 1908; image courtesy Larry Dobbs.
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1906-02-14 Arkansas Democrat pg 5
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An elaborate wedding takes place at the Dowell mansion in Walnut Ridge.
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1915-04-19 Arkansas Gazette pg 8
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Two special Iron Mountain Railroad cars are reserved to transport the multitude of witnesses from Lawrence County to Batesville for the trial of Dr. Hughes.
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1911-04-09 Arkansas Gazette pg 47
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A new 1911 model 4 hp motorcycle is listed for sale in Walnut Ridge.
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1906-05-27 Arkansas Democrat pg 2
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A list of Walnut Ridge social news notes that "quite a large party of young people spent Sunday fishing in Cache River, near Sedgwick."
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1911-06-18 Arkansas Gazette pg 36
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A classified ad requests construction bids for a new jail at Walnut Ridge.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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1902-05-21 Arkansas Democrat pg 5
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Walnut Ridge votes to build a $10,000 school building, and the Hoxie school district votes to add a 1-mill tax for a building fund.
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1893-12-20 Decatur Herald & Review IL pg 8
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The loss in the M. V. Camp house fire is $5,000, with no insurance.
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2020-05-13T19:43:22-07:00
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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1903-03-27 Arkansas Democrat pg 7
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A Walnut Ridge resident stopping by Little Rock gives a reporter an update on the WR-Hoxie streetcar line's progress.
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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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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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1903-08-27 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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The efforts of the Business Men's League of Walnut Ridge help bring a prospective factory to town.
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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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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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1905-02-04 Arkansas Democrat pg 3
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Senator McCall of Portia brings up a bill in the AR legislature that requires trains to stop in Walnut Ridge, and is quizzed about the 1903 Hoxie-Walnut Ridge Act by other senators.
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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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2020-05-17T15:36:57-07:00
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1905-05-28 Arkansas Democrat pg 5
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The Walnut Ridge Public School closes for the summer; only three teachers are listed as faculty.
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1898-07-15 Green Bay Press-Gazette WI pg 5
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Homing pigeons are again released from Walnut Ridge for a 600-mile flight to Wisconsin, but one bird is shot en route at Reyno.
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1905-07-18 Ozark Tribune AL pg 3
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A letter from Walnut Ridge, "a thrifty little city," details the outlook for the cotton crop in the mid-South.
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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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1900-03-07 St Louis Republic MO pg 14
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A different newspaper gives a very different account of John Pettis's boxcar journey from Walnut Ridge to St. Louis, saying he was trapped in the car for six days rather than three.
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2020-05-17T20:37:10-07:00
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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1913-08-05 Montgomery Times AL pg 1
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Two out of three inmates escape from the Walnut Ridge jail using iron bars secretly given to them.
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2020-06-12T14:25:42-07:00
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Document, State of Arkansas v. Sam Phipps, Lawrence County Circuit Court Papers, October 1928
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Sam Phipps is accused of stealing "one animal of the cattle kind"; document and image courtesy of the Northeast Arkansas Regional Archives, WRCC B89 F14 & F15.
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1911-10-16 Shreveport Times LA pg 1
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A special train is chartered from Walnut Ridge to Black Rock to transport 500 people attending a baptismal service at the Black River.
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2020-06-11T12:19:13-07:00
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1910-10-26 Jonesboro Daily Tribune pg 1
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At the inquest, Dr. Hughes "stated that he had been hounded by [Alf] Bagley for some time, and from threats that came to his ears, he made up his mind that he must either kill Bagley or Bagley would kill him."
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1914-07-29 Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune MO pg 1
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A Walnut Ridge woman dies "from overjoy, ...her long cherished hope realized when she was told her daughter had professed religion."
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1927-05 Walnut Ridge Blade, Section of Front Page
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A partial section of the front page of the Walnut Ridge Blade's edition shortly after the destructive May 9 tornado, likely published two days afterwards; image courtesy of Dwight Lane.
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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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1913-03-14 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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The Benningfield murder trial continues; it is noted that "the case has attracted wide attention and the capacity of the courtroom was taxed today."
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1908-01-30 Nashville Baptist & Reflector TN pg 5
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Reverend Joseph Connell is congratulated by Tennessee friends on the occasion of his becoming pastor of First Baptist Church of Walnut Ridge.
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2020-06-17T13:01:39-07:00
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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1916-02-15 Batesville Daily Guard pg 1
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Two burglars from Alicia knock the Lawrence County Sheriff in the head and escape into the darkness.
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2020-06-13T13:05:22-07:00
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Photo, Danny's Place Restaurant, Walnut Ridge, Circa 1925-1930
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Printed in the Times-Dispatch, with a caption that notes, "Louise and Danny Tolson stand in front of their sandwich and drink establishment in the late 1920s. The business was located at the corner of Main & Front Streets in Walnut Ridge." Image courtesy of Wendell Tolson and James Whitlow.
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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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1913-03-26 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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The Benningfield trial's jury is completed, but one man is then excused on account of an illness in the family.
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1908-07-31 Batesville Guard pg 4
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The Walnut Ridge Blade editor acknowledges a gift made to him of a large bass caught on a Sunday.
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2020-06-17T14:52:56-07:00
1931-01-14 Bridgewater Courier-News NJ pg 11
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J. F. Israel, Lawrence County officer of the peace for fifty years, says that while he would excuse a thief with a genuine starvation plea, he has found such claims to be rarely credible.
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1919-01-11 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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Two men talk on the streets of Walnut Ridge about feeling unlucky.
