Directory of Local Businesses and Trades Listings
A dense directory page listing numerous local businesses and professionals across categories such as automobiles, bakers, barber shops, cleaners, cafés, clergy, coal and feed suppliers, contractors, dentists, dressmakers, drug stores, dry goods, employment agents, express services, florists, furniture, and groceries. Contains multiple names, addresses, phones, and brief service descriptions. The listings reflect a comprehensive urban commerce guide with numerous personal and business entries across Vine Street, East 18th Street, and nearby avenues.
Hair and Scalp Culturist and Local Professionals Ads
A dense list of local trades and services in Kansas City area including hair cultorists Madams Grant Jones and N B P Jones, lawyers L W Johnson and I F Bradley, physicians A Walker and W H Bruce, insurance Standard Life Co, photographers Charles Willia mes, real estate firms Afro American Investment Co and Ward & Samington, plus merchants and technicians with multiple addresses and bell telephone listings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lara Jacobs
Mille St
Rosedale
Kansas
Grant Jones
State Ave
Kensas City
Kans
Rew
Bell
West Stil
Elia Neff
18Th St
C. E Taylor
East
Principal Attacks School and Local Undertakers Directory
A mixed listing shows school officials including D G Watson, J Silas Harris, R T Coles, T W H Williams, Chas A Westmoreland, and R G Jackson among educators and administrators. Theatres noted Homer Roberts Dixie Theatre at 2411 Vine St. Transfer services by A L Williams Transfer Co and residents with listed home phones. Undertakers Wyatt Randolph, Nathan Thatcher, C H Countee, Watkins Bros Co, People's Undertaking Co, and Edward Jones listings with addresses in Kansas City Kansas and Kansas City Missouri area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. G. Watson
St. J
Silas Harris
Forest Eee
Negro Educational Congress
Sumner
R. JT. Coles
Bell
W. T. White
Bel
A. i. Page
Bell Bi
T. W. H. Williams
Jackson
Brace
Mer
Ino We Jones
State Ave
Kansas City
Kans
Golden Steam Dye Works Question on Cleaned Clothing
A rhetorical caution claims garments pressed at a dye works may have been used on a previously diseased or disreputable wearer, with cloth drying in a pail of dirty water after lengthy labor, suggesting health and hygiene concerns for clean garments.
Sanitary Steam Press Promises Clean Fresh Garments
The new sanitary steam press disinfects garments as they pass through, using high dry steam to kill germs and odors. It removes grime, lifts nap, revives color, and leaves fabrics with a fresh, dresser appealing look.
NEW WAY OF PRESSING HATTERS TAILORS AND CLEANERS
Hatters, tailors and cleaners advertise in one shop with in house dyeing and tailoring. They claim no delays, up to date equipment, expert workmen, and a guarantee to satisfy every customer.
Old-time country store tale of a tricked track record
A writer in Foxboro recalls a boastful elderly veteran Gray Whiskers, claiming a four mile walk in an hour. The writer outruns a timetable lie, but later learns the two men never walked far from the store. The incident ends with the writer taking the veteran’s place and not attempting another record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Readville
Boston
Gray Whiskers
Sharon Junction
Sharon Heights
Rube
Edward Payson Weston
Umit
Foxboro
Jersey Journaliams Jaunta and Early New Jersey Press
A compact history notes the first New Jersey Gazette appeared from Burlington on December 8, 186 years ago, founder Isaac Collins, and the rise of rival papers like the New Jersey Journal at Chatham. It covers early press figures, the Constitutional Courant’s suppression, a Dublin motor bicycle joke, and quips on wireless timing and Benjamin Franklin on war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jersey Journaliam
New Jersey
New Jersey Gazette
Burlington
Isaac Collins
New Jersey Journal
Chatham
David Franks
Collins
Gazette
Constitutonal Courant
Andrew Marvel
Constitutional
North America
Dublin
Bray
Pat
Also Mentioned on This Page
OF the
Negro Business League of
F. J. Weaver
A. Robinson
Secy
K. A. Robinson
Jone East
A. Starks
Vine Street
Bell Phone
W. Automobiles
Chas
Monroe
