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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1913
Page
13
A 19th century notice urges Mobile colored residents to mark fifty years of freedom with afternoon and evening ceremonies. It mentions reviews, discussions of progress, displays of business and professions, and calls for churches and societies to participate, while noting a congressman’s inquiry into race segregation in government employment.
A rough informal column offers poultry care tips and anecdotes about sick chicks and hard crop. It warns readers to seek simple, practical fixes, sharing a case of a dead chick after delayed treatment and urging caution with ready mixed chick feed.
A meeting at Emanuel AME Church in Mobile outlined a march and review by colored citizens to honor President Wilson. Committees were formed to organize the welcome, aiming to show what the colored community stands for during the presidential visit.
A detailed church directory lists multiple A M E and M E churches with pastors, sermon times, Sunday schools, and teen groups. It names Union Baptist Emanuel Bethel and others with service hours and activities, reflecting a community religious schedule.
The Colored Board of Trade held a profitable meeting Monday night at Lilly Baptist Church led by Rev. Crawford. Notables discussed race uplift and business progress while Miss Lee from Morind Bleu spoke on conditions for colored people in the South and the restaurant incursion by Greeks. The next meeting will be at Warren Street Methodist Church. A Baldwin county white boy harvested 186 bushels of corn on one acre, underscoring the value of farming for Negroes.
Dr. G. W. Lewis urges men and women to attend night classes to gain educational advantages. He emphasizes that education helps the race and insists no one should fail to attend.
The Pittsburg Courier notes the Douglass home in Washington D C is mortgaged and decaying. Funds are sought from Black citizens to pay off the mortgage restore the mansion and grounds and preserve the memorial to Fred Douglass for future generations.
Rev L G Jordan D D, a leading cor responding secretary of the foreign mission board of the National Baptist convention, will preach at Franklin street Baptist Church Sunday at 11 am. Don’t miss this strong, respected colored preacher.
For the fiftieth anniversary of emancipation buttons are out and every Negro who loves his freedom should get one from the H. Roger Wilhames drug store. There is a button for all. Go and get one and wear it.
A visitor recalls a Monday evening police court scene with a large crowd of young Black defendants. He describes their appearance and behavior as evidence of debauchery and ignorance, reflecting on race and freedom and wondering about the race’s future.
The Rev. J. C. Reed, a prominent Black minister born in Whistler Alabama, died in Birmingham and was buried from Louis Street Baptist Church. He lived in Chicago and other Western cities, studied law, edited works, and embraced the new idea ministry. His funeral honored by Mobile’s leading Black residents.
The speaker argues relocating Black residents to rural farms to escape city temptations and to contribute to agriculture, asserting a person must contribute to the world's needs. The visit reveals the vast race uplift problem and urges all to take action, citing an O I girl who changed her mind about marrying the best man.
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