Local notices mix relocation and events in Missouri and Illinois
An assortment of community notes covers Dr. L M Tillman moving to a new building at 17th and Lydia Avenue with contact Grand 3843, a July 5 Allen Christian Endeavor League Blaze Convention in Macon Missouri with sessions and leaders, village elections in Robbins and Cook County details, and praise for Central Exchange Bank and Lincoln High School commencement. Also mentions Arthur Countee piano scholarship and upcoming music studio openings in the city.
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Allen Christian Endeavor League
Macon
Missouri
Lilian Booker
Alien Christian Endeavor League
God
Robbins
Jenkie Smith
Lmits
Chicago
Cook County
Illinois
Arthur L. Countee
New England Conservatory of Music
K. V
New England Conservatory
Countee
Mr Geo V Golden Tailoring and Barber Shop Ad
Mr George V Golden promotes a Kan sas City business at 1600 17 East 18th Street presenting a tailoring cleaning and pressing shop a high class barber shop and a modern pool hall. He claims quality beats quantity and invites visits or calls to East 499 for prompt service.
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Geo. V. Golden
Kansan
West
George V. Golden
East 18Th Street
Bell Phone
Greensboro Red Cross Refuses Negro Lunches In Grievous Pattern
A Greensboro North Carolina white Red Cross group refused to pass out lunches to a train of soldiers, decided the soldiers were colored, and left in disappointment. In Nashville Tennessee women of a patriotic organization distributed cigarettes and cards for a train of troops, then learned the troops were Negro, and they declared they prepare these comforts for American soldiers and found a train full of them. The contrast highlights tensions in race relations as the South confronts the wartime normal.
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Red Cross
Greensboro
Nashville
Tenn
Copper and Supplies Fuel Costs Rise in Operations
The statement asserts that the cost of operation must be met and calls for increases in copper, supplies, fuel, iron, and wages to cover expenses. It emphasizes sustaining production and staffing to maintain output.
Whitman honors first flag by Negro regiment at BNYC
Governor Charles Whitman dedicates the Brooklyn YMCA building for Negro men and pays tribute to the courage of Negro troops. He recalls a year ago a 2000 strong regiment left for France and its soldiers carried the first American flag to the firing line, praising valor of those men.
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New York
Charles Whitman
Brooklyn
Tax proposal by utility to levy per room fee
The Kansas City Light and Power Company seeks approval from the State Public Utilities Commission to tax current customers seven cents per room lit to cover higher operating costs. The charge is tied only to rooms lighted and not to the price of current.
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Missouri Public Service Commission
Public Service Commission
Kansas Citlan
Kansas City Light and Power Company
State Public Utilities Commission
Obituary and family notices from Poola and Kansas City
The family thanks neighbors and friends in Poola Kansas and Kansas City for sympathy after the sudden death of Robert Thomas. Rhoda Thomas and daughters Mary Robinson Grace Martin Bertie Grear Clara Simon Blanche Davis express gratitude. Mr and Mrs Joseph H Richardson announce their daughter Mrs W C Green earned the Ph B at Chicago University on June 11 and will begin sociology graduate work this summer aiming for a Master’s degree, studying Social Statistics Social Pathology and The Negro in America. formerly Miss Lorraine Richardson.
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Josie Noval
Highlant
Lavenia Franklin
Ralp Ti Dave
Junction City
Kansas
Hev, RK
Davis
Centennial J. Church
Miss Maedean Purress
Mrs. Davy
19Th Street
Kans
W. T. B. Williams
Hampton Institute
Anna Jones
Montgall Avenue
Kansas City
Mary B. Talbert
Ida Cummings
V. P
Hallie Q. Brown
Ida Joyce Jackson
Poola
Rober Thomas
Rhoda Thomas
Mary Robinson
Grace Martin
Bertie Grear
Clara Simon
Blanche Davis
Joseph H. Richardson
Woodland Avenue
W. C. Green
Chicago University
America
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Bishop Parks
Allen C. B., League of Macon
H. B. Parks
Julian C. Caldwell
Sadier, Dimbry
Miss Minniep Ross
A. R. Pox
N. Missouri
Arthur Johnson
W. Missouri
Thomas J. Keller
Wm. Harvey
Richard Flowers
LeRoy P. Thomas
Robert H. Bryant
Jerry Taylor
George Winehorne
Edward Brown
George J. Moore
Charles C. Banks
Walter Childs
Edward Center
James Coleman
WAR Savings Committee OF
L. W. Davis
Michigan Avenue
Wilson
State of
Festus J. Wade
Publi
R. Davis
H. H. Daniel
J. W. Davis
New Negro Town
Nelson ¢. Crews
Wheatley Provident Hospital Committee
Kansas City, Mo
S. K. Cooke
Central Exchange Bank
William Alexander
Carrolton
Lincoln High School
Convention Hall
Sun
Alexander
Anna Smith
Wn. Alexander
Payne's Coal and Feed Store
Vine Street
East
Hell
Lexington
Lon M. Tillman
Bell
Delaware
Academy Hall
14Th St
Michigan Ave
People’s Drug Store
E. Roy Carpenter
BATHS
18Th Street
The
Handy Colored Store
Vine St
Madam P. McAbney
Notion
Taylor Holmes
Annie Holmes
Magr
N. C
Franklin-Davy
National Association OF Colored Women
Denver
Colorado
Gateway of Rockies
Blanche Perkins
Nannie
Burroughs
John Hope
Georgia
Marion Wilkins
South Carolina
Bishop Clinton
Charlotte Hawkins Brown
North Carolina
Mary McLeod Hethune
Ema J. Callier
Florida
Mary Waring
Elizabeth Lindsay Davis
Lizzie B. Fouse
Kentucky
E. D. Lampton Bacchus
Jasippi
Mra
Addie W. Hunton
Florence Randolph
New Jersey
Gains
A. Pendleton
Washington
Meta Pelham
Michigan
Mary Jackson
Rhode Island
Bertha Turner
California
Gertrude Lancaster
Utah
Donnie Bogle
Oregon
J. K. Mapps
Spokane
Mary H. Baker
Wyoming
Susan ©. Evans
Wisconsin
Douglass
Myrtle F. Cook
Montgal Avenue
the Light and Power Company
Planta
Kansas City Light & Power Co
Kinsler
East 14Th
H. L. Kinsler
East 21St Street
Eugene Edward Vaughn
Kelley
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