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Collection: Newspaper Articles
Davis Children are Defectives
Examined first by District Attorney Tarver, Belle Davis said she did not know how old she was, that she lived “up on the hill” at Hurley and had lived there a “month or two.”
Examine Davises as to Mentality
State Hospital Expert Finds Hurley Adult and Child Defective— Commitment Proceedings Halted Until April 22...
People of Hurley
People of Old Hurley Call Davises a Menace. Hearing Held on Application to Send Two Colored Girls to State Institutions.
Strange Colony in Ulster
A newspaper article about the Binnewaters people who were seen as outcasts.
Calvin Snyder is Dead
Calvin Snyder obituary
Kingston Daily Freeman, June 11, 1914
Kingston Daily Freeman, June 11, 1914 funeral notification of Mrs. Elizabeth DeWitt
The Sun Article
That Strange Elopement
In November of 1880, newspapers ran a sensationalized story about a young White heiress who eloped with a Black farmhand...
The Great Dog Case
Newspaper article of a local court case involving two neighbors and a dog accidentally killed
Old Hurley Once More Aroused
Amusing article about an altercation between Calvin Snyder and Benjamin Reed.
Ten Dollars Reward