Woodland Auto & Huck Service
Bell East
Jas
Cowden
EL 12Th St
Home Main
Foster Auto Co
Forest
Thomas Black
Packard
Home
Main
Bakers
Bureka
Jackson & Allen
Vine
Nee
Qook
Vine St
Henry Compton
Arenuer
East 18Th
Susie Owens
George Purnell
Barsers
Bath
Wm. Lewis
Atlanta
William Dobbs
Baltimore
J. A. Jones
Palace
J. C. Hobbs
11Th St
East Wm
Stitts
Criterion
East 18Th St
Jas. Hopkins
J. A. Reid
Daisy Cafe
St. Henry Compton
19Th St
M. Hunter & Son
M. C
Dora Tilson
Baltimore Cafe
Grand Avenue
Lyda Franklin
Lincoln Cafe
West
R. B. Kefrantz
Eighteenth Street
Laden Brothers
O. K
Bell Grand
R. Bennett
Z. F. Basil
John Holmes
Wortham Bros
Grand
Golden Steam Dye Works
R. L. Hopkins
The
Star
D. W. West
Euclid
Henry Parks
G. B. Arnett
14Th and Spruce, Baptist Church
G. H. Daniels
K. N. Cohran
State Baptist Missionary
North 24Th St
St. Joseph
J. R. Ransom
Nebraska
S. W. Bacote
Second Baptist Church
G. T. Mosby
Greenwood Baptist Church
18Th and Terrace
14Th
Spruce
Baptist Church
O. T. Reed
State Baptist Church Convention
Twin City
Ministers’ Alliance
J. W. Carter
St. James A. M. BE
W. C. Williama
17Th
Tracy Ave
Ebenexer A. M. E
T. A. Wilson
Belleview Ave
J. M. Booker
Pleasant Green Baptist Church
Tracy
J. W. Clay
King Solomon Baptist Church
Res
D. B. Jackson
Sth Street Baptist Tabernacle
Freeman, Bell
G. McNeil
Garfield, Well
J. M. Gilbert
First Baptist Church
Bonner Springs
G. C. Callaway
Pilgrim Baptist Church
A. A. Harris
Second Christian Church
Michigan
L B. Blackburn
N. Fth
J. H. Hall
Herman
Kinslee
Harrison
B. A. Salisbury
18Th Street
Wm. T. Garner
Woodland
Lee London, 407 West Ltd
W. L. Hayden
4Th
Minnesota
K. T. C. Chapman
A. H. Hudson
McQueen
Blanche Page
Georgian Coleman
E. 18Th Street
Birdie Jackson
Ne St
Josephine Abernathy
Harris
Crosthwaite Floral Co
Anna J. Carter
Lila H. Swan
Minnie L. Crosthwaite
Weaver Floral Co
18Th St. Main
Bell Furniture Dealers
Grocers
Abraham Clark
East Sith St
Barnett
Magon
Te Mateon
Grove
Porocery
J. H. Simmons
Oak
Ball
Hotel Woods
Charlotte
Lewis Woods
Bell Main
Madame
College In Connection
Campbell
Ernest W. Williams
Standard Life Insurance Co
Atlanta, Ga
Heman B. Perry
Harry H. Pace
Kanene & Missouri
T. A. Rosa
Charles C. Buster
P. K. Brown
Uperintendent Health & Accident Department
W. L. Robnett
18Th St. Bell
H. Walden
Montgall
W. J. Dixon
Cleveland Avenue
J. A. Wilhon
9Th St
N. BP. Jones
Lillie Sinan
Chapman & Caldwell
Paso
Eva P. Saene
Freeman Ave
Weat
Stella Hubbard
L. W. Johnson
New York Life
Stein-Miller
W. C. Hueston
W. 6Th
L. A. Knox
W. 6Th St
Dorsey Green
Minnesota Ave
Dell
A. Shackelford
Minnesota Ave. Hell
I. J. Spears
18Th
Paseo
J. ©. Laing
Connection
EE. 18Th St
Mra
Francis J. Jackson
Monteall
Maggie Seamaster
John Hill
Hell Phone
Fast
Amos Barnett
Rh. C
Holland
Grove Street
J. Hightower
Highland
Solomon Smith
George Teeters
Southwest National Bank of Commerce
John Thomas
Waverly Way
South
John Rcy
Glacier, Plasterer and Plumber
Independent Printing & Publishing Co
Kas
N. Sth
C. A. Young
Samuel
Stewart
South 4Th Street
Salt Lake City
Utah
Arthur A. Anderson
State St
A. L. Williams
T. H. Bailey
McGee St
Dr. BE
A. Walker
Bell G
W. Hubert Bruce
East Eighteenth Street
Lucian P. Richardson
Waldron
C. A. Murray Kane
Howard M. Smith
Wm. J. Thompkins
E. 18Th St
L. J. Holly
E. J. McCampbell
24Th and
Vine Sts
J. Edgar Dibble
19Th and
J. B. Perry
Jas. F. Shannon
N. E. Cor
T. C. Unthank
Independence Avenue
W. W. Montgomery
J. Franklin Wilson
North 10Th St
R. Thos
A. Jones
Cor
A. D. Bradbury
Independence Ave
Lee R. Petty
M. B. Jones
R. C Hayden
Minnesota Bell
North 10Th St. Bell
R. E. B. Ramsey
Northwest Cor
H. Sylvester Gillespie
18Th & Paseo
S. M Steele
Sloan Avenue
Quindaro
Kang
Fred T. Drew
Bales Avenue
Charles Williame
Bell C
Bruce Santee
East 15Th St
J. H. Malone
Hell
C. A Franklin
John H. Fairley
Square Deal Printing Co
Lydia
William Hopkins
Afro-American Investment Co
J. Dallas Bowser
Moses Dixon
Moses Fields
A. W. Williams
N. 3Rd St
H. Shumaker
Temple
G. A. Page
Gev. W. Martin
East 17Th St
Thos
Bass
Mexico
Homer Roberts
Dixie Theatre
A. L. Williams’ Transfer Co
Lewie Townsend
Lydia Ave
Gee
Golden Steam. Dye Works
Golden’s Steam Dye Works
Bell Phone East
Emery, Bird
Thayer D. G. Co
Benjamin Franklin
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