Raleigh—Fifteen thousand dollars, the price of 258 shares of General Petroleum Company stock, have been given by B.N. Duke of New York to the N.C. Orthopedic Hospital at Gastonia to establish a ward for crippled negro children there, according to Mrs. Kate Burr Johnson, Commissioner of Public Welfare, who suggested the need of such a ward to Mr. Duke and through whom the gift to the hospital was made.
Mrs. Johnson, who has just returned from New York, has transmitted to R.B. Babbington, chairman of the board of trustees of the Orthopedic Hospital, the announcement of Mr. Duke’s gift together with his check for $15,000. This gift is not connected with the J.B. Duke Foundation, the Commissioner points out.
From the front page of the Norlina Headlight, July 10, 1925
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