Nineteenth Annual Session of National Negro Business League Opens
Atlantic City hosts the Nineteenth Annual Session of the National Negro Business League from August 21 to 23. Governor Edge and Mayor Bacharach welcome attendees. Dr. R. R. Moton and Emmett J. Scott deliver speeches praising democracy and wartime unity. Napier presides. notable figures include J. C. Napier, Charles Banks, Chas. Brooks, and Captain Spingarn with Dr. Roman.
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Atlantic City
National Negro Business League
W. E. Edge
Bachrach
R. R. Moton
Emmett J. Scott
Secretary of War
New Jersey
Bacharach
League
Napier
National Negro League
R. R. Morton
Hdge
Carrizal
J. C. Napier
Charles Banks
Mount Bayou
Miss
Chas. H. Brooks
Philadelphia
Spingarn
Roman
Nashville
Tenn
Fitzgerald
Dr. Washington
R. RR. Moton
Tuskegee Institute
Scott
National Army
States Army
Medical Reserve Corps
Hospital Fund Drive Urges Pledge Payments Ahead of Opening
Wheatley Provident Hospital and its board face strenuous times preparing for the September 22 opening. Directors Dru Perry Lambright Unthank Prof. Lee and The Sun urge subscriptions and note some prominent locals have not paid. This week payments include Dr. M H Lambright $100 and Prof J R EB Lee $25 along with multiple others. George Stewart and Emmett Hughes visited Topeka, then Kansas City, with travel to Chicago and Guthrie.
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Wheatley-Provident Hospital
Ihe Board of
Tte
Dru
Perry
Lambright
Unthank
Lee
The
Sun
Trojans
George Stewart
Emmett Hughes
Topeka
Kansas City
Mr. Stewart
Chicago
Mr. Hughes
Guthrie
Okln
Physician Surgeon Plans Wheatley Provident Hospital Opening
Kansas City's foremost physician and surgeon returns from Mayo Brothers Rochester and medical friends in Chicago. Dr Perry urges push for Wheatley Provident Hospital while Masons U S F Oddfellows Women’s Clubs and promised contributors strive to complete actions before the September 22 opening date.
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Kansas City
Mayo Brothers
Rochester
Chicago
Perry
Wheatley-Provident Hospital
Masons
The
Oddfellows
Women's Clubs
Menace of the Paleosindicating need for park chaperoning
A public plea denounces lax supervision at the Paseo bath house area between lith street and Parade Way, urging immediate measures to guard youth. The piece calls for enforced day and night chaperoning, stricter rules, and active oversight to curb late night misbehavior by boys and girls, stressing parental and civic responsibility.
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Bath House
Lith Street
Parade Way
Wheatley Provident Hospital Benefit Recital Planned
Blind Boone the world famous pianist prodigy will perform at Academy Hall on September 12 to benefit Wheatley Provident Hospital. Proceeds go to Nurses' Furnishings with a reception and refreshments by local ladies clubs. Adults pay 50 cents, children 25 cents. patrons urged to buy 20 tickets. J R Be Lee chairs the committee.
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Blind Boone
Academy Hall
Michigan Avenue
Wheatley Provident Hospital
Boone
The
Athenaeum
Harmony
Charity Girls
Graece
J, R
Lee
Bitter clash looms in Odd Fellows over Nineteenth BMC
New YorkAug 25 The executive Sub Committee of Management of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows aims to void the Nineteenth Biennial Movable Committee session set for September in New York. Members denounce alleged German Kaiserism influence and vow to hold the meeting despite the ruling.
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New York
Grand United Order of Odd Fellows
America
B. M. Cc
City of
Order
Edward WH. Morris
Odd Fellows Journal
United States
Southern views on lynching and race relations
A Southern reader thanks the Tribune for its prior reply to a Traveler column on lynchings in the South. He asserts knowledge of race issues from Southern roots, warns that whites have used disguises in crimes, and argues reciprocal justice as an old law of reaping and sowing. He stresses accountability across communities.
