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Newspaper
The Tulsa Star
Location
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1920
Page
3
An advertisement from Chickasha Oklahoma promotes Porq Beauty Parlor run by Mrs De Etta Smith. It touts scientific scalp and hair treatment for improved appearance and growth with quick satisfactory results. The address listed is 528 South 2nd Street.
A social listing names guests entertained including Mr Green and Mrs Freeman along with Mr and Mrs Rutling and Miss Willie Morris. The menu featured turkey celery olives cranberries punch salad nuts ice cream cake and candies. Mr A G W Sango, a well known Muskogean, visited the city Thursday on legal business.
The beauty parlor on 210 N. Greenwood St offers hairdressing and treatment services with guaranteed results led by Mrs Chas D Harris and Miss Beulah Sander. In Washington the NAACP announced a January 20 hearing on the Dyer anti lynching proposals with representatives James Weldon Johnson John Shillady and Arthur Spingarn plus Esther Morton Smith for the Society of Friends.
Sand Springs Lodge No. 192 A F and A M meets every first and third Wednesday nights at Myers Hall East Archer Street. J H L Smitherman W M W L Gamble Secretary.
The Doris Oil and Gas Company presents its 1919 annual report detailing authorized capital stock 8500, paid in 6000, accounts payable 200, accounts receivable 435.87, cash in bank 1606, dividends paid totals and dates, net profits 3666.06. Directors George C. Probst and J A Morrison sign, with oath before notary public C. P. Hyde on January 2, 1920 in Tulsa County Oklahoma.
A Harvard scholar argues there is no profiteer, saying price increases reflect higher raw material costs. He cites a suit of clothes rising from 25 to 75 dollars and wool worth only 2.50 to 7.50, with profit margins remaining proportional. The piece also notes lard prices rising from 25 cents to 28, while grocers sustain old per-pound profits.
Tulsa Star details a mysterious fatal shooting of 25 year old Mrs Keulah Gwinn, formerly of St. Louis, with robbery suspected. The victim was attacked Tuesday night near the Addition, witnesses scarce at 11 pm. Burial plans and undertaker activity are noted along with other local sickness and obituaries.
Mr and Mrs Harmon hosted a three course luncheon at 1730 South Cheyenne Ave to celebrate their eighth wedding anniversary. The event drew a host of friends and included Miss Leana Lavan among the guests. Mrs Julia A Jackson arrange printing for Roland Hayes Concert at Convention Hall Monday night acknowledging Hayes as a leading singer and likely a large crowd. Miss Ethel Taylor hosted Worth While Club members, all enjoyed the gathering and extended thanks to Miss Taylor. Additional notes mention Mrs RB Clark of Archer Street and Mrs Cathcart improving after illness, and Mr E D Smith of Elgin on the mend after a week of illness.
The Democratic County Convention will meet in the courthouse at ten o’clock this morning to elect delegates to the state convention in Muskogee on Thursday February 5th. Two Black men will be seated as delegates, with E. L Saddler a prominent local lawyer and F. F. Snutherman a Tulsa police plainclothesman acting as delegates or alternates.
Publication notice in the Superior Court of Tulsa County Oklahoma, Eunice Lee plaintiff sues Lassie Lee defendant for divorce on abandonment grounds. Defendant must answer by March 15 1920 or petition will be taken as true and a divorce granted. Court clerk John Porter signs and attorney H A Guess represents the plaintiff.
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