Red Cross Pins Honors Twelve Sons of Windsor Family
The American Red Cross awarded a twelve star service pin to Rev Windsor and his Windkir family in Kayville Louisiana. Twelve sons served in the U S military with one awaiting deployment, and President Wilson praised the family’s remarkable record.
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American Red Cross
Iwolvestar
RI Windsor
Kayville
Cina
United States
Winllar
Holter Blain
Bennie
Bobbin
Def
Jobynie
Archie
Fee Shure
George
Batayette
William and
James
Bern
Tatires Sting
Matthew Mark
Luke
Wight
Windkir
Mendent Wilson
Ret Crom
Lote
Windsor Ax
R. H. Windsor
Rayville
Yants Yankres of Color S to Save German Africa
British pastor urges young colored ministers to civilize tribes in former German colonies in southwest Africa. Methodist leaders debate funding for Black missionaries, with emphasis on uplift and missions financed by the church and government.
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Yants Yankres
German Africa
Honoul
New York
Bue
Methodist Theological
Whitedt Staes
M. Hulfin
London
Africa
Tutu
Board of Forign Missions
Hhe
Methodist Episcopal
Afelea
En. Highton
Hishop
Anderson
Clnein Fath
Methodist Party
Afri Anian
Alp. Champher
Liberius
J. Hartzell
Ohin
JB. Seoll
Nuxhville
Tenn
Ely
Ralph B. Wemy
Mts
Cring
Scott to Write History of Our Part in the War
Washington announces that Emmett J. Scott, then Special Assistant in the War Department, will author the official history of Negro participation in World War I. A group of nationally known authorities on Negro life will collaborate to produce an authoritative record, not a hasty compilation.
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Scott
Washington, D. C
Emmett J. Scott
War Department
Detroit Suit Spurs Northward Slave Lodge Exposé
In a sprawling account, Detroit press details a Georgia plantation link to an anti slave migration scheme involving lodge members and forged funds as Millbrook, a Black worker, travels north to join others escaping the South. Legal action extends to extradition wrangles, while the broader anti plantation campaign unsettles Michigan’s colored community and courtrooms.
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Vetport
Mick
Colueet
Detroit
Mbetiwin
Millbrook
Hallocksville
Merriweather County
Georgia
Lodge
Charle
Walyne County
Supreme Court
Millbrooks
Mary Terrell Appointed to War Community Service Role
Mary Churely Terrell, former head of the National Association of Colored Women and prominent educator, is named Assistant in the Personnel Department of the War Community Service in New York. She resigns from Howard University to join the Play Ground and Recreation Association for the War Department and Navy Department Commission on Training Camp Activities.
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Washington, Dp
Dee
Mary Churely Terrell
Prosi
National
Asso Colored Women
Board of Education
The
War Community Service
Heark Arters
Madison Avenue
New York City
Playground and Recreation Association of
Alierion
War Department
Navy Department
Terrell
Howard University
Subscriptions Pour In for United War Work Fund
The United War Work Fund report notes Galized students and about 1000 subscribers from the southern and central departments. It lists officials Catherine LeAllied and Mr La Eve among organizers in Washington DC, with national groups aiding the cause. An unrelated local incident at the Ander grocery store on Green Wool involved a shooting but caused no serious injuries.
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United States
United War Work Fund
Catherine
Ander
John Anderson
Ander, Hon
Tulsa Choral Club to perform at Dreamland Theatre
The Tulsa Choral Club, praised for entertaining citizens, will appear at Dreamland Theatre Tuesday night December 17 under the direction of De B. Smith. Mrs. Josie J. Murphy has been on the sick list this week.
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Kyle
Witel
Tulsa
Convention Hall
de B Smoith
Dreamland Theatre
Josie J. Murphy
Notable Praise for Mr. Woarkins Leader of the Race Movement
The passage extols Mr. Woarkins as the most efficient treasurer of Thies AF and AM, urging men to come forward and take a stand for the Race. It lauds Watking as dependable in leading actions for the movement within the jurisdiction of Oklahoma.
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Baltes
Hennessey
Oklahoma
Ava
Isis
Tabsia
Woarkins
Thies AF & AM
Oks
Wien
Watking
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