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Newspaper
Kansas City Sun
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1918
Page
4
The Woodland Studio at 2112 Woodland Avenue will be open every Friday evening during the summer. The Spotless Kitchen at 24 West 13th Street is touted as the town’s best place to eat.
Editorial from Tuskegee Institute notes reports from National Negro Health Week campaign started April 22. Reports are due by July 10 and will be considered with Allen W. Clark’s three silver cups offered by the National Clean-Up and Paint-Up Bureau. Presentation of cups planned for the National Negro Business League annual meeting in Atlantic City on August 21 22 and 23.
The Hannibal District Conference of the North Missouri A M E church met in Louisiana June 11 to 14. Presiding elder Rev. P C Crewe led a profitable session with strong sermons by Drs E B Johnson W R Brooks A L Lovell and others. Mrs Katherine Tillman and Mrs W R Brooks inspired attendees. Miss Brooks led the piano as adjournment followed prayers for the Louisiana pastor J K Ponder.
Twenty six men are sought to work in a foundry at Charles City Indiana. Pay starts at thirty five cents per hour with an increase after the first week. Preference given to two or three married men whose wives will run the boarding house. Free rent and transportation paid. Contact Afro-American Office 1610 East 18th Bell Phone East 782 Home East 802 Call West 320.
A compact directory listing local Black businesses and professionals in Kansas City area. Entries include bakers and kitchens, beauty and hair services, masseurs and poro hairdressers, cafes, florists, lawyers, jewelers, real estate, employment firms, shoe stores and repair shops, plus contact details such as street addresses and telephone numbers for Mrs Susie Owens, Mrs Bertha McCamey, Mrs Cora Williams, Mrs Susie P Gipson, H W Dotson, Crosthwait Floral, Shackelford, Calloway, Hueston, J A Wilson, J E Miller Studio, Colored Peoples Investment, G A Page, J O Banks, Adkins Bros, H B Moore, Watkins Bros.
The column mocks raised draft age to 45 with jokes about old men cramping the mood. A colored elder defines Conservation as families stopping meat and Preservation as eating it alone. A man leapt from a building over a door issue and a crowd at an event asked for refunds. A quip about judging a man’s income by his wife’s clothing ends the note.
An advertisement announces Mackey's Liniment as the sole rights holder for manufacturing and distributing the remedy after purchasing the formula. It markets a ten day cure for rheumatism and rapid relief for neuralgia and other ailments, with testimonials from users and a Kansas City address for Rev. R. J. Hurse. It seeks agents and notes postage for out of town orders.
Real estate listings advertise numerous homes with varied room counts from nine to four, in locations like Garfield Park Park Ave Michigan Ave and East 10th Street. Prices range from 1 650 to 5 000 with terms to suit down payments and trades offered by W M Johnston Manager at 1510 East 18th Bell East 782 Home East 802.
An 8 J Hightower powered ad pitches a full 7 passenger car from Bell East 3505W Home East 906. It lists features such as foot and reading lights speaking tube and modern conveniences and provides the address 2436 Highland Ave Kansas City Missouri with two phone contacts for day or night service.
A short note states the moguls are driven by owner W H Hubbel with Bell phone service indicated by Enat 201 percent.
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