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Race and Place Newspapers
Richmond Planet
Location: Richmond, VirginiaArticle Transcripts
Date of Publication: February 24, 1906 (Wednesday)
Frequency: weekly
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Awakening of the North
Reports speeches given by Professor W.E.B. DuBois and Mrs. Mary Church Terrell at a New York meeting focusing on the problems of African-Americans in the South. The first part of the report heads last week's newspaper. Mrs. Terrel decries the interest of the United States in the Russian Jews while virtually ignoring the plight of many of its black citizens. She also calls southern representation disproportionate and unjust. DuBois feels that the national and African-American program of not confronting the South for its deeds has failed. Economic advancement and industry produce fruits that are indefensible without political rights, DuBois contends. He thinks that, pursuant to the Constitution, southern influence should be reduced because of the de facto disfranchisement of most southern blacks.
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The Fifth Baptist Church in Her Glory
Speaks of last Sunday's stirring service at the Fifth Baptist Church. The offering was high and Sunday School service was a success.
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$150.00 Endowment Paid
Certifies that John Mitchell, Jr. paid the death claim of a widow of a Knight of Pythias. The Knights of Pythias is a secret fraternal and benevolent society. John Mitchell, Jr. is Virginia's Grand Chancellor and the editor of the Richmond Planet.Signed:--Ross Bacon, Beneficiary
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Short mention of Mr. George Scott, the head-waiter of the Lexington Hotel in Newport News, Va. Says that he is one of the youngest in Virginia and gives his address.
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Rev. Cheek Wins Suit
Says that a suit by Rev. E.A.P. Cheek, pastor of a Baptist Farmville, Va. church was succesful. He sued the president of the Virginia Theological Seminary and College in Lynchburg, Va. for libelously reporting that he had an affair with a former teacher, and won a verdict of one thousand dollars. The collection of the thousand dollars is doubtful.
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$150.00 Endowment Paid
Certifies that John Mitchell, Jr. paid the death claim of a widow of a Knight of Pythias. The Knights of Pythias is a secret fraternal and benevolent society. John Mitchell, Jr. is Virginia's Grand Chancellor and the editor of the Richmond Planet.
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Reports that resident of Chicago who formerly lived in Richmond has visited the city and left forhis future home in Philadelphia.
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Reports that a woman from Danville, Va. is in town visiting her niece.
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Principle Versus Expediency
Combines an original editorial with an editorial written by a correspondent critiquing a speech given by Booker T. Washington in Washington. Both the Planet editor and the correspondent feel that Washington's singular focus on industrial activity is flawed and limiting. They argue that all people should look to the work for which they are suited, and those African-Americans with the ability to pursue "the higher professions" should do so. They also dissent from Washington's notion that exediency is more necessary and reasonable than principle; that blacks should conform to their situation. The editorial argues that principle should never be waived, and that expediency has always resulted in the marginalization and oppression of blacks and other peoples. The Planet differs with its correspondent on two points, however, first saying that Washington should not be chastised for asking assistance for tyrannized Africans without doing the same for blacks, because Washington must work and labor in the South and so should not unduly antagonize his neighbors. The Planet also feels that Tuskegee and other black industrial schools are invaluable tools for blacks.
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Wedded in the White House
Reports on the marriage of President Roosevelt's daughter to Ohio Representative Nicholas Longworth. Says that many expensive gifts were given from different countries, and that the celebration was extravagant but tasteful.
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Bridal Couple Sails for Cuba
Reports that President Roosevelt's newly wedded daughter and her husband left to sail for a Cuban honeymoon.
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John A. McCall Passes Away
The former president of the New York Life Insurance Company died of an enlarged liver. Some suppose that his having to give sensitive testimony in an insurance probe contributed to his breakdown.
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Tragedy on Steamer
A woman killed her three children and committed suicide on a steamer running between New York to Fall River, Mass.
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Bridge Company Fined $5000
A bridge company had to pay five thousand dollars and costs for prosecution for its failure to obey the mandate of the Secretary of War that it raise the height of a bridge to permit navigation.
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Talk of Trolleys by Canal
A company hopes to use the Schuykill canal to run electric trolleys for passenger and freight.
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Pat Crowe Released on Bail
A man facing trial for holding up street cars was released on a $1500 bond.
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President Urges Lock Canal
Reports that President Roosevelt favors a raised lock canal over a sea level canal for the Panama canal, primarily for reasons of cost and risk.
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To Probe Oil and Coal Trusts
A House investigation was authorized into alleged interstate monopolies of oil and coal.
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Suit Against Oil Trust Dismissed
A suit against the Standard Oil Company, for damages inflicted by a monopoly, was dismissed for being vague and defective.
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Wives Who Are In Debt
A female correspondent discusses the quandary of women who live in debt.
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Says that to avoid charges, bills should be paid weekly.
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A Week's News Condensed: Thursday, February 15
The Christian Herald (NY) contributed $10,000 for "famine stricken Japansese."; The Kentucky legislature outlawed pool halls; The foreman of the job printing department of the government printing office resigned; A midshipman at the Naval Academy resigned because of conduct and academic problems; A derailment of a mail train in Missouri resulted in three injuries.
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A Week's News Condensed: Friday, February 16
General Fred Walsen, a noted Colorado pioneer, died of dropsy; The last survivor of the Seminole War of 1836 died in Ala.; Mrs. Aaron Blair, a sister in law of General Lew Wallace, died in Washington of apoplexy; A Washington bank does well; A Boston fire chief died of a heart attack while responding to a call
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A Week's News Condensed: Saturday, February 17
Three Michigan children died in a fire; A rumor is afoot of a line of steamers between San Francisco and Honolulu; A Georgia reverend was accidentally shot while bird hunting; Two Ohio women were killed when a train struck their buggy; Two bank officers in Charleston, S.C. had warrants sworn out agiainst them after they accepted a deposit after insolvency
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A Week's News Condensed: Monday, February 19
The beet sugar industry has increased over 200 percent in product and value since 1900; A Pa. train worker was killed and three passengers were injured in a train wreck; Three men were killed and twenty girls were mildly injured in a powder works explosion in Missouri; A Pa. man was killed in a machine accident in a steel works
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A Week's News Condensed: Tuesday, February 20
The widow of an admiral died in Italy; An actor was thrown from a train in Chicago and killed
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Mitchell Not in Politics
The president of the United Mine Workers of America declined the democratic nomination to represent the district of Peoria, Ill. He said that so long as he represented the miners, he would accept no office.
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