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Morehouse Clarion 1881

Pointe Coupee County Louisiana Archives News.....Newspaper articles February 15, 1881
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Morehouse Clarion February 15, 1881
Morehouse Clarion - 1880-1881

Morehouse Clarion
February 15, 1881 -- Page 2, Column 4
In a difficulty that originated in a business transaction, W. J. Corkery was shot and killed by W. J. Kingsbury last week in Point Coupee parish. Both men stood high in the community.

The Ouachita Telegraph - Friday, July 6, 1877

The Ouachita Telegraph - Charles Jackson Dies at New Texas Landing
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The Ouachita Telegraph
Friday, July 6, 1877
Page 4, Column 2
A colored man by the name of Chas. Jackson, who professed to be a horse doctor, said he could, when an animal had the charbon, tell by tasting the blood. Some day last week a mule had the charborn, he tasted the blood and on the 18th inst., he died at New Texas landing of the diseases. – Point Coupee Pilecan. (sic)