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media/1912-06-22 Ad, Jaggers and Hall of WR Advertise Saying 200 Farms to Sell - Topeka KS pg 19_thumb.png
2020-06-11T15:52:26-07:00
1912-06-22 Topeka Kansas Farmer & Mail & Breeze KS pg 19
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The firm Jaggers & Hall of Walnut Ridge advertises that they have "200 farms to dispose of at once in Arkansas."
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1913-10-12 Memphis Commercial Appeal TN pg 16
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Dr. Hughes gets a $200 fine and an hour in jail for his September 1912 assault on Solon Crook "with attempt to kill."
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2020-06-07T18:28:06-07:00
1909-01-12 Poplar Bluff Weekly Citizen Democrat MO pg 2
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A Walnut Ridge man has his leg severed by a freight train.
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1935-01-03 Newman West Side Index CA pg 7
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A Walnut Ridge squirrel hunter finds that cawing crows often lead him to his prey.
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1920-10-19 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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A pedestrian crossing a street in Walnut Ridge is injured by a passing auto.
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2020-06-11T19:05:16-07:00
1912-10-27 Arkansas Gazette pg 12
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A Jackson, Tennessee, land auction company stops in Walnut Ridge on an auction tour.
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2020-07-07T14:58:23-07:00
1914-10-26 Arkansas Democrat pg 6
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The Democrat notes that "Dr. Hughes, although reticent, declared... that he is confident he will be exonerated when his trial is held."
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2020-06-07T19:35:01-07:00
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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1936-11-07 Blytheville Courier News pg 6
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The Walnut Ridge Bobcats defeat Paragould 6-0 in high school football.
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2020-06-16T15:23:40-07:00
1921-08-07 Arkansas Gazette pg 42
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The Lawrence Hotel in Walnut Ridge is listed for sale in an Arkansas Gazette classified ad.
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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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1914-12-03 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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Congressman Caraway alleges that Dr. Hughes had "conspired with [Mrs. Burell] to kill the entire family" of Bagleys.
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2020-06-18T13:22:19-07:00
1936-12-28 Montreal Gazette Quebec Canada pg 15
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A blind Walnut Ridge hen still raises a brood of chicks in her eighteenth year, the odds of which are thought to be 1 in 6 million.
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2020-06-16T18:27:46-07:00
1922-03-18 Bartlesville Morning Examiner OK pg 1
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A Missouri man is sentenced to life in prison for murdering a man during an Alicia bank robbery.
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2020-06-16T18:29:13-07:00
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1910-09-28 Chicago Tribune IL pg 4
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An advertisement for the Lawrence County exhibits at a land show in Chicago declares that the county is the "greatest watermelon district in Arkansas," and identifies other successful crops in the county as "berries of all sorts, muskmelons, sweet and Irish potatoes."
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1938-10-31 Hope Star pg 1
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A fifteen-year-old from near Ravenden is held in Walnut Ridge on a charge of murdering his father.
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2020-06-18T14:37:23-07:00
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1914-12-11 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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Dr. Hughes and Mrs. Burell give bond, and Judge Jeffery warns that "it might be proper to hull and eat peanuts in church or an opera house, but that it was clearly out of place in a court room."
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1910-10-26 Brainerd Daily Dispatch MN pg 1
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Another news account describes why the now-acquitted Langston had been considered a suspect in the Shirey murder case.
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1915-04-26 St Louis Star & Times pg 1
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The Star & Times notes that there might have been some connection between the Bagley-Ridgeway Feud and the murder of A. W. Shirey of Minturn.
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1911-04-16 Hutchinson Gazette KS pg 8
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A jury fails to convict an Alicia woman who stabbed another woman to death on a sidewalk.
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2020-06-06T08:40:11-07:00
1906-05-30 Arkansas Democrat pg 8
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A 96-year-old Walnut Ridge woman dies from fall injuries.
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1911-07-15 Monroe News-Star LA pg 1
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The Lawrence County Judge marries two people who have each been married four times previously.
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2020-05-17T20:43:54-07:00
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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2020-05-13T12:46:12-07:00
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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2020-06-03T09:20:46-07:00
1901-01-24 Davenport Morning Star IA pg 1
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Criminals attempting to wreck an express train near Walnut Ridge instead wreck a St. Louis to Mexico tourist train.
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2020-06-03T09:39:10-07:00
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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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1892-11-08 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 3
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An elderly lady dies when trying to walk around a passenger train in Walnut Ridge.
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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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1902-02-19 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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The Lawrence County Telephone newspaper comments on the Boer War in South Africa.
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2020-05-08T09:51:29-07:00
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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2020-05-08T09:53:03-07:00
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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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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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2020-06-03T17:51:40-07:00
1902-05-22 Poplar Bluff Citizen MO pg 1
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A Poplar Bluff newspaper expresses its concern that the town may lose the Iron Mountain Railroad division point to Walnut Ridge.
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2020-06-03T17:55:02-07:00
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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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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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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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1903-09-06 Arkansas Democrat pg 8
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The Walnut Ridge Blade notes that the HP&N Railroad may replace the steel rails between Hoxie and Pocahontas.
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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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2020-06-04T15:19:06-07:00
1904-04-24 Arkansas Democrat pg 6
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A Republican convention takes place in Walnut Ridge for Arkansas's Second Congressional District.
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1897-07-14 Green Bay Press-Gazette WI pg 5
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A second update on the status of the pigeons released from Walnut Ridge notes that one bird has now completed the 600-mile journey.
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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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2020-06-04T18:11:15-07:00
1905-02-26 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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The Walnut Ridge Board of Health refuses to remove a smallpox patient from the Iron Mountain Railroad depot.
