1900s article notes

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1900
“A Good Record” (Henry Martin)
Daily Progress, Wednesday January 3, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2076912

“A Police Justice.” (Mayor’s office)
Daily Progress, Tuesday January 9, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2076936

“Separate Car Bill. Went Through the State Senate without Opposition.”
Daily Progress, Friday January 26, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2077013

“The fourth anniversary of Zion Union Baptist (colored) church will
begin next Sunday and continue one week, with services each evening.”
Daily Progress, Wednesday February 7, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2077063

Under “Brief Paragraphs.”
“Bertha Washington, colored, is held in jail in Alexandria
charged with robbing the postoffice at Nasons, Orange County, Va.”
Daily Progress, February 10, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2077080

“The Building Club”
(Ebenezer Baptist Church)
“The regular monthly meeting of the Building Club of the Ebenezer Baptist church (colored) was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Burns last night. This club formerly known as the Organ Club having fully paid for the organ of the said church, has turned its attention to the building debt of the church. The business of the club being completed, refreshments were served to all present by the hospitable host and hostess.”
Daily Progress, Tuesday February 20, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2077120

“The Future of the Negro: Predicated upon His Past History of Fifty Centuries of Savagery and Ten Generations of Control in Civilizing Surroundings—A Gloomy Outlook.”
“Charleston, S. C., Feb. 21 — Dr. P. B. Barringer of the University of Virginia delivered an address here last night before the Tri-State Medical Association on ‘The Southern Negro.’
  “ Dr. Barringer contended that the ages of degradation under which the negro was formed and the 50 centuries of historically recorded savagery with which he came to America could not be permanently influenced by one or two centuries of enforced correction, so that when the correcting force was removed the negro, like the released plummet, began to fall.  What has been seen, the speaker said, is but the first evidence of a motion as certain in its result as the law of gravitation.
   “‘The negro,’ said Dr. Barringer, ‘was in Thebes 3,000 years before the Christian era, he was in Carthage and in Rome when those nations flourished, and always as a slave. He is the slave of the nations and accepts that condition contentedly if his animal wants are supplied. Wherever he has attained any civilization it has been when he was under the control of a stronger will than his own, for in Africa, where he has been left to himself, he is still the cannibal and the savage that he always has been.’
   “Speaking of the  young negro of the present generation, Dr. Barringer said:
   “‘By the time he is fully grown he is far from home and has almost forgotten the parents that gave him birth. He is a liar, a thief, a robber, gambler, perhaps murderer or highwayman, fearing neither God or man. This man is a unit of that dark cloud which overhangs the black belt of the South. Before another generation is allowed to arise, worse, as we must see, than the present, the people of the South must act. They must remove the negro from politics and give the ballot to him only when it can be given as a reward of progress and not as a weapon of revenge. The negro must be educated along new lines.
   “‘One of two things may then be expected unless a remedy is found. Some question of race will probably arise which will stir the passions and there will come a struggle, a day of judgment for folly piled upon folly. As all classes of the South are of pure Saxon blood, the chronicles of their Saxon ancestors will be humane reading compared with the records of that day.’”
Daily Progress, February 22, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2077130

“In a Sad Plight”
Railroad workers not paid; hiking from Greenbriar River to Culpeper
Daily Progress, February 25, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2077145

Convention [Luray]
(Notice, signed Jno. R. Wood, Chairman and J. S. Sammons, Secretary)
Daily Progress, March 13, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2077215

“Sousa and his Band”
Concert in Charlottesville at auditorium
Daily Progress, March 22, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2077254

“Father McVerry”
Transferred to Richmond by Bishop Van de Viver after 30 years here at holy Paraclete
Daily Progress, March 23, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2077259

Note on Riverview Cemetery
Daily Progress, March 29, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2077284

“City Republicans: Delegates Elected to Front Royal. New Chairman”
Daily Progress, Friday March 30, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2077289

“District Convention of Republicans of the Seventh. Gen. Rosser to be Nominated”
Daily Progress, April 5, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2077314

“Through the kindness of the Hon. John E. Massey, Rhodes & Carter have secured a very fine collection of photographs of ‘Ash Lawn,’ the home of President Monroe, for parties up North.”
Daily Progress, April 6, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2077319

“At Colored Churches: Baptizing at Ebenezer—Y.M.C.A. Bible Study.”
Daily Progress, Tuesday April 10, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2077333

“Anniversary Week at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church. Y.M.C.A. Notes.”
Mentions Rev. R. B. Hardy, C. H. Bullock, S. B. Logan, Prof. Wales Terrell, Rev. P. C. Lewis (State Missionary of the Baptist Home Mission Society), R. Kelser
Daily Progress, Monday April 30, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2077412

“The Negroes Organized” – ILLEGIBLE – order from Ivy?
“Editor Progress:  I learn today coming from a Republican  . . . colored congregations to vote on 24th of May (next Thursday) against Convention. . . Let every white man especially every white Democrat get to work and bring  . . .
Daily Progress, Monday May 21, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2077502

May 21-24, 1900 – numerous articles about vote on whether to hold constitutional convention which was held May 24, 1900.

“Poll Books Should Be Purged.”
“Editor Progress:  Public speaking is effective and cannot be dispensed with in our fight for a Constitutional Convention, but our city committee should not forget that many illegal votes will be cast if the poll books are not examined and a challenge list made in each ward. There is a day left in which to do this.”
Daily Progress, Tuesday May 22, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2077512
“Colored Y. M. C. A.: Annual Election of Officers Last Evening”
Daily Progress, Wednesday May 23, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2077522

“Mission School”
(at Hickory Hill)
Daily Progress, Thursday May 24, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2077532

“The Election Today”
Breakdown of vote by race as of 4 p.m.
Daily Progress, Thursday May 24, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2077532

“Was Jefferson’s Slave: Something More About Peter Fossett of Cincinnati”
Daily Progress, May 25, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2077542

“All Honor to Albemarle”
Details of the May 24 vote for and against the Constitutional Convention for city and county, by ward
Daily Progress, Friday May 25, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2077542

“The Negro Question”
“Dr. Barringer’s speech has been copied and commented upon throughout the entire country, and is generally conceded to be an exceedingly excellent and able effort.” (Reprinted on May 29, 1900, pg 1, and on June 1, 1900 pg 1)
Daily Progress, May 28, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2077562

Under “Little Items of Interest”
Good Samaritans convention in Harrisonburg
Daily Progress, Monday June 8, 1903, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083771

“Was Jefferson’s Slave: Rev. P. F. Fossett Visits the Scenes of His Youth”
(Short and mostly illegible article about P Fossett’s visit)
Daily Progress, Wednesday June 13, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2077704

Under “Brief Paragraphs: Little Items of More or Less Local Interest”
Henry Martin “procured a thirty days’ furlough” to visit relatives in Boston during the vacation
Daily Progress, Tuesday June 19, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2077756

“Education in the South: Continuation of the Conference at Capon Springs”
A paper on the “Practical Value of the Higher Education of the Negro” was read by
President Bumstead of the Atlanta University [See page 39, Proceedings of the First-seventeenth Conference for Education in the South … . 1898-1914, Issues 1-3, Published 1914  https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015076725327?urlappend=%3Bseq=163]
Daily Progress, June 29, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2077846

“A SPLENDID NEW BRIDGE”
“The Old “Free Bridge” to be Replaced by a Modern, Splendid Structure, to Cost Seven Thousand Dollars”
Daily Progress, Friday July 6, 1900
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2077896

“In the Temple of Justice. A Place of Dread and Shocking Exposure. Gospel Hill Represented
by a Knock-Down and Drag-Out. Marital Infidelity Rampant. Other Cases.”
(RACISM, JIM CROW, and more in similar vein continues July 11 through July 17)
Daily Progress, Tuesday July 10, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2077925

“They Give Up the Building” [Piedmont Hospital closed]
“The committees of ladies in charge of the Piedmont Hospital have notified Mayor Allen, through
Mrs. C. S. Venable, that they will vacate the building on Wednesday next. The ladies desire to return
their cordial thanks to the city and citizens of Charlottesville for the generous support accorded them.
All of the furniture etc., that was valuable, has been donated to the new University Hospital.”
Daily Progress, Monday July 16, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2077975

“A New Enterprise”
King Lumber Company
Daily Progress, July 18, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2077995

“Jefferson Park Notes”
“The obnoxious bar has been removed and for it has been substituted a ladies’ parlor which presents an attractive and inviting appearance. The refreshments were served daintily.”
Daily Progress, Thursday July 19, 1900, page 4
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2078005

“Orange Horse Show August 2d and 3d” [Ad]
Daily Progress, July 19, 1900, page 4
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2078005

“Colored Union S. S. Excursions”
Daily Progress, July 19, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2078005

“Angelus Bell Will Ring: Interesting Ceremonies at Catholic Church”
Daily Progress, Tuesday July 24, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2078045

“The Angelus Bell Blessed”
Daily Progress, Wednesday July 25, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2078057

July 27-Aug 1, 1900 Thomas Rosser leaving Democratic party to become Republican

“Criticises Dr. Barringer: Booker T. Washington on the Race Conference”
Daily Progress, July 31, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079118

“Wants Him in Public Life: Gov. Roosevelt Desires Gen. Rosser in Official Service”
Daily Progress, Friday August 3, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079133

“Season at the Auditorium”
list of attractions booked at Jefferson Auditorium
Daily Progress, Saturday August 4, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079138

“Riot in Amherst”
(“race riot” at Pedlar’s Mill)
Daily Progress, August 8, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079153

“The B. P. O. E. Barbecue: The third annual event a success”
At Sunnyside: “During the day Mr. Phillips with a camera took pictures of various scenes about the grounds – the tables, the barbecue pit, squads of men on the hillside, &c.”
Daily Progress, August 9, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079158
“Nine Wounded in Amherst”
Daily Progress, August 9, 1900, page 1
Constables T. J. Carter and Martin
Family of Paul Smith near Pleasant View (African American)
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079158

“County S. S. Convention: Sitting at Grace Church Near Cismont”
Daily Progress, Friday August 10, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079163

“White Republican Club: An organization formed here last night” Speech of Gen. Thomas Rosser, President
Daily Progress, August 11, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079168

“Albemarle Convict Killed”
Daniel Lee shot while attempting to escape from State farm. Sentenced in 1895 for twenty years for housebreaking and attempted malicious assault.
Daily Progress, Monday August 13, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079173

“The Convention Adjourns”
“A stirring little address was made by Rev. E. V. Jones [rector of Grace Church], on the colored school at Mr. P. W. Nelson’s near Stony Point, where his sisters have labored for twenty years and more among the colored people with hope and encouragement.”
African American school at P. W. Nelson’s near Stony Point
Daily Progress, Monday August 13, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079173

“School Census”
Daily Progress, Thursday August 16, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079188

“Annual Report: City Superintendent of Schools for Year Ending July 31st”
Daily Progress, August 16, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079188

“Vote of Negroes: The meeting to be held in this city this week”
Daily Progress, Monday August 20, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079203

“The Negro Conference” (Editorial)
Daily Progress, August 22, 1900, page 2
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079213

“Meeting of Colored Men”
(see http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/afam/politics/newsclipping.html#19000822 )
Daily Progress, August 22, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079213

“The Conference Adjourns”
Daily Progress, August 23, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079218

“EDITORIAL OPINIONS” (Quote from Petersburg Index-Appeal)
Daily Progress, August 23, 1900, page 2
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079218

“Our Suburban Resort”
Jefferson Park  “The big hill just west of the spring is being cleared of the undergrowth and, together with the little dell above the spring, will make a delightful ramble.”
Daily Progress, August 27, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079233
“Our Youth Are Corrupted: Bradley Johnson Discusses the Constitution”
Daily Progress, Tuesday August 28, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079238

“No Case Against Them”
7 AA from Charlottesville in Staunton belonging to travelling show charged with jumping a board bill; cleared of charges
Daily Progress, September 3, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079265

“Political Campaign Opens: General Rosser Explains his Political Position”
Daily Progress, September 3, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079265

Thomas Rosser letter to the editor
Daily Progress, September 5, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079275

“A Worthy Institution”
Alice Scott sewing school
Daily Progress, Monday September 10, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079297

“Negroes’ School Money: Rev. Ashby Jones Opposes Curtailing the Appropriation.”
Daily Progress, Thursday September 13, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079312

“Hanged in Effigy”
In Monroe Park in Richmond, Miss Lillian Clayton Jewett of Boston
Daily Progress, September 17, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079327

“He Writes from Shadwell: A Northerner Discusses the Negro in Politics”
Daily Progress, Wednesday September 19, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079337

Paul G. McIntire purchased Prospect Hill 4 miles north of the city from Dr. W. C. Dabney
Daily Progress, October 19, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079469

“Southern Point of View: ‘H. B. B.’ in the Woman’s Journal of Boston”
Daily Progress, October 20, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079474

“The Bridge”
Details on Free Bridge being replaced: “The new iron bridge, which is to span the Rivanna, was brought in today on four cars. The timber of the old bridge will be utilized by the county for building another bridge. . . .”
Daily Progress, Monday November 5, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079533

Under “Brief Paragraphs” column:
“George W. Fisher, a worthy colored man, and a staunch Democrat, who has been in government employment since the Cleveland administration, is now at his home in this city. He came down yesterday ‘to visit his family and vote for Mr. Bryan.’”
Daily Progress, Tuesday November 6, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079538

“A LANDSLIDE for the Republican Ticket is Indicated” (Mckinley & Roosevelt win)
Daily Progress, Wednesday November 7, 1900 Issue 2
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079546

“A Shooting Affair.” (John White shot by cousin Tom Brown at Mechums River)
Daily Progress, Thursday November 8, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079551

 “What Will It Do? The Talk as to the Work of the Constitutional Convention”
Daily Progress, Thursday November 8, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079551

“Armistead Hunt Club: Off for Their Old Hunting Grounds in Augusta”
(With Granville Duvall)
Daily Progress, Thursday November 8, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079551

Letter from Camp Armistead
Daily Progress, Saturday November 10, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079561

“Very Serious Accident. . . The Fire Wagon Overturned”
Daily Progress, Tuesday November 13, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079571

“The Great Battle Today: Post-Office Applicants on the Home Stretch”
(Gen. Rosser, Jacob Yost, R. N. Flannagan)
Daily Progress, November 13, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079571

“Another Accident at the Ferry”
(Mr. Solomon of Stony Point)
Daily Progress, Thursday November 15, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079581

“Looked Like a Robbery”
(Tongue-in-cheek article about evening meeting of City Republican Committee including G. P. Inge, Jake Harman (white), Schuyler Saunders, Henry L. Lyman, and C. W. Hulfish. To endorse Hulfish for post office)
Daily Progress, Friday November 16, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079586

“The Old Sprouse Family”
Daily Progress, Tuesday November 27, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079631

“Our State Penitentiary”
“The largest cell in the penitentiary is 24 feet long, 20 feet 9 inches wide, and 10 feet 3 inches high.
In it are packed twenty-nine men!”
Daily Progress, Wednesday November 28, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079636

“Dwelling Burned”
“Reuben Scott, a very worthy colored man, lost his dwelling and all its contents by fire about 2 o’clock this morning. The dwelling was located near the Knitting Mills and contained ___ ___. There was a small insurance ____ ___ ___.” [Second paragraph illegible]
Daily Progress, Wednesday December 5, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079665

“The Judgement at Hand: The Postoffice Matter Was Settled Today”
“To sum up. Hulfish certainly has the advantage now, with Saltsman and Flannagan as formidable seconds.”
Daily Progress, Friday December 7, 1900. page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079675

