Three Reasons to Give to Cincinnati Community Chest Campaign
The Community Chest Campaign runs April 5 for ten days with a goal of over two million dollars to aid 70 Cincinnati agencies serving the poor, sick, widow, orphan, and aged. Nine of the agencies are Colored, with increased yearly allocations listed for Home for Colored Girls Evangeline Home Home for Aged Colored Women Crawford Old Men's Home Negro Civic Welfare Committee Orphan Asylum Colored Youth Walnut Hills Day Nursery Ninth Street Y. M. C. A. Blue Triangle Club Ly and others.
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Community Chest
Cincinnati
Home For
Evangeline Home Home
Crawford Old Men’s Home
Negro Civic Welfare Committee
Y Orphan Asylum
Walnut Hills Day Nursery
Ninth Street
Blue Triangle Club
Giving spirit drives Black community fundraising drive
An appeal notes a $49 151 39 rise over last year with help from white agencies including Associated Charities Better Housing League Anti Tuberculosis League Visiting Nurses Association Social Hygiene Society Catholic Charities Red Cross Humane Society and Committee on Child Care It urges giving with or without designation and stresses dignity and respect through voluntary support to reach over one hundred thousand dollars and above. It cites It is more blessed to give than to receive and urges Black citizens to join in the campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Charities
Better Housing League
Anti-Tuberculosis League
Visiting Nurses’ Association
Social Hygiene Society
Catholic Charities
Red Cross
Humane Society
Committee On Child Care
Political Gossip on Negro Voters Push for Turner and Daugherty Scratches
The Union, an apparent Negro community paper, declares Republican orders urging Black voters to back Edward C. Turner for delegate at large and to oppose Harry M. Daugherty, Harding's campaign manager. It claims Turner is favored by highbrows and notes his role in aiding Wilbur King, while asserting The Union is not an official organ and serves readers with items of interest to Black people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republican Organization
Edward C. Turner
General Wood
Harry M. Daugherty
Warren G. Harding
Daugherty
Turner
Wilbur King
Lightning Outclassed Law Does Not Delay
Lancaster Ky March 26 Twenty four hours after George Yantis a 40 year old Negro attempted to enter the home of Mrs Clayton Marsee near Lancaster he was arrested by Sheriff A K Walker and a posse indicted by a grand jury and found guilty of attempting to attack a woman and sentenced to serve seven years in the State Penitentiary He was taken to Frankfort tonight Yantis learned the husband was in Lancaster fled after Mrs Marsee closed the door and he tried to force entry fearing screams would be heard
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster
George Yantis
Clayton Marsee
Sherif A. K. Walker
Frankfort
Sunday School Mass Meeting and racial tensions at Union Baptist
A po se was formed and the Negro was arrested in Lancaster. He was identified by Mrs. Marsee. Authorities sent the case to the grand jury amid fears of violence, leading to swift trial and conviction. Sheriff Walker hurried the prisoner to Frankfort. Yantis, discharged from the army three months ago, earlier served a penitentiary term for housebreaking. The piece criticizes heated race sentiment and cites Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois. It notes strong racial commentary and potential friction, mentions Mrs. K. J. Bellamy hosts and Family, and recovery of Mrs. Alma Bell Bryant from indigestion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster
Marsee
Walker
Frankfort
Yantis
Booker Washington
Urges Development of Africa in Modern Thought
Brief item notes a call for Africa's development as a key post in modern discourse. Mentions "Darkwater" by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois as part of the discussion, highlighting a scholarly interest in race, progress, and national advancement.
Strange Independence Seen Through a Negro 18 Looked Upon
A fragment reflects perceptions of independence among an 18 year old Black individual, marking a moment in local racial dynamics and self reliance. The text hints at community attitudes and the challenge of autonomy within a segregated society.
Knights Templar Easter Services in Hamilton Ohio
Simon Commandery No. 1 Knights Templar will hold Easter services at Payne Chapel A M E Church at 2 30 p m on Sunday April 4 1920 in Hamilton Ohio They will depart Masonic Hall Geneses and Central avenue at 9 a m for a parade along Court Street Linn Barr Cutter Kenyon Mound Fifth to Central avenue to Twelfth Then at 11 a m they will ride special cars to Hamilton via the C D Traction line
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I. Hr
Law
Union Baptist Church
Hamilton County
Vudge
K. J. Bellamy
Palm Sun
J. le Franklin
Georgia Chamblin
A. B. Kimbrough
Alma Bell Bryant
Africa
W. F. Burghard
du Bois
Knights Templar
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