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Race and Place Newspapers
Richmond Planet
Location: Richmond, VirginiaArticle Transcripts
Date of Publication: March 10, 1906 (Wednesday)
Frequency: weekly
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Great Mass Meeting in Washington, D.C.
A large meeting of leading African-Americans, the Sons of Allen, and the Constitution league met at a Washington, D.C. church to discuss black suffrage in the South. Remarks by W.E.B DuBois and William Lloyd Garrison are included in the article. Speakers decried the southern situation as tyrannical, taxation without representation. They asked that the fourteenth and fifteenth constitutional amendments be enforced, such that if the right of southern black men to vote continues to be denied, southern congressional representation be accordingly reduced.
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Will Come Again
A man praises the Planet as "the bold defender of the race" and includes money for a subscription.
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Informs readers that a man from Petersburg, Va. has been ill the past week.
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Returns Thanks
A local church thanks a donator from New York City for a $12.00 donation.
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Emancipation Notes
The Afro-American Emancipation Association announces that there will be one large combined parade rather than two smaller ones. It also expresses a desire for all the black businesses to participate with floats. Plans for the Emancipation celebration include a choir and addresses from prominent persons. The School Board granted a holiday for all Richmond schools for the.J.C. Randolph, President Afro-American Emancipation Association.
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Failed to Meet Them
Discusses an attempt at reunion between two factions of local Baptists. One branch, the old Sunday School Union, insisted on using literature prepared by white northern Baptists. The other, the National Baptist Sunday School Union, supported an African-American publishing house and black writers. The old Sunday School union declared that the two factions could consolidate as one, but that the National Baptist Sunday School Union must be incorporated into them. This was unnacceptable and the two groups remained separate.
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Do You Know Them?
A Massacusettes woman looks for an uncle and four sisters she left behind in Richmond.
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Honor Pupils--Baker School
Gives a list of honor students from second to seventh grade.
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Sacred Concert
Announces a public concert to be given in support of a church.
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Rev. Edwards to Preach
Announces that a pastor will guest preach at another church this coming Sunday.
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The Sixth Va. Leads
Gives a list of about twenty associations and organizations that have prepared to participate in the upcoming Emancipation celebration.
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What the Word Means
A love poem stressing permanence through adversity.J.H. Gray
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Recognizes a subscriber from Alabama who is bringing new readers to the Planet.
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A short series of racial and social observations. Sees many obstacles for southern blacks but encourages industry, perseverence, and conservative behavior. Says that black criminals deserve nothing other than a legal conviction. Stresses the difference between the "better classes" of blacks and the "lazy, lawless, good-for-nothing elements."
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Observes that two meetings of the pro-Civil Rights Constitution League took two different positions. One group thought that reducing congressional representation for states that denied the franchise to blacks would only entrench and legitimize the practice. The other that such reduction would have a punitive effect on southern states and speed African-American suffrage. Without taking a position, the editorial argues for a consolidated stance and unified leadership.
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Mitchell Denies Strike Plot
The President of the United Mine Workers denied that he had made a deal with a parallel organization that would result in a unilatarel wage increase. At this time, however, it did seem apparent that there would be a large strike.
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Local Option Defeated
A local option bill in New Jersey garnered little support.
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Gives $100,000 to Episcopal Missions
In memory of his deceased daughter, a retired banker gave the Episcopal Board of Missions one hundred thousand dollars for domestic or foreign missions.
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The Longworths in Washington
President Roosevelt's newly wedded daughter returned from her Cuban honeymoon with Ohio Representative Nicholas Longsworth, and the two returned to their home in W ashington.
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Banker's Son Kidnapped
A banker's son was kidnapped as he went out to buy stamps and held is being held ransom for $20,000.
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Robbed Fifteen Residences
A chaffeur and son of "a very good family" was arrested for perpetrating at least eight and as many as fifteen robberies, in order to satisfy his addiction for pool.
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Cannot Agree
Conductors and trainmen for the Deleware, Lackawanna & Western railroads could not reach an agreement with the company and could strike.
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Farmer Drawn into Thresher
A farmer and local Democratic politician was drawn into a threshing machine while making adjustments. His skull was fractured, his leg amputated, and the injuries could eventually be fatal.
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Murderer Breaks Jail
A black man sentenced to be hung for the murder of a toll-gate keeper escaped from jail and the many parties looking for him threaten a lynching upon his capture.
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Rural Delivery's Growth
The Fourth Assistant Postmaster General reported that over 35,000 routes were in operation on March 1.
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George Small Guilty of Murder
A black man and another man were convicted if a murder near Moorestown, NJ and are due to be hanged two weeks from today.
