Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1936-06-06
Believe Me
By Hobart T. Mitchell

Women are approximately 40 per
cent of the entire Negro professional
classes Negroes voted in North
Carolina up and until 1884 ). In our
country are 232,154 church buildings
of PA different denominations
The First Negro Y.M.C.A. was or
ganized in Washington, D. c., in 1858
by Anthony Bowen, a man of color;
the second in Charleston, South Caro-
lima, in 1866; and the third in New
York City in 1867 :. Andrew Carne-
gle, the donor of 100000 to Tuskegee,
was the first philanthropist to set
the example of giving large sums of
money for the elevation and develop
ment Of the Negro race =. 4. In the u.
s. 100000 children's hearing is i'm
paired-their parents are not aware of
the fact &. By 1910 Negroes of
Cincinnati had acquired $228,000 of
real estate-one Negro was worth
$4,000; another, who had purchased
himself and family for $4,000 a few
years prior to 1910, was worth 81 900
Another Negro paid $1,000 for him
self and family and bought a homa
worth between $4,000 and 100000
Man is more dependent upon CO.
operative effort than any other ami
NAL; yet man is about the only animal
that preys on his own species :.
In one eastern city study made
under the auspices of one of the
settlements discovered that Negro
rents were about $1.53 per room
higher than for any other group . {.
Do you know that there are fifteen
synonyms or substitute words for
beautiful, twenty-one for beginning,
fifteen for benevolence, twenty for
friendly, and thirty-seven for pure
q. Negro mail carriers have more
than doubled the average increase
for all mail carriers =. One woman
teacher in every twenty in 1880 was
black population of the cities has in
creased $50 per cent Paul Rob-
son was born in 1898 at Princeton,
New Jersey . . During the Revo-
lutionary War a Negro slave of
South Carolina rendered Gov. Rut-
ledge such valuable services in this
war that by special act of the
legislature in 1888 his wife and chill
dren were liberated DR.. Louis
T. Wright, of New York City, medical
secretary of Harlem Hospital, and the
only Negro police surgeon in the
country :. The average person does
not know that the state of Minnesota
is further north than any state in
the union . The weight of a cubic
foot of water is 62.5 pounds
That boat of yours will sink in the
water until the weight of the water
displaced by the boat is just equal
the total weight of the boat 1t
requires over a hundred cubic feet
of moving air to burn a single pound
of coal :. Langston Hughes, author
of the Weary Blues, Fine clothes to
the Jew. is called the vagabond of
Negro poets :. The Colony of Vir-
GINA restricted inter-marriages in
1851 Elias Neau had a school
for Negroes in New York in 1706
{. Ice cream is frozen by surround
ing the cream with a mixture of salt
and ice-the salt makes the ice melt
and as the ice melts, the cream
freezes .. To clean aluminium ware
boil rhubarb in the utensil-all dis
celebrations disappear =. About ST.
100000 a month goes into the ma
tional treasury from beer sales i
Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Negro poet,
died at the early age of thirty-four
at his home in Dayton, Ohio.-Mr.
Dunbar's success as a literary man
was due to his originality-while
there had appeared from time to
time scores of Whites and Blacks,
who had undertaken to write verse
in the Negro dialect, Dunbar was the
first to put into it such thought and
make it such a portraiture of the
feeling and the aspirations of the
Negroes as to give his work the stamp
of originality :. For proper ventila-
ton about 5000 cubic feet of fresh air
per person should pass through the
room each hour :. There are sixteen
million times as many red corpuscles
in the average body as there are
beings in the world In Jamaica
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