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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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1905-06-04 Arkansas Democrat pg 16
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Another list of travelers to and from Walnut Ridge includes businessmen, those visiting friends, and one man just passing through.
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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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Three Arkansas gubernatorial candidates speak at Walnut Ridge during a barbecue held at the WR fairgrounds.
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The board of health of eastern Lawrence County reassures the public that there are no cases of yellow fever in WR or Hoxie.
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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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1900-05-15 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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A Walnut Ridge man describes his experience visiting Honolulu and Manila.
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1911-07-18 Evening Star Washington DC pg 2
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Both Arkansas senators call on President Taft to persuade him to sign the commission for a nominee for Walnut Ridge postmistress.
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Dr. J. C. Hughes of Walnut Ridge fires six shots at Alf Bagley; the article notes "Bagley is alleged to have said that he would 'get Dr. Hughes before it frosted.'"
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1906-12-21 Pine Bluff Daily Graphic pg 6
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A Minturn-area man dies not long after daytime drinking, and his stomach is brought to Walnut Ridge for further analysis.
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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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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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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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Dr. J. C. Hughes of Walnut Ridge narrowly escapes a midnight assassination attempt.
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1930-06-10 Sacramento Bee CA pg 6
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A justice of the peace drives a car with bullet holes and sections missing due to thievery, but "insists to ambitious motor salesmen that it is only beginning to perform."
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1914-08-12 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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The Walnut Ridge Blade describes the increase in autos in WR in a year's time, declaring that "the auto fad or craze has come to stay."
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Wolf Benningfield's murder case results in a mistrial, as the jury could not all agree on a charge of first/second degree murder or manslaughter.
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Postcard, Rhea Hotel, Walnut Ridge, 1914, Front of Card
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Front side of a postcard dated September 10, 1914; image courtesy of Larry Dobbs.
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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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1930-10-29 St Louis Star and Times MO pg 2
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A young lady in Walnut Ridge shoots her brother because of his date.
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1917-05-29 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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Three students graduate from Walnut Ridge High School, with commencement week addresses by the Presbyterian minister and Senator Ponder.
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Photo, Walnut Ridge High School 1923 Building
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A color photo of the school building constructed in 1923, taken before the structure burned in 1957; image courtesy of Larry Dobbs.
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1913-03-26 Jonesboro Daily Tribune pg 3
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Congressman Caraway returns to Walnut Ridge to assist in the Benningfield trial, and "it is stated that the work of Mr. Caraway has had a very gratifying effect on the citizenship of Walnut Ridge."
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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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A car plunges one hundred feet from a bridge, perhaps at Powhatan, killing one and injuring another.
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1919-04-22 Atlanta Constitution GA pg 8
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The Walnut Ridge Blade describes a very accident-prone man.
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Photo, Cotton Bales in Walnut Ridge, November 1908
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Depicts a massive amount of cotton awaiting shipment by the Iron Mountain Railroad; image courtesy of the Lawrence County Historical Society.
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A Walnut Ridge resident writes in to a St. Louis newspaper's naming contest for Col. Roosevelt's new political party.
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1914-09-23 Batesville Daily Guard pg 3
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Walnut Ridge resident Solon Crook, who "had long been a figure in the Bagley-Hughes feud," is shot and killed.
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1909-02-04 Nashville Baptist & Reflector TN pg 5
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The pastor of First Baptist Church in Walnut Ridge accepts a position in Fort Smith, but changes his mind after the congregation at WR entreats him to stay.
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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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1912-10-28 Arkansas Democrat pg 10
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The Arkansas Democrat and Walnut Ridge Blade make quips about the upcoming election day.
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1914-10-26 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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The Gazette notes that Dr. Hughes says he "feels the indictments [against him] are the result of ill-feeling on the part of relatives of the Bagleys."
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1909-10-22 Poplar Bluff Weekly Citizen Democrat MO pg 1
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A Poplar Bluff architect/contractor is enlisted to help build the new sanctuary for First Baptist Church of Walnut Ridge.
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Two sisters both file suit for breach of promise in the Lawrence County Circuit Court.
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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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1914-12-04 Arkansas Democrat pgs 1 & 15
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Mrs. Burell's brother alleges that she declared "No man ever crossed my path and got away with it except Colonel Ponder, and he died just before I got to him."
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1935-11-25 Sioux City Journal IA pg 6
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Ripley's Believe It or Not features a Walnut Ridge ice cream manufacturer who has not sampled any of his product in 40 years.
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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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1914-12-06 Arkansas Gazette pg 7
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A dramatic outburst occurs in the trial of Dr. Hughes, and testimonies are given by Mrs. Burell and her son-in-law, former sheriff W. K. Surridge.
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1910-09-29 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 21
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A classified ad from Walnut Ridge announces a request for a 1910 Hupmobile car.
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Buildings at W. R. Lane's ice plant in Walnut Ridge are retrofitted for residences.
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A woman is killed in a hit-and-run accident while walking to church along Highway 67 near Walnut Ridge.
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1923-01-15 Arkansas Gazette pg 7
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920 acres of Lawrence County land, including three houses and a barn, are listed for sale.
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The Sun notes that "there was only a quiet demonstration among the relatives and friends when Judge Jefferys announced his decision to grant bail."
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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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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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1926-04-07 Mt Carmel Daily News PA pg 5
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A belated murder confession in a Walnut Ridge courtroom saves an innocent man from prison.
