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Newspaper
The Union
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1922
Page
2
The Union outlines its aim to disseminate news and teach loyalty and pride among readers. It emphasizes working together for mutual interests spiritually, materially, mentally, morally and politically, quoting Seneca on reciprocity.
Lola and Richard Downs of Chicago spend holidays with Mrs. Grundy. Geo Beatty’s family welcome a new son. Mrs. John Overstreet in Christmas Kentucky. Daniel Johnson shot Sunday evening by Alfred Cavell. not captured. Mt. Carmel Baptist Church programs by Sunday School and B Y P A. Ruth Boyd improving. M Hughes recovering. Joseph Sherwood visits Miller home. Willing Workers Club met at M Scruggs. Temple Builders Club met at Anna Campbell. D Fartenberry re-elected Carmel Baptist Sunday School superintendent. Chas Pooley out again. F Booker ill. Tolbert family home for winter.
Reverend E E Blue delivered a Birth of Christ sermon described as a treat, and a Biography of Silas message praised as a masterpiece. Christmas exercises and tree were credited to Mrs Edna Rife and assistants. Teen age Girls enjoyed Friday night. funds raised. Mrs Combs led devotional services. baby of Mr and Mrs Byrd buried this week. Mother’s Club distributed baskets to the aged. Rev Blue received a $25 purse from Pastor’s Aid Society.
The Blakely Charity Club donated 28 baskets and 13 bushels of coal to those in need. Mrs. Alice B. Hudson of Foraker Ave Walnut Hills lost the use of her left hand after a buzz saw accident, leaving her permanently disabled. Mrs. Bernie Turner has returned home after a serious automobile crash that fractured her spine and hip.
Mr and Mrs James Franklin held a Turkey Dinner to honor their son who has been away for twelve years. The event celebrated his return and family ties, reflecting traditional community hospitality.
Xmas greetings note that Omicron Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority will send Margaret Davis Bowen as its delegate to the National Convention in Kansas City. The text also lists community holiday events, illness recoveries, deaths, and corrections to a published social note about a Y M C A breakfast.
Witnesses identify Peter Hiller Otis Clark as mob members among five defendants charged with murder in the Herrin riot. Survivors William Cairns P J O Rourke Bernard Jones and Robert Officer describe surrender under a white flag, firing at wounded men, and executions at the mine aftermath.
A local cinema page lists December 31 to January 8 showings with multiple features. “Crimson Skull” stars Anita Bush Lawrence Chenault and Bill Pickett in a western drama about life in Oklahoma. Also on offer are “The Husband’s Trade Mark” with Gloria Swanson, “Monkey Shines” campbell comedy, “The Little Minister” Vitagraph special, a cant kidd serial, and “Desert Blossom” with William Russell, plus two reels of comedy and various adventures.
The Choral Club gave a wonderful Christmas vesper Sunday evening at Union Baptist Church under the direction of Mr. Andrew J. Johnson. Wednesday services begin with supper at YY from 6 to 6 30 followed by devotions and study.
A grand reception at the Negro Working People's Conference headquarters honored H. C. Coleman, corresponding secretary, for organizing units in major cities. Tadlock, founder, was unanimously elected president for the fourth time as the group advances in domestic and political uplift for Negroes.
The speaker denounces government allies of a “reptilian order” and a judge who leads it, recalling graves in France. It warns that the nation’s neglect of its dead endangers the country and asks for divine aid to prevent such vile abandonment.
A reflective note praising many in the South while lamenting a dominating unruly crowd. The brief muses on social atmosphere and regional character without naming individuals or events.
On Christmas morning at 9 a m about 215 children and parents likely unable to visit Santa gathered at the Ninth street branch of the Y M C A. Invited by the Good Fellow Fund Committee the boys department. They received tokens for boys and girls mothers and fathers then joined a table for a breakfast as friends sang carols and added to the holiday joy.
Neval H. Thomas urges Congress in a letter to Congressman Madden on the inequities between white and colored school systems. He highlights a $970 gap in primary instruction salaries and a $456 gap in kindergarten and related posts, noting whites earn higher pay despite equal qualifications and duties.
The Y W C A Christmas program spread joy to needy families through baskets from Calendar labs. Girls in the building enjoyed a festive tree. Sunday services will be a pew service at First Baptist Church Walnut Hills led by Mrs Frances McFarland. The Woman's Bible Council meets.
Archbishop Patrick J. Hayes of New York publicly endorses the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill in a letter filed at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People offices at 7 Fifth Avenue New York. He states the bill would obliterate mob rule and restore America's fair name and humanity by preventing violence against victims and communities.
A compact promