Publisher Returns Subscriber's Ten Dollar Check
The Union editor Wendell P Dabney contemplates folding a 45 year old paper after a New York subscriber sent a five year ten dollar payment. He laments the business side while recalling a life centred on the paper and its mordant humor. The piece notes his age and one man operation, his piano playing, guitar past, and a masthead history calling for Black community progress.
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Union
Fourth Street
New York
Wendell P. Dabney
Arthur Spingarn
Mr. Spingarn
Ebony story details Hill Blackett transforming Georgia plantation
Eight Negro families on a South Georgia farm near Newton rose from poverty to a thriving plantation under Chicago ad man Hill Blackett. They now live in $5,000 homes, work shorter hours with better pay, and the rebranded Wallington yields about $10,000 cash monthly. Blackett says profit and fair treatment drive higher output.
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Ebony
Newton
Georgia
Chicago
Man Hill Blackett
Blackett
Wallington
Fear of Third World War Prompts Call for Peace Talks
New York Atlas reports the National Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions warns the Korean conflict could trigger a third world war. Secretary Henry Pratt Fairchild notes one hundred professionals signed the statement urging renewed U S and Russian dialogue and immediate diplomatic talks.
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New York
Atlas
National Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions
Henry Pratt Fairchild
Council
United States
Russia
Howard student wins French government teaching fellowship
Nathaniel A. Tyler of Gaffney South Carolina a Howard University graduate student majoring in French received a 1950 51 teaching fellowship from the French Government. He will be assigned to the College for Boys in Castelsarrazine France. Tyler is president of Howard University French Club and appears in Who's Who in American Colleges 1949 50.
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Washington
Atlas
Nathaniel A. Tyler
Gaffney
S. C
Howard University
Tyler
Castelsarrazine
France
Race Tensions Erupt As Negro Families Move Into Chicago Home
Civil rights era clashes erupt on Lawrence Avenue as two Negro families move into a white Chicago neighborhood. Police quell riots after bricks and bottles fly. KKK actions cited by officials. Joseph Beauharnais fined for vilification. charter revoked. Neighborhood tensions rise amid fear of wider violence.
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Chicago
Atlas
Lawrence Avenue
Tom Wright
KKK
Joseph Beauharnais
Illinois
Handwashing as a health rule across student training
Incoming student nurses and medical students stress handwashing as essential. Red Cross Home Nursing Manuals urge washing before handling food and after routines. The Anti Tuberculosis League poster also calls for clean hands before eating. Germs pass from hand to hand. soap and water chase germs.
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Red Cross
Anti-Tuberculosis League
Chicken and Possum Dinner From A Shot
In Mobile Alabama Cleo Jackson heard a racket in the chicken yard and opened fire on a prowling opossum that had grabbed a Rhode Island Red pullet. The possum was killed and the pullet headless. Jackson pondered a fried chicken and possum dinner next day.
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Mobile
Ala
Cleo Jackson
Rhode Island
Cleo
Fire Prevention Week Message From Cincinnati Fire Dept
The Cincinnati Fire Department urges observance of Fire Prevention Week October 8 to 14. It highlights dwelling fires, female and child fatalities, and matches-caused fires. It promotes home safety with a hand extinguisher, proper heating, chimneys, roofing, wiring, and no smoking. If all homes followed guidance losses could drop, and two copies of the issue should be sent.
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United States
Great colored farmer great colored farmer
Corsicana Texas in keeping with the traditions of the Lone Star State where the unusual is routine one of the largest farm housing loans to a Continued on Page 3.
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Corsicana
Texas
Lone Star
National Negro Business League Golden Anniversary This Week
The National Negro Business League marks its Golden Anniversary at Tuskegee Institute Alabama August 29 with four living presidents present C C Spaulding J E Walker Roscoe Dunte and A G Gaston The league founded by Booker T Washington in 1900 aims to elevate economic status and establish a permanent national headquarters under Horace Sudduth now in his second year as president.
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National Negro Business League
Tuskegee Institute
Ala
C. C. Spaulding
North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company
Durham
N. C
J. E. Walker
Universal Life Insurance Company
Tri-State Bank
Memphis
Birmingham
Horace Sudduth
Cincinnati
Ohio
Sudduth
Booker T. Washington
Metropolitan Life ends segregation in Stuyvesant Town leases
New York reports that after years of resistance Metropolitan Life agrees to admit qualified Negro tenants to Stuyvesant Town. Mayor La Guardia delayed action, Mayor O’Dwyer pushed, and new leases were signed as the company confirms a change in policy without altering its basic stance.
August War Talk Faces Truman Korea Conflict
A Washington correspondent notes August and early September as pivotal for possible Soviet aggression. Observers think Stalin unlikely to wage war now, while Truman’s Korea actions may limit conflict to that theater. The piece suggests the timeline for a broader war remains uncertain.
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Washington
Soviet Union
Truman
Korea
Stalin
Grand Elks elect Finley Wilson to lead again in Chicago
At the National Convention in Chicago Finley Wilson, long a target of illness, appeared in a wheelchair as supporters cheered his return. The crowd sang Elect him by acclamation and he was re elected for the twenty eighth time, a record in American fraternal history.
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City Hall
Elks
Chicago
Finley Wilson
Dabney
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Sage
Cincinnati Fire Department
Fire Prevention Bureau
Joseph S. Devine
National
Negro Busi
Count A. J. Gary
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Our Race
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LaGuardia
O’dwyer
Metropolitan
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H. Ecker
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