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Race and Place Newspapers
Richmond Planet
Location: Richmond, VirginiaArticle Transcripts
Date of Publication: January 27, 1906 (Wednesday)
Frequency: weekly
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Why Sit Here Until We Die?
Nearly twenty were killed and hundreds injured when a stampede broke out in church during a baptismal service. The congregation had over-estimated the size and danger of a fire and ignored the Reverend's pleas for calm.
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Hon. A. W. Harris Indicted
An African-American is indicted for, with accomplice, the larceny of a $55 bale of cotton.
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Announces that as there is no school on the following Friday, children might be taken to see "those grand moving pictures."
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A Fine Showing
Excerpts praise for Richmond's Mechanics' Savings Bank from a New Orleans black newspaper.
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Knights of Pythias
A Lodge initiates ninety new members.
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Rev. Peyton Remembered
The Pastor of a local Baptist church was presented with a horse and buggy by his congregation.
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Notes that the works of three Manchester, Va. artists have achieved much notoriety among their friends.
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Notes two ladies who visited the Planet offices recently.
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Makers of Our LawsThe colored people in the meantime are presenting him with a bill for services rendered extending over a period of 250 years, upon the payment of which they will cordially cooperate with him in the passage of his measure.
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State Senator Camm Patteson has introduced a bill providing for a constitutional amendment that will separate black and white taxes The idea behind this bill is that black schools should only be supported by black taxes. Article disparages the idea, and notes that this lack of support is common to blacks and whites.
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Mr. Carter's Congratulations
Thanks and applaud the Planet for the "many endeavors which have been of much benefit to the Negro race.Very cordially yours, Robert W. Carter
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Mayor Cited for Contempt
The Mayor allegedly libeled a reporter of the News Leader who had reported that he had been called down by the court.
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Applauds the students of Talledega College in Alabama who have revolted against the appointment of a new Superintendent of the college farm. Appeals to the school President and teh American Missionary Society of New York had been unavailing. This man, a New Yorker, had apparently become convinced by some "Negro-hating" southern conceptions of race relations, with the result that over half of the students planned to leave the school. Editor opines that Northerners who take to such ideas become "worse" than those southerners who originally held them.
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Expresses pleasure at the denial, and hopes for an even more definitive statement that Washington will in the future eschew all political maneuvaring.Summary of Article
Dr. Washington and the Office-Seekers
Gives a letter published in several New York newspapers, wherein Booker T. Washington denies having recommended the removal of black holders of federal office in the south.
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Implies the injustice of unequal treatment, but more generally embraces the idea of parental, rather than state, corporal punishment.Summary of Article
More Lashing at Suffolk
Notes that the Mayor of Suffolk's whipping program has been inflicted on white shopl-ifters as well. However, the Mayor ordered the court-room cleared and allowed the parents to administer the whipping, rather than the police. These measures were not taken for black shop-lifters.
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Indicted Packers Have New Plea
Indicted Chicago packers wish to introduce a letter purporting to prove that President Roosevelt admitted the investigation was jointly prosecuted by the Department of Justice and the Department of Commerce and Labor.
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Negro Suspects Released
The police released several black suspects of a rape and murder. These suspects either had strong alibis or the young girl who was the only witness was unable to give a satisfactory identification.
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Presidential Nominations
President Roosevelt sent the names of his nominees for new ambassadors and postmasters.
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Will Discharge 1000 Men
Because of a lack of appropriations, the bureau of steam engineering had to lay off about 1000 men.
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Boiler Explosion Kills Seven
An explosion in a saw mill caused seven deaths, three injuries, and extensive damage to the mill.
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Colleries to Close Three Days
Twenty-six collieries of the Lehigh Valley Coal company were ordered closed for three days.
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Short Over $30,000
The County Treasurer contests finding that the accounts under his charge are short over 30,000 dollars.
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Forged Senator Depew's Name
A teenage girl was arrested for forging the name of a Senator to a check used for jewelry. She and her mother claimed he had left money in her care.
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General Wheeler Has Pneumonia
It is announced that the retired general has a mild attack of pneumonia.
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Cardinal Gotti Dying
The Cardinal is dying from pneumonia.
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Ship Wrecked, Many Drowned
A ship travelling between San Francisco and British Columbia ran aground in the fog and about one hundred were reported drowned.
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Trojan Sunk in Collision
A freight steamer and an ocean line steamer collided, resulting in the loss of the freight steamer and its cargo, though none of the crew.
