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The history and rationale of Solomon Marable, whose accusations had originally placed suspicion on the Lunenburg Prisoners, is told to a court.

The St. John School invites students to apply for admission before its re-opening.

The black community praises the Virginia Governor, Charles O’Ferrall, after he pardons men from their crime and has caused the number of lynchings to decrease to almost none in the state.

J.P. Morgan meets for conferences about the coal miner strike, concluding that “he positively will not in any way interfere with the progress of the strike.”

The Republican Party is looking at “the constitutions of the several southern states” that “disfranchise the Negro” to “wipe it off the statute books.”

“Stirred to action,” merchants, miners, and professionals form a league for landowners to “put up a legal fight.”

An emancipation association calls for all community members to celebrate the freedom of all “colored people,” reminding readers that “this is the day that our forefathers and mothers long prayed for.”

A thirty-year-old man requests that women “desiring an early marriage” write to him.

A gentleman “desires desires the acquaintance of a young widow or lady who is well educated and willing to assist a husband in business.”

A man tells of his own “delinquencies” when dealing with his wife and how he has “reformed."