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New York Coal miners call a conference with their employers to demand “the eight-hour work day” and “an increase of 20 percent in wages,” or else the 140,000 workers will threaten strike.

A minister is caught cheating on his wife with another married woman. The husband charges him $10,000, though the Church defends their minister.

The Lexington chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy begins a movement of opposition to the playing of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” in community theaters.

An advertisement for a free, small package of medicine claims to cure alcoholic husbands of their problems if their wives or daughters secretly put it in their food or drink.

Dr. Graham praises the development and recent accomplishments of the Negro Baptist Church, mentioning their plans to meet in Petersburg and create a large convention to raise money.

The coal conference with operators and President Roosevelt is unsuccessful as the miners will not agree to return to work.

A black servant kills his employer and her two children, after suspecting that she called a warrant to arrest him for secretly stealing some of her money.

An angry mob of over 5,000 coal strikers causes “a reign of terror” in Shenandoah. Many policemen fire into the crowd and kill some strikers, but ultimately they “ran for their lives”, forcing 1,200 soldiers to intervene "to maintain peace".

The Fifth Street Baptist Church announces their “final effort for the liquidation of the last of the long standing debt,” encouraging members to send in money to the pastor in the next few weeks.

An advertisement for a free, “magical” hair brush, distributed in Richmond, promises to straighten kinky and curly hair.