The August 3, 1947 issue of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat carried a story on the controversy over who the Madison County town of Fredericktown was named. The paper stated that historians of the past stated it was named after Bollinger County pioneer George Frederick Bollinger while contemporaries of the time contested the claim on the grounds that so few people use their middle name. In the end the Globe-Democrat was inclined to lean more towards the “old timers” account.
Objection to “Decoration Day”
My latest foray of mining local history from newspaper archives is particularly interesting, for several reasons.
The June 27, 1889 Warrensburg Standard “calls out” the Kansas City Globe for getting its facts wrong. Apparently the Globe claimed the prosecutor in Johnson County, Missouri filed criminal charges against an individuals for trying to honor Decoration Day.
According to the Standard, it was not Johnson County in which this event occurred, it was Bollinger County.
The Warrensburg Standard proclaimed:
“The only place in the world so far as we know or believe , where the Copperhead objection to honoring the memory of dead soldiers, has taken the form of a criminal prosecution is in Bollinger County, Missouri.”
The Standard continues…
“The prosecuting attorney of Bollinger County is the chap with a swelled head, and he will know more than he did when he gets through with his little scheme.”
This story jogged my memory a bit about another story I stumbled across recently. One in which Union veterans were charged in Bollinger County, not for honoring Decoration Day, but for discharging their weapons in town while performing a salute.
The July 20th, 1889 edition of the St. Joseph Herald carries a story about the fate of the veterans charged…
“The asinine prosecuting attorney of Bollinger County , who caused the arrests of The Sons of Veterans [Union], for firing a salute in memory of the dead Union soldiers, on Memorial Day, failed to make his case and the boys were aquitted.”
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General Order #1 Forbade Anyone From Leaving Perryville / Bollinger Counties
The August 16 , 1862 Perryville Weekly Union carried the notice of General Order #1 issued by Provost Marshal Charles Weber. Weber was Provost Marshall for Perry and Bollinger Counties.
The notice stated that no resident of these counties could leave the county in which they lived until a draft could be made.
If residents of said counties had business outside of the county in which they lived, they had to seek a permit authorized by the provost marshal.
The order also stated that those operating ferries on the Mississippi River were not to allow to take anyone into Illinois without a permit.
Those violating the order would be held until a (Union) regiment could be raised in their area.
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Stolen Elections Are Nothing New
The December 30, 1867 St. Louis Daily Missouri Republican carried the story of something Americans in 2021 are all too familiar with, stolen elections.
The paper reported that in Wayne County, Missouri:
“At a recent election in Wayne County to fill a vacancy of the House, caused by the resignation of James S. McMurtry, Dr. James Woods (radical) was elected, receiving 97 votes, against 56 votes polled for two other candidates. In 1860 Wayne County polled 724 votes for President. Nevertheless, a Radical exchange says the election of Dr. Woods was “a victory for the Radicals of Wayne , that they may well be proud of.”
No doubt it is. To elect men to office without votes is something decidedly adopted to Radical rejoicing.
They should crow loudly this time whether they are out of the woods or not!”
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Racism in Union Ranks
The September 8, 1865 Charleston Courier (Charleston, Missouri) reports an incident which occurred in Paducah, Kentucky. Apparently an Illinois and Minnesota Union regiment were being relieved of duty as provost guards in the City of Paducah, Kentucky by a negro regiment.
…the white soldiers concluded that they had been outraged by the presence of negro soldiers and abolition lies that all the brave fighting that during the war had been done by negroes.
According to the Courier:
“.the white soldiers concluded that they had been outraged by the presence of negro soldiers and abolition lies that all the brave fighting that during the war had been done by negroes, and the took the matter into their own hands and concluded to wreak revenge upon the blacks with stones and revolvers”
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Mystery of Bollinger County Skeleton Solved
The July 9, 1874 Iron County (Missouri) Register reported a Marble Hill man digging his garden found a skeleton at the site of where a grocery store once stood. An investigation revealed the bones were buried by a Marble Hill (at the time of the war called Dallas) physician buried the bones secretly to, “keep the Yankee soldiers from stealing them.”
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Blackbird 9 On Anomalies Regarding Joe Biden’s Inauguration
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The Hodge Twins: Wall Street vs Redditers
The Hodge twins are back and they have a message for hedge fund investors that prey on working people.
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The Evils of Communism From a Polish Perspective
EPISODE #518 THE EVILS OF COMMUNISM – A POLISH PERSPECTIVE
Richard welcomes a journalist from Poland who describes what life was like for his people under communist rule.
Guest: Adam Borowski is a 34-year-old journalist, international relations enthusiast, a Polish-English teacher and translator with a passion for the unexplained since he can remember. He is currently looking for a literary agent or a publisher for his alternate reality novel, ‘’Euthanizers. Escaping Hazmat Demons.’’ The link to his novel snippet can be found on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/escapinghazmatdemons
Adam is a contributor to the oldest English-language newspaper in South Korea – the Korea Times – the newspaper is 70 years old and goes back to the Korean War. He has written 56 articles covering a wide range of topics from politics to spirituality. An article example, ”Idealism in politics.’
Hand Signs of the Illuminati
EPISODE #515 HAND SIGNS OF THE ILLUMINATI
Richard speaks with an author and researcher of esoteric science to discuss the meaning and origin of Illuminati signs and symbols.
GUEST: Micah Dank was born in 1983 in Oceanside New York. From a young age, he had wanted to be a writer, coming from a family of writers. His father was a producer and radio news editor at CBS News in Manhattan and his grandfather was a producer at CBS News. Micah was an actor in high school and became interested in writing from his 12th grade English teacher Russell Reid. From there he majored in English at SUNY Albany and transferred down to CUNY Hunter College in Manhattan to earn his Bachelor’s degree in ‘Language Literature and Criticism’. It wasn’t until he moved to Boston for a new job that he became interested in all the esoteric sciences including the astrology and astro-theology prevalent through his book series, Into the Rabbit Hole.
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