“Accident at Ferry”
Daily Progress, Saturday December 8, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079680
“Reply of Physicians: Repeat Charge That the City is in Unsanitary Condition”
“As to the wells and springs in town, all of our physicians know that they are the most fruitful source of typhoid fever which exists, most of the cases being directly traced to them.”
Daily Progress, Saturday December 8, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079680

“Very Important Meeting”
City Council:
1. C&O RR proposed grade changes at 5th, 6th,7th, W Main at University, Water St.; ALSO to erect new depot building with “apartments for both races, etc.). 2. Health Committee: sewers, etc. 3. Public Park needed. Committee appointed to consider options on land. 4. Public building needed; committee to be appointed.
Daily Progress, December 14, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079705

“Railroad Improvements” Details on plans for new depot
Daily Progress, Saturday December 15, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079710

Under “Little Items of Interest” column:
 “The new bridge over the Rivanna river was opened up for travel a few days since. The Board of Supervisors will doubtless gather at the river this week, to accept or reject the work.”
Daily Progress, Monday December 17, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079715

“Dr. Barringer’s Address: Discusses Negro Education Before Teachers”
Daily Progress, Monday December 31, 1900, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079770

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1901
Under “Little Items of Interest” column:
R. W. Holsinger in Richmond for Photographers’ Association meeting
Daily Progress, Tuesday January 8, 1901, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2078680

“Virginia Penitentiary”
Daily Progress, Thursday January 10, 1901, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2078690

“Many Matters Discussed in Last Evening’s Meeting of the Council”
Daily Progress, Friday January 11, 1901, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2078695

“Quarterly Conference Meeting.”
John Wesley M. E. chapel (colored), pastor Rev. W. S. Jackson
Daily Progress, Friday January 18, 1901, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2078725

“Pioneer of C. & O. Railway”
Daily Progress, Tuesday January 22, 1901, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2078740

“Queen’s Jefferson Letter”
Daily Progress, Friday February 1, 1901, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2078785

“Card from Dr. Mallet”
Regarding smallpox and dissection at UVA
Daily Progress, Thursday February 2, 1901, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2078790

“Only Three Cases”
Smallpox cases removed to Old Piedmont Hospital, “secured by the city as a house of retention”
Daily Progress, Thursday February 7, 1901, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2078810

“Tribute to Morris”
Letter from Murray Boocock praising Senator Morris for his “declaration in favor of a limited suffrage and against cutting the negro out of his vote simply because he is a negro.”
Daily Progress, Thursday February 14, 1901, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2078840

“Killed a Negro Girl”
James Lewis, teacher at Woodridge accidentally shot 15 year old female student, stepdaughter of a woman named Camp with whom he was boarding.
Daily Progress, Friday February 15, 1901, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2078845

“Smallpox Situation”
“There was little opposition among the whites to the application of the preventative, but strange to say some of the colored people, the most exposed to the disease, evaded vaccination when it was possible.”
Daily Progress, Saturday February 16, 1901, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2078850

“Native African Here.”
“Rev. J. H. Perry, M. D., of Indoba, Zululand, South Africa, will preach at the First Baptist church, colored, tomorrow morning, and at the evening hour will fill the pulpit of Mt. Zion church.
   “Rev. Perry is the president of the Aborigines Educational Society, and is a finely educated African. His father was a native of Cape Town. He is making a tour of the South with a view to studying the conditions of his race. The information he gains he purposes to put to practical use among his people.”
Daily Progress, Saturday March 9, 1901, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2078939

“The New Hospital: About Ready, and Dr. Barringer Invites Inspection”
Daily Progress, Saturday March 23, 1901, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079003

“ZULULAND AND THE ZULUS; TO BE DISCUSSED BY A FULL-BLOODED ZULU.”
Several paragraphs about Rev. Perry and his work.
Daily Progress, Wednesday March 27, 1901, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079018

Under “Little Items of Interest” column:
“The lecture on Zululand and the Zulus, which was to have taken place at the First Baptist church tonight, has been indefinitely postponed, owing to the absence of the lecturer from the city.”
Daily Progress, Thursday March 28, 1901, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079023

“‘Uncle’ Tom Winston, perhaps the oldest negro in Virginia, has just died in Louisa county at the advanced age of 105. He was owned by the late William M. Ambler, and his age seems fully authenticated.”
Daily Progress, Friday March 29, 1901, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079028

Bullock-Lewis
Marriage at First Colored Baptist Church
Daily Progress, Friday April 5, 1901, page 4
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079058

“Uncle Henry Remembered” (Henry Martin)
Daily Progress, Saturday April 20, 1901, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079860

“Boaz and Massey Elected”
Charlottesville and Albemarle delegates to Constitutional Convention
Daily Progress, Monday April 22, 1901
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079865

“Hon. John Edward Massey: His Death Yesterday, After a Brief Illness”
Daily Progress, April 25, 1901, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079880

“Jas. H. Lindsay Nominated”
(to replace Massey as delegate to Constitutional Convention)
Daily Progress, May 1, 1901, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079905

Wesley Methodist Conference
“The first quarterly conference of the M E Church (colored) of this city was held Thursday night by Presiding Elder Rev. I. J. Valentine of Baltimore. Rev. W. S. Jackson, who was pastor last year, has been returned for the next twelve months. Since Rev. Jackson took charge of the work here, the church has prospered in members added to the church and financially, and Rev. Jackson’s return is hailed with delight by the members and friends generally in the community.”
Daily Progress, Saturday May 4, 1901, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079920

Under “Some Virginia Happenings column:
“It is reported that the ‘True Reformers,’ a colored beneficial and insurance society, having lodges in nearly every city in the State, has made an offer in Fredericksburg for the Barton property. . . . to establish ‘a home for aged colored women.’”
Daily Progress, Thursday May 9, 1901, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079940

Under “Some Virginia Happenings column:
“One hundred colored men left Louisa county last week to engage in railroad work in West Virginia.”
Daily Progress, Thursday May 23, 1901, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2080002

“A Protest”
“A delegation of prominent colored men of this city called today upon Messrs. Boaz and Lindsay, delegates to the Constitutional Convention, and offered a petition begging that they would use their influence against the division of the school funds upon racial lines. They were accorded a respectful hearing. Among the delegation were G. P. Inge, Rev. R. B. Hardy, Rev. R. C. Quarles, Rev. W. I. Taliaferro, Rev. W. R. Jackson, J. A. Brown and Nelson Michie.”
Daily Progress, Monday June 3, 1901, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/journals/items/uva-lib:2080047

“Race Distinction: Some Suggestions for Remedial Legislation”
Daily Progress, Monday June 3, 1901, page 2
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/journals/items/uva-lib:2080047

“Closing Exercises of the Jefferson (Colored) Public School.”
Daily Progress, Wednesday June 5, 1901, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/journals/items/uva-lib:2080057

Under BRIEF PARAGRAPHS column:
“Mr. R. W. Holsinger was called today to Nokesville, Prince William county, to attend the funeral of his aunt, Mrs. J. S. Holsinger, who died yesterday afternoon.”
Daily Progress, Tuesday June 18, 1901, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2080109

“Division of School Funds”
“. . . Mr. Lindsay is of opinion that the education of the negro rather unfits him for the practical duties to which he is called to his sphere.  He stated that there might be exceptions, but that, as a rule, the negro got just a smattering that spoiled him, and made him feel above work, instead of fitting him for work, as was intended.  The negro looked upon education at public expense as a right, he thinks, rather than as a gratuity bestowed upon him by the whites, who pay the bulk of the taxes . . .”
Daily Progress, Thursday June 20, 1901, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2080120

“A Pleased Man”
[Holsinger Ad]
Daily Progress, June 22, 1901, page 4
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2080130

“Franchise Comes First”
“Mr. Lindsay came out boldly in favor of disfranchising the negro as far as possible and thus remove him as a factor in politics in the State.  Education had unfitted the negro for his sphere in life.  At least 75 per cent of those in the penitentiary could read and write, were educated.  Replying to a question from a member of the committee he said he was committed to it by the platform upon which he was elected in favor of deviding[sic] the school fund.  He would go further, he would educate the negro women for cooks and the men for good coachmen, farm hands and laborers.”
Daily Progress, July 3, 1901, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2080175

“Features You’ll Recognize”
[Holsinger Ad]
Daily Progress, July 8, 1901, page 4
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2080190

“On Court Square”
Nasty piece beginning with a description of horse sales at October Court day on the square—“the powerful voice of the horse auctioneer,” etc.—and followed by a description of slave auction sales of the past:
“. . . in the ante-bellum days the negro divided the interest of the day with the horse. The January Court was then the important day of the year; for on that day superfluous slaves were hired out by their masters for the ensuing year, the services of an able bodied man bringing a hundred dollars or thereabout, and those of a woman from fifty to seventy-five dollars. The negro is still very much in evidence on Courtday, but in how different a capacity, every one knows who is elbowed by him on the crowded streets.”
Daily Progress, Tuesday October 8, 1901, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2080585

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1902
“A Brute’s Shocking Crime”
White woman assaulted in Lynchburg by a Black man.
Daily Progress, Monday January 13, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079823

“Negro Caught”
Joe Higginbotham arrested for rape in Lynchburg.
Daily Progress, Monday January 13, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079823

“At Last Review: Local Tent of Maccabees Installed Officers”
Daily Progress, Tuesday January 14, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079830

“Fiend Made Love to Victim”
Joe Higginbotham arrested for rape in Lynchburg.
Daily Progress, Tuesday January 14, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2079830

EDITORIAL: “Negro or White Teachers for Colored Schools?”
“The cost of defraying the expenses of the colored free schools of Virginia is a heavy burden upon the white people of the State. . . . we look in vain for better citizens or the first evidence of gratitude from the colored race. This is largely due to the blunder we have committed in putting a colored schools in the hands of colored teachers. . . .”
Daily Progress, Wednesday January 15, 1902, page 2
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082080

“Higginbotham Talks”
Daily Progress, Wednesday January 15, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082080
—SEE ALSO: “Higginbotham’s Conviction”
“The trial of Joe Higginbotham (colored) charged with having raped Mrs. Ralph Webber (white) Saturday, January 11, 1902, at Lynchburg. Va., took place Wednesday, January, 22, 1902, in the Corporation Court, Judge Christian presiding. . . . Higginbotham is the arch-enemy of the ‘New Negro,’ the element which is now striving to march onward and direct their steps upward. . . . Let the colored people of Virginia stand mute at his end and hope that his fate may serve as a warning to all, both white and black, rich and poor.”
Richmond Planet (Richmond, Virginia) Feb 1, 1902, Saturday, page 4
https://virginiachronicle.com/?a=d&d=RP19020201.1.4&e=——-en-20–1–txt-txIN——–

“Chisel and Collar Found”
Higginbotham case.
Daily Progress, Wednesday January 15, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082080

“Cut His Throat: Edward Braxton Uses His Razor on Edward Kenny”
Daily Progress, Tuesday January 28, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082135

“Cut His Throat”
“William Thomas, a colored man of about 65 years of age, cut his throat very severely last night in an attempt to commit suicide. The man works at “Ashlawn,” the old Massey farm, near Monticello. Dr. _____ was called for this morning and the wounded man may recover.”
Daily Progress, Wednesday February 5, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082170

“Negro Man Awaiting Trial for Serious Charge”
Charles Dawson charged with killing Herbert Robertson. Both work for J. F. Elliott and live on his place on Park Street.
Daily Progress, Friday February 14, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082210

“Officials Interviewed”
“On the Proposed Erection of a Fire House on the lot Near Midway School Doubt Wisdom of the Action”
Daily Progress, Thursday February 20, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082235

“Will Build Station House”
“At Once on Southeast of City Hall Lot: Fire House Will be Erected at Some Future Time—Animated Debate Follows the Committee’s Report”
Daily Progress, Friday February 21, 1902
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082240

“Goes to Brooklyn”
“Charles H. Bullock, the local secretary of the colored Y. M. C. A., has received and accepted an offer to be general secretary of the colored branch of the Brooklyn Y. M. C. A. and will leave at once for that city. He has done great good in this city among the colored people.”
Daily Progress, Wednesday March 5, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082285

“Leg Mangled”
Harry Fortune, 18 years old, fell under a freight train in the Southern yard. Taken to University Hospital.
Daily Progress, Monday March 24, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082365

“PROGRAM OF CEREMONIES OF JEFFERSON MEMORIAL ROAD CONVENTION”
“The Jefferson Memorial Road Convention will begin its sessions tomorrow. For nine days the Good Roads Train has been here . . .” (Speakers listed include General Fitzhurgh Lee, Paul Barringer, Senator Thomas Martin, Governor A. J. Montague. Reception by Hon. Jefferson M. Levy.)
Daily Progress, Tuesday April 1, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082400

“HANNA, MILES MONTAGUE. FINE ADDRESSES BEFORE THE CONVENTION.”
Good Roads Convention—FULL PAGE
Daily Progress, Friday April 4, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082410

“CONCLUDING ADDRESSES. CLOSING SESSIONS OF GOOD ROADS CONVENTION.”
Good Roads Convention—FULL PAGE
Daily Progress, Saturday April 5, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082415

“CENSUS FIGURES TO PROVE THAT RACE QUESTION IS SETTLING ITSELF”
“By perusal of these figures you will easily perceive that as far as the county of Albemarle and City of Charlottesville is concerned, the race question is settling itself here; viz., by increase of the whites and a decrease of the colored people.”
Daily Progress, Friday April 11, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082440
“Harvard Tomorrow: Negro Shortstop on Crimson Team Will be Barred”
“The announcement that Matthews, the negro shortstop of the Harvard nine, would play against the Southerners aroused great indignation. Coach Wills immediately wired Manager Brown, who is now in Washington, to notify Harvard that Virginia would not play in a game with a negro.”
Daily Progress, Friday April 11, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082440

“Formal Opening: Of Meadow Creek Country Club Will be Celebrated.”
Daily Progress, Saturday April 26, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082505

“Chicago Stars”
“Champion Ladies’ Base Ball Club” with Maud Nelson, “champion woman pitcher of the world”
to play the Charlottesville team on Goodman’s Field.
Daily Progress, Monday April 28, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082510

“THE NORFOLK RESOLUTION: AS ANALYZED BY THE HON. CARTER GLASS.”
“. . . So, of course the term there ‘the people’ meant all the qualified voters of the Commonwealth. But now, To differentiate what the General Assembly, under existing circumstances, was obliged to do from what we desired Convention to do, note the next section of the preamble: ’Whereas it is the evident desire of the white people of Virginia to amend and revise the existing Constitution.’ Whom did we mean? We meant the white people, and per contra did not mean the black people. . . .”
Daily Progress, Tuesday April 29, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082515

“A CARD: To the Voters of Albemarle County and City of Charlottesville”
Delegates W. H. Boaz and J. H. Lindsay requesting a meeting Monday May 5 regarding “whether the new Constitution shall be submitted or proclaimed”
Daily Progress, Friday May 2, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082530

“Mr. W. P. Rhodes, having sold out his photographic business here, left today for Norfolk, where he will engage in business. He was accompanied by his daughter, Miss Pearl Rhodes.”
Daily Progress, Saturday May 3, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082535

Under “Little Items of Interest” column:
“Since May 1 over one hundred colored men and boys have left the city and county for New York, where they have gone to work in brick yards.”
Daily Progress, Saturday May 3, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082535

“PROCLAIM THE CONSTITUTION: IS THE CRY OF ALBEMARLE AND THE CITY”
Daily Progress, Monday May 5, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082540

Under  “Brief Paragraphs” column:
“Charlottesville defeated the Chicago Stars this afternoon, by the score of 11 to 7.”
Daily Progress, Monday May 5, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082540

