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Newspaper
The Tulsa Star
Location
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1920
Page
5
A claim-filled notice promotes Kap-O-Line as a guaranteed cure for knotty hair and scalp ailments. It touts doctor endorsements, a fifteen year money-back guarantee, and chemist-made formula from large Southwest laboratories, promising softer, fluffier, lustrous hair.
Washington report on Josephine Berry argues for possible commutation as she awaits execution for Ada King s murder over alleged interference in a love affair. Criminologist notes Berry as a mid category between lunatic and savage. Sister Edna Giles faces manslaughter trial. President Wilson unlikely to reverse any death sentence. Attorney Harry L. Tignor represents Berry.
In Hehmond Virginia on September 18 Colored women outnumbered white women three to one at registration seeking qualification to vote. The crowd was so large that Central Registrar Woodson requested aid and policemen were dispatched to separate the races at the registration headquarters. The incident indicates possible hurdles in identifying Negro voters.
Strong indications point to a national bank of great importance to be established in Chicago with paid capital of 1 4,000,000. Eminent financiers from the South met with Chicago capitalists to discuss creating a federal reserve member bank. The plan aims to keep southern clearing funds in Chicago and New York and shift large amounts of business from Southern banks to a national family bank serving Black clients and clerks.
The Associated Negro Press reports a nationwide economic survey showing easing labor demand in many urban centers except steel mills and some auto sectors. Housing is worse, rent profiteering rises, rent protest groups form, and little legislation backs price controls outside New York. Investors hesitate as prices run high and wage drops loom.
The piece notes a strong southern demand for labor while whites stream northward in response to ongoing lynchings. It argues the exit is less fear than a resolve to embarrass the South and expose its “folly of Its ways of human justice.”
The Tulsa Star prints a publication notice from the District Court of Tulsa County Oklahoma case No 12426 Alexander Poster plaintiff versus Georgia Lee Foster defendant. The notice requires the defendant to answer the divorce petition by October 28 1920 or the court will grant divorce and related relief. The document bears the signatures of court officials and attorney G W Hutchins for the plaintiff.
John Parker files for divorce from Lulu Parker in Tulsa County Oklahoma District Court alleging abandonment and gross neglect. The defendant Lulu Parker must answer by November 1, 1920 or the petition will be taken as true and judgment rendered. John D. Porter Court Clerk B W Rouse Deputy. Attorney E L Saddler for Plaintiff.
State of Oklahoma in Tulsa County district court hears Francis Morgan and Mark Morgan in a divorce case filed by Francis Morgan. Plaintiff prays for absolute separation on grounds of duty and asks the court to require the defendant to answer by November 1, 1920. Deputy B W Rouse and attorney FE I Saddler represent the plaintiff. First published in Tulsa Star on October 2, 1920.
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