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A boxing match between the current heavyweight champion against a “negro” boxer, who clearly dominates the fight against the white fighter.

The writer argues against the train car segregation bill.

A letter to the editor mocks the proposed segregated train car bill.

Booker T. Washington declares the deprivation of constitutional privileges for black southerners may be due in part to the "advisability of the settlement of the [black man] in Northern States."

A white woman writes to tell how the most horrid part of the slave trade was the transportation, and says, "never can so much misery be found."

Mitchell provides a social commentary on the effects of the "habitual and hopeless drunkard" on the community.

A reverend theorizes that recent increases to the army's presence in the Philippines will "likely prolong the struggle.”

Mitchell speaks of President McKinley's visit to Richmond, and commends him for visiting even when "he has nothing to gain by visiting Virginia."

Mitchell speaks of the how Americans tend to exaggerate events to get a "foreigner get muddled up in ideas concerning the United States."

Mitchell writes of the "one disappointing feature" of a fair, where no shops operated by black men are present.