Negro base ball figures and business boom noted
A Sun article highlights the National Negro Baseball Conference meeting with praise for Q J Gilmore. It discusses 1920s business expansion among African American entrepreneurs, including multi million dollar corporation plans in banking, manufacturing and insurance, and mentions new opportunities for skilled Black professionals nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Negro Baseball Conference
Q. J. Gilmore
Chicago
Cleveland
Omaha
St. Louis
Pittsburgh
the Sun
Gilmore
United States
Banking Combination Corporation
New York
Subscription renewal note from ABR Chinn in Glasgow
The Sun receives a subscription renewal from ABR Chinn of Glasgow MO, with well wishes for continued publication and a Christmas blessing. Chinn mentions being bedbound recently but improving, signed as Grand Mentor of the International Order of Twelve.
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the Sun
Abr. Chinn
Chet
International Order of Twelve
Outlook for 1921 Promises Unity and Growth
The outlook for 1921 is hopeful as cooperation drives progress. African Americans urge collective action to improve political and economic standing, aiming to recruit 5,000 new Sun subscribers by 1931 and urging readers to share the publication with relatives and friends.
Classified Wants and Rooms to Rent
A collage of city classifieds offers furnished and unfurnished rooms, 6 room modern rentals, and car ads. Includes notices for agents, job seekers, a search for a mother, and various sale pitches. Names, addresses, and phone contacts appear throughout.
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Bell
Valentine Asten
Maggie Thompson
St. Bell
Clifton
Brooklyn
Bell Phone
Melrose Sangs
Hotel Mexicana
Broadway
Michigan
Kinsler Apartments
11Th and
Melrose
18Th St
Mme S
Laing
Kansas City
Negro Business Directory of Greater Kansas City
A broad listing of African American business and professional firms in Kansas City with names, addresses, and contact numbers across many trades including aprons, automotives, bakeries, barber shops, beauty and haircare, dressmaking, cleaners and dyers, coal, drugstores, hotels, lawyers, lunch rooms, millinery, painters, printers, real estate, music instructors, undertakers, and more. Notables include Miss Mélissa KE, Madame Ora Gordon, Mrs. A Compton, J. A. Wilson, and Payne Coals among many others.
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Kansas City Sun
Kaness City Run
Senate and Foreign Countries
Piedeber
Chinn
Glasgow
Betty
Sim
Crester
Cheir
Mary G. Evans
Fairfax
J. E. Miller
18Th St. Ball
Catton
Comfort Mfg. Co
Welle St
Roberts Company
Bell Clifton
E. 9Th Street
Call Fifield
Bonner
Lydia
J. W. Johnson
Waverly
Fifield
Lovie Gibson
Forth Worth
Texas
Tulsa
Okla
Will Garrett
17Th Street
Xmas Motor Cars
Fords
Ewes
Automobile Brokers
Negro Company
E. 18Th Street
Ideal
Greggs
Wyandotte St. K. C, Mo
Willis Realty Co
Highland Avenue
Vine Street
Gregg
K. M. Forney
Woodland Ave
Elmridge
Willa M. Peebles
Handy Colored
Annie Holmes
Bell Phone East
Hurst Loan Office
18Th and
Vine Streets
Negro Business and Professional Directory of
Greater
Mélissa KE
Euclid Avenue
Heitz & Tull
N. 3Rd St
Kan
Bell Phone Fairfax
Charles Harvey
Atlas Motor Car Co
McGee Street
Love & Love
19Th Street
Gustin Service CO
General Automobile Repairing
Bartee & Verter
East 12Th Street
J. R. Rhodes
North &Th Street
Kansas
Dell Phone
Trice Bros
B H. Offutt
Virginia Avenue
Willie Rose
Lydia Avenue
Sarah Johnson
Elinor Love
Garfield
Estella Wright
E. 17Th Street
Henrietta V. Biggers
M. Winston
Nanna Reed
Ora Gordon
Mme. Gordon
B. J. Hodge
H. Johnson
Bell Cilfton
el Hora Walton
East Ith
Ada Montgomery
Euvelld Ave
Mme. & A Bell
Campbell St
Corad, Williams
Grand
James Barlow
C. J. Walker
Clarkston
Highland Ave
E. F. Adams
Criteron
Euclid
Rose & Lee
N. Ardst
Severalty
Katie B. Blow
Ith
L. E
Dade
Euclid Ave
the Peoples Cleaning & Dye Co
C. L. Hurd, Megr
N. Std St
Kas
Bledsoe
E. 12Th Street
Payne Coal CO
Vine St. Bell
Home
Benton
BAUG
Palace Drug Store
McCampbell & Houston
Delmar
Highland
HW. A. Grayson
Cummings
Walnut St
Barber
Jewelers
J. A. Wilson
Ninth Street
E. A. Shackelford
Minnesota Avenue
Hueston & Calloway
E. 12Th St
East
Forrest B. Anderson
State Avenu
Street
House OF Good Eats
Vine
F. D. Clanton
Dell
Eva P. Washington
Garfield Avenue
Stella Hubbard
Enat 18Th Street
WM. Collins
18Th Street
East 18Th Street
Bruce Santee
1618 E
Wm. H. Dawley Printing CO
12Th St
A. Franklin
18Th St. Hell
Service Realty and Employment Coo
W. V. Harvey
Pres
T. A. Ross Realty CO
Hell
Williams & Jackson
Fast 12Th St
H. L. Kinsler
East Twenty
First Street
Delaware
Chas. T. Watts
Brown Sisters
G. A. Page
Eighteenth Street
Pickens & Son
Minnesota Ave
Bal
Undertakers
Adkins Bros
Vine St
A. T. Moore
K. C
East 17Th Street
H. B. Moore
Home Benton
Watkins Bros
Home Main
Res
Moore
Carter
14Th
Bell Phone Clifton
Mia
Robert Carter
Jas. Barlow
Rec
Parallel Ave
Dentists
OR. W
Stephens
N. W
Cor
Salliet, Jackson
Notary Public
Williams & Jackson Realty Go
Banton
Woodland Bell Phone
Areo 8
Hubbel
Ralph T. Harding
Malin Street
J. J. Mansour
Kaffir Chemical Laboratories
Nebraska
Missouri
L. D. Hines
Bell Melrose
KansAs Ave
Kansas City, MO
19Th St
9Th Street
Wyoming Street
Goodman Bros
the Standard Life Insurance Co
Auburn Ave
Atlanta, Ga
OLD Line Legal Reserve Life Insurance Company
Standard Life
Stewart
L. C. Smith
Stewart & Smith
Murdock
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