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In May 1914, Cap and Ella Wilmans hosted a house party at their plantation in Louisiana. Among the attendees are Newport residents Mr. and Mrs. Wilmans, Charles Wilmans, Ed Wilmans, Mart Lewis (butler), Elzia (cook), Lula and Charlie (maids), Mrs. George Farrat, Mrs....
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The horse races at the Jackson County Fairgrounds seemed to create as much excitement as the Kentucky Derby. This race in 1914 was no exception, and one has to wonder if anyone paid attention to the sign posted to the left, which reads, “No Gambling...
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This postcard shows the back side of the courthouse and the adjacent jail. Inside the jail was an apparatus for hanging convicted criminals, though the Olyphant train robbers had been hanged on a makeshift gallows outside. The Civil War cannons that sat on the...
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Jackson County judge Charles Coe’s levying court for 1912 includes (first row) Fred ?, Judge Coe, R.F. Tyro, B.F. Johnson, unidentified, and A.B. Collier; (second row) John R. Loftin, H.C. Nuckolls, two unidentified men, and John F. Smith,; (third row) W.G....
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Pictured here in 1910 is the office of the Southwestern Telephone and Telegraph Company at 404 1/2 Front Street in Newport. The operator was Maude Dunham. The first Newport telephone company started in 1885 as the White River Telephone Company with C.R. Hite as...
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T.S. Stephens and George Stephens started the Stephens Livery, Feed & Sale Stable in Jacksonport in the 1870’s. In the 1890’s, they moved their business to Newport, where, in addition to other services, they offered three round-trips each day between...
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