“Brown’s School in Ashes” (includes photo of building)
Daily Progress, Wednesday May 7, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082550

“Took a Short Nap: And Awoke to Find His Pocketbook Gone”
In Scottsville, T. G. Omohundro woke from nap and discovered $45 was missing from his room. “Several boys were about the premises and had access to his room. Among them was Jerry Hamner, one of the porters at the Home Hotel. . . . Jerry Hamner, the only one of the negroes who could be found, was at once arrested and placed in the ‘lockup,’ charge with the theft.
Daily Progress, Thursday May 22, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082615

“Concerning ‘Snowball’”
Rumor that Henry Johnson was caught stealing from UVA students and shot and taken to dissecting hall. Investigation ensues and students claim they thrashed him, took him to railroad track, and ordered him away.
“Concerning ‘Snowball’”
   “There has been a weird story going the rounds for over a week past that a negro boy, Henry Johnson, more familiarly ‘Snowball’ had been caught stealing [illegible] students and shot. He was then taken to the dissecting hall, his brains taken out and his body put in a vat for future dissection. Thus the story ran, and it was held in full credence by every negro to whose ears it came. . . .
   “‘Snowball’ was a confirmed rogue and had been caught in a student’s room stealing clothes on the night of Friday May 16. His captors gave the negro a good thrashing and taking him to the railroad track, faced him westward and ordered him away, never to set foot in the University again. He has not been heard from since that night, the supposition being that he is in some city west of here.
   “It is inexplicable how the colored population can continue to concoct such stories in connection with the dissecting hall . . .”
Daily Progress, Tuesday May 27, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082635

“Gave Banquet” (Three V Club)
Daily Progress, Wednesday May 28, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082640

“Midway Final Exercises”
Daily Progress, Saturday May 31, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082655

“Splendid Gymkhana Races: Opened Meadow Creek Country Clubhouse”
Daily Progress, Monday June 2, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082660

 “Three Men Killed: Negro Laborers Struck by Falling Stone at Alberene”
John Edward, Peter Douglas, and Thorston Monroe
Daily Progress, June 7, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082685

“Gov. Montague’s Address”
“discussing the education of the negro” at Conference of County and City Superintendents at University Public Hall
Daily Progress, Tuesday July 8, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082812

“A Grand Reception”
“The Shiloh Baptist Church, colored, gave a grand reception to the teachers of the “Annex of the School of Methods” last evening. The affair was an up to-date one in every particular. The pastor, Rev. J. C. Lias, in a few well chosen words made all feel welcome and happy.  “America” was then sung by the large audience. Then a most unique program, arranged by Mrs. J. A. Brown, was rendered, in which the following Methodites participated: Mrs. I. J. Saunders of Lynchburg, Miss Rosa Jackson of Albemarle, Miss M. I. George of Lynchburg, Miss Janie Johnson of this city, Miss Mattie Crews of Lynchburg, Madam J. Matthews Narcom of Portsmouth, Profs. R. Kelser and Lawson, Miss Mamie Coles, Mr. L. G. Brown and J. A. Brown of this city.”
Daily Progress, Tuesday July 15, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082842

“Letter of Thanks: Henry Martin Acknowledges a Testimonial”
[Also printed in The Times (Richmond, Virginia), Wednesday July 16, 1902, Page 5]
Daily Progress, Wednesday July 16, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082847

“Careless Riding”
Tom Chambers bike accident on Main St; working for J. P. Ellington’s dry goods store
Daily Progress, Friday July 18, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082857

“Reuben Scott and Alice Goodloe, colored, both of this city, were married in Washington yesterday by the Rev. W. J. Howard, also colored.”
Daily Progress, Friday July 18, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082857
 “The Porter Shot Dead”
Henry Randolph, a porter with No. 7 local train, shot when gun went off in altercation between conductor and passenger
Daily Progress, Thursday July 31, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082917

 “Colored Church Workers”
   “The Piedmont Colored Baptist District Association, held its fifteenth annual session with the Rose Hill Baptist church, near Snead’s Store, commencing July 30 and ending Aug. 1. This association numbered about forty of the best colored Baptist preachers of this and adjoining counties. Their object is to foster the cause of Christianity by continual intercourse, the assisting of home and foreign missions, the spreading of the word of God and the keeping in reunion the churches, and adhearing [sic] strictly to the teachings of Christ. They will this year become a member of the Virginia Baptist State Convention by their moderator, Rev. J. T. Johnson, who was elected a delegate. Their foreign mission work will be done through the National Baptist Convention of the United States.
   “This is said to have been one of their best sessions, the contributions being much larger than usual. The attendance was very large, and was nicely cared for by the Rev. A. O. Gerder, pastor. J. A. Brown was elected corresponding delegate to the Virginia State Baptist Sunday School Convention.
   “The following are some of the officers elected at the meeting : Rev. J. T. Johnson, moderator ; Rev. W. O. Mayo, statistical secretary ; Deacon Nathaniel Evans, treasurer ; Deacon J. A. Brown, recording secretary. The next annual meeting will be held with the new Green Mountain Baptist church, near Scottsville in August 1903.”
Daily Progress, Tuesday August 5, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082939

 “Jefferson National Bank”
new building recently completed
*interesting markings on microfilmed copy, as if text of article is incorrect*
Daily Progress, Thursday August 7, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082949

 “Shot Four Times”
David J. Ward, supervisor at Hot Springs Company in Warm Springs, shot Lucy Davenport, floor servant
Daily Progress, Wednesday August 13, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082974

 “Fireman Injured”
Samuel Meadows, fireman on passenger train No 33 at Union Station
Daily Progress, Thursday August 14, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082979

“Our Bewildering City: Bridal Party Has Much Trouble Navigating”
White couple from Stony Point, Frank Burkhead and Nannie Pritchard; charming story, mentions “Finally the vicinity of the Clerk’s Office was reached, and while the license was being secured, the bridal party gathered in picturesque guise near the luscious melons and general garden produce of Edmund’s Store.”
Daily Progress, Thursday August 14, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082979

Edmund’s Store:
“WELL LIKED COLORED MERCHANT DIES”
“. . . Wm. (‘Bill’) H. Edmunds, the well known and popular colored grocer on Court Square . . .”
Daily Progress, Wednesday March 26, 1919, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2114152

Edmunds Brothers ad: “WE would be covered . . .”
Daily Progress, November 6, 1895, page 2
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2072437

Edmunds Brothers ad: “When You Boil It Down . . .”
Daily Progress, November 25, 1895, page 2
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2072517

“The Best People on Earth: Hold Barbecue at Sunnyside Springs”
Elks Barbecue
Daily Progress, Friday August 15, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082984

“Cake Walk.”
Benefit for the Ladies’ Benevolent Society at the Auditorium.
“The show will be colored minstrels and cake walk and will include the real darkey in his favorite role and not white men dressed as negroes. The cake walk will include the very best walkers in the city.”
Daily Progress, Saturday August 16, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082989

“Negroes in Convention.”
“Address of Welcome by the Rev. J. C. Lias of This City.”
“Richmond, VA., August 19.— The Negro Industrial and Agricultural Society of Virginia convened in regular annual convention at the Third Street African Methodist church. There were fully 800 delegates from outside of the city in attendance. The convention adjourns after the evening session today.
   The devotional exercises were conducted by the Rev. J. Strange of this city and the Rev. Albert Smith of Houston. The address of welcome was delivered by J. Thomas Hewin and responded to by the Rev. J. C. Lias of Charlottesville. The session adjourned at 2 o’clock, after the appointment of the usual committees, and convened again at 4 o’clock for a business session. Jordan Thompson, president of the society, is presiding.
   Members of the convention deny that the meeting is held for the purpose of testing the legality of the new constitution in the Federal courts will be brought up and something done to finally dispose of it.”
Daily Progress, Tuesday August 19, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2082999

“Order of St. Luke: Colored Council Assembled With Over 250 Delegates Present”
“Grand Sitting of the Right Worthy Grand Council of the Independent Order of St. Luke” at First Baptist Church in Charlottesville
More than half of this article is illegible.
Daily Progress, Wednesday August 20, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083004
See also:
Richmond Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) · Thursday August 21, 1902 · Page 3
Richmond Planet (Richmond, Virginia) · Saturday August 30, 1902 · Page 1

“Colored Order: Elects Officers for Ensuing Perm. Home to be Built”
(Order of St. Luke)
Daily Progress, Thursday August 21, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083009

“Miscegenation Case”
Hanover County, no names listed.  A Black preacher “who had gone North and brought back his white bride had been robbed of the fair and fair-skinned creature by another negro, presumably of greater charm.” Woman from Connecticut.
Daily Progress, Monday August 25, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083024

“Death of Mr. Warner Wood”
Daily Progress, Tuesday August 26, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083029

“FAITHFUL SERVANTS: Touching Instance of Their Devotion to a Sick Master” (Letter to the editor by W. C. N. Randolph)
“As his prolonged illness was drawing to a close, two of his faithful negroes, George Wood and Edward Murray, whom he had raised, came in to nurse their “Marse Warner.”
“The instance has been a touching one of the civilizing influence of Southern slavery upon barbarians. Whatever may be said against the younger negroes of this generation, nothing can be said against the older ones raised under the so-called horrible barbarity of Southern slavery.”
(Article very faded where it begins near bottom of page but is much darker and easier to read where it continues at the top of the next column, where Edward Murray and George Wood are mentioned.)
Daily Progress, August 26, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083029

“The Local Coal Conditions: No Anthracite and Bituminous Very Scarce”
Daily Progress, Thursday August 28, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083039

“Suffrage Qualifications”
“In the east gallery were about fifty negroes of various shades who sat quietly during the entire time and listened eagerly to every word spoken. Some few were from the city but the majority were from the county.”
Daily Progress, Monday September 1, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083054

EDITORIAL: “The Negro’s Curses.” (Education)
“. . . His position must ever be a subordinate one, because morally, mentally, and physically he is the inferior of the white man and when brought into competition, he must per force go to the wall. This is a fact that cannot be denied, and the silly optimism that seeks to evade it is nothing short of criminal.
   “Already education is bringing increased competition with the white race, and when this has reached a certain point, it is going to be crusted only with violence and bloodshed. Mark our words. . . .”
Daily Progress, Monday September 1, 1902, page 2
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083054

“Who May Register”
Daily Progress, Tuesday September 9, 1902, page 2
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083089

“Registration Will Begin In the Four Wards of This City Tomorrow at Noon”
“Results of recent registration under the new constitution show that the negroes are qualifying to vote in larger numbers than they were expected to do. . . .”
“. . . The qualifications under the new Constitution have been published on the editorial page of The Progress for several days and reprinted locally several times so that all may know the simple requirements.”
Daily Progress, Tuesday September 9, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083089

“MANY FINE SITES OFFERED THE GOVERNMENT FOR NEW PUBLIC BUILDING”
Description of various downtown sites being considered for new public hall. Mentions J. H. Ferguson property at Main and South streets.
Daily Progress, Thursday September 11, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083099

“Registration in the City”
“The registration of voters is proceeding slowly in the various wards of the city, very little interest being manifested by either Democrats or Republicans. On yesterday not one hundred and twenty five offered to register. Of the number twenty one colored men were admitted, most of these coming in on the property qualification.”
Daily Progress, Thursday September 11, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083099

“An Explanation”
Progress temporarily changing format to put world news on front page
Daily Progress, Monday September 15, 1902, page 2
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083114

EDITORIAL: “Understanding Clause”
“We wish that those citizens of the North who have so severely criticised the new suffrage law in Virginia would come down here and watch the operation of the understanding clause as applied to negroes who are offering to register. If so, they would go back home much enlightened. . . .”
Daily Progress, Friday October 3, 1902, page 2
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083194

W. D. Duke display ad
“DEALER IN Monuments, Tombstones, IRON FENCES, AND ALL KINDS OF Cemetery Work.”
W. D. Duke was the husband of Agnes Hotopp.
Daily Progress, Saturday October 4, 1902, page 2
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083199
“Registration is Completed”
Charlottesville Voter Registration
 “In the first ward, 224 whites and 8 colored voters were registered. Of the latter, one, a graduate of Hampton Institute, came in under the understanding clause; one came in under the property owning clause of the new instrument, and one as the son of a Confederate soldier.
“One of the eight colored men registered in this ward, J. T. S. Taylor, represented Albemarle and Charlottesville in the Underwood Conventions. He is a very worthy and prosperous citizen.”
Black voters in First Ward: John N. Baker (teacher, 204 4th St SE), J. R. Cox (bill poster, 609 E Main), John L. Edmunds (porter, Scottsville Rd), James A. Farrar (barber, 418 e South), Noah Jackson (shoemaker, 404 e Water), Troy Kenney ([1900] house builder, 447 Scottsville Rd), Jas. F. Sammons ([James Logan Sammons] carpenter, 321 5th St SE), J. T. S. Taylor (shoemaker, 534 8th N E)
Daily Progress, Thursday October 9, 1902, page 4
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083219

“Second Ward Registration: Full List of Those Entitled to Vote Under Provisions of New Constitution”
“The registration in the Second Ward of the city was thoroughly conducted, the old lists being fully purged and then compared with the new one. It showed that the full number of voters has been enrolled.”
Daily Progress, Thursday October 16, 1902, page 2
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083244

“Wonderful Library for University”
Daily Progress, October 17, 1902, page 4
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083249

“Clothing Store Robbed: An Ex-Convict Believed to Be the Guilty Party”
Daily Progress, Friday October 24, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083279

“Third Ward Registration”
Daily Progress, Saturday October 25, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083284

Fourth Ward Registration
Daily Progress, Wednesday October 29, 1902, page 4
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083294

Qualified African American Voters Registered in the Fourth Ward
Daily Progress, Wednesday October 29, 1902, page 4
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083294

W. D. Duke display ad
Daily Progress, Wednesday October 29, 1902, page 2
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083294

“Bond Issue Gaining: One of City’s Financier’s the Earliest Advocate. Colored Men’s Opinions.”
(Quotes G. P. Inge, Robert Kelser, J. H. Dickinson)
Daily Progress, Saturday November 1, 1902, page 2
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083309

“Congressional Election”
Daily Progress, Tuesday November 4, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083319

“Death of Mr. H A Hotopp”
(Henry Adolph Hotopp)
Daily Progress, Wednesday November 5, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083324

“Funeral Services”
H. A. Hotopp
Daily Progress, Thursday November 6, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083329
“Invitations Recalled”
Mayor and Mrs. T. Brent Swearingen  of Sunnyside
Daily Progress, Thursday November 6, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083329

“Negro Shot in the Thigh: Dance in the County Resulted in Usual Pop Gun Play
John Winn shot in thigh by James Preston at a dance at Loving Charity Hall about three miles from the city
Daily Progress, Monday November 10, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083344

EDITORIAL “Was the South Wrong?”
    “Very few people will stop to make the nice distinctions in meaning between admitting the South was wrong, and rejoicing, as do General Longstreet and Dr. Thomas Nelson Page, over her vanquishment. In commenting upon the opinion expressed by these gentlemen, the Petersburg Index-Appeal says:
    “Do these gentlemen speak the sentiments of any considerable number of the people of the South? It is to be hoped that they do not, for if what they say is correct, then it is a logical and irresistible deduction that the cause for which the Southern people fought and suffered and died was wrong. In that case it would be an anomaly in public morals and a violence to truth to create monuments and other memorials to perpetuate the memory of an error so steeped in blood and crime. Every Confederate Camp should be disbanded and every memorial association disorganized. The brave fight which the survivors of the Lost Cause have made and are making to vindicate the truth of history should be ignominiously abandoned, and the partisan falsehoods of sectional writers or school books be allowed to stand as the truth of history.”
Daily Progress, Monday November 10, 1902, page 2
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083344