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The Lawrence County Judge estimates that the Hughes trial in Batesville cost the county $2500 (the equivalent of more than $60,000 today).
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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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1906-06-05 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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A special election is held in Walnut Ridge to determine the site location for the new school building.
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1927-07-01 Green Bay Press-Gazette WI pg 8
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Another 600-mile pigeon race to Wisconsin begins in Walnut Ridge on a Saturday morning.
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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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Editor Baldwin of the Beebe Magnet newspaper moves his press to Walnut Ridge and starts the Lawrence County Journal.
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1901-05-09 Poplar Bluff Citizen MO pg 12
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A festive ball is held in Walnut Ridge, with special invitations sent out to members of Elk lodges and the Travelers Protective Association (based at the time out of St. Louis).
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The jury for the Bagley trial is selected, after an examination of 112 men.
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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 goes to Walnut Ridge to buy mules, falls in love with the step-daughter of his Thanksgiving dinner host at WR, and the two are later married.
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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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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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It is reported that $100,000 will be spent by the Iron Mountain Railroad on various improvements at Walnut Ridge.
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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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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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1882-12-08 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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A head-on train collision occurs between Walnut Ridge and Hoxie, with light injuries reported.
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A Walnut Ridge sawmill operator dies of a broken blood vessel while doing everyday repairs.
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The Arkansas Democrat notes Lawrence County's Republican ticket for the upcoming election.
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A third update on the pigeons released from Walnut Ridge notes that only six out of thirteen birds have returned after almost two weeks.
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An Iron Mountain train carrying Grand Army of the Republic members wrecks near Walnut Ridge.
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The editor of the Walnut Ridge Blade comments on commerce, transportation, and smallpox in WR.
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A Portia man leases land in Southern Missouri for ore mining.
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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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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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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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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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1900-06-29 Arkansas Democrat pg 6
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The Walnut Ridge Telephone newspaper remarks on the discovery near Marked Tree of a stone cask of ancient corn.
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Object, Grimes Drinks Sign, Circa 1935-1940
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A second sign from Grimes Soda Company of Walnut Ridge, advertising their Grimes Kola; image courtesy of Ben Johnson.
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1911-07-18 Arkansas Gazette pg 10
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A runabout-style car goes up for sale in Walnut Ridge.
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1910-09-15 Jonesboro Daily Tribune pg 1
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A Jonesboro man who had been in WR at the time of the Hughes-Bagley shooting reports that there were several tense exchanges between the two men before shots were fired.
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1906-12-22 Anaconda Standard MT pg 3
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Two rabbit hunters stumble across an infant boy buried alive in a bread tin; the article does not make clear if the child was alive or dead when found.
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1930-01-03 Oakland Tribune CA pg 10
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A Walnut Ridge man is fined twenty-five dollars because of his pet possum.
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1913-11-19 Jonesboro Evening Sun pg 1
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The digging of Running Water Ditch begins, at a cost of $36,000.
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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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1911-11-01 Arkansas Gazette pg 13
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Another runabout-style car is listed for sale in Walnut Ridge.
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1912-10-09 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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N. E. Bagley, widow of Isom Bagley, offers a $1000 reward for info leading to the identification and arrest of her late husband's murderer.
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media/1930-07-19 WR-Hoxie Utility Companies Business Deal - St Louis Globe-Democrat pg 16_thumb.png
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1930-07-19 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 16
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A utility company acquires a Walnut Ridge water service and a fifty-year Hoxie water franchise.
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1914-12-15 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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The Gazette describes plans for a (never-built) three-story Hotel Rhea on Main Street in WR to replace the two-story edifice that burnt.
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Photo, J. D. Doyle House near Walnut Ridge, 1910
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Image courtesy of Larry Dobbs, who notes, "This is the home of County Judge J. D. Doyle in 1910. The Judge is at the right next to his horse. This home was located at the corner of Old Pocahontas Road and Rebecca Lane."
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media/1913-03-17 Jonesboro Daily Tribune pg 3 - Congressman Caraway Returns from WR Trial_thumb.png
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1913-03-17 Jonesboro Daily Tribune pg 3
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Congressman Caraway returns to Jonesboro after helping out in the Benningfield trial at Walnut Ridge.
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2020-07-07T12:31:12-07:00
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media/WR Rhea Hotel - Larry Dobbs WR and Hoxie FB Apr 2015 - Postcard Back_thumb.jpg
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Document, Rhea Hotel Postcard, Walnut Ridge, 1919, Back of Card
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The postcard lists "Lennington & Powers" as proprietors of the hotel; image courtesy of Larry Dobbs.
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media/1908-03-22 Help Wanted Ad for General Store Employee - Arkansas Gazette pg 24_thumb.png
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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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2020-06-17T13:11:00-07:00
1930-10-30 Blytheville Courier News pg 1
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Thieves strike four Walnut Ridge houses in the same night and attempt to target six more.
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media/1917-05-29 WR-Hoxie Compress Company Formed, With Local Stock Holders - AR Gazette pg 2_thumb.png
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1917-05-29 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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A Walnut Ridge-Hoxie Compress Company is formed by a coalition of local and nonresident stockholders.
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2020-07-09T13:20:22-07:00
Postcard, Iron Mountain Depot, Walnut Ridge
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Depicts the depot built in 1908 for the St. Louis, Iron Mountain, & Southern Railway; to the left is the Airdome Theater. Image courtesy of Larry Dobbs.
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1913-03-27 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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A jury for the Benningfield trial, "all young farmers and timber men," is finally achieved; three are excused from the jury due to "compunctions of conscience."
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1908-10-16 Columbia Herald & Mail TN pg 6
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An elaborate reception is held in Walnut Ridge for newlyweds Judge and Mrs. Harry Lee Ponder.
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media/1931-02-05 LawCo County Agent Dropped Due to Lack of Funds - Poplar Bluff MO pg 6_thumb.png
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1931-02-05 Poplar Bluff Republican MO pg 6
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Lawrence County's county extension agent is removed from the payroll due to a lack of funds.
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1919-06-16 Boston Globe MA pg 18
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S. J. Killow of Walnut Ridge marries his twelfth wife, setting "what may be the marriage record of the United States."
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media/WR-Hoxie Trolley American Car Co St Louis MO Mar 13 1912 - LCHS Via Larry Dobbs Post July 2011_thumb.jpg
2020-07-10T09:13:25-07:00
Photo, WR-Hoxie Streetcar, American Car Co, St Louis MO, 1912
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An image of a streetcar built for the Walnut Ridge & Hoxie line, stamped March 13, 1912; image courtesy of the Lawrence County Historical Society.
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media/1912-07-15 Classified Ad, Cutter Wanted for WR Tailor - St Louis Globe-Democrat pg 10_thumb.png
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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1914-09-30 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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A coroner's jury continues to investigate the murder of Solon Crook nearly a week after his demise.
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1909-02-05 New York Wall Street Journal NY pg 8
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The First National Bank of Walnut Ridge is formally established.
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media/1921-01-03 WR Blade Quip Included in Papers Sharpshoots Section - Fall Rivers MA pg 6_thumb.png
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1921-01-03 Fall River Daily Evening News MA pg 6
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A quip from the Walnut Ridge Blade makes it into a Massachusetts newspaper's "sharpshooters" quote list.
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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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1914-11-28 Jonesboro Daily Tribune pg 1
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More arrests are made in Walnut Ridge in connection to the Bagley-Ridgeway feud, including Mrs. Lizzie Burrell and an unnamed farmer.
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media/1909-10-24 Ad for Agents Wanted for Staple Article By WR Firm - Washington DC pg 76_thumb.png
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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2020-06-16T15:38:04-07:00
1921-12-28 Indiana Progress PA pg 5
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A Walnut Ridge farmer's request to have his dog and chickens buried with him is honored, though his mule is spared.
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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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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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1922-05-02 Arkansas Gazette pg 13
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Snap corn is listed for sale in a classified ad from Walnut Ridge.
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1914-12-07 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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Farmer L. A. Bland, suspected in the death of Solon Crook, is released after insufficient evidence is found for an indictment.
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1910-10-13 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 11
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A classified ad lists 160 acres for sale near Walnut Ridge.
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1905-10-10 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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Political speeches are made at Walnut Ridge by the Arkansas Attorney General, a senator and two congressional candidates, and a candidate for governor.
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1939-10-06 Hope Star pg 1
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The Hope Star gives a description of the 1939 Walnut Ridge football team before game day.
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media/1923-04-05 Ad for WR Woman Looking for Work as Stenographer - Joplin Globe MO pg 11_thumb.png
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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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1915-01-17 Arkansas Gazette pg 3
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The barn and house of L. A. "Kirby" Bland, who had been arrested in connection with the murder of Solon Crook, are burned by arsonists.
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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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1906-03-01 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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A Walnut Ridge dwelling burns to the ground, but neighbors are able to help salvage many of the family's belongings.
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1911-05-14 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 14
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The Walnut Ridge postmaster resigns due to his wife's poor health.
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1906-06-14 Arkansas Democrat pg 8
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The Iron Mountain Railroad is fined $18,000 for failure to stop its trains in Walnut Ridge in accordance with a new state law.
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1927-11-16 Batesville Guard pg 1
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The Walnut Ridge-Hoxie streetcar line ceases operations, despite its 99-year franchise.
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2020-05-26T09:34:07-07:00
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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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/1901-09-24 AR Democrat Correspondent Visits, Describes WR and Pocahontas - AR Democrat pg 5_thumb.png
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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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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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media/1893-01-04 Five LawCo Saloon Licenses Granted, 4 in WR and 1 in Hoxie - Memphis TN pg 3_thumb.png
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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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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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1902-03-21 West Plains Journal-Gazette MO pg 3
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A Walnut Ridge widow settles with the Frisco Railroad over the death of her husband on the Hoxie depot platform by a passing train.
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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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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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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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1902-06-24 Fort Smith Times pg 5
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The Jonesboro Enterprise notes that the Iron Mountain Railroad division point might end up in Hoxie rather than Walnut Ridge, and declares that WR "will be ruined as a town" if that is the case.
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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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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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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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1897-02-18 Fort Scott Weekly Tribune KS pg 3
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A letter from Walnut Ridge describes examples of animal cruelty and neglect from around the city.
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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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1904-11-05 Huntington Daily News-Democrat IN pg 9
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A circus company presents a show at Walnut Ridge.
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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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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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1898-04-30 Arkansas Democrat pg 4
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A Walnut Ridge Athletic Association emerges victorious at a Little Rock amateur track meet.
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1905-06-14 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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The editor of the Walnut Ridge Blade predicts that Walnut Ridge and Hoxie will soon "grow together," but never consolidate.
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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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1899-01-04 Nashville Tennessean TN pg 4
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Four small children in WR eat a can of sardines and get food poisoning; three of them later die.
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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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1889-06-30 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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The Walnut Ridge & Hoxie Street Car Company is incorporated.
