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Newspaper
Kansas City Sun
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1918
Page
4
Fragmentary notice lists Bell Phone East 999 and East 2789 with a city office, editor and owner Glenn Crews, General Manager, and subscription rates. Vague, unreadable portions imply a small local newspaper contact or masthead update from March 4, 147, with pricing and billing notes for subscribers.
Editorial notes a patriotic one act play Too Young for the Draft performed for seventh grade graduation at Lincoln Elementary School by Principal Joe E. Herriford before a full house on June 6. The piece reflects well on Herriford. Printer C A Franklin has joined YYMC A and will soon ship to France to work with the YY huts among soldiers. Chester studies French daily and is expected to be ready to speak in France.
The writer denounces men and boys who loaf on the Paseo Y M C A steps and near bicycle racks. The piece praises the building with a spacious lobby well lit and air cooled and urges proper behavior to maintain the club’s respectable appearance.
Classified wants and rooms for rent list several properties including a four room modern apartment at 2302 Woodland avenue with East 5221, a two furnished rooms rental by a party leaving town, eight cottages in Kansas City Kansas at 900 dollars with 100 down, and a 1718 Virginia four room partly modern unit at 15 dollars.
Modern neatly furnished rooms with electricity near 1th and Michigan. Contact Mrs H L Kinsler Bell Grand 4204 Home Delaware 950. WANTED Children to care for by day or week at 1504 East Tenth Street Bell East 1147 J.
Advertises jobs for housemaids and general housework with weekly pay from 6 to 10 dollars, laundresses at 2.10 per day, and housecleaning at 35 cents per hour. Also offers Kansas City real estate loans and lists positions at Southside Employment Agency Bell 4204 and Delaware 50. Indefinite positions.
The Afro American Investment and Employment Company advertises positions with varied pay. Chauffeurs at $60 to $75 monthly, JanuOre and Porters at $12 per week, maids at $10, chambermaids at $8, saloon porters at $14 and $15 weekly, and married men to Sunyside Utah at $7 daily. Call Wm Johnston, manager, 1510 East 18th Street.
A notice seeks a man and wife or a middle aged woman to assist with housework on a farm close to the city. Jitney service is available and applicants can call Bell phone Leeds 930-2 for details.
For sale notices show multiple properties with addresses and prices. Listings include 1320 Olive St 2500 dollars, 1822 Olive St 5000 dollars, 1311 Garfield Ave nine rooms brick slate roof 4500 dollars, 920 Park Ave nine rooms modern 3500 dollars, 1808 East 10th St eight rooms modern 2900 dollars, 12 Michigan Ave 2800 dollars, 425 Michigan Ave 200 down sale price 1600 dollars, 1517 Woodland Ave seven rooms frame modern 500 down sale price 2900 dollars.
Directory of Black businesses in Kansas City listing bakeries beauty parlors florists lawyers jewelers real estate and employment services as well as undertakers and real estate offers. Includes names addresses and phone numbers for Mrs Buse Owens Mrs A Compton Bertha McCamey Cora Williams Susie Gipson Hattie Wiley Rosie Jones H W Dotson Crosthwait Floral Co. and others with property listings and contact details.
A string of humorous snippets from a community page covers marriage, coal buying, a wary lawyer joke, a harvest helper recruit, and a neighborly parlor fence chat. An optometrist ad closes with a cheerful motto and local contact.
An advertisement claims Mackey's Liniment Dr. Horse now owns the formula and sole rights to produce Mackey's Wonderful Rheumatic cure. It touts a ten day cure with rapid relief for rheumatism neuralgia lumbago throat asthma and lung troubles and promises guaranteed safety under the Pure Food and Drug Act. Testimonials from Kansas City area residents dated 1918 accompany the notice.
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