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Race and Place Newspapers
Richmond Planet
Location: Richmond, VirginiaArticle Transcripts
Date of Publication: April 21, 1906 (Wednesday)
Frequency: weekly
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Lynch=Law Supreme!
The first half of a report of a carnivalistic lynching from Springfield, Missouri. Three black men were taken from jail and burned to death before the courthouse. Two of the men had been accused of "assaulting" a white woman and beating her companion, and the other man had been accused of killing an elderly white soldier. The police thought that the two accused rapists were innocent, as the woman had failed to identify them, but the mob broke into the jail and the sheriff's home, and seized the men. The next portion is the main story of next week's paper.
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Rev. Dandridge Preaches
Announces that a popular preacher will be heading Sunday's evening service at a local Baptist church.
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Sixth, Va. Emancipation Association, Attention!
Letter from the Emancipation Association who held a celebration on April third. Asks that all participants come to a meeting to hear reports and discuss important business.
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Methodist Divines Here
Announces that as the African Methodist Episcopal Church is holding its district conference in Richmond, several of their pastors will be preaching in local churches.
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Various small social items from Richmond including notices from a temperance professor, and visits from friends.
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The Earthquake
Describes the San Francisco earthquake of April eighteenth. Reports that about one thousand lost their lives, two thousand were injured, twenty thousand people were made homeless, and the damage from fire and the quake amount to about two hundred million dollars.
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Notes from Secretary Jordan
A letter from the Baptist National Convention discussing the activities of African and South American missionaries and asking for spiritual and material support from those in sympathy.
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Corner Stone No More.
A letter from the heads of a local lodge of the Supreme Grand Order of the Woman's Corner Stone Society declaring their severance from that order. Instead, the women have formed an independent benevolent society.
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Richmond Hospital Items
Several pieces of news from the Richmond Hospital including informations about operations and patients and a request for fifteen nurses.
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A Great Attraction
Announces a new resort, Island Park, for African-Americans located in the James River. The resort features boating, fishing, "vaudeville amusements" and games. Says that it is primarily for blacks but will not turn away whites.
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Says that black men should encourage their children to be obliging and polite to white and black men.
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Refers to a recent speech given by Secretary Taft at Tuskeegee Institute where he declared blacks presently unfit for political life. Compares this humiliation to the marginalization of Phillipine natives at the hands of Americans. Says that people of color should band together for mutual prosperity.
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Talks about an "amusing" recent Supreme Court decision where it was decided that a man could be married in Connecticut but divorced in New York. Says that when Secretary Taft is put on the Court, he may craft decisions with even stranger results.
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Reports on a recent Richmond City Council investigation of the Health Department, which determined that it was poorly run. The editorial says that was "as self-evident proposition" and thinks that the decision to get even more sanitary workers is foolish.
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Have We Lost Mr. Roosevelt?
Reports with amused admiration on a new conviction of President Roosevelt's that seems to abandon Republican principles and take on a Populist or Socialist cast. The President remarked that all bequets above a certain amount given to another should be subject to a graduated tax to dissolve "those fortunes swollen beyond all healthy limits." The Richmond Times-Dispatch declared that such a plan would "put a limit upon human endeavor."
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Burning Innocent Men
Discusses the recent lynching and burning of two black men in Springield, Missouri. The editorial states that the innocence of the two men was afterward proved, but that the barbarity of the incident does not stem only from this. The men were not afforded adequate protection and were not given a chance to defend themselves. The writer recomends a harsh and swift punishment for the guilty parties.
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Roosevelt and Tillman
Senator Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina, one of the Planet's favorite enemies, has some into conflict with President Roosevelt again. Tillman reported that Roosevelt's Assistant Secretary and Washington's Postmaster had a personal part in the forcible and embarassing removal of a woman from the White House. President Roosevelt seems to hint that this is a slander and scoundrelous behavior, which sentiment the Planet completely endorses.
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Coal Operators Answer Miners
The coal operators of Pennsylvania's antharcite coal region refused to re-arbitrate fundamental questions about their business with the mine workers.
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Preparing for Long Strike
Anticipating a strike by many Pennsylvania mine workers, operators of the mines began to import black cooks and washers and make plans for the housing of hundreds of workers.
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Mob Roasts Negroes
Says that five thousand men broke into a prison and hung and burned three men, two who were charged with "assaulting" a white woman and the third with murdering a white man. Says that after the three were dead, the mob went back to search for another black prisoner, but all but six had escaped.
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Hundreds of Divorces Illegal
Reports that a recent Supreme Court decision has rendered invalid all divorces except those that occurred when both parties resided in the same jursidiction. Several attorneys opined that the decision would mean chaos for rights of inheritance and property, because children and spouses of a second marriage could not legally inherit.
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Created Sensation in Divorce Colony
Says that members of the South Dakota divorce colony plan to go ahead with their divorces regardless of a recent Supreme Court decision complicating these legal procedures.
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Auto and Team Collide
One person was killed and six others injured when an automobile collided with a horse and buggy.
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Francis Gets Five Years
A man was given five years in prison and a five thousand dollar fine for breaking the laws with "various forms of frenzied finance."
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The Man With the Muck Rake
Gives part of President's Roosevelt's speech at the laying of the corner-stone for the office building for the house of representatives. The President first decried muck-rakers and those who focused only on the worst aspects of public life, often exaggerating or lying about things to create a sensation. Then he turns to the problem of tremedous wealth and the problems of over-capitalization. He says that the government has begun to address these problems by seekiing railroad-rate legislation in Congress. The President also suggests seeking a graduated tax to stop the bequests or inheritance or unreasonable fortunes.
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Vesuvius Subsides
Rescue operations began as the eruption of Mount Vesuvius subsided. Estimates put the damage at twenty million dollars and fifty thousand homeless.
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Wants New Insurance
President Roosevelt urged Congress to adopt stringent new legislation governing insurance companies, in order to prevent the repetition of recent scandals and abuses.
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Pledged Not to Give Rebates
All 59 Pennsylvania insurance companies pledged to dismiss any agent or employee who violated the law by giving rebates.
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Killed Watching Base Ball Game
A young boy was killed when a baseball player hit a ball into the crowd.
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