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Funeral at the Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church in st. Louis. It has been 16 days since a White FergusonPolice Officer shot and killed brown who had no weapon. His body left to lay in the street for hours. Now the 18yearold is remembered and he is celebrated before some 500 members of his family, along with missouris governor, civil rights advocates, including Martin Luther king iii. Also, hollywood celebrities, like spike lee were there. And three members of the white house staff. Listen now to moments from what organizers are calling Michael Browns homegoing celebration as the family shares their loss with so many strangers who definitely wont forget who their son was and h ....
The Whig was a newspaper published in Jonesborough, which was spelled that way in 1841. May 12, 1887: The Comet reported, âOn the 21st of May, 1887, an excursion to Cranberry over the E.T. & W.N.C. R.R. under the management of Mr. S.H. Pouder for the benefit of the Y.M.C.A. of Johnson City. The occasion will no doubt be a pleasant trip out and out, and we hope everybody will go. Round trip tickets sold at half rates.â There was no mention of the price of the tickets, nor when the train would leave or return. The Comet was Johnson Cityâs first newspaper. ....