Saturday News - 1883

Our local newspaper features daily snippets of news from the past.

Here is an article from December 6, 1883:

"Three Indians, two women and a man, created a sensation on Main yesterday. They were as ragged and as ugly as it is possible for humans to be and not at all in keeping with the juvenile idea of the noble red man. Each of the squaws had a baby which she carried tied up in a quilt and slung over her back at the end of a stick.

A motley crowd followed at their heels to whom the Indians paid not the least attention."

Hmm. Seems like journalism goes from one extreme to the other...