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Newspaper
Kansas City Sun
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1917
Page
4
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The piece notes Masonic body elections ongoing and an upcoming Sun Kong issue with a full list of officers. It reports a Summer School for Colored teachers under Board of Education, to run six weeks at Lincoln School, with instructors all white and lunches at cost. It warns of dangers to Negro children if parents do not engage in backyard gardening.
A large gathering at the A M E Church paid last respects to Hannibal Nance who died Wednesday night. Rev R H Longdon delivered the sermon with brief remarks by Rev I L Tulley. Nance, industrious and loyal to his church, faced deafness and long illness with faith. he leaves a wife, two children, and many relatives. Also noted are visits from relatives including William Nance and Lula Horn and a sick list item about Mrs Herbert Beach.
Fragmented reminiscences with racial tension and social critique. The piece references lynching talk, voter suppression, economic waste, and a dramatic anecdote about a Black worker and his wife leading to a hospital scene. It captures prejudice, labor issues, and the era’s street conversations with strong dialect and dated references.
A listing of local Black businesses and professionals including bakeries barber shops florists real estate employment and services across multiple avenues and streets in Kansas City Missouri and Kansas. Listings feature Susie Owens Cora Williams Susie Gipson Minnie Doyle Ethel Wilson Delilah Dottrey F A Cook and others with addresses phone numbers and business types for community commerce and services.
Classified notice lists a neatly furnished room for rent at 1514 East Seventeenth Street and a WANTED ad seeking 3 or 4 furnished rooms or a small cottage. Also advertises a nearly new oak buffet for sale at 4015 Locust Street. Contact Kan sas City Sun office at 180% East 15th Street via Bell phone Bugt 999.
Modern and partly modern homes for sale with financing options from one thousand to ten thousand dollars. Fire insurance rentals and collectors available. Money to loan. Estates economically administered. If you have a house for sale rent or exchange come in to discuss. 2610 Highland Avenue Bell East 3440.
The notice urges colored readers not to fear war and to grow gardens to beat the high cost of living. It promotes small farms and Riverside Park tracts for sale near Kansas City Kansas with terms flexible, including small houses on some lots. Listings cover properties of various kinds in Kansas City and nearby.
Williams Investment Co offers a 4 room house and lot at 1428 Spruce for 1400, a room frame at 2325 Euclid for 1600, and a modern brick near 15th street car line. Also a modern flat for rent at 2008 East Jath street from now to October 1 at 25 monthly, then 22.50 monthly until January, contact Williams Realty Co at 1704 East Twelfth Street.
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