Tulsa Star headlines and Oklahoma politics stir trouble
The Tulsa Star proclaims itself the cleanest Negro newspaper in the Southwest while noting a week without publication due to the editor’s illness. It critiques Creek County’s Ground Hog Resolution and reports a Senate dispute over reprinting Tul an Star copies, with Editor Smitherman benefiting from the controversy.
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Tulsa Star
Southwest
Star
House of Representatives
Creek Co
Senate OF Oklahoma
Senate
Tulan Star
A. J. Smitherman
Keller
Smitherman
Richmond Planet
Woolens consignment for suits ships to buyer
A consignment of 1000 samtyles of woolens for suits arrives, described as nobby by a dealer claiming leadership in low prices and second hand goods. The listing notes cleaning, using, and repairing services, with contact 18 E Archer and phone 2573 at Partee Building, Win Walker proprietor.
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E. Archer
Win Walker
Serneren That chacifeur Won ao ere Weep
Incoherent dialogue fragment shows a character lamenting a misjudgment about a person and a letter of recommendation. One speaker insists the recommendation was given and urged the recipient to insist the subject attend a place. The text remains fragmentary and unclear.
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Serneren
My Wife Took the Grippe With Pains in Back
A brief item notes a wife suffering grippe with back pains. No further details on treatment or outcome are provided.
Birth of a baby boy to Mr and Mrs Samuel Pyles
A baby boy weighing 13 pounds was born to Mr and Mrs Samuel Pyles at 220 Bnet Archer street in the city. Other items note visitors Chas Robinson of Broken Arrow, Wm Baker and W H of Sapulpa, and Florina Loupe receiving a $500 insurance check from American National Insurance Co in payment for her husband.
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Samuel Pyles
Bnet Archer Street
City
Chas. Robinson of
Broken Arrow
Messrs
Wm. Baker
W. HH. of
Sapulpa
Florina Loupe
American National Insurance Co
Husband’s Insurance
J. E. Morse
Denver
Wanted Agents for The Tulsa Star in Every State
Classy recruitment note for The Tulsa Star seeks agents nationwide to represent the paper. Earn good pay by joining a leading race paper network. Write today The Tulsa Star 115 N Greenwood Tulsa Okla.
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Tulsa Star
N. Greenwood
Tulsa
Okla
Notice to Tulsa Star Subscribers
Mr G W Harrison leaves The Tulsa Star to enter the insurance business and Me John Stradford is employed on City Circulator. City subscribers are notified to pay subscriptions to John Stradford in advance and take receipts.
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G. W. Harrison
Tulsa Star
John Stradford
Reward for Missing Insurance Papers and Jewelry
A notice offers a ten dollar reward for the return of stolen insurance papers, a gala ring, a valuable watch, and miscellaneous items from a home in Greenwood. The owner expresses hope to recover the papers and asks for return of the missing items.
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Greenwood
Women Seek State Help for Negro Youth Reform School
From Oklahoma City in January 1918 a letter urges support for a bill to establish a state training school or reformatory for wayward and incorrigible Negro boys and girls. MRS. H. P. JACOBSON calls club women and all state organizations to write to senators and representatives and to mobilize letters and personal efforts to secure passage.
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Oklahoma City
Olla
Co-Workers and Friends
Oklahome
Ministerial Alliance
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