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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 woman forfeits her wedding ring to donate to the Woman’s Suffrage movement.

The Pardon Board grants parole to W. L. Taylor, the son of True Reformer Reverend Dr. Wm. L. Taylor, shortening his sentence for “feloniously assaulting” a train conductor.

A young girl and her male teacher physically fight each other in the classroom after “war was declared” between them, the girl proving “that the American girl is abundantly able to take care of herself.”

The Young Men’s Christian Association is so successful that the leaders are looking for a larger space to hold Sunday School.

Captain H. W. Phillips advertises the opportunity for a “persevering, moral young man” to receive military officer training.

A white man shoots a homeless black man, and the black man is arrested after asking for food at a farm house.

The yard-conductor at Byrd Street Station allegedly stole multiple pairs of shoes. The Planet compares his punishments for stealing with that of a black man.

A white man sleeps with a black woman who then kills her husband after an altercation; the white man was found not guilty in court and walked away a free man.

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.”