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A young black scholar becomes the first black person to win the Cecil Rhodes Scholarship, allowing him to attend Oxford University for a semester.

A reader of the Planet criticizes “dog-in-the-manger Negroes” who “never let an opportunity pass to get in a word against any enterprise that a colored man starts.”

With Ozonized Ox Marrow, African Americans can attain straight hair.

A farmer who loses many animals due to their illness hires a “witch,” and his problems mysteriously go away.

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

The black community praises the Virginia Governor, Charles O’Ferrall, after he pardons men from their crime and has caused the number of lynchings to decrease to almost none in the state.

An emancipation association calls for all community members to celebrate the freedom of all “colored people,” reminding readers that “this is the day that our forefathers and mothers long prayed for.”

A thirty-year-old man requests that women “desiring an early marriage” write to him.

A gentleman “desires desires the acquaintance of a young widow or lady who is well educated and willing to assist a husband in business.”

Sickness spreading through stray dogs in Pittsburg kills a man and his wife, leaving their child orphaned