Published on Thanksgiving Day 1900, this issue of the Tribune includes stories, songs, and poetry; lists of dead Confederate soldiers from Huntsville and Madison Count; and coverage of the erection of the Confederate monument in downtown Huntsville. Much discussion is made as well of the "Lost Cause," a mythology that perpetuates the belief that the cause of the Confederate States was noble and just and denies that slavery played the central role in secession. Includes columns written by Virginia Clay-Clopton and John Tyler Morgan.
Original 1836-1837 mercantile account ledger often covered over with pictures and newspaper accounts of poetry, news, and travel from the 1881-1889 era. Because of the 1865 practice letter with notations and the clipping from the Detroit 1889 National Editorial Association conference [with the name of Virginia misspelled as Virgea], this second layer was probably kept by Mary or Susannah Clay as young ladies with their management of the Huntsville Democrat.