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Newspaper
The Tulsa Star
Location
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1916
Page
1
A number of progment fare run from various towns in the state will meet in the capital Monday for the purpose of organizing a state Colored Democratic League. Letters have gone out to Vewlers of the race in nearby towns urging them to attend the meeting in the capital. A committee will present
Police raided a local gambling venue known as Jack of Clube in Grmonwiet district after a Tuesday night operation. Several suspects were detained at the scene and later taken to the precinct for questioning.
In Tulsa a El Reno bride wed, the home of Mrs. Me Williams at 316 North Exter cited as the ceremony site. The couple, John Millien and Miss Sprends Dusen, were married last Thursday night with Delia Rive of Bid among witnesses.
The county party forms a finance committee led by Geo Hack as chairman with John Krawer secretary treasurer and Joe Vineman David Hammart and Mark Carr as members. A general campaign committee spreads across towns to coordinate with the county central committee. The subcommittee lists numerous Tulsa area names including John Burrows C L Fildes W W Stuckey J F Fultz Monroe Neal and many others, outlining broad local party organization for the upcoming fall campaign.
A local ad promotes a club of four magazines available for only 25 cents above the cost of the newspaper. The offer invites readers to call at the office to compare price and quality and see the deal for themselves.
Congressman James B. Aswell challenges Southern influence and argues that many laws enacted by a South controlled Congress served national interests. He cites measures from the Underwood Tariff to rural routes and the Federal Reserve Act, urging a real dignity in the office and to identify which acts should be repealed.
Public schools opened on Monday with the heaviest enrollment in the city’s history. Colored schools are at need of more room as enrollment grows. Later in the fall more students will enroll, currently six to seven hundred in total with about three hundred at each colored school.
Mrs Elliott proprietress of the Hine Bee cafe was the hostess for an elaborate three course dinner Tuesday at 6280. The affair honored Mrs Mabel M Martin and six friends including her mother Mrs S B Carr who leaves soon to resume duties as matron of J M College Port Worth Texas and Miss Lucile Goodwin who left Wednesday for Fisk University.
Notice urges readers to order a large magazine bundle advertised with the newspaper. It warns of upcoming price hikes due to white paper costs and urges immediate subscriptions to secure the deal. The call emphasizes a double bargain and advises swift action.
In Jopeha, Sept 22 a white prisoner named Bert Dudley was seized by a masked mob from the Johnson county jail at Diathe and hanged from a telephone pole after battering three jail doors but no one injured. Sheriff Lon Carroll faced the mob but could not stop the assault.
Olathe Kansas investigators from the county prosecutor’s office surveyed Bert Dudley’s lynching and convened a coroner’s jury to inquest Dudley’s death. They traveled to Stillwell to the home of Henry Muller and his wife, linked to the mob’s origins. No mob leaders were identified, according to the report.
Our note warns against overselling the four magazines we plan to send to subscribers this year.
Seth Low, former mayor of New York and twice mayor of Brooklyn, dies at 61 in Ledford Hill Ny Yay after illness. A longtime public servant and Columbia University president, Low was closely tied to the Tuskegee Institute and a friend of Dr. Booker T. Washington. He served as a prominent figure in New York city life and supported the Hooker T. Washington memorial fund.
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