“Leg Cut Off”
Alexander Robertson, aged 50 years, struck by train
Daily Progress, Friday November 14, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083364

“Beautiful Home Wedding: To Occur at Major Swearingen’s Handsome Estate, “Sunnyside”
Daily Progress, Monday November 17, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083374

“Children of Confederacy”
Daily Progress, Thursday November 20, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083389

“The Public Building Site”
New public building to go where Jewish Synagogue is. Site offered by Moses Leterman on behalf of Synagogue.
Daily Progress, November 21, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083394

“Magnificent New Organ”
Roosevelt Organ at Presbyterian Church
Daily Progress, Friday November 28, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083414

“Armistead Hunting Club”
Daily Progress, Tuesday December 2, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083430

“John Wise, Negrophilist”
Fighting against the unfair disfranchisement of the new constitution
Daily Progress, Tuesday December 2, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083430

“General Rosser on Wise”
Daily Progress, December 04, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083442

“Fine Baseball Schedule”
   “The fact that no game is arranged with Harvard is due to a misunderstanding. Harvard asked for a certain date, and Virginia in reply asked for a later date. This, however, did not suit the Harvard management, and when the Southerners wrote again, accepting the date first named, it was too late, the Crimson having filled its schedule.
   “This silences the report that Virginia was dropped because of her refusal to play Harvard with the negro Matthews on that team although it is true that the southern gentlemen very properly drew the color line. In the opinion of many, this University does not need on her schedule any team that plays negroes. There are plenty of better teams composed entirely of white players.”
Daily Progress, Wednesday December 17, 1902, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2081985

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1903
“County Officers Again”
In 1903 a full column page one letter to the editor signed “A Countryman” argued for election of men who “fought a great fight and won a great victory” with the 1902 Constitution, benefits of which included:
   “The negro was eliminated from politics and the white man put completely in control. No further need to buy, sell and cheat in order that intelligence might reign—in order that the Anglo-Saxon and not the African might rule.
   “The public school funds were so adjusted that the white man who pays nine-tenths of the taxes, might get more than a beggarly half of the results.”
Daily Progress, Wednesday March 4, 1903, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2081321

“The Reasons Why”
12 reasons for opposing prohibition, signed “A Citizen”
Daily Progress, March 25, 1903, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2081465

“MEETING AT AUDITORIUM: Largest Crowd That Ever Thronged Building Was Present”
Speeches by Judge William Gordon Roberston and Judge R. T. W. Duke
Daily Progress, March 25, 1903, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2081465

“PROHIBITION ELECTION TODAY”
Daily Progress, Thursday March 26, 1903, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2081474

“ELECTION RETURNS: Will be Announced at the Auditorium This Evening”
Daily Progress, Thursday March 26, 1903, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2081474

“FINE MILLINERY OPENING: WAS THAT SEEN AT THE LETTERMAN STORE LAST EVENING.”
“Much was added to the occasion by the beautiful music furnished by Professor Steinhauser’s orchestra. . . . The beautiful hangings included a tasty array of the prevailing colors which my lady will use in her toilet this season, red predominating. New cases were filled with beautiful styles and many exclamations of delight were made by the visiting ladies.”
Daily Progress, Thursday March 26, 1903, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2081474

“GREAT VICTORY FOR WETS”
Charlottesville voted against prohibition
Daily Progress, Friday March 27, 1903, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2081483

“Very Wet”
Daily Progress, Friday March 27, 1903, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2081483

“FIREMAN’S LIFE WAS SAVED BY NEGRO TRAMP WHO WAS STEALING A RIDE ON TRAIN”
See also “FIREMAN FOX’S CONDITION” 3/30/1903
Daily Progress, Saturday March 28, 1903, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2081492

“VERDICT OF CORONER’S JURY”
Dr. B. H. Sparks* tried in abortion death of Athelia E. Ellis [*See “ERROR IN INITIALS” on April 24, 1903 below.]
Daily Progress, April 11, 1903, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2081600

“ERROR IN INITIALS”
“There was no charge of any kind against H. B. Sparks . . . There was an accusation against Dr. B. H. Sparks but it was dismissed . . .” [Dr. B. H. Sparks had a son named H. B. Sparks]
Daily Progress, April 24, 1903, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2081679

“TWENTY-TWO LIVES LOST IN WRECK”
Train wreck at Rockfish. Several railway employees from Charlottesville were among the dead and injured.
Daily Progress, Wednesday July 8, 1903, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083960

“NEGRO WAS SHOT”
William Smith, shot in back while running away after being arrested for “taking a $10 bill from the hands of James Goings.”
Daily Progress, Wednesday July 22, 1903, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2084041

“BILL SMITH IS DEAD.”
“Policeman Dameron’s action in shooting is commended everywhere in the city.”
Daily Progress, Saturday July 25, 1903, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2084059

“THE JURY COULD NOT AGREE: JAMES STEVENS’ CASE CONTINUES AGAIN IN CORPORATION COURT.”
“The trial of James Stephens, colored, for larceny . . . the jury being discharged after being unable to reach an agreement. . . . seven voting for acquittal and five for conviction . . . Some one said that if the negro was acquitted he would be lynched, but this case is not one for lynching and any such attempt upon the man will undoubtedly be productive of unexpected results.”
Daily Progress, Thursday July 23, 1903, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2084050

“Trial of James Stevens.”
“James Stevens, colored, on trial in the Corporation Court for the past two days, was neither convicted nor set free today. The case will probably not be completed until tomorrow morning. . . .”
Daily Progress, Tuesday July 28, 1903, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2084068

“TEN YEARS IN PENITENTIARY.”
“The case of James Stevens, colored, on trial on the charge of entering the house of J. A. Peck and stealing articles not mentioned from the trunk of Miss James, a teacher attending the School of Methods in this city . . . the jury gave the verdict that the accused was guilty. His term in the penitentiary was fixed at two years. This is believed to be a compromise verdict.”
Daily Progress, Wednesday July 29, 1903, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2084077

“LEG CUT OFF: Price Burley Meets With Serious Accident at Southern Depot.”
Daily Progress, Saturday August 1, 1903, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2084098

Under “LITTLE ITEMS OF INTEREST” column:
“Colored Man Who Was Struck by Engine Dies of Injuries While at University Hospital”
Price Burley – Mentioned in subhead of column. His obituary, bottom of last column on right, is too blurry to read.
Daily Progress, Monday August 3, 1903, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2084107

“TWINE VERSUS LOGAN.”
Cornelius Twine charged Stephen Logan with stealing from his room on the hill. Logan claimed not to have rented room to Twine.
Daily Progress, Friday August 7, 1903, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2084143

“COLORED PHYSICIAN HERE: Dr. George Ferguson of Washington Today Secured License to Practice.”
  “The first colored physician to settle in this city for years secured his license today from the Commissioner of Revenue. He is Dr. George R. Ferguson, a distant relative of the respected colored citizen of that name who is very well known here.
   “Dr. Ferguson is a native of Washington D. C. a graduate of Howard College of that city and a young man of respectful and pleasing address. He passed with honors the State Medical Board examination at its last session.
   “Dr. Ferguson’s office will be at [280] West Main street. He hopes to establish a lucrative practice in Charlottesville.”
Daily Progress, Friday August 7, 1903, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2084143

 “TO TAKE A VACATION: Henry Martin, the Janitor of the University, Gone to Cincinnati.”
Daily Progress, Tuesday August 18, 1903, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2084206

“KILLED BY INSANE MAN: Negro Preacher Ran Amuck at Campbells Station—in the County Jail.”
Article might not have names, relationships, or facts straight. Rev. Philip Hughes killed step-mother, Ellen Hughes, aged woman. An uncle, Burrill Hughes, escaped. Phillip Hughes captured, adjudged insane, will be taken to Petersburg asylum.
Daily Progress, Saturday August 22, 1903, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2084233

“SHOT IN THE EYE.”
Lew Becks accidentally shot Shelton Lee at “a small restaurant, run for the benefit of the colored population of the city, situated on West Main street, just east of the Union Station.”
Daily Progress, Friday September 18, 1903, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2084404

“MOUNTAIN TOP DESTROYED”
Historic Mountain Top Hotel near Afton destroyed by fire
Daily Progress, Monday September 21, 1903, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2084422

“Zion Union Entertainment”
“Never in the history of Zion Baptist church, colored, has it had such an entire success as in this entertainment arranged and conducted by R. Kelser. . . .”
Daily Progress, Tuesday October 20, 1903, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2084600

“PHOTOGRAPHER’S CONVENTION”
R. W. Holsinger. “He made the ‘speech of his life’ before the convention in Greensboro . . . Since his connection with the association, the local photographer has made rapid advances in his profession and now holds a prominent place among the photographers of the two states.”
Daily Progress, Saturday October 24, 1903, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2084636

“Bazaar Will Begin Monday”
“The colored Y. M. C. A. of this city will begin a bazaar on Monday evening at the colored First Baptist church, the festival to continue through the week. It is for the benefit of the Y. M. C. A. and interesting entertainments are promised for every evening.”
Daily Progress, Saturday October 31, 1903, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2084690

“FIRED DESTROYED RESIDENCE”
“. . . Whit Parker, an unusually worthy colored man, who lives on Seventh street southwest. . . .”
Daily Progress, Tuesday November 10, 1903, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2084753

EDITORIAL: “NEGRO RUFFIANS”
Daily Progress, Tuesday November 17, 1903, page 4
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2084807

“WHITE CAPS’ BLOWS FATAL: Death of Mr. Edward Wood of Albemarle Said to be Due to Outlaws’ Visit.”
Daily Progress, Saturday November 28, 1903, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2084888
Daily Progress, Thursday December 3, 1903, page 1
“QUALIFIED VOTERS OF CITY”
530 names on books
277 white and black have paid capitation tax. “Less than twenty of this number are negroes.” Soldiers not required to pay.
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2084924

“COLORED WOMAN MURDERED: MALINDA COUSINS VICTIM OF THE JEALOUSY OF LEONARD BARBOUR.”
Daily Progress, December 8, 1903, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2084960

“WAILS OF ANGUISH”
“. . . Two little specimens of African humanity were being thrashed for stealing pocket books from the Leterman Company and a chicken from Hidy’s grocery. . . . the artistic manner in which Chief Trice and Mr. Paige held the ‘Coons’ heads between their legs while the whipping was being done.”
Daily Progress, Saturday December 19, 1903, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2085050

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1904
“A Help Bureau”
New free help wanted column in Daily Progress to help with the “very serious” “servant question”
Daily Progress, Saturday January 2, 1904, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2083483

“NEW SYNAGOGUE DEDICATED”
Daily Progress, Wednesday February 10, 1904, pages 1 & 8
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2085086

“Gold Watch for Janitor”
(Henry Martin)
Daily Progress, Tuesday March 8, 1904, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2085260

“PIEDMONT SCHOOL IN RUINS: FIRE EARLY THIS MORNING DESTROYED THE NEGRO INDUSTRIAL ACADEMY”
“Fire this morning at 4:30 o’clock totally destroyed the building of the Piedmont Industrial School, on Rose Hill, together with its contents. . . . The building was composed of five small buildings joined together. There boarding and day pupils were taught and put to various kinds of manual employment. . . . The building was the property of the school and was under the control of the Rev. Bernard Terrell, [Prof. Wales R. Tyrrell] colored. It is said that the president is a worthy man who has been doing good work among the negroes of this section.”
Daily Progress, Saturday March 19, 1904, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2085350
The opening of the school was reported in the Richmond Planet in 1902:
“Charlottesville, Va., Oct. 9, 1902. Last Wednesday was a big day with the people of Charlottesville for it was on that day the Piedmont Industrial School was open under the auspices of the Piedmont Baptist District Convention . . . At 3 o’clock the band led the large crowd from the Odd Fellow’s Hall to that beautiful grove in front of the school building and grounds . . . an excellent program had been arranged by Madam J. A. Brown, and Prof. Terrell which gave perfect satisfaction to all present.”
Richmond Planet, (Richmond, VA) October 11, 1902, page 1 (top of 2nd column)
https://virginiachronicle.com/?a=d&d=RP19021011&e=——-en-20–1–txt-txIN——–

“BLACK MAMMY” paint ads across the bottom of page one begin on March 23, 1904 and run through June 23, 1904.
Daily Progress, Wednesday March 23, 1904, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2085377

“BLACK MAMMY” Display Ads inside pages accompanied the teasers on page 1.
Ads run by  “The Walker-Carroll-Adams Hardware Co.”
(Listed at 316-318 East Main in 1904 city directory)
Daily Progress, Wednesday March 23, 1904, page 4
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2085377

“EFFORTS TO BREAK THE WILL”
Will of Annie Rives Brown leaving property worth $3000 to her husband, William Preston Brown (son of Wilson and Eliza Brown)
Daily Progress, Monday March 28, 1904, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2085404

“The Will is Sustained”
Will of Annie Rives Brown leaving property worth $3000 to her husband, William Preston Brown
(see chancery case at https://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/full_case_detail.asp?CFN=540-1904-007)
Daily Progress, Tuesday March 29, 1904, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2085413

Under “Personals and Briefs” column:
“Seventy-five colored laborers left this morning for Caford, W. Va. to work on the extension of the C. & O. railway.”
Daily Progress, Wednesday April 6, 1904, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2085474

“Only 5 Days to Pay Poll Taxes”
   “Would be voters who have failed to pay the State per capital [sic] tax of $1.50 for 1903, will be unable to vote at the presidential and congressional election to be held this fall unless the tax is paid on or before next Saturday, May 7.
   “The law requires that such taxes must be paid six months before elections. Only five days are left.”
Daily Progress, Wednesday May 4, 1904, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2085663

“BARK FACTORY ASSURED”
“The bark and sumac factory for this city is an assured industry. . . .”
Daily Progress, Saturday May 7, 1904, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2085690

“GRAND LODGE OF PYTHIANS: Colored Organization Will Meet in Seventeenth Annual Session in This City”
Most of this article is illegible.
Daily Progress, Friday May 13, 1904, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2085726

“COMMITTEE ADOPTS TEXT BOOKS: Albemarle School Book Men Decided on Texts to be Used in Schools”
Daily Progress, Tuesday May 17, 1904, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2085753

“GRAND LODGE OF PYTHIANS”
“COLORED ORGANIZATIONS IN SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL SESSION IN THIS CITY”
“Large Street Parade was Expected Today But  Rain Prevented —Over Three Hundred  Delegates From Virginia  Cities Attending”
 “John Mitchell, Jr., of Richmond who is grand chancellor and grand worthy councillor. . .”
“Today it was expected that a great street parade of the uniformed companies of the order would be held but the rain of the morning prevented the display announced. Probably the parade will take place this afternoon. . .”
 “There are probably 300 delegates present from the various cities of the State. . . The organization, which has a membership of nearly 6,000, holds real estate to the value of $25,000 and operates the Mechanics’ Savings Bank of Richmond.”
Daily Progress, Tuesday May 17, 1904, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2085753

“CONTRACT FOR THE HOSPITAL”
Gives pretty detailed description of the plan for the hospital buildings.
Daily Progress, Thursday June 16, 1904, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2085947

“Rally at Colored Shiloh Church”
Daily Progress, Tuesday June 21, 1904, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2085983

SALE—full page ad for Leterman’s Department Store
Daily Progress, June 24, 1904, page 6
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2086010

“WAS LYNCHED AT AGE OF 14: NELSON COUNTY MAN MAKES SHORT SHRIFT OF NEGRO ASSAILANT”
“Afton, Va., Aug. 4 — Andrew Dudley, a negro boy, supposed to be about fourteen years old, was charged with attempting to criminally assault two little white girls near Greenfield, Nelson county, today and was taken from the officers here tonight, while on the way to jail and it is supposed he was carried into the country and swung to a tree. . . .”
Daily Progress, Saturday August 6, 1904, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2086290
   See also: https://sites.lib.jmu.edu/valynchings/va1904080401/
   NOTE: Andrew Dudley’s birthdate is listed as March 1892 on the 1900 U. S. Census for Rockfish, Nelson County, Virginia where he was living with his father, Wallace Dudley, a farmer, and his mother, Virginia Dudley, and his four siblings.

