This photo, circa 1918, of the east side of the first block of North Market Street just off the square shows a lynch mob gathering. According to information on the back of the photo the man on the balcony is holding a machine gun. Blowups of the picture show a white man in a dark suit holding a black man in a white shirt by the arm under the balcony. The crowd is split on racial lines with blacks facing south toward the camera and whites facing north with their backs towards the camera. Continue reading
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Joab Goodall started the first telephone company in Marion in the late 1880’s. His first telephone building was located at 102 N. Liberty St. The Ohio and Mississippi Valley Telephone Co. operated with Goodall as president until 1917, when they sold to the Murphysboro Telephone Co. A. B. Minton was president and principal stockholder of this company and W. C. Alexander was an official of the company. Continue reading
Douglass School will be closed after the end of this school year, and the building will be sold. Continue reading
City officials and property owners were still engaged today in surveying the damage done by Saturday’s earthquake which damaged homes and other buildings in every part of the city. Continue reading
The First National Bank was incorporated in January 1891 as a successor to the Exchange Bank of J. H. Burnett and H.T. Goddard. The bank occupied the location on the square where the Bank of Marion now sits. Continue reading