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SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1915

THAT RICHMOND FAIR
Today ends the existence of one of
the greatest faces that has ever
been inflicted upon the people of this
section of the country.

Sometime ago the Congress of the
United States appropriated the sum
of fifty-five thousand dollars to assist
in celebrating the fiftieth year of the
Negro's freedom in this land, and
that money was entrusted to Giles B.
Jackson and some other men, whom
we have never heard mentioned, for
the consummation of the result nam-
ed; but never in all our experience
and observations have we seen a
more miserable failure in projecting
such an affair.

Instead of enlisting the help of the
Negro newspapers throughout the
country in promoting this enterprise,
Mr. Jackson essayed to advertise the
affair by issuing a publication called
the Industrial Herald, which few