“LYNCHING OF BRUTAL NEGRO”
“. . . The blacks of this section have repeatedly expressed their approval of the lynching. The neighborhood is quiet.”
Daily Progress, Monday August 8, 1904, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2086299

“NOT A NEGRO AT MONTICELLO”
Judge R. W. Duke’s letter to Texas disputing reports
Daily Progress, Tuesday August 9, 1904, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2086308

“NEGROES MAKE THREATS: It is Reported That They Seek to Revenge Lynching in Nelson County”
   “Richmond, Va. Aug. 8 — Reports from Nelson county tonight state that the negroes are expected to attack the leaders of the mob of white men who lynched Andrew Dudley they negro boy who criminally assaulted Bloomer McClain a young white girl.
   “The negroes assert that the boy lynched was only nine years old, and say some white man’s life must pay the penalty. The whites are armed and ready.”
Daily Progress, Wednesday August 10, 1904, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2086317

“TWO BURNED AT STAKE: Negro Murderers of Hodges Family Lynched at Statesboro, Ga.”
Daily Progress, Wednesday August 17, 1904, page 4
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2086371

“BAN OBNOXIOUS NEGROES”
(From Statesboro, Ga, Aug 18)
   “. . . One negro found dead by the roadside five miles west of the town, his body pierced by two Winchester bullets; two negroes, one of the ‘old-time darkies’ and his son, 17 years old, shot in their cabin by unknown marauders; half a dozen cases of flogging, which are of nightly occurence, too frequent to excite more than passing notice, such was the history of the day. . . .
white planters met and deliberately planned how to rid their neighborhood of obnoxious negroes. Individual negroes were marked for lashings, and last night part of the program was carried out. . . .”
Daily Progress, Thursday August 18, 1904, page 5
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2086380

Under “PERSONAL NEWS AND BRIEFS” Column
“The colored farmers of Orange county commenced this morning a two days’ horse show at Gordonsville. Allan West, William Irvine, Charles Thomas, Charles Hopkins and about twenty-five other colored men from this city and county left today to attend the show.”
Daily Progress, Friday August 26, 1904, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2086443

“CAUSE OF JIM CROWISM.”
“Negroes Says It Is Because There Are No Class Lines in Race.”
   “At the meeting of the colored Sunday school workers of the Virginia Baptist State convention at Richmond Saturday addresses were made by Rev. R. C. Quarles of Charlottesville, and Rev. A. F. Price of Norfolk who said negroes were subjectd to “Jim Crowism,” and other ills because they drew no class lines among themselves.
   “The Rev. Price also condemned the colored preacher for using tobacco, and thereby brought down on himself a sharp rebuke from the wife of Rev. Z. D. Lewis, a leading negro minister there, who addressed the big gathering at length.”
Daily Progress, Monday August 29, 1904, page 8
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2086461
    See also:
“LACK DISTINCT CLASS LINE: Colored Sunday-School Workers Discuss ‘Caste’ in Their Churches and Grow Excited.”
    The article reports that Rev. Paul Pollard read his paper on “Caste in the Church” and was followed by Rev. R. C. Quarles of Charlottesville who spoke about race, class, and the church: “‘We can commune’ said the Rev. Quarles, ‘out of the same cup at church, but when we pass out through the church door we should then divide ourselves into our various classes and associate with those among whom we properly belong.’” Rev. A. F. Price then asserted that they were all “‘. . . being piled up together in “Jim Crow” apartments on the railways only because of the fact that we have failed to draw the line of classification among ourselves.’” Rev. Price added that preachers should not drink or smoke: “‘The smoking preacher, who is so often seen with a cigar in his mouth, should be suppressed, and we want that class of ministers to know that we are better than they are.’” 
  Ada G. Lewis* then gave a remarkable speech:
   “The pent-up feeling burst forth, however, when Ada. G. Lewis, wife of the Rev. Z. D. Lewis, of this city, arose in the rear of the church and called to the president, ‘I have the floor.’
   “She then said: ‘I’ve noticed that the proceedings of this meeting have been given over entirely to the men, but now I propose to take a part at this stage.
   “‘In referring to classes in the churches, I fear some of you are a little off. My idea of religion is void of all discrimination. It is our duty, as workers, to go out upon the highways and in the slums, to get the children and people, to bring them here, to set them in the Sunday-schools besides the wealthy and refined classes of children and to have them feel that they are as good as those by whom they are sitting. That is religion, the kind I think ought to exist in the church.
   “‘The Rev. Price,’ she said, ‘referred to smoking preachers and other men. I do not think that some of you who happen not to smoke or chew should think yourselves so holy as to be perfect enough to condemn preachers and other men that smoke cigars.
   “‘I’ve some dear and close friends in this meeting myself,’ said Ada Lewis, ‘who smoke cigars and some that use tobacco in many forms, and they are as good as you all are, too. Because a preacher does not smoke or chew, is no sign that he is too saintly to do it.’”
The News Leader (Richmond, Virginia) Saturday August 27, 1904, page 1
https://virginiachronicle.com/?a=d&d=NEL19040827.1.1&srpos=31&e=-08-1904–08-1904–en-20–21-byDA-txt-txIN-Quarles——-
   NOTE: Reverend Z.D. Lewis, husband of Ada G. Lewis, was pastor of Richmond’s Second Baptist Church and founding president of the Southern Aid Society.
https://www.nps.gov/places/212-east-clay-street.htm

“CLASS LINES IN NEGRO RACE: ELOQUENT ADDRESS MADE BY PASTOR OF FIRST COLORED BAPTIST CHURCH”
(Rev. R. C. Quarles)
Daily Progress, Tuesday August 30, 1904, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2086470
   See also: “OFFICERS OF ST. LUKE ORDER.”
Thirty-seventh annual meeting of the Independent Order of St. Luke held at Vermont Avenue Baptist Church in Washington, D. C.
“Brief addresses were made by Dr. H. L. Harris, Walden Banks, A. F. Angel, Mrs. Maggie L. Walker, and Rev. R. C. Quarles.”
The Washington Post (Washington, District of Columbia), Thursday August 18, 1904, Page 2

“Negro Murder Societies.”
Reprinted from The Washington Post (Washington, District of Columbia), Tuesday August 30, 1904, page 6
Daily Progress, Wednesday August 31, 1904, page 4
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2086479

“FIGHT THEM, KILL THEM”
Reprints St. Luke’s Herald article.
Daily Progress, Wednesday August 31, 1904, page 2
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2086479
   SEE ALSO: “FIGHT THEM, KILL THEM”
Reprints St. Luke’s Herald article.
The News Leader (Richmond, Virginia) Monday August 29,1904, Page 1
https://virginiachronicle.com/?a=d&d=NEL19040829.1.1&srpos=6&e=–1904—1904–en-20–1-byDA-txt-txIN-%22St.++Luke%27s++Herald%22——-

“TELLS NEGROES TO FIGHT.”
“Those in authority in Richmond have been thrown into a flurry by a publication in St. Luke’s Herald, an influential colored paper, organ of the Grand Council, Independent Order of St. Luke. . . .”
Salem Times-Register and Sentinel (Salem, Virginia)
Thursday September 1, 1904, page 5
https://virginiachronicle.com/?a=d&d=STRS19040901.1.5&srpos=8&e=–1904—1904–en-20–1-byDA-txt-txIN-%22St.++Luke%27s++Herald%22——-

Editorial: “AN INCENDIARY PUBLICATION”
   “Our today’s paper reproduces an incendiary and outrageous editorial which appeared in Saturday’s edition of the St. Luke’s Herald, a negro newspaper published in Richmond city.
Daily Progress, Wednesday August 31, 1904, page 4
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2086479

“DIFFICULTY OVER A WOMAN: May Result in the Death of Tom Barbour — Assailant at Large.”
“Willie Cary of Lego, Albemarle county, shot and perhaps fatally wounded Tom Barbour of this city last night at 9 o’clock in Farish’s grove, near the city. Both men are colored, and the difficulty occurred over a woman. Barbour is in the hospital at the University and is not expected to live. Cary is still at large.”
Daily Progress, Saturday September 3, 1904, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2086506

“MURDER MYSTERY AROUSES CITIZENS”
Continues to be a page 1 story through Sept 13
Mrs. Samuel J. M’Cue
Daily Progress, Monday September 5, 1904, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2086515

“COLORED HORSE SHOW OPENS”
Daily Progress, Wednesday October 5, 1904, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2087633

“‘The Buffalo’ is Opened”
“George Dickerson, a former employee of The Progress and a very respected colored man, with his brother James, has opened a good restaurant for colored people at 279 West Main street. The place is clean and well kept and the lunches servedd are of the best. The resort is called ‘The Buffalo.’”
Daily Progress, Wednesday October 5, 1904, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2087633

“OLDEST PAUPER DEAD.”
“Robert Beaver was Inmate for More than Forty-Five Years.”
Daily Progress, Wednesday October 5, 1904, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2087633

“COLORED SHOW A SUCCESS”
“. . . Great credit is due the officers of the show—Hudson Jenkins, president; Homer Ragland, vice-president; Charles Hopkins, manager; S. H. White, secretary; and James Dickerson, treasurer. . . .”
Hudson Jenkins won several prizes. His horse Tom won first place in park tandems and in gaited saddle horses, and second place for best mare or gelding.
Daily Progress, Friday October 7, 1904, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2087651

“COL. WILLARD FOR WHITE MESSENGERS”
“Those who are acquainted with the ins and outs in the recent developments in the matter of the messenger service of the Western Union Telegraph Company in Richmond are giving Lieutenant Governor Joseph E. Willard much credit for having used his influence with the company to get it to take off negro messengers and to resume the employment of white lads.”
Daily Progress, Saturday October 8, 1904, page 2
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2087660

Holsinger Display Ad: “The Photographer of Today”
Daily Progress, Saturday October 8, 1904, page 3
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2087660

The story of the McCue trial begins on October 17, 1904 and when the trial opens on October 18, 1904 the story covers all of page one and includes a map of the McCue house on page 8. The trial story continues through November 5, covering most of page one on most days. McCue was found guilty on November 5, 1904.

“WILL INSANITY BE PLEADED IS QUESTION”
“Testimony of John White, Judge Duke and Negro William Hurley Especially Significant”
Includes report on the testimony of William Hurley in the murder trial of J. Samuel McCue
Daily Progress, Friday October 28, 1904, page 2
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2087804

“Colored Football Game.”
“Tomorrow afternoon at 2:00 o’clock the colored football teams of Charlottesville and Staunton will meet on the University Athletic Field. An exciting game is expected and all white people are invited to be present and help their colored friends.”
Daily Progress, Tuesday November 15, 1904, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2087942

“Colored People Wed.”
T. J. Rhodes, Mr. John Armstrong Chanler’s butler, and Luna Jones Williams of Ivy, were married by the Rev. R. P. Hardy of this city today.
Daily Progress, Tuesday November 15, 1904, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2087942

“Charlottesville Team Won.”
Daily Progress, Thursday November 17, 1904, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2087960

“Celebrating His Anniversary”
“The Rev. R. C. Quarlesof the Delevan Baptist church, (colored), is this week celebrating the ninth anniversay of his pastorate. Services are being held every night this week. The Rev. John B. Turpin preached for the congregation last night. The music by the choir was excellent. Pastor Quarles is a  ___ citizen and his  ____ among his people is for good to them and to the community.”
Daily Progress, Friday December 2, 1904, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2088072

“EXCITEMENT AT UNION STATION”
“Disappearance of Colored Mail Carrier Caused Temporary Consternation”
“Stephen Logan, the well-known colored man, who carried the mail between the city postoffice and the Union Station, had a rather novel but sad experience last night. . . .”
Daily Progress, Saturday December 3, 1904, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2088081

“Margaret Lewis has returned from Annapolis where she has been [nursing?] for the
past six weeks and is now at her home, 128 10 1/2 street.”
Daily Progress, December 19, 1904, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2088198

“Marriage of Respectable Colored People”
“The marriage of William Nelson Churchman, Jr., of Preston Heights to Susie A. Bloomer of Washington, D. C. took place Christmas day in Washington at the bride’s home. The ceremony was performed at one o’clock, the couple leaving at once for their home in Charlottesville where they will reside. A reception was given by the groom to quite a number of friends, and the bride and groom received many valuable presents.”
Daily Progress, Thursday December 29, 1904, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2088225

“ENTERTAINED BY SERVANTS”
“TRUSTED EMPLOYEES OF CASTALIA HONOR THEIR MASTER AND GUESTS.”
Daily Progress, Saturday December 31, 1904, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2088241

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1905
“NEGRO MISSIONARY: Will Address University Y. M. C. A. at Mid-Week Meeting”
Rev. W. H. Sheppard. “During his present visit Sheppard is giving almost his entire time to addressing the white churches of the South, and never gives offense to any . . .”
Daily Progress, Monday January 23, 1905, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2086852

“First White Man Hanged”
Daily Progress, Friday February 24, 1905, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2087096

“Sprouse—Glass.”
Daily Progress, Monday June 19, 1905, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2088601

“Photographs”
[Holsinger Advertisement for Crayon Reproductions]
Daily Progress, Tuesday June 20, 1905, page 2
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2088610

“Teachers Appointed”
Daily Progress, June 23, 1905, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2088637

“Brilliant Social Affair: Mrs. Warner Wood Entertains at ‘Farmington.’”
Daily Progress, July 22, 1905, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2088826

W. D. Duke display ad
Daily Progress, October 27, 1905, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2089492

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1906
“Walter Coleman Dangerously Shot”
Shot by Robert Lias, brother of Rev. J. C. Lias
Robert Lias recently returned from service with the Navy in the Philippines “in the service of Uncle Sam in the capacity of a sailor. Since his arrival here he had showed signs of insanity, though his exact condition was not known to his brother.”
Daily Progress, Saturday February 24, 1906, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2127186

“Handsome Gifts to the University”
Helen Miller Gould. “Miss Gould’s gift is to provide a ward for colored patients at the Hospital”
Daily Progress, Monday March 12, 1906, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2127303
See also: “$60,000 FOR VIRGINIA.: Miss Helen Gould and Charles Steele Give Funds for University Hospital.”
Washington Post, Tuesday March 13, 1906, page 9

The American Educational Review, v.27 no.7 April 1906, page 336, Chicago: American Educational Co.
https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015076726408?urlappend=%3Bseq=68

Urban Renewal and the End of Black Culture in Charlottesville, Virginia: An Oral History of Vinegar Hill
James Robert Saunders, Renae Nadine Shackelford, McFarland, 2017, page 44.
https://tinyurl.com/yckkznt2
https://books.google.com/books?id=9qkzDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA44#v=onepage&q=university%20of%20virginia%20hospital&f=false

“DOGS MAKE A FIND: Portion of Body of Charles Morris, Colored, Is Discovered”
Daily Progress, Wednesday May 9, 1906, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2127735

“FATAL STAIRWAY IN ANCIENT HOME: Residence Near This City, Planned by Jefferson, Contains Mysterious Death Trap”
Daily Progress, Monday May 21, 1906, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2127825