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2020-05-17T15:42:55-07:00
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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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2020-05-12T13:35:54-07:00
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1911-07-22 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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The Walnut Ridge Blade notes that local artist Ed Lady "has developed into a fine artist with the brush."
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1910-10-23 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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Alf Bagley is shot and killed on the streets of Walnut Ridge, followed by the murder of his father I. J. Bagley two hours later.
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2020-07-07T09:06:46-07:00
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2020-06-06T12:29:01-07:00
1907-04-07 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 32
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A classified ad for A. M. Le Fon of Walnut Ridge notes his real estate experience selling Northeast Arkansas bottomlands.
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2020-06-06T12:29:59-07:00
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1930-01-30 Selma Times-Journal AL pg 5
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The medicine Thedford's Black Draught runs an ad featuring a testimonial from Walnut Ridge.
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2020-06-17T10:13:46-07:00
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1913-12-18 Arkansas Democrat pg 16
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A Powhatan farmer visits Walnut Ridge to take Christmas tree orders.
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2020-06-12T14:58:32-07:00
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2020-06-11T12:29:50-07:00
1911-11-26 Arkansas Gazette pg 22
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The Times-Dispatch endorses former Lawrence County Sheriff W. K. Surridge in his candidacy for a state commissioner position.
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2020-06-11T12:33:36-07:00
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1912-10-10 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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John Bagley is shot five times by carpenter Wolf Benningfield while they and four others were gathered at contractor Solon Crook's office.
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2020-07-07T10:26:28-07:00
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1907-05-28 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 2
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Another news account notes that the man who deboarded his train at Walnut Ridge rather than Pine Bluff had recently been released from a St. Louis asylum and had been placed in the care of a conductor for the trip.
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2020-06-07T09:02:12-07:00
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1915-01-20 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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The Walnut Ridge Blade recounts how several local kids had never seen blue Civil War coats before.
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2020-06-12T16:14:16-07:00
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Photo, Snapp Motor Company, Walnut Ridge, 1938
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Image courtesy of Larry Dobbs, who identifies those pictured in the garage as "Richard Spurlock, Earl Campbell, John Lingo, Steve Smith, J. L. Foster and unknown. They are standing around a then modern machine called the Ford Laboratory Test Set."
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2020-07-09T08:35:30-07:00
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1912-02-25 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 31
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Walnut Ridge School District bonds are listed for sale in a St. Louis newspaper advertisement.
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2020-06-11T13:24:16-07:00
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1913-03-18 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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Five are charged with contempt of court after concerns are raised about jury tampering in the Benningfield trial.
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2020-07-07T12:48:33-07:00
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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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2020-06-07T12:16:16-07:00
1908-03-26 Nashville Baptist & Reflector TN pg 4
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A camp meeting hosted by First Baptist Church of Walnut Ridge results in 77 conversions and 67 new church members.
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2020-06-07T12:18:02-07:00
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2020-06-17T13:15:17-07:00
1930-11-01 Blytheville Courier News pg 1
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The young woman from Walnut Ridge who shot her brother waives her murder hearing.
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2020-06-17T13:17:15-07:00
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1917-11-11 Arkansas Gazette pg 10
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The state convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union is held at Walnut Ridge.
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2020-06-15T09:57:00-07:00
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2020-06-11T15:26:47-07:00
1912-05-19 Arkansas Gazette pg 34
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A 200-acre rice farm, complete with pumping station, goes up for sale near Walnut Ridge.
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2020-06-11T15:28:21-07:00
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1913-03-29 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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Wolf Benningfield is declared guilty of second-degree murder and is sentenced to twenty years in prison.
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2020-07-07T13:34:42-07:00
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2020-06-07T13:10:45-07:00
1908-11-14 Martinsville Reporter-Times IN pg 2
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A three-year-old from Walnut Ridge confuses the first snow he's ever seen for cotton.
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2020-06-07T13:12:02-07:00
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1931-03-26 Poplar Bluff Republican MO pg 8
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A former WR restaurant owner is indicted for failing to mention, when selling the business, that the equipment is still mortgaged.
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2020-06-17T15:53:40-07:00
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1920-02-27 Winona Times MS pg 9
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The Walnut Ridge Blade makes a wisecrack about inventors' changing priorities.
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2020-06-15T13:55:59-07:00
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2020-06-11T18:18:47-07:00
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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2020-06-11T18:20:32-07:00
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1914-10-01 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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The superintendent of Pinkerton's National Detective Agency arrives in Walnut Ridge to help solve the mystery of Solon Crook's death.
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2020-07-07T14:22:26-07:00
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1909-04-22 Wahpeton Times ND pg 1
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A feasibility study for a North Dakota streetcar line notes that the Walnut Ridge-Hoxie streetcar has an income of $4.35 per capita.
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2020-06-07T18:49:07-07:00
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1935-04-25 Menasha Record WI pg 4
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A 94-year-old Walnut Ridge woman walks a mile a day, "just for the exercise."
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2020-06-17T19:06:15-07:00
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1921-04-21 Arkansas Gazette pg 12
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Fifteen hundred bushels of Honduras seed rice are advertised for sale in Walnut Ridge.
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2020-06-16T09:02:13-07:00
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1912-11-07 Salem Post & Democrat-Bulletin MO pg 2
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City marshal/First Baptist Church minister J. P. Biggers is shot and killed during a street carnival.
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2020-06-11T19:21:04-07:00
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1914-11-28 Jonesboro Evening Sun pg 1
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Walnut Ridge farmer and dairyman Lycurgus Bland is arrested under suspicion of being Solon Crook's murderer.
