Missing "Snuggies" Mystery At School Likely Theft
A tongue in cheek report recalls a missing pair of women’s undergarments dubbed snug gies at a Stowe School setting. A committee was chosen to interview the distraught student about dimensions and details as a reward offer surfaces for recovery. The piece ends with a note on the 10th Cavalry’s current duties after historic reorganization.
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Stowe
Harlem
Lion
Douglass
Dabney
Washington
War Department
10Th Cavalry
Fort Leavenworth
Kansas
Fort Myer
West Point
N. Y
10th Cavalry Letter Questions Inactivity Of Troop
A letter admits 10th Cavalry troops have not participated in maneuvers for three years and dodges why the machine gun unit was used. The exchange highlights unrest over unit deployment and readiness.
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10Th Cavalry
Wright’s Fight for 3-Cent DC School Fare Spotlight
The piece honors Prof Wright for championing Washington’s 3-cent school fare, from the 1920 submission to the Public Utilities Commission to the 1931 enactment. It notes more than four and a half years of advocacy, including personal funding, saving parents over $712,000 and earning praise from the White House and the National Congress of Parents and Teachers.
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Wright
District of Columbia
Public Utilities Commission
Washington
Wright Honored for School Service and Dunbar Legacy
Minutes from the March 4 1931 Board of Education thank Professor Wright for faithful service turning lawfare into reality. As dean he guided high school divisions 10 13 and mentored thousands of students including Cortez W. Peters, world amateur typing champion 1925 in New York. He studied Dunbar graduates and wrote historical sketches for D C schools and sponsored Liber Anni in 1923 and 1924. Eva Nichols Wright is noted as his spouse.
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Garnet C. Wilkinson
Board of Education
Professor Wright
Dunbar
D. C
Negro explorers in early American history highlighted
The Debunker notes that enslaved and free Black explorers aided Columbus Balboa Cortez and Estivanico in discovering and mapping vast regions. It asserts that Negroes accompanied major expeditions well before the first enslaved arrivals in 1619, stressing their significant yet overlooked role.
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Alonzo Pietra
Columbus
Balboa
Pacific
Cortez
Mexico
Estivanico
Arizona
New Mexico
Coal Delivered Now Queen City Coal Ad Claim
The Queen City Coal Co promotes best coal and quickest service with welfare orders accepted and deliveries made without delay. See Ad in this paper.
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Queen City Coal Co
Strife in Harlem Paper Deepens with Boycott and Picks
The Amsterdam News faces a protracted strike amid Guild organized pickets urging Harlem readers not to buy the paper. A rival sheet The Reporter repeats side disputes while staff are labeled as scabs. Attempts by Harlem businessmen and Roscoe Conkling Simmons to buy or influence the paper fail.
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Newspaper Guild
Amsterdam News
Amsterdam
Harlem
Baltimore
Roscoe Conkling Simmons
Washington
New York
Republican Party
First Not Slaves: Africans Arrived as Explorers and More
A historical note challenges the view that all early Africans brought to America were slaves. It argues many arrived as explorers or for other roles, reshaping the narrative of early contact and migration.
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America
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DRY Cleaners
West Sixth Street
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Yours, Lawrence Richey
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National Congress of Parents and Teachers
Frank W. Ballou
Dixie Terminal
Eva Nichols Wright
Family Store
Lincoln and Arms Place
Walnui Hills
Smith’s
Eugene C. Roberts
E. E. Roberts
Woodburn
Reius
Lincoln Avenue
P. W. Whitson, Herbalist
Central Avenue
Cincinnati
Ohio
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