“TABLETS ARE UNVEILED: A Noble Memorial to Brave Youth of the South.”
(Program on page one of May 22)
Daily Progress, May 23, 1906, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2127843

“TO RAISE FUNDS FOR MONUMENT: Musical and Tea at Meadow Creek Country Club Wednesday Afternoon—A Worthy Cause” Mrs. Charles S. Venable raising money to buy Confederate monument at Court Square
Daily Progress, May 28, 1906, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2127879

“Applies to Street Cars”
   “The separate car bill, providing for separation of the races on street cars, will go into effect in every city in the state on June 15th. Conductors are given power to move passengers from one seat to another, provided they do not deprive such passengers of a seat at all. The white passengers will be required to take forward seats and the colored passengers rear seats. The law is the same that now prevails in Richmond and which has worked there with the greatest satisfaction. The court records show that more white people have been fined for violation of the law than colored people.”
Daily Progress, Tuesday May 29, 1906, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2127888

“OLD KILBY FARM: Purchased by Supervisors, to Become Home of County’s Poor.”
Daily Progress, Thursday May 31, 1906, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2127897

“Ordained a Minister”
“At an Ordaining Council held at the Mount Zion Baptist church (colored) on Wednesday evening, J. O. Seay, better known as Arthur Seay, was ordained a minister in the Baptist church. Seay is a very worthy colored man and a janitor at the Chemical Laboratory, University. He has been called to take charge of a church in the county.”
Daily Progress, Thursday May 31, 1906, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2127897

“Rusticating at Mechums”
“Mr. H. H. Williams, a photographer at the Holsinger Studio, has gone to the Mechums River neighborhood for a week’s rest.”
Daily Progress, Thursday June 7, 1906, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2127951

“Colored Girl Won Prize”
“A colored girl named Filecia Anderson, of the public schools of Clifton Forge, recently received a $100 prize from the Cable Company, of Richmond, for making the most words out of ‘The Cable Company.’”
Daily Progress, Saturday June 16, 1906, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2128011

Also see: “Colored Folk Won the Prizes.”
“. . . Miss Anderson is thirteen years old . . . she made 905 words which gave her second prize. First prize was 950. . . . won by a colored boy, Master Martin West . . . He is about 15 years old.”
The Richmond Planet (Richmond, Virginia), Saturday June 30,  1906, page 1
https://tinyurl.com/mur7k3nt
 
“Retiring Virginia State Professor Honored”
“Miss Felicia D. Anderson, who is retiring as associate professor of English and director of the Virginia State College Theatre Guild after 49 years of service, was feted by the Department of English at a dinner on the Petersburg campus recently. . . .”
New Journal and Guide (Norfolk, Virginia) June 5, 1965, page 16

“ATTEMPTED SUICIDE”
Ella Sparks. Article says her husband George is in West Virginia. 1912 City directory shows Ella Sparks working as a laundress, living at 201 Preston ave, and Wm. Sparks  at the same address.
Daily Progress, July 10, 1906, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2128571

“SENT TO GRAND JURY: Thief Captured While Hypnotized by Sight of Booty”
Albert Maupin of Georgetown arrested by Sheriff Thomas for stealing hundred dollar bill from employer, Frank Callaghan of Ivy
Daily Progress, July 10, 1906, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2128571

“UDC MAY GIVE POPULAR OPERA”
Daily Progress, July 10, 1906, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2128571

“HOT TIMES IN GREENE: Negro Dance Broken Up by Pop of Pistol—Banjo Only Suffered”
“Sis” Americus Washington living near Standardsville, Charles Mallory and George White
Daily Progress, July 10, 1906, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2128571

“LAND DAMAGES FOR NEW RESERVOIR”
To be paid to Mayo and others. Mayo’s crops listed.
Daily Progress, July 13, 1906, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2128598

NEW FREIGHT DEPOT FOR THE C. & O.: Will Be Located on Water Street. Roundhouse and Machine Shops to Be Enlarged.”
Daily Progress, Monday July 16, 1906, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2128616

“BIDS SUBMITTED FOR POORHOUSE”
“When the county supervisors accept the new poorhouse, as finished under the plans as submitted the Board last Tuesday, there will be no more reluctance among the destitute and indigent to taking up their residence in the palatial home provided for them by the people of the county. . . .”
Daily Progress, Friday July 27, 1906, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2128696

“Mr. Price Maury Gets Contract”
(new county poor house)
Daily Progress, Wednesday August 1, 1906, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2128723

“Caught in Flood: Schenck’s Branch Overflows Houses in Gas House Section.”
“Randolph Holmes, colored, was one of the rescuers. He waded to the doors, carried women and children to dry land with all the coolness of a professional life saver.”
Daily Progress, Friday August 10, 1906, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2128795

“Colored Horse Show”
“The third annual exhibition of the Charlottesville Colored Horse Show Association will be held on September 20th and 21st. The prize list will be out next week, and those desiring a copy can obtain same by applying to Secretary S. H. White, 269 West Main street.”
Daily Progress, Thursday August 16, 1906, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2128840

“An Enjoyable Entertainment: Given Last Night by Servants of the Jefferson Park Hotel—Clever Dancing and Amusing Poses.”
“The ‘Silver Star Club’ of Charlottesville are renowned for their good voices and the clever way in which they sing. Their quartette composed of Willie Green, Willie Morris, Willie Bell and Lucien Jones, quite brought down the house.”
Jimmie Byers on rag time piano
Cake Walk: “Juney Bug” Rae and Carrie Jefferson
Willie Bell and “Little” Strother
Daily Progress, August 24, 1906, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2128903

“New Show Grounds”
“The old Goodman lot, near Main Street Station, where many a circus has exhibited, will no longer be used for that purpose, we are informed. Cole Brothers United Shows will hold forth in the field just to the southeast of the Goodman property, on the Monticello road, near the C. & O. coal bin.”
Daily Progress, Monday August 27, 1906, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2128921

Canning Factory in Operation
Daily Progress, Monday August 27, 1906, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2128921

“Colored Delegates Carried the Day”
“Five colored members of the Committee were present as against three whites. . . . the negroes as a unit voted for a mass meeting, to be held on Tuesday of next week, thus carrying the day. . . . The following members of the Committee were present: Captain Louthan, R. N. Flannagan, L. W. Cox, J. P. Inge, J. T. S. Taylor, John Shelton, Charles Coles and C. D. Goodloe.”
Daily Progress, Wednesday September 5, 1906, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2128993

Colored Horse Show AD
CHARLOTTESVILLE Colored Horse Show.Third Annual Exhibition, Albemarle Horse Show Grounds. S. H. WHITE, Secretary, 269 W. Main Street, Charlottesville, Va.; J. HUDSON JENKINS, President; CHAS. H. HOPKINS, Manager, Univ. of Virginia.
Daily Progress, Tuesday September 18, 1906, page 3
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2129092

“Deeds Recorded: By Which Chesapeake and Ohio Acquires Land for Freight Depot”
Daily Progress, Wednesday October 10, 1906, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2129263
“A SUCCESSFUL CONVENTION: Words of Praise For Our Townsman, Mr. R. W. Holsinger.”
“A review of the Convention would not be complete without a word of praise for the manner in which the meetings were handled by Mr. Holsinger, the president. There was never the slightest friction and he had the situation fully in hand at all times. He made an ideal presiding officer. . . . There was not much time spent in useless talks, nor was any time given to so-called art lectures, but a great deal of time was devoted to work under the skylight and in the dark-room under competent instructors, and the interest manifested by those photographers present was amazing. . .”
Daily Progress, Wednesday October 17, 1906, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2129317

“FALLING OFF IN VOTE.”
“. . . 199 of the white tax payers of the city failed to pay . . . Among the colored population of the city, 289 tax payers voluntarily deprived themselves of the right of franchise.”
Daily Progress, Wednesday October 24, 1906, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2129371
See also good article on the Virginia poll tax here:  https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/poll-tax/

“Freight Car Robbed”
“. . . found in the possession of twelve different persons over forty pairs of fine ladies shoes, which were taken from the car.”
Daily Progress, Wednesday November 7, 1906, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2129479

“B. H. Sparks on Trial today”
Belle Carter, employed by Judge R. T. W. Duke; Drs. McCue and Hedges; Horace Jackson
Daily Progress, Friday November 23, 1906, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2129605

“B. H. Sparks Acquitted”
Daily Progress, Saturday November 24, 1906, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2129614

“Significant Action at Mass Meeting”
“Mr. W. Sam Burnley said that he was originally for the Moorman’s River site, but now enthusiastic for Mayo’s Rock as the proper place for the dam. . . .He stated that the death of every infant in the city next year, caused by impure water, should the bond issue fail to carry, should rest upon the heads of those who defeated the measure.”
Daily Progress, Tuesday November 27, 1906, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2129632

“FIRE NEAR STONY POINT: J. R. Ferguson’s Residence Totally Destroyed, With Contents.”
Daily Progress, Friday November 30, 1906, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2129641

“MARRIAGE AT CASTLE HILL: Bride Had Been ‘Mammy’ in Rives Family for Thirty-Five Years. High Altar with Candles.”
Nelson Scott, groom, worked for F. S. Longfield. Bride not named but probably Martha Winston. Ceremony performed by Brother Guaffny of Zion Hill Baptist Church
Daily Progress, Friday December 7, 1906, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2129695

“A DRUNKEN NEGRO SHOT AT STUDENT”
No names given in article
Daily Progress, Monday December 17, 1906, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2129767

“UNIQUE RELIC”
Dr. J. P. Blair of Scottsville has old boot “once worn by an ex-slave . . . several pounds of leather and nails”
Daily Progress, December 21, 1906, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2129803

“TO CELEBRATE EMANCIPATION: Bishop Walters Says Negroes Should Let World Know of Their Progress”
New York, Dec. 21—Bishop Walters, president of the Afro-American Council
Daily Progress, Saturday December 22, 1906, page 4
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2129812

“BLACK PATTI TROUBADOURS”
Daily Progress, Monday December 24, 1906, page 7
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2129821

“ROOSEVELT PARTY ON PINE KNOT OUTING”
“‘Uncle Dick’ McDaniel, the servant from ‘Plain Dealing,’ has been at ‘Pine Knot’ all day making fires and otherwise getting things ready for the coming of the guests.”
Daily Progress, Friday December 28, 1906, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2129848
 “Uncle Dick” also mentioned in article about Roosevelt hunting turkeys in Daily Progress on 12/31/1906. Richard McDaniel was listed at Cedar Mountain, Culpeper, Virginia, with Joseph Wilmer, owner of Plain Dealing, on 1900 census. On 1910 census McDaniel was listed as farm manager in Scottsville area. Richard McDaniel married Minnie Lewis, granddaughter of Daniel Lewis whose obit (7/14/1906) mentioned that he was at Mt. Pleasant” on Hardware River. Dick McDaniel is also mentioned as an “unusually close and accurate observer of birds” on page 391 of Roosevelt’s article about Pine Knot in Scribner’s: “Small Country Neighbors” Theodore Roosevelt, Scribner’s Magazine 1907 Jul-December, pp 385-395 (digital pp 413-424).
https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015056077210?urlappend=%3Bseq=419%3Bownerid=13510798885179881-445

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1907
“Illness at Poor Farm”
Daily Progress, January 3, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2128354

“VISITING THEIR MOTHER”
“Virgie Keyes of Oskaloosa, Iowa, and Samuel Keyes of Passaic, N. J., formerly well-known colored citizens of Charlottesville, are visiting their mother on Preston Heights.”
Daily Progress, Friday January 4, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2128363

“Present Clansman Despite Protests.”
Bristol, Va. January 23—Dixon’s play, “The Clansman”
Daily Progress, Thursday January 24, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2128516

“DAM AND PIPE LINE BIDS ARE AWARDED: Ordinance Adopted Which Will Prohibit Further Stock Sales on East Market Street.”
An ordinance was proposed by Alderman R. W. Holsinger at City Council meeting held Thursday night, January 24, 1907.
   “Mr. Holsinger offered the following, which was adopted: 
   “Be it ordained by the City Council of Charlottesville, Va., that it shall be unlawful to congregate on Market street between Fourth and Seventh streets, or on Seventh street between Market and Jefferson, for the purpose of trading, buying or selling horses or cattle. 
   “Anyone violating said ordinance shall be fined not less than $2.50 nor more than $10 for each offense.”
   “This ordinance shall be in force from its passage. Daily Progress, Friday January 25, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2128525

“EARLY MORNING FIRE: Double Tenement House on Eleventh Street Totally Destroyed”
Daily Progress, Thursday January 31, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2129888

“PURPOSE OF “THE CLANSMAN”: To Show the Lessons of the Period After the Civil War.”
“Indeed, ‘The Clansman,’ it is claimed, is based on the bedrock of historical conditions as they existed in Piedmont, S. C., in 1867. In a wider scene, it is projected as being typical of the whole South, for the face of negro domination and the tragedy of racial conflict were enacted in almost every hamlet and city.”
Daily Progress, Thursday February 7, 1907, page 5
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2129942

Schnapps Tobacco AD
Man kicking himself
Daily Progress, Thursday February 7, 1907, page 3
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2129942
“A PACKED HOUSE: Witnessed Second Presentation Here of ‘The Clansman’”
Daily Progress, February 15, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2130005

Under “VIRGINIA NEWS: Recent Happenings of Interest in Old Dominion” column:
Richmond AA Delegation asked mayor to prohibit performance of  ‘The Clansman.’
Daily Progress, Thursday February 21, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2130050

“AMUSEMENT RESORT AT JEFFERSON PARK: Construction of Two Pavilions and Entrance Building to Begin Shortly. To Be Called ‘Wonderland’”
* Includes drawing *
Daily Progress, March 2, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2130122

“Colored Minister Receives Call”
“Rev. Thomas D. Atkins, colored, a graduate of the McKinley Memorial University of Indiana, has received a call to Ebenezer Baptist church of this city.”
Daily Progress, Wednesday March 6, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2130149

“Mr. E. L. Daniel, after an absence of nearly twenty years, has returned to his home at 231 South Fourth street. He served through the Cuban Spanish war and in the Philippines and was honorably discharged from active service in Washington a few days ago.”
Daily Progress, Thursday March 14, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2130212

“DEDICATION OF CARNEGIE ORGAN”
at UVA
Daily Progress, Saturday March 16, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2130230

“NEW DINING HALL AT UNIVERSITY”
Daily Progress, April 13, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2130446

“A Nice Sum Realized”
“The installation service of the Rev. Thos. D. Atkins pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist church, colored, came to a close on Sunday, at which time the handsome sum of $_____ was raised. The pastor and officers of this church wish to take this medium of expressing their thanks, to all who assisted during these services. This is the largest sum ever raised by this congregation at a _____ service.”
Daily Progress, Tuesday April 16, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2130464

“CONSTRUCTION AT WONDERLAND”
“Amusement Resort to Be Opened May 15 and June 1.
Additional Attractions.”
Daily Progress, Saturday April 20, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2130500

“ASSAULTS MR. CRITZER: Negro Makes Vicious Attack Upon Citizen of Albemarle”
Horse trade gone bad. Sam Caul grazing Thomas Critzer’s scalp. Caul arrested, fined $50 for carrying a weapon, got 6 months in jail for assault and trial for stealing the horse.
Daily Progress, Friday April 26, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2130545

“MONUMENT PLANS NEARLY COMPLETED”
Excerpt from second paragraph:
“Two thousand eight hundred dollars have been raised, the county giving $1,700, the city $800 and the Daughters of the Confederacy $300. As the estimated cost will be $3,000, but $300 are now lacking.”
Daily Progress, Tuesday April 30, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2130572

“STATUE HAS ARRIVED: Workmen Are Now Engaged in Erection of ‘Homer Group.’”
Daily Progress, May 3, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2130599