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2020-07-07T15:43:48-07:00
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2020-06-07T20:14:59-07:00
1909-11-07 Spokane Spokesman-Review WA pg 23
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A Michigan minister who eloped with his third co-wife to Walnut Ridge, and later allegedly tried to poison her, faces charges of bigamy.
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2020-06-07T20:19:07-07:00
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2020-06-18T12:44:06-07:00
1935-06-15 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 20
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Another article on the death of a man at a Hoxie railroad crossing notes that a plane was chartered to bring the body to St. Louis.
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1921-12-30 Arkansas Democrat pg 6
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The Odd Fellows organization sells more than 2,000 acres of land bequeathed to them by A. W. Shirey of Minturn.
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2020-06-16T15:47:19-07:00
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1913-04-10 Arkansas Gazette pg 9
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Former city marshal of Hoxie Lon Easley applies for bond.
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2020-06-12T08:17:55-07:00
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2020-06-10T08:44:44-07:00
1910-03-12 Montgomery Advertiser AL pg 2
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A traveling salesman smothers to death in a folding bed at a Walnut Ridge hotel.
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2020-06-10T08:45:44-07:00
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2020-06-18T13:41:04-07:00
1937-03-26 Thayer News MO pg 1
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The obituary of a Thayer man mentions that, after the Civil War, he had brought his wagon to a camp yard at what became Walnut Ridge.
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2020-06-18T13:45:18-07:00
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1922-07-27 St Albans Daily Messenger VT pg 5
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A "moving fever" spreads throughout the citizenry of Walnut Ridge.
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2020-06-16T18:54:33-07:00
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1914-12-07 Arkansas Democrat pg 1
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As the Hughes murder trial continues, some spectators bring their lunches, "determined to hold their seats and miss none of the argument."
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1905-12-29 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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Editor Riley of the Walnut Ridge Blade says that the Cache Valley Railroad may extend to WR and Paragould.
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2020-06-05T13:36:23-07:00
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1939-10-06 Hope Star pg 1- Headline
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The Hope Star's headlines include an announcement of the upcoming football game against Walnut Ridge, and a development in an ill-fated attempt at peace with Nazi Germany.
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2020-06-18T14:52:23-07:00
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1923-06-13 Poplar Bluff Weekly Citizen Democrat MO pg 3
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Accusations that a Lawrence County woman gave away whiskey are dismissed in a court hearing.
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1915-03-09 Arkansas Gazette pg 2
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The circuit court of Lawrence County's Eastern District reconvenes, with 94 civil cases and 35 criminal cases on the docket, including Dr. Hughes' retrial.
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2020-07-08T08:46:15-07:00
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2020-06-10T12:21:11-07:00
1910-11-06 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 32
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S. C. Dowell of Walnut Ridge successfully grows fifty acres of rice, having harvested 5000 bushels total.
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2020-06-10T12:25:57-07:00
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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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Document, Walnut Ridge High School Commencement Program, 1931
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Includes the class role and program schedule; document courtesy of Gilbert S. Rainey.
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2020-07-08T12:23:52-07:00
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1911-05-29 Arkansas Gazette pg 9
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A classified ad lists for sale a 1911 Indian 5 hp motorcycle in Walnut Ridge.
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2020-06-10T13:36:05-07:00
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1906-08-02 Nashville Baptist and Reflector TN pg 3
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A successful revival is held in Walnut Ridge that "had the fourth of July and Carrie A. Nation's visit to the town to contend against."
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2020-06-06T09:14:55-07:00
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2020-06-17T08:57:16-07:00
1927-12-15 Poplar Bluff Weekly Citizen Democrat MO pg 4 article 2
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A hunter charged with drunkenness says he "just happened" to find a bottle of liquor when he came to town.
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2020-06-17T08:59:09-07:00
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2020-06-02T19:56:20-07:00
1900-07-18 Arkansas Gazette pg 8
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A weather report from Walnut Ridge gives crop updates on cotton, corn, wheat, peas, and watermelons.
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2020-06-02T19:59:26-07:00
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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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2020-05-26T11:54:41-07:00
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2020-05-13T13:47:07-07:00
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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2020-05-13T13:52:04-07:00
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2020-06-03T10:51:03-07:00
1901-09-30 Arkansas Democrat pg 4
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A Walnut Ridge citizen, perhaps John S. Gibson, writes a letter to the AR Democrat about the AR Railroad Commission and U.S. Senate race.
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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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2020-05-26T14:44:31-07:00
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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2020-05-26T14:47:15-07:00
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2020-06-03T14:57:34-07:00
1902-05-09 Arkansas Gazette pg 8
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The Iron Mountain Railroad superintendent stops in Walnut Ridge regarding the creation of a new division point there.
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2020-06-03T17:28:21-07:00
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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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2020-05-08T10:13:02-07:00
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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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2020-05-27T07:51:01-07:00
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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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2020-06-03T18:17:32-07:00
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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2020-06-03T18:21:55-07:00
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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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2020-06-03T20:24:32-07:00
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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2020-06-03T20:25:15-07:00
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2020-05-14T09:12:16-07:00
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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2020-05-14T09:14:19-07:00
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1897-03-31 Owensboro Twice-A-Week Messenger KY pg 4
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A Kentucky man declares that he will "take his family to Walnut Ridge, Ark., or somewhere in Missouri."
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2020-05-14T12:33:13-07:00
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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2020-05-14T12:35:23-07:00
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2020-06-04T15:59:13-07:00
1905-01-16 Mount Carmel Daily Republican-Register IL pg 3
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A Walnut Ridge barn and the vehicles and horses inside of it are consumed by fire.
