Mercantile Project launched in Washington dinner
Oscar DePriest spoke at the Amazean club banquet launching the Mercantile Trading Company Inc a project led by Charles Flagg Lieut Thomas Clark two Washington brokers and W H Brown president of Industrial Bank The plan calls for a $50 000 stock offering to fund a retail venture aimed at the Fair Store area with a Negro staff initially and trained officials to follow The venture seeks national scope with stock marketed within three months
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Washington, D. C
Oscar DePriest
Amazean Dinner Club
Washington
Mercantile Trading Company, Inc
Charles Flagg
Thomas Clark
W. H. ©. Brown
Industrial Bank
Washington Negrogs
Clark
Civil Service Trial Probes Chicago graft and indictments
Grand jury investigation into alleged selling of civil service jobs in Chicago implicates civil service board members including Bishop Archibald J. Carey and several aldermen. Prominent officials and policemen are named as witnesses, with claims of job reinstatements for allies and promotions tied to payments.
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Chicago
ANP
Grand Jury
Civil Service Board
Archibald J. Carey
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Bishop Carey
Louis B. Anderson
Robert R. Jackson
Sevorn
B. A. Cronson
Civil Service Commission
J. H. Scott
Police Department
Ponce
Louisville pastor details $100,000 community center plan
In New Orleans representatives from city Presbyterian churches heard Rev. Dr. Little of Louisville outline a recently dedicated $100,000 Colored Christian Community Center building intended for local children's programs, signaling a move to establish a community center here.
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New Orleans
A.N.P
Presbyterian Churches of
Little
Colored Christian Community Center of
Louisville
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Mercantile Project
Chicago Civil Service Trial
Biel
Poro
College
St. Ferdinand Ave
St. Mo
Parkway
Ill
Collier’s White Pine
Collier’s C. C. P
Gilbert Avenue
Buenavista
Walnut Hills
Woodburn
CANAL
Lyman P. Rocker
West Eighth Street
Cincinnati
Ohio
Henry H. Grandison
Stanley Spragens Insurance Agency
Mercantile Library
Lavinia Ave
East
Woodbin
W. H. Hill & Company
Mound and
Cutter
Phone West
Prince A
Rankin Brothers
Chapel Street
Jamerson
Lincoln Avenue
Cincinnati, Ohio
West
West Court Street
E. W. Smith
Hopkins Street
Rensler
Central Avenue
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