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Buys Hen for $10, Sells for $750.
The owner of a prize-winning hen prematurely lists the bird for sale at $10. It is brought for that price and soon after is sold for $750.
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Will Save the Cherokee
A steamship is not damaged as badly as was initially thought, so efforts to salvage it will be attempted.
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Pennypacker Marked Man
A group of anachrists, together with the Italian "Black Hand" organization are implicated in a murder and a plan to execute leading men of the country, including Governor Pennypacker of Pennsylvania.
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Letter Writer Arrested
The son of a former congressman sent many letters to leading government officials, including the President, urging them to join "The Civic Cadets of America." He was arrested but not specifically charged, and was suspected of sufering under dementia.
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Brazilian Warship Sunk
A Brazilian warship was destroyed by an internal blast, resulting in the death of 212 and the wounding of 36.
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Officers Winked at Hazing
Investigation for a charge of hazing shows that at least one officer of the Naval Academy knew and tacitly condoned hazing.
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Rate Bill Agreed On
A bill governing certain aspects of the disposition of federal cases was agreed upon by the house committee on interstate and foreign commerce.
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McCall Sells Summer Home
The former president, John A. McCall, of the New York Life Insurance Company sold his summer palace for about $350,000.
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Proposes $2 Silver Pieces
Representative Maynard of Virginia introduced a bill authorizing government involvement in the Jamestown Tricentennial celebration in 1907, including the coinage of one million two dollar silver pieces.
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Hard on Ice Harvest
Warm weather damages the ice harvest in Pennsylvania.
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Threw Boiling Water Over Wife
An ex-convict threw boiling water over his wife, causing injuries that doctor's predicted would be fatal.
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Six Burned in Explosion
Six men were severely burned when pulverized coal exploded.
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A Week's News Condensed: Thursday, January 18
Dr. Gustavus Knabe "the father of music" died in Knoxville at the age of 89; The price of hardwoods has been increased from one to dollars per thousand feet; A woman charged with murdering her husband dies in an insane asylum; Sells & Downs circus was sold to C.W. Thompson for $35,000.
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A Week's News Condensed: Friday, January 19
A fire in Pennsylvania destroys four houses and a store; A fire in Pennsylvania destroys a tugboat; Two men killed in Ohio freight train collision; Three men were killed in Oregon mining explosion; A famous Civil War nurse, Mrs. Elizabeth Aiken, died at the age of 89.
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A Week's News Condensed: Saturday, January 20
The former President of Argentina dies at the age of 83; A Delaware man who accidentally shot himself in the foot dies two weeks later of lockjaw; A Nebraska prairie fire destroys two ranches and damages twelve others; Members of the Iowa Senate signed a petition for a full pardon for a New Jersey "murderess" sentenced to death; An enormous and expensive Chicago library in honor of the late Dr. William R. Harper is scheduled for construction.
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A Week's News Condensed: Monday, January 22
Seven Utah miners were killed in a snowslide; Eight deaths from spinal meningitis have occurred in Newport, Rhode Island; A man was fined $5000 and sentenced to a year in jail for sending objectionable material through the mail; Two Connecticut children died when the ice of a pond broke; A Pennsylvania widow gets $3000 becuase of denied death benefits
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A Week's News Condensed: Tuesday, January 23
The Baltimore chrome works were damaged by fire; Frederick S. Stedman, a "well-known dog fancier" dies in Pittsburg of heart trouble; General Robert S. Brown dies n Bethlehem, Pa. at age 88; A bill was introduced in the Va. legislature to erect a Richmond monument to General Fitzhugh Lee; An African-American was taken from a Kentucky jail and hanged for an attempted criminal assault on a white woman
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A Week's News Condensed: Wednseday, January 24
The Mississippi Cotton Compress in Jackson was burned at a loss of $750,000; Stock brokers in Pittsburg made an assignment with liabilities exceeding $200,000; Many Alaskans petition the President to appoint Judge James Wickersham as governor; A Mississippi man was shot and killed by the wife of a man he himself killed several months before; American school readers, printed in Japan, are apprehended for supposed copyright violation.
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Says that the new horse and its harness "presents a most attractive appearance."
Dr. Graham's Horse
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$100.00 Endowment Paid
The Planet's Editor paid one hundred dollars to the widower of a member of Victoria Court.Signed:--Coleman Patterson, Beneficiary
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Knights of Pythias
Enumerates the officers just installed in Knights of Pythias Lodges.
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