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Robbery Story a Fake
A baker was arrested for alledgedly concoting a robbery story in order to keep $2700 in insurance money that had been paid to him.
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Susan B. Anthony Ill
Reports that Susan B. Anthony, the famous woman's suffragist, has taken seriously ill with pneumonia.
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Griggs Elected Chairman
Representative J.M. Griggs of Georgia was unanimously chosen chairman of the Democratic congressional committee.
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Exodus of Foreigners From Coal Mines
Over a thousand Hungarian and Slavic mine workers sought to return home because of a threatened strike.
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No Cemetary For Dog
A judge forbade a Pennsylvania man from interring his pet in a cemetary.
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Woman Hanged Herself
A 65 year old woman, depressed at illness, committed suicide by hanging herself.
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Barge Burned Off Atlantic City
A barge caught fire at sea, but the captain and crew were rescued by the tug boat that has the barge in tow.
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A Week's New Condensed: Thursday, March 1
Two Michigan girls were poisoned by eating canned salmon; Two navy admirals retire; The Postmaster for West Seneca was arrested for alledgedly embezzling $5000; Mrs. Sarah E. Ray, a well-known war nurse, died at the age of 102 in Baltimore; The Grand Scribe of the Michigan Masons died of consumption.
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A Week's New Condensed: Friday, March 2
A black man from North Carolina was hanged for killing his wife; An Armour & Co. meat distributing plant in Philadelphia was destroyed by fire; The oldest dormitory at Wesleyan University was destroyed by fire; The top floor of a Cleveland building collapsed, causing two deaths and ten close calls; President Roosevelt asked Congress to appropriate $100,000 to defray the expenses of the United States delegates to the Pan-American congress in Rio de Janeiro
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A Week's New Condensed: Saturday, March 3
A black man was hanged in South Carolina for rape; A former New Jersey Judge died of a stomach ailment; The Governor of Pennsylvania designated two Fridays in April as Arbor days in Pa.; The wife of the former governor of Maryland died in Washington of a paralytic stroke; Three "foreigners" were killed and a house was destroyed when one of the people tried to open a can of powder with a pick.
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A Week's New Condensed: Monday, March 5
Over a million acres of good New Mexico pasture burned in a two day fire; A worker at a West Virgina Steel Plant was struck by a coal car and killed; A formerly strong person from Richmond has become week from five weeks of hiccoughs; The assistant superintendent of the Carlisle(Pa.) Indian training school resigned after twenty years in order to go to England.
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A Week's New Condensed: Tuesday, March 6
Andre Carnegie will give $25,000 to Rio Grande College, an Ohioan theological seminary; A New York man was sentenced to thirty months in prison for illegal voting; Major Livingston Mims, a noted southernor and close friend to Jefferson Davis, died in Atlanta; A merchant from Toledo, Ohio became mentally unstable during a political campaign and shot and killed himself; Twenty people were injured in a North Carolina train wreck.
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A Week's New Condensed: Wednesday, March 7
A man was convicted of murdering two actors in North Carolina and was sentenced to life in prison; A fourteen year-old boy lost both legs trying to board a Reading, Pa. train; The Governor of Pennsylvania vetoed the legislature's resolution to investigate the coal combine; A man wanted in Chicago for killing a woman was arrested in West Virginia; President Roosevelt will appoint the son of a late Major General to West Point.
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Gen. Schofield Passes Away
Lt. General John M. Schofield, the last surviving Civil War army commander died in St. Augustine, Fla. at the age of 75 of a cerebral hemmorrhage. Schofield was born in New York, attended West Point, and had been General in Chief of the United States Army. The article includes several paragraphs about the life and career of the late General.
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Didn't Know It Was Loaded
A woman accidentally shot and killed her sister while inspecting a new revolver.
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High License for Chicago
Attempting to curb crime, the Chicago city council raised the license fee for saloons from $500 to $1000.
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Sixteen Persons Burned to Death
A house in Florence, Italy caught fire during a dance, causing sixteen deaths and numerous injuries.
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Charles Brewster Hanged
A man was hanged for killing his step-father.
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Killed His Playmate
A twelve year old boy shot and killed his nine year old playmate because the boy would not let him join in a game.
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Bryan Greeted in India
A Nebraskan, William J. Bryan, was given much pleasant attention as he visited India on his trip around the world.
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Trade Increases Despite Boycott
Secretary Metcalf of the Department of Commerce and Labor demonstrated that American exports to China had increased despite a Chinese boycott of American goods.
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Horrors of the Russian Bastile
A Polish student released from the Russian bastile fled to London and described his treatment. He was given a small room, inadequate food, and was tortured for sixteen years.
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