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DOES NOT CADEFOR FINERIES”JACK JOH N80N’S MOTHEER 18 VERY PROUD OF HER SON, HOWEVER.Galveston, Tex., Dec. 7.—'‘Niggers ain’t got no business puttin’ on airs like white folKS and I reckon Aunt Tiney will be back in two weeks to take in washin’ and starchln’.” With this farewell to a crowd of negro men and women who flocked to the station Aunt Tiney Johnson, aged mother of Jack Johnson, the champion heavy- j weight pugilist, boarded the train for | Chicago, where she had been sum moned by Johnson to spend her rlt; mainlng days in a handsome mansion Just purchased. Aunt Tiney, as sh« has been known to the oldest and most aristocratic families of Galveston for years is a perfect type of the old fashioned Southern mammy.” She says she is proud of her son, whom she calls Arthur, but she has told the white folks” here that she is too old for fineries and will return shortly to work at her old trade of washing.ii.
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Escanaba Morning Press
Escanaba, Michigan, US
Wed, Dec 08, 1909
Page 7
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