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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1902
Page
20
A lengthy account describes Atlanta's Fourth of July as celebrated by Black residents. It notes depot stalls selling watermelon and lunches, excursion trains bringing visitors, and Darktown baseball games amid disorder. It contrasts public fireworks with local picnics and dances.
The piece details a sustained fundraising push by the Young Men's Christian Association of Colored Men led by W B Mathews and Weatherby to obtain a building, with broad White and colored support. It covers Negro Masonry activities, upcoming Knights of Pythias sessions in Atlanta, banquets, and a large multiracial religious and civic gathering, plus Lincoln University graduates and national Negro organizations planning events that boost Black civic enterprise.
A Distinguished Clergy man and M. D. of Atlanta endorses a Series of Lessons on Physical Development by Dr. L. Willard Butler and Bir F. The letter praises the system as rational and scientific, promising good results with follow-the-directions practice at home and no expensive equipment. It notes easy exercises and common sense rules, available by mail.
A faded ad extols Dr Bigger’s Huckleberry Cordial as a cure all for cholera morbus dysentery flux and teething pain in infants. It depicts a grieving mother and a sinking child and promotes the nostrum as a universal remedy with strong language.
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