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2020-06-04T16:00:35-07:00
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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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2020-05-30T16:10:38-07:00
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2020-05-17T14:27:44-07:00
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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2020-05-17T14:31:34-07:00
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2020-05-30T21:08:04-07:00
1898-05-31 Chattanooga Daily Times TN pg 5
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The Second Arkansas Regiment leaves for Tennessee, and Company C from Walnut Ridge brings a 3-ft-long carved replica of the U.S.S. Maine.
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2020-06-05T12:36:15-07:00
1905-06-17 Arkansas Democrat pg 2
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Walnut Ridge wins a baseball game against Minturn, 3-0.
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2020-06-05T12:37:36-07:00
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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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1899-04-28 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 10
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A man loses a leg when trying to board a passenger train at 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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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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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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1928-09-12 Talladega Mountain Home AL pg 4
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A woman collapses and dies of a heart attack at a Walnut Ridge recital while singing "Death Let Me In."
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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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Object, Little Jack Bottling Works Bottle, Circa 1900
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Based on bottle shape, bottle estimated to have been manufactured circa 1900; image courtesy of Betty Davidson.
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media/1911-08-10 German-Born Baker in WR Dies, Stores Close for Funeral - Ironton MO pg 5_thumb.png
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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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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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1907-04-18 Greenville Sun MO pg 1
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A Walnut Ridge brakeman loses his foot when uncoupling rail cars.
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1930-01-31 Nashville Banner TN pg 13
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A man commits suicide after grappling with a blackmail plot against him and his son.
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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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1882 Walnut Ridge-Ravenden Springs Stage Line Ad
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The newspaper ad, paper unknown, notes service six days a week to and from Walnut Ridge and Ravenden Springs, leaving at 7:30 in the morning both ways; image courtesy of Jon Walter.
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1911-12-07 Nashville Baptist & Reflector TN pg 15
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A Jonesboro pastor also serves at Walnut Ridge First Baptist Church on a half-time basis.
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1912-10-11 Arkansas Democrat pg 6
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John Bagley is later declared dead after having been shot by Wolf Benningfield.
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1907-08-02 Batesville Guard pg 6
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The editor of the Walnut Ridge Blade explains why he declines to run for government office.
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1915-04-30 Batesville Daily Guard pg 3
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The Walnut Ridge Blade pokes fun at editor John Hall of the Salem Sun in what appears to set off a war of words between the newspapers.
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Photo, Walnut Ridge Grade School & Athletic Field, Circa 1940
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Depicts the 1907 school building; image courtesy of Larry Dobbs.
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1912-03-10 Arkansas Gazette pg 37
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The Walnut Ridge firm Jaggers & Hall lists two properties for sale in the Arkansas Gazette.
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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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1908-04-16 American Israelite Cincinnati OH pg P8
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Several Walnut Ridge residents donate towards a National Jewish Hospital for tuberculosis in Denver.
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media/1930-11-20 Huge Fire Destroys Block on Main St WR - Dexter Messenger MO pg 4_thumb.png
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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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media/1918-02-07 AR Cattleman and Swine Breeders Assoc Auction Ads from WR - AR Gazette pg 11_thumb.png
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1918-02-07 Arkansas Gazette pg 11
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Two Walnut Ridge farms are represented in a spread of ads for the Arkansas Cattleman & Swine Breeders Association Auction.
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1912-05-21 Arkansas Gazette pg 14
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A 1911 Harley-Davidson motorcycle, "in A1 condition," is advertised for sale in Walnut Ridge.
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1913-04-03 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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State Senator Clyde Going and four others are cited for contempt of court in Walnut Ridge, but appeal the ruling to the Arkansas Supreme Court.
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1908-10-20 Indianapolis News IN pg 8
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A young man is killed in Walnut Ridge for smoking in front of women.
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media/1931-04-14 Frogs and Mushrooms Aid WR Farmers During Drought - Blytheville Courier News pg 1_thumb.png
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1931-04-14 Blytheville Courier News pg 1
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Walnut Ridge farmers turn to selling mushrooms and more than 200 crates of bullfrogs during a drought.
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1920-03-31 Arkansas Gazette pg 22
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A classified ad asks for an electrician/lineman in Walnut Ridge.
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Photo, Walnut Ridge & Hoxie Streetcar, Circa 1904-1927
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An undated image of one of the streetcars in operation between Walnut Ridge and Hoxie; image courtesy of the Lawrence County Historical Society.
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1912-08-18 Arkansas Gazette pg 30
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An Overland Model 38 car is offered for sale or trade in Walnut Ridge.
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1914-10-20 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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Dr. J. C. Hughes of WR is arrested for the murders of Alf and Isom Bagley four years prior, an action "said to be the result of investigations made recently by five Pinkerton detectives."
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1909-04-24 Topeka Kansas Farmer & Mail & Breeze KS pg 46
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One of the many (identical) land advertisements sent out by S. C. Dowell of Walnut Ridge.
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1934-06-08 Mountain Home Baxter Bulletin pg 1
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A former resident describes antebellum Powhatan, including former industries there and the fate of a planned road from Powhatan to Crowley's Ridge leading near what became Walnut Ridge.
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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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1912-11-22 Arkansas Gazette pg 6
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Gad Angle of Black Rock sees the editor of the Walnut Ridge Blade and flees, due to recent shootings in Walnut Ridge.
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1914-11-29 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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Lizzie Burell, "a woman of considerable wealth," is charged with being an accessory in Isom Bagley's murder.
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