Delegation Opposes Separate Negro Schools at Board Meeting
A Cincinnati school board session heard a delegation protest plans for separate schools. A.Lee Beaty read Ohio General Code prohibiting segregation. 3681 signatures and a 7500-member Fraternal League opposed separate schools. Rev B F Smith urged equal treatment. Miss Leach urged moral stand. Dr Foreman condemned segregation. Beaty warned of injunction and may cause empty school building. Secretary Innes notes eloquence and courage of speakers.
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Withrow
A.lee Beaty
Miss Leach
Pilate
Cincinnati
Wake Up Workers Warns Against School Segregation
A public appeal urges Black workers to reject segregation in schools and to avoid actions that would inflame white workers. It warns that teaching division harms future job prospects and could shift power in the city, urging unity for equitable workplaces and education.
Got Them Beat Hotel Sterling Praised by Cincinnati Community
A Cincinnati piece extols the Sterling Hotel as a premier black patronized establishment comparing it favorably to New York’s white hotels. Pro praiser Mr N A Michelson credits are given for investment and upkeep, noting its dining rooms, kitchen, ice cream, soda department, and modern features like a telephone switchboard and elevator. The writer urges black readers to recognize hotels as public accommodations.
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N. A. Michelson
Linton
A Christmas Gift Idea The Union Subscription
Aged reader appeal promotes a yearly Union subscription as a keepsake gift. It promises weekly city news and broad national coverage, while stressing race pride and progress. The ad urges sending name and address for delivery, with a prompt call to action.
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UNION
Railroad Bill in Senate Prompts Race Row and Organizer Elected
The Cummins Bill faces a stain as no clause shields Jim Crow cars while colored riders push for abolition of humiliation. Rev Robinson is elected organizer of the League as Trotter’s appeal fails.
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Robinson
League
Trotter
Masonic Festival Observance At St Andrew's Church
Freemasons mark the Feast of St John the Evangelist on December 28 at 3:00 PM with Corinthian True American and St John’s Lodges at St Andrews Episcopal Church 81 and Mound Streets. Special services include a sermon by Rev James H Fielding of Church of the Nativity. Public invited.
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ST. John's
ST. Andrew's
Episcopal Church
Mound Sts
James H. Fielding
Church OF the Nativity
Price Hill
Singing in jail sparks turf clash at Haven and Stowe School
Unrest in Hamilton County Jail over prisoner singalongs pits black and white inmates against each other. Sheriff Bader limits singing to 8 pm, while 6 to 8 pm echo plantation tunes from the walls. The piece hints Haven of Rest and Stowe School as rival spaces for musical expression, noting a unique figure named Jubilee Jennie.
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Hamilton County
Bader
New Court House
Stowe School
Public seeking Hotel Sterling inspection urged
Statement urges public inspection of Hotel Sterling to safeguard its maintenance for public benefit. It encourages residents to judge themselves rather than heed detractors and to work to prevent exclusive control by any single side.
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Hotel Sterling
Mob executes two suspects in Logan County murder case
In Huntington West Virginia on December 14 the Enquirer reports two Black men arrested for the murder of a white mine foreman in Logan County were killed by a mob at Chapmanville on the Guyan Valley line of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. One body was dumped in the river, the other reportedly bore 20 gunshot wounds as crowds moved to further violence.
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Huntington
W. Va
Logan County
Chapmanville
Guyan Valley
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Eterne shadows by white brutes in human form
A fragment laments government inaction and foresees swift retribution and a future time of reckoning described as Hades. The line conveys a call for awakening and accountability without specific events or actors.
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Hades
Cantata Kins of Kings to be sung at Brown Chapel A. M. E.
The Christmas cantata Kins of Kings by G. W. Davia will be performed Sunday evening December 71st by the Brown Chapel A. M. E. Church choir under the direction of Mr. G. M. Owens. Thais will be a rare treat to music lovers.
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G. W. Davia
Brown Chapel
A. M. E. Church
G. M. Owens
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