“ACTIVITY AT WONDERLAND”
Daily Progress, Saturday May 4, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2130608

“DANGEROUS EXPEDIENT: Infringement of Election Laws Should Be Prevented”
Left margin of article cut off and illegible.
“___ Progress is reliably informed
___ large number of negroes who
___ paid any poll-tax in this city
___ years past paying up
___ taxes and qualifying them-
___ to apply for registration.”
Daily Progress, Saturday May 4, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2130608

“For an Industrial School.”
   “Thursday night the Albemarle Industrial Union held its first public meeting at the First Baptist church, colored. Good music and earnest speeches were the order of exercises.
   “The Union was organized a few months ago for the purpose of fostering a new industrial effort begun by Rev. L. R. W. Johnson two years ago, known as the Albemarle Academic and Industrial Institute.
   “This Union purposes to hold public meetings once a month, presenting to the people a series of lectures by popular lecturers, and is now planning to have Dr. Booker T. Washington to open the series. All gifts to the school will be reported in The Progress monthly. We beg your help and counsel.
   “The Board of Directors as at present constituted is Chas. Coles, Pompey Coleman, Jas. H. Ferguson, P. Edwards, E. Alexander, J. T. S. Taylor, Dr. Geo. R. Ferguson, J. H. Dickerson, Rev. H. Johnson.
   “Speeches were made by D. Ward, S. H. White, Jas. Ferguson, G. P. Inge, Benj. Davenport and others, all endorsing with spirit the industrial idea.
   “After the collection, subscriptions were taken to the amount of [$600?] to be collected on or before July 1st. The next meeting will be held June 11th.
   “For information concerning the effort, address L. R. W. Johnson, Box [111?]  or [278?] W. Main street.”
Daily Progress, Saturday May 11, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2130662

“REV. T. D. ATKINS: Makes Appeal for Unification of Baptists of Virginia”
Rev. Adkins delivered an address at Baptist conference in Staunton. Article also talks about a lecture on Black music by Prof. Helen-Morton-Jackson of Lynchburg.
Daily Progress, Saturday May 11, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2130662

“AT ‘WONDERLAND’: Bathing Pool to Be Erected—Electric Pianola to Dispense Music.”
Daily Progress, Saturday May 11, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2130662

“The Hypothetical Question.”
   “Granville Duvall, who incidentally looks after Mr. C. D. Shackelford’s office at the court house and who has been so long a fixture there, that he has become an almost integral part of that Mosaic structure, has imbibed many facts in law with other things during his sojourn in the shadow of the judiciary.
   “Yesterday a lawyer met the old negro in the yard and said ‘Granville do you know what a hypothetical question is?’
   “‘Yes Sir’ was the reply ‘If a man do what he didn’t do, is he guilty? The questions is just things that don’t nobody understand.’”
Granville Duval
Daily Progress, Tuesday May 14, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2130680

“NEGROES HOLD THE BALANCE OF POWER: Colored Vote Henceforth to Be a Potent Factor in all Municipal Affairs.”
Daily Progress, Monday May 20, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2130725

“New Baptist Church Colored.”
   “There was a large gathering at Earlysville on Sunday May 19th, 1907 at the services in the New Mt. Early Baptist church, colored, held by Rev. J. O. Seay, pastor. The church was recognized by a council and set apart as regular independent Baptist church and a goodly sum was raised for the maintainance. Two sermons were preached during the day, one by Rev. L Smith of Nelson and the other by Rev. W. M. Barbour of Charlottesville. Other ministers were present and took part in the exercises.”
Daily Progress, Tuesday May 21, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2130734

“SWELLED CITY’S VOTING LISTS: 268 Registrations Since November. Colored Vote More Than Doubled in Past Year.”
Daily Progress, Wednesday May 22, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2130743

“THE COLORED PEOPLE: Are Lining Up on the Temperance Question.”
Robert E. Clay of Bristol, Va., President of Virginia B. Y. P. U. visiting Charlottesville speaking at AA churches regarding local option.
Daily Progress, Thursday May 30, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2130803

Daily Progress, Friday May 1 1907, page 1 has several articles about investigating fraudulent voter registration.
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2130812

“CITY GOES DRY BY FORTY VOTES”
Daily Progress, Wednesday June 5, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2130839

“Voting Contest.”
   “A voting contest for the most popular colored minister in the city was held at Mt. Zion church Monday night. The object of the contest was to procure funds to repair the colored graveyard of the city. The following ministers were voted for:
   “Rev. R. C. Quarles of the First church, Rev. R. B. Hardy of Mt. Zion, Rev. Atkins of the Ebenezer, and the Rev. J. H. Lias of the Shiloh church.
    “The contest was quite lively, the Rev. Lias receiving the largest number of votes.
   “A handsome sum of money was raised, each voter paying a fee to vote.”
Daily Progress, Wednesday June 5, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2130839

“ORGANIZED BAND OF YOUNG THIEVES”
“. . . the capture of two little negroes . . . confessions implicating perhaps a dozen other negro boys . . . The thieves ranges in age from eight to thirteen years . . .”
Daily Progress, Thursday June 13, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2130902

“P. B. C. Club Gives Social.”
   “The ‘P. B. C. Club,’ a colored social organization, gave its first annual soiree Tuesday evening at the Masonic Hall. The dance was led by David Strother and Emily Lewis. The interior of the hall was beautifully decorated with buntings, cut flowers, and potted plants. At 1 o’clock refreshments were served and every one present had a pleasant time until the orchestra played ‘Home Sweet Home.’”
Daily Progress, Thursday June 13, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2130902

“WONDERLAND OPENS TONIGHT”
Daily Progress, June 24, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2130983

“WONDERLAND NOW OPEN TO PUBLIC: New Amusement Resort Visited by Over Twenty-Five Hundred People Last Night.”
Daily Progress, June 25, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2130992

“Arrested on Serious Charge”
“‘Clipper’ Johnson, a colored man of this city, who is charged with beating a white man to death in Basic City last night, was arrested here this morning by Officer Grady. Johnson is now in jail awaiting further developments.”
(Page 1 July 30 Daily Progress reports that he was acquitted)
Daily Progress, Saturday July 27, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2131235

“BOY’S CAMP LOCATED.”
“An open space near the banks of the little Moorman, with a log cabin and kitchen on it, was the site selected. . . . The summer camp for the Y. M. C. A. boys will be held in “Sugar Hollow.”
“No firearms, tobacco, or doubtful features of amusement will be allowed.”
Daily Progress, Tuesday July 30, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2131253

 “Y. M. C. A. CAMP: Boys in Sugar Hollow Having Good Time.”
Daily Progress, Monday August 5, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2131298

“Church Representative.”
   “It is worthy of notice that John O. Seay, colored, better known as Arthur Seay, janitor of the Chemical Laboratory of the University, who was ordained in the Mt. Zion Baptist church on May [29?], 1906, is now pastor of the new Mt. Early Baptist church of Earlysville. He was the representative of this church at the meeting of the Piedmont District Association held recently in Zion church, Advance Mills, Virginia.”Daily Progress, Tuesday August 6, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2131307

 “Bullock’s Successful Work”
“C. H. Bullock, a former citizen of this city and for several years a teacher in the City Public Schools but is now General Secretary of the Young Men’s Christian Association to Louisville, Ky., is visiting his former home. Bullock left Charlottesville nearly __ years ago for Brooklyn, N. Y., where he organized a flourishing Y. M. C. A. work. He was called to Louisville about eighteen months ago to re-organize the work there, and since moving to Louisville he has succeeded in _____ ing the finest Y. M. C. A. property owned by any colored Y. M. C. A. in the United States for which the sum of $_____ was raised in less than four months after his going there. This property was originally a Southern Mansion, costing over $____ to build. From a completely run down work to a ____ building with less than a half dozen ____ members eighteen months ago, the Association is now in its own home fully paid for, with ___ members and a very flourishing organization.”
Daily Progress, Monday August 12, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2131352

 “Colored Trainmen Must Go.”
   “Richmond, Va., August 21.—The Atlantic Coast Line Railway has apparently decided to do away with all negro firemen and negro brakemen on its road and replace them with white men. The first train manned with a straight white crew left this city yesterday evening bound South. All the passenger trains of the road have already been so manned, and the freight trains will be just as fast as competent white men can be secured.
   “This change will be greatly appreciated by the railroad men all over the United States, and especially to local railroad men who have been fighting for this change for years.”
Daily Progress, Thursday August 22, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2131433

 “Rawlings Institute”
Full page photo and faculty listing.
Daily Progress, *August 26, 1907, page 3
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2132060
*Page 1 says Tuesday August 26, 1907 and the other pages say Tuesday August 27, 1907. In fact, August 26, 1907 was a Monday so it looks like either Monday or Tuesday’s issue is missing.

“Catholic School in Buckingham”
Dateline Manteo, Va. School inn Axtell, Va.
Daily Progress, Thursday August 29, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2132078
—SEE ALSO:
In 1907, Richmond’s The Times-Dispatch announced the opening of another school at Axtell:
“Open Catholic School”
“MANTEO, VA.  September 1 – A Catholic school for negroes has been established at Axtell, with one teacher in charge.  This School is intended to prepare pupils for the Catholic school at Belmead.
   “The Catholic school at Belmead (a.k.a. Saint Emma’s Industrial and Agricultural School) was located in Powhatan County, east of Buckingham County, south of the James River. In 1969, the surviving structure was accepted to the National Register of Historic Places. According to the application:
   “Belmead’s architectural significance has long tended to overshadow its important as a site associated with the education of southern Negroes. Some years after the War Between the Sates, Belmead was sold by the Cocke family and passed through several hands until it was bought in the 1890’s by Colonel Edward de Vaux Morrell and his wife Louise (Drexel) Morrell of Philadelphia for $28,000. Mrs. Morrell was the half-sister of Mother Katherine Drexel, founder of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. In 1897 the Morrells conveyed Belmead to the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People, naming it St. Emma’s Industrial and Agricultural Institute in honor of Mrs. Morrell’s mother Emma Bouvier and her patron Saint, Saint Emma.”
https://slateriverramblings.com/2014/09/01/catholic-school-at-axtell/

“Black Patti Troubadours”
Daily Progress, Tuesday September 3, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2132114

“NEW POORHOUSE IS NOW COMPLETE”
“The dependents upon the bounty of the county of Albemarle have moved into their new home. Some forty inmates of the old county poor house passed through the city this morning in wagons, together with the stock and furniture of the old house, to take up their residence under much more comfortable conditions than formerly. . . . The majority viewed the change philosophically but a few pined for the place where they had spent so many of their declining years.”
Daily Progress, Thursday September 12, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2132186

“COLORED MINISTER BECOMES INSANE: Rev. J. C. Lias of Shiloh Church, on The Hill, Taken Yesterday to Asylum in Petersburg”
Daily Progress, Monday September 23, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2132267

 “Colored Horse Show Thursday.”
Daily Progress, Wednesday September 25, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2132285

 “Charlottesville Colored Horse Show Association”
Display AD
Daily Progress, Thursday September 26, 1907, page 6
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2132294

 “Married in Clerk’s Office”
Warren Dickerson and Polly Johnson married by Rev. R. B. Hardy
Daily Progress, Wednesday October 23, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2132499

 “THE LAW AND ORDER LEAGUE HOLDS IMPORTANT MEETING”
The Charlottesville League for Law and Order
“The awful effect upon the youth of the city and University of the wide open tenderloin district, was seriously considered and the mayor was requested by resolution to direct the police to enforce all laws against prostitution until our community is rid of the evil.”
Daily Progress, October 30, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2132553

“GENERAL CLEAN UP OF THE TENDERLOIN”
Daily Progress, Saturday November 9, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2132631

EDITORIAL: “AS WE REALLY ARE”
“Within the next few days the Tenderloin will be a pest hole of the past. Mayor Olivier has issued an order that the unsavory dives are to be closed and the inmates sent out of town. . . .”
Daily Progress, Saturday November 9, 1907, page 4
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2132631

“PUMPS CAN NOW BE SHUT DOWN”
Daily Progress, Friday November 15, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2132676

“Fisk Jubilee Singers Coming”
Daily Progress, Saturday November 16, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2132685

“CONDITIONS AT COUNTY POORHOUSE: Mr. S. P Maury Addresses an Open Letter to Mr. Wood, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors.”
(Same letter reprinted Nov. 18 page 2)
Daily Progress, Saturday November 16, 1907, pages 1 & 4
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2132685

“CONDITIONS AT COUNTY POORHOUSE: Mr. S. P Maury Addresses an Open Letter to Mr. Wood, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors.”
Daily Progress, Monday November 18, 1907, page 2
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2132694

“The County’s Poor.”
“Editor Progress: Good citizens, who can sit by their comfortable firesides this evening, I hope will remember the poor and feeble at the Poor House of this grand county, almost fifty of whom are huddling around about a half dozen small stoves after they have walked through rain and snow to get their food, when there is a $4,500 steam heating apparatus not yet put in, after 18 months to do it in.  S. P. Maury”
Daily Progress, Tuesday November 19, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2132703

“MR THOMAS URGES AN INVESTIGATION: The Alleged Lamentable Conditions Obtaining At County Poor House Should Be Looked Into.”
Daily Progress, Wednesday November 20, 1907. page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2132712

“Let the Investigation Proceed.”
Letter about poor house by Bartlett Bolling
Daily Progress, Thursday November 21, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2132721

“To Come Before Grand Jury”
S. P. Maury on poor house
Daily Progress, Friday November 22, 1907, page 4
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2132730

“BIG BEAR HUNT”
Headed by Teddy Roosevelt at Black Rock Springs
Daily Progress, Tuesday November 26, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2132757

“A New Barber Shop”
“Ernest B. Allen and John E. Thomas, two well known young colored barbers who have been in the employ of Phil Wyatt for the past twelve years, have opened up a shop for themselves at 116 West Main street, to be known as the Acme Shaving Parlors, and where they will be glad to see their friends. They expect to have the latest and most sanitary appliances, and will no doubt render efficient service.”
Daily Progress, Tuesday December 3, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2132800

“FIFTY WITNESSES ARE SUMMONED”
Grand Jury hearing on poor house
Daily Progress, Saturday December 7, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2132836

“WRONG NEGRO SEIZED FOR THEFT: Tar and Feather Brigade Captured Wrong Man—Real Thief Sent to Grand Jury.”
“Southall, senior, hearing his son’s cries, rushed out of the dwelling armed with a razor and created a diversion which lasted until Policeman Davis, who was a hundred yards or so behind the crowd, arrived and dispersed the negroes who had collected in a body several hundred strong.”
Daily Progress, Monday December 9, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2132845

“STUDENTS WITH BACKBONE”
UVA students “paying their own way in whole or in part”
Daily Progress, Thursday December 12, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2132872

“Whitewashed.”
“As all filth ought to be. By whom, the people know.  S. P. Maury.”
Daily Progress, Thursday December 12, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2132872

“SUPERINTENDENT IS EXONERATED: Grand Jury Finds Charges are Unfounded as a Whole—Publicly Thanks Mrs. Hopkins.”
Daily Progress, Thursday December 12, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2132872

“COLORED MAN CONVICTED: Of Selling Intoxicants—Arrest Made By Dameron and Eubank.”
William Davis of Crozet. $30 and 90 days in jail. Half gallon of liquor. First conviction since bars closed on September 4th.
Daily Progress, Saturday December 14, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2132890

“COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY: Local Photographers Succeed in Experimenting With French Process.”
   “Photography as an art and an industry has made remarkable strides in the last decade. As an art its discoveries have become a science and the intricate processes of reproducing nature in outline have given way to nature in its colors as seen by the naked eye. The business of photography has taken a place in every industrial plant and is an inestimable adjunct of architecture and mechanics.
   “Pursuing their profession with an assiduity commendable, as it is intelligent, Messrs. Seabrooke of this city have succeeded in reproducing colors in photography. The process by Lumiere of Paris is that in use. A color picture of the University is on exhibition at the studio and the brothers hope to have a photograph of an individual for exhibition purposes within a few days.”
Daily Progress, Monday December 30, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2132998
— ON SEABROOK SEE ALSO:
“DEATH DUE TO APOPLEXY.”
“Mr. Seabrook attained celebrity a few years ago by his photographs of the Wright biplanes, during the experimental flights at Fort Myer. Many of these photographs were reproduced in newspapers and magazines all over the country.”
Evening Star (Washington, District of Columbia), Friday January 5, 1912, page 11
— ON SEABROOK SEE ALSO:
“BURIAL SERVICES AT OAKWOOD”
Ernest P. Seabrook
Birth 18 AUG 1881 • McDowell, Highland
Daily Progress, Saturday January 6, 1912, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2098211

“Special Telegram to The Progress.”
“Afton, Va., December 31.— The body of a negro was picked up here this morning by the train crew of No. 92.  “The negro was fearfully bruised and battered. He had evidently been dead for some hours. He is identified as the man who leaped or fell from No. 14 last night. His neck was broken.”
Daily Progress, Tuesday December 31, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2133007

“NEGRO FALLS FROM A MOVING TRAIN”
Daily Progress, Tuesday December 31, 1907, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2133007

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1908
 “NEGRO RETURNED TO CONSCIOUSNESS”
“There are no two stories of the fight which agree in the main particulars. Certain, however, it was reported that a dead negro was found at Afton covered with cuts and bruises and his neck broken.”
Daily Progress, Wednesday January 1, 1908, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2131442

“WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH AT THE POOR HOUSE FARM: The Wife of Assistant Ed. Kirby”
Daily Progress, Wednesday January 1, 1908, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2131442

“SIGNED STATEMENT OF CAPT. HARRIS: Gives Accurate Account of Scrap That Occurred on His Train.
Negro Jumped Out of Window”
Daily Progress, Thursday January 2, 1908, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2131451

“COLORED PEOPLE: Celebrate the First of January—Address by Rev. Atkins”
 “An Emancipation Proclamation celebration was held Wednesday night in the chapel of the Lutheran church, now being used by the Ebenezer Baptist congregation, being packed with conservative negroes.
   “The pastor, Rev. Dr. Atkins, was the speaker of the evening, and his address was sound and practical He advised his people to do right, to be law abiding citizens, and admonished his hearers not to make inflammatory speeches, mad recitations, or inconsiderate utterances about their neighbors. Such things, he said, are more damaging and demoralizing than good. The negro’s happiness or general usefulness will not depend upon the great political prizes beyond his reach. Of course, said the speaker, in the development of the two races, side by side, there will be inevitable misunderstandings and friction. The only hope of the successful solution of the problems that will thus arise, is to be found in the sober ____ of the people of both races, and in the gospel of Jesus Christ, the triumph of whose principles will soften the asperities, create and foster mutual good will and forbearance, and effectually dispose of difficulties, which seem now most formidable, if not insuperable.”
Daily Progress, Friday January 3, 1908, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2131460

“AIN’T DEAD; AINT NEVER BEEN.”
“Fell Through  the Window of Moving Train, Lives to Tell the Tale”
Daily Progress, Saturday January 4, 1908, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2131469

“Christmas at Poor Farm.”
  “A two-horse wagon load of good things from this city was carried to the poor farm at Christmas.  Presents for every inmate were distributed. Bushels of good things came for the Old Veterans and probably it was one of the happiest holidays ever enjoyed at the county home.”
Daily Progress, Tuesday January 7, 1908, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2131487

“Brown—Coles.”
Marriage of Luther Howard Brown and Hattie L. M. Coles by Dr. George L. Petrie
Daily Progress, Thursday January 16, 1908, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2131559

“AN EXCITING INCIDENT DURING CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MEETING: In Discussion of Telephone Question. NOBODY WAS DISFIGURED”
Daily Progress, Friday January 17, 1908, pages 1 & 4
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2131568

“TROUBLE ON A TRAIN: Reported That Darkey Was Shot By an Albemarle Man.”
Daily Progress, Thursday January 23, 1908, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2131611

“A NEW CHARTER IS BEING DRAWN: Will Give City Broader and Fuller Powers—Nothing Radical Has Been Attempted”
Daily Progress, Thursday January 30, 1908, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2131662

“Council Meeting”
(Resolution honoring Wesley Commodore)
Daily Progress, Friday February 14, 1908, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2131779

“ROCKED TRAIN: After Fighting C. & O. Conductor Who Put Them Off.”
Ed Smith and Robert Allen arrest  for fighting conductor and throwing stones at a train
Daily Progress, February 28, 1908, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2131887

“Horse Stolen”
Doc Smith’s stable across from the boiler house at the University
Daily Progress, Thursday March 12, 1908 Issue 2, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2131989

“Ku Klux Drama In Sight.”
Daily Progress, March 13, 1908, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2131998

“NANCY GOINS: Is Fined Two Hundred Dollars and Sentenced to Ninety Days in Jail”
There’s another article on March 17 about Nancy Goins on page one which is cut off in microfilm and thus partly missing/illegible.
Daily Progress, Wednesday March 18, 1908, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2132034

“FIFTY DOLLARS: Fine Imposed Upon Andrew McAllister—Is Also Given Ninety Days in Jail for Selling Whiskey”
  “This is the second whiskey case from the McKee block within the past ten days: Tom Bowles, negro, was fined twenty-five dollars last week for selling whiskey in a room in the same block.
   “McAllister is a familiar figure on the streets, in his wheel chair and accompanied by two or three children of a dead sister, who make their home with him.”
Daily Progress, Wednesday March 18, 1908, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2132034

EDITORIAL: “RESPECTABLE AND RESPECTED”
About Edward Brown, 50 yrs old, living near Eastham Post Office
Daily Progress, Friday March 20, 1908, page 4
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2133025

“An Unnecessary Explanation”
“We have been requested by the friends of Mrs. A. M. Whitlock, who lives near Rawlings Institutes to repeat that she and the Mrs. Whitlock of McKee Block, who figured in a recent Police Court case, are entirely different parties.”
Daily Progress, Friday March 20, 1908, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2133025

“Negro Pianist.”
L. X. Graham
Daily Progress, March 24, 1908, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2133052

“THE NEGRO ELEMENT”
“Lynchburg, Va., April 9—The Republican State convention began its work at noon yesterday . . . The colored delegates received scant consideration and various members of the convention aroused enthusiasm whenever they declared their opposition to according the colored brother any degree of prominence or leadership in the party councils.”
Daily Progress, Thursday April 9, 1908, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2133178

Nob Hill Ad
“The only Restricted Subdivision”
Daily Progress, Monday April 20, 1908, page 3
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2133259

“NEGRO STABBED”
Hampton Brown stabbed by William Dudley (white). Dudley out on bond. (May 16 p.1 follow-up: Dudley sent to Grand Jury)
Daily Progress, April 27, 1908, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2133313

Several more stabbings reported on May 11-12, 1908 page one.
May 13: (1) “cutting affray” was at Mt Zion, not Ebenezer as reported (2) continuation of horrible story begun May 12 1908 about Fanny Barnes of Mechums having carbolic acid thrown in her face, blinding her.

“Not Married”
 “C. B. Holt, colored, a well known carpenter, desires to deny that he is guilty of running off with a young woman of this city and being married.”
Daily Progress, Wednesday May 20, 1908, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2133493

“TRIED BY TWO JURIES: Negro Accused of Criminal Assault in Madison County Convicted.”
Judge White sentenced Lee Strother to be hanged on Friday June 26. Accused by Trola Fry of assaulting her in Madison County on May 2. First jury could not agree so second jury was summoned and brought guilty verdict.
Daily Progress, Tuesday May 26, 1908, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2133538

June 3-6 1908 Photos of Charlottesville white men with YMCA. Includes, Hulfish, W. T. Martin, C. H. Walker, & others.
June 8 photo of Rev. Furman H. Martin, new pastor of white FBC.

“Second Respite for Strother”
“Governor Swanson again yesterday respited Lee Strother, the Madison county murderer, until August 14th.”
Daily Progress, Thursday July 2, 1908, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2133826

“Colored People Married.”
   “James B. Brown of Charlottesville and Susie Poindexter of Staunton, colored, were married by Rev. R. C. Quarles, yesterday.
   George Lewis and Virginia Walker, colored, of Keswick, were married by Rev. J. O. Seay yesterday.”
Daily Progress, Monday July 6, 1908, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2133844

“BLACK HAND LETTERS DEMAND MONEY AND THREATEN HARM”
Daily Progress, Friday July 10, 1908, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2133880

“Shoots Brother Dead.”
   “The eight-year-old son of Emma Lincoln, a resident of Woodbury, the settlement of colored people on the nine mile circuit, shot and instantly killed his three-year-old brother several days ago.
   The children were playing and the elder pointed a small rifle at his brother and pulling the trigger sent a bullet into the center of the baby’s forehead.”
Daily Progress, Monday July 13, 1908, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2133898

“SMALL RACE RIOT OCCURS AT CROZET: Three White Men Seriously Hurt. One Negro Still Has Knife Blade In His Jaw.”
   “The fight was a result of an insult offered Bowle’s daughter by Walker. She had been put in a seat on the merry-go-round, whereupon the negro took his seat beside the girl. Bowen immediately ordered him away, but the negro remained seated, retaliating with a vile epithet directed at Bowen.”
“. . . Saturday night at 11:30 in the vicinity of a merry-go-round owned and operated by W. E. Wheeler of the Miller School.”
Daily Progress, Monday July 20, 1908, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2133952

“FOUR OF ACCUSED SENT TO GRAND JURY: Preliminary Hearing of Negroes Charged with Riot at Crozet Concluded This Morning.”
Most of article blurry and illegible.
Daily Progress, July 21, 1908, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2133961

“MR. HOLSINGER ASSAULTED.”
Dr. John S. Derr of Boston, UVA grad and former medical missionary to South Africa
Daily Progress, Friday July 24, 1908, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2133979

“DR. DERR MAKES APOLOGY”
Daily Progress, Saturday July 25, 1908, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2133988
Also see: Washington Post (Washington, District of Columbia), Tuesday July 28, 1908, page 5

“Has Organized a New Church”
John O. Seay Mt. Early
Daily Progress, Monday August 3, 1908, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2134051

“In Camp In Sugar Hollow.”
Daily Progress, Thursday August 6, 1908, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2134078

“WILL NOT INTERFERE”
Governor Swanson refused to commute the death sentence of Lee Strother.
Daily Progress, Thursday August 6, 1908, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2134078

“FURTHER RESPITE”
Lee Strother’s lawyer presented new evidence and got stay of execution until September 11 so that Governor can review new evidence.
Daily Progress, Monday August 10, 1908, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2134105

“LAST NEGRO TO HANG”
Lee Strother. [Article dark and blurry. See “Last Hanging in Virginia” The Baltimore Sun,  Sept. 12, 1908, page 9]
Daily Progress, September 12, 1908, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2134366

“Forty-First Anniversary.”
“The members of the Mt. Zion (colored) Baptist church are celebrating the forty-first anniversary of their church this week. Services are being held daily.”
Daily Progress, Wednesday October 14, 1908, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2134633

“Intellectuals Defeated Stauntonians”
  “The Charlottesville colored football team defeated the Staunton Warriors by the score of 12 to 0 in a hotly contested game of football at Athletic Park yesterday afternoon, says today’s Staunton Dispatch. A large number of colored people witnessed the game as well as a few white people. The game was fairly played.”
Daily Progress, Thursday November 5, 1908, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2134809

“WATCHING THEIR RED SKINNED BROTHERS KICK THE PIGSKIN.”
   “The Indian girls at the training schools at Carlisle, Pa. are greatly interested in the success of the remarkable football team of that excellent institution. There is little suggestion of the blanket Indian of the plains in the modern looking young women pictured herewith.”
Daily Progress, Saturday November 14, 1908, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2134879

“Theatre for Colored People”
   “The Dixie Amusement Company have opened a 5 cent moving picture theatre for colored people only in Zion Hall, corner Commerce and 4th streets, west, the only first class place of amusement for the colored people exclusively in the city.
   “This Company is composed of several business men of the city. They have completely changed the interior of the old hall to an attractive theatre.
  “The Company was very highly pleased at the large attendance on the opening night.
   “Perfect order is guaranteed and the best of the colored people can feel perfectly safe in patronizing this show.”
Daily Progress, Wednesday December 9, 1908, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2135059

“SHOT IN THE ARM”
John Johnson shot Lizzie at “John Shelton’s snack house on West Main street, near the South Railway freight depot.”
Daily Progress, Monday December 21, 1908, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2135149

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1909
EDITORIAL: “Where Disqualified Negroes Are Registered”
Daily Progress, Wednesday February 17, 1909, page 4
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2090149

“IN THE CLERK’S OFFICE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT”
(Chancery case Anthony Buckner, Plaintiff vs James Buckner et al; children of Robert Buckner)
Daily Progress, Saturday March 13, 1909, page 4
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2090338

Jim Crow ad for Way Carriage Co.
(Shows a Jim Crow caricature getting teeth pulled)
Daily Progress, Thursday April 1, 1909, page 5
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2090482

“Sacrifice Sale”
(R. W. Holsinger offering for sale 25,000 negatives made by J. T. Wampler)
Daily Progress, Thursday April 1, 1909, page 4
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2090482

“Monument Is Unveiled Today”
Confederate Monument at Albemarle County Courthouse unveiled.
Daily Progress, May 5, 1909, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2090743

“The Farm”
Daily Progress, Wednesday June 2, 1909, page 4
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2090959

“Charged with Murder”
“Charged with the murder of his uncle, William Swingner [sic], at Esmont on the Sunday preceeding Thanksgiving, Charles Swingner [sic] was brought to this city from New York by Sheriff Watts, on Saturday.”
Daily Progress, Monday June 28, 1909, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2091157

“Gets Eighteen Years”
Charles Swingler sentenced for murder of his great uncle.
Daily Progress, Monday October 11, 1909, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2091947

FIRE AT BLACK ROCK SPRINGS: Hotel and Twenty-Eight Cottages Totally Destroyed.”
Daily Progress, Friday November 5, 1909, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2092145

“MAY BE MURDER”
“a little negro boy named Mansfield” who was a son of Ida Mansfield shot in back near Mechum’s River. Witnesses summoned for hearing next Tuesday
Daily Progress, Friday November 5, 1909, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2092145

“WARRANT ISSUED ON MURDER CHARGE”
Singlee Mansfield shot at Mechum’s River by Everett Goodwin, son of John Goodwin, aided and abetted by Miss Maud Watts.
Daily Progress, Tuesday November 9, 1909, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2092172

“EVERETT GOODWIN PLACED ON TRIAL”
Daily Progress, November 13, 1909, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2092208

“A PURE ACCIDENT”
Everett Goodwin bailed for $1000 to appear before grand jury
(Partial article on page 4, continued from page 1 which is missing)
Daily Progress, November 15, 1909, page 4
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2092217

“EDUCATIONAL MASS MEETING”
At Mt. Zion ( J. G. Shelton, S. H. White)
Daily Progress, Wednesday December 8, 1909, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2092388

“The Difference”
200 black voters in 1907 election
70 black voters in 1908 election
Daily Progress, Thursday December 9, 1909, page 1
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2092397

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