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Newspaper
Philadelphia Tribune
Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1919
Page
1
Letters from soldiers in World War I describe battles near Verdun and Metz, the Armistice signing, and hopes of returning home. Correspondents from Camp Rigaud France recount regiments forming August 22 at Camp Sherman, rapid movement to France, and frontline experiences.
Philadelphia boy bandmaster William H Vodery leads the 807th Pioneer Infantry Band now serving as Post Band at First Army Headquarters in France. He notes the group’s surpassing success, its two distinct musical phases, and a contest win over three white-soldier bands establishing its post status.
Col Theodore Roosevelt former US president died in his sleep at Sagamore Hill Oyster Bay N Y at age sixty from a pulmonary embolism. Attendant James Amos called a nurse minutes before death. son Quentin Roosevelt's death in France weighed heavily on him.
Robt. D. Birchett 2nd Lieut. Co. F 370th Infantry writes to his father Mr. Chris J. Perry editor of The Tribune and reports arrival of a letter detailing duty at R I U 8 A E B Birchett serves with the unit during service in Europe.
The Ubier docked at Girard Point from Rotterdam via London with Eugene Smith, a Springfield Massachusetts resident, aboard. Smith, a colored man, carried an American passport issued at the Berlin Embassy, one of the first seen in port in many days, and was in Hamburg when World War I began in 1914.
Louis Burkett recounts seeing two colored soldiers with machine guns wipe out a German battalion at the front. He describes ammo shortages, a wedge in the German line, and the colonel asking for volunteers as the pair held the position until reserves arrived.
Dr. William Henry Sheppard recounts a cannibal police force in the Belgian Congo in the 1890s. The Zappo Zaps, led by Malumba N Kusa, were paid with cartridges and cut off hands as tribute to officials. Slaughtered bodies filled a camp while the Belgian government allegedly funded and enabled the practice.
Monroe N. Work at Tuskegee Institute records 62 lynchings in 1918, 58 Black victims and 4 whites, with five women killed. Of those lynched, 16 charged with rape or attempted rape. States reporting lynchings include Georgia 18 and Louisiana 9, Texas 9, Alabama 3, Tennessee 4, Mississippi 6, and others.
A converted apartment house at East 40th street and Central avenue now serves as a modern hotel for colored working women. It opened November 26 and offers lodging and meals for residents and outsiders, named the Phillis Wheatley.
Notice corrects the National Negro Press Association gathering dates. The meeting runs from Wednesday February 5 to Saturday February 8, 1919. Opening at 10.20 in the morning February 5 and closing at noon on February 8.
Emmett O Nea l former governor of Alabama told the Colored Ministers Institute at Avery Chapel that mob violence is murder and that organized society must rely on law not mob justice. He argued democracy requires public opinion to end lynching as a relic of savagery.
The Scotia Society of Jersey City sent 25.60 to Bordentown Industrial School for Colored Youth, aiding a worthy student. State Board President Melvin A. Rice thanked Society Secretary Henry Martin and urged continued cooperation to raise the school’s standing and reach.
Lawrence Kansas December 31 James Scott a young colored man was admitted to the Phi Beta Kappa honorary fraternity for achieving the highest scholastic rank among the men students at Kansas University. Scott resides in Kansas City.
Albert Robigeon of 1642 North Fawn Street Wie ehot and kited on Thursday at his home during a fig over Christmas e'fts. The Eighth district police arrested William Rocuns, not a oe both of the
A colored soldier, among the wounded at a Richmond hospital, returned from France with a severed leg. He kept the limb, packed in a crate, to be buried in the United States, saying he never intended any part of him to be buried abroad. He described being hit by a shell during an attack on German lines and receiving medical care at the hospital.
In Pottsville Virginia on January 8 the town grieves the death of ex President Roosevelt. Watch night service drew large crowds and ministers urged a hopeful year ahead. A New Year's social at the church drew praise for its success and the choir plans new books.
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