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Minden Press-Herald (view source)
Revision as of 01:03, December 22, 2019
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Blackburn remained in Homer during the [[Reconstruction]] era. He was elected to the [[United States House of Representatives]] as a [[Republican Party|Republican]], serving from 1868 to 1869. Thereafter, he was a member of the Louisiana State Senate until he was defeated in 1878 by a Democrat allied with the pro-Confederate Redeemer government. Blackburn relocated to [[Little Rock]], where he published the ''Arkansas Republican''.<ref>[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000510 BLACKBURN, William Jasper - Biographical Information<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
Blackburn remained in Homer during the [[Reconstruction]] era. He was elected to the [[United States House of Representatives]] as a [[Republican Party|Republican]], serving from 1868 to 1869. Thereafter, he was a member of the Louisiana State Senate until he was defeated in 1878 by a Democrat allied with the pro-Confederate Redeemer government. Blackburn relocated to [[Little Rock]], where he published the ''Arkansas Republican''.<ref>[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000510 BLACKBURN, William Jasper - Biographical Information<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
==The Harper brothers==
==The Harper brothers==
The name ''The Minden Herald'' was revived briefly during Reconstruction, but few, if any, issues of the newspaper of that period are extant. A quotation from ''The Shreveport Times'', which began publication in 1871, refers in 1872 to ''The Minden Herald.'' A later ''The Minden Herald'' was published in 1924 under the direction of printer Clifton Harper (1902–1982), a native of [[Mississippi]]. Harper attended [[Minden (Louisiana) High School|Minden High School]] and worked at another publication called ''The Webster Signal.''
The name ''The Minden Herald'' was revived briefly during Reconstruction, but few, if any, issues of the newspaper of that period are extant. A quotation from ''The Shreveport Times'', which began publication in 1871, refers in 1872 to ''The Minden Herald.'' A later ''The Minden Herald'' was published in 1924 under the direction of printer Clifton Harper (1902–1982), a native of [[Mississippi]]. Harper attended [[Minden (Louisiana) High School|Minden High School]] and worked at another publication called ''The Webster Signal.''