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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smokeaters. In Sikeston, Mo., firemen enthusiastically trotted to the Palace Café, put out the fire among the T-bone steaks, ate them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 15, 1947 | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

Thanks. In Sikeston, Mo., the Standard reprinted a New Mexico widow's card of thanks: "I wish to thank all who so kindly assisted in any way in the death of my dear husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: How to Be Roomy | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

...ALDRICH Sikeston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 27, 1942 | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

...last January at Sikeston, Missouri, Cleo Wright was shot, dragged behind an automobile, and burned in gasolene. That was at 2:30 p.m. At 3:30, the bloody details were known throughout the South, as well as in Malaya, the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, and the islands of the Pacific. With a Japanese broadcast to the colored peoples of the world, the American institution of "lynch law" had become a deadly enemy of democracy in a very real as well as in a theoretical sense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Disease Within | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

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