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the Tribune
Public Pulse
Traveler
Awakening of justice and moral reform in the South
A Native of Louisiana praises the Minneapolis Tribune letter urging moral reform among Southern whites, calling for the Golden Rule to guide relations with mankind and foretelling an eventual justice across the world. The speaker commends the article’s plain, prejudice-free stance and endorses the notion that slavery’s faults are plainly stated.
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Thc
Louisiana
Minneapolis Tribune
Colored lieutenant calculates distance to Paris gun
A Black lieutenant attached to an American regiment measured the shell path to Paris. He computed the distance by noting the incline of two holes in walls where shells struck, then applied simple math to determine the gun's range, about 72 miles.
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New York
N. Y
Paris
France
Rev Mark L Clay Dies After Long Ministry at 59
Rev. Mark L. Clay, 59, died last Saturday at his Kansas City home 304 Franklin Avenue. He preached forty three years and served as moderator of Mt Zion Association thirteen years and Kaw Valley Association one year. A member of Hughes Lodge 28 Louisiana Mo for forty years and United Brothers of Friendship twenty nine years. He married Rosa Williams of Moberly Mo in 1 and had two sons. Funeral held at King Solomon Baptist Church with Baptist Ministerial Alliance Masonic fraternity and United Brothers of Friendship active.
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Mark L. Clay
Franklin Avenue
Kansas City
King Solomon Baptist Church
Baptist Ministerial Alliance
Masonic Fraternity
United Brothers of Friendship
Clay
The
Gospel
Hughes Lodge No
Louisiana
J. W. Horse Lodge
Mt. Zion Association
Kaw Valley Association
Western University
Rosa Williams
Moberly
Pleasant Valley church Sunday school rally success
The Sunday School Rally and Cradle Roll at Pleasant Valley Baptist Church last Sunday afternoon raised $26.36. The event credited the tireless efforts of teachers Mrs. L Parker and Mrs. Butler and superintendent Mr. Wm Henderson.
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Pleasant Valley Baptist Church
Tech
L. Parker
Butler
Wm. Henderson
Yes You Have to Register for Draft at Forty-Five
Men past forty five but not yet forty six face registration. The rule: anyone who has turned eighteen but not yet forty six by the registration date must register on September 12. Those already registered under former law need not re register.
Voices of a Black Patriot Protest in Maine
Walter Williams from Jefferson City Maine denounces racial inequality and pleads for equal rights. He recalls Black Americans who fought in wars and helped during Spain's war, arguing they deserve the protections and respect granted to others under the Stars and Stripes. He urges honesty and ongoing pursuit of justice.
Remarkable sermon by Bishop N C Cleaves at Jamison Temple
Bishop N C Cleaves of Memphis, a renowned orator and scholar, preached a powerful hour and a quarter at Jamison Temple 1815 Paseo on Sunday night. The crowd was about 300. many wept, others cried out in joy as he spoke on What Shall the End Be from Matthew 24. A banquet followed Monday night in his honor, with similar honors in Kansas City.
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France
Colored Red Cross
Robt. Terrell
George B. Haynes
Negro Economics
Department of Labor
Booker T. Washington
A. W V. Craig
The
Food Administration
T. M. Campbell
Albania
J. W. E. Bowens
W. T. B. Williame
C. C. Spaulding
J. T. Tandy
Jamison Temple
Paseo
Abram Grant
Nelson Caldwell Cleaves
Memphis
Tenn
Bishop Cleaves
Bolden
Church of
Kansas City
Kas
W. H. Nickens
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Corner
Dr. Morton
M. H. Lambright
J. R. EB. Lee
Harry Moten
Horace Bishop
J. Edward Perry
ODD Fellows
M. L. Clay
Walter Williams
Jefferson City, Me
Spain
N. C. Cleaves
Demosthenes
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