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The Missouri editor whose bigotry outlived him
John W. Jacks was in his time an esteemed newspaperman, a native Missourian who started, owned and edited several publications before buying the Montgomery Standard in 1881 and editing the weekly for some 40 years. He was politically active, accepted state and federal appointments, ran for office and used his position and his paper to Continue reading
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‘I can’t save you unless you do what I say’
The Rev. Jesse Moore’s forehead was blown off with a double-barreled shotgun on Nov. 16, 1899, and suspicion immediately fell on his 19-year-old son, Elijah “Lige” Moore, who was sleeping in the same room that night, but claimed not to have heard the shot. A lengthy account of the murder, published three days later by the Continue reading
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Then and now
In 1917, the Missouri General Assembly passed two groundbreaking pieces of legislation. Lawmakers approved a sweeping gun control measure. And they abolished capital punishment. Gov. Frederick Gardner vetoed the gun bill, even though it had been championed by Sam Allender, the highly regarded chief of detectives for the St. Louis Police Department. Continue reading
Roland Klose 