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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1909
Page
89
A damaged OCR fragment reports an auction notice with varied numbers and unclear terms. It mentions a time of sale and deposits, with references to a high value and interest rate along with likely party names and locations obscured by the scan.
President Taft showed hearty good will and support for a 1913 exposition to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of black freedom in America. Booker T. Washington, Emmet J. Scott, and others outlined a nationwide effort to showcase progress in material, educational, moral, and religious fields. The project aims to foster white–black goodwill and peaceful race relations through a prominent public event.
Maggie Duffy, known as a habitual rider, was arraigned in police court charged with failure to pay hired transport. Ebenezer Jackson testified a pattern of free rides with a back driver, a barber, and a gin swig followed by escapes to a fence and into neighbors' properties. Judge Mulloway ordered 60 days with restitution. 90 days if she cannot pay.
The article reports a dinner honoring Ement, the U.S. minister to Liberia, and Bishop B Scott Wethndlat. Booker T. Washington praises Black progress in America, urges unity for uplift, and cites Liberia as a testing ground. Also notes fundraising by the Methodist Episcopal Church and a forthcoming supplement Dinner on November 1 for the Liberia effort with leaders including Lyons, Scott, and others.
The health department report for the week ended November 13 shows pneumonia as the leading single cause of death, with fifteen deaths. Diseases of the heart and consumption each caused eleven and seven deaths respectively, while apoplexy, kidney diseases, and malignant growths accounted for seven deaths each. Infants under one year comprised nearly a quarter of deaths. Births totaled 448, with a typhoid fever uptick prompting new cases and treatments. The bulletin notes regulations for eating-house sanitation and mentions various local advertisements and public notices.
Rev Dr J Henning Relma of Church of the Ascension spoke to the Sons of the American Revolution in Raveners last night. He called the race problem the nation’s greatest issue and urged patriotism and organization to uplift Black Americans. Col Charles Lyman read an Indian poem America. A resolution draft was set to address Judge Job Goode’s death, and a greeting was sent to James F P Dutol, consul to Singapore.
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