Twin-City herald., 1936-06-13
Landon and Knox Cop. Standard Bearers
Believe Me
BY Hobart T. Mitchell

The first Colored Masonic Lodge
was the African Lodge No. 459. It's
warrant was granted from England,
September IL, 1884. to Prince Hall of
Boston and fourteen other Negro Ma
sons. Phyllis Wheatey House re-
ceived $16,276 from the Community
Fund. Twin City Urban League
$2,511 for this years work. Who
offered the first recorded prayer
Look in your Bible if you have one.
(Gen. XVIII, 49,. The site on
which Madison Square Garden, New
York City, now stands belonged to a
Negro woman named Annie D'Angola.
THE average alcoholic strength of
brandy is $50 per cent; of gin $40
per cent; of rum 81 per cent; of
whiskey $40 per cent Booker T.
Washington refused an offer of $780,
900 for series of lectures, after his
famous speech at the Atlanta Ex-
position in 1895. The first Ameri-
can newspaper was printed in Boston,
September Is. 1890, and was called
Publick Occurrences. Sunday
schools were first established by Ro-
bert Raikes, Gloucester, England in
1871 ... 17S,975 Negro Soldiers fought
in the Union Army between 1861
1865. There were 161 Negro Regi-
ments as follows: 141 infantry; z
cavalry; IL heavy artillery; and 1
light artillery. :. Abraham Lincoln
was licensed to practice law Septem-
her 8, 1886. The Evening Tribune,
Monday, January 81, 1907, states
that Edward H. Morris, colored
lawyer of Chicago has a practice
worth $4,000 year,. Mary
Church Terrill was the first woman
appointed on the board of education
in the District of Columbia. :. 1t
takes one hour to digest boiled rice;
five and one half hours for boiled
beef. The. bones in your body weigh
about IA pounds, your blood about
IL pounds. :. The 62nd Regiment, u.
S. Colored, fired the last shot in the
Civil War at Brownsville, Texas, May
Is, 1865. :. The only Negro aviator
in the World War was born in Column
bus, Ca, brought down several Ger
man planes. Iron discovered by the
burning of Mt. Ida 14O6 B. c.; first
discovered in America in Virginia
1715.
The mother of Mrs. Arthur White,
1926 10th avenue South ran behind
the wagon that was carrying John
Brown to his execution. Saul was
the first person to commit suicide
Il Sam. XXI, A.. Probably not
even third part of the wine sold for
champagne is genuine. Coins of plat
mum were struck in Russia. Morone
lineata is the name Of fish you
caught-bass. Negro slavery was
abolished in England by court deci-
sion in 1773, about 10000 slaves were
freed. -. Lott Carey-first mission
ary to Liberia and one of the leading
spirits in the founding of that colony.
He was born a slave about 1880 in
Richmond and died in Liberia in 1928.
THE Home Owners Loan refi-
nanced mortgages on $4,000 homes.
In the early part of the war about
three per cent of the wounds were
in the head and about fifteen per
cent in the face or neck. This led
to the adoption by the French Of a
steel helmet called after it's inventor,
Adrian. The helmets were first used
in May, 1915.
The great, great great, great
grandfather Of Mrs. Elizabeth Van
Hook, 1912 Elliot avenue was one Of
the twenty slaves that arrived in
Jamestown, Virginia in 1919. The
first4o be sold in this country,
When thesNegroa ex-soldier receives.
his bonus -.the American Negro will
have more cash money than he has
ever hadrsince 1866,
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