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Hellraisers Journal, Friday July 17, 1908
Kansas City, Kansas – “Red Special” Expected in August
THE “RED SPECIAL.”
Socialist Train With Debs on Board
Will Visit Kansas.
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Milwaukee, Wis., July 15.-Kansas will, in August, get a look at the “Red Special,” which the national Soicalist party will send out for a sixty-day tour, just before election, with candidate Debs aboard. When at Topeka, excursion will be run by the local committee to give all the Kansans a chance to hear him. Already over 200 speeches have been arranged for, and the number placed that wish to hear him is said to be nearly three times as large. The train will leave Chicago in August, visit the west first, then wind up the campaign in the east.
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[Photograph added.]
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SOURCE
The Kansas City Globe
(Kansas City, Kansas)
-July 15, 1908
https://www.newspapers.com/image/59388132/
IMAGES
Quote EVD Nature’s Bounty, Girard, May 16, 1908
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=1X3rXrzI5GgC&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA475
Deb and Hanford, SPA Ticket, MT News p2, July 16, 1908
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024811/1908-07-16/ed-1/seq-2/
See also:
Hellraisers will be keeping close track of the Red Special, but for a peak ahead, with photos, see:
The International Socialist Review, Volume 9
(Chicago, Illinois)
July 1908-June 1909
Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1909
https://books.google.com/books?id=Z6o9AAAAYAAJ
Vol. IX, No. 6 – December 1908
“The Tour of the Red Special.”
-by Charles Lapworth
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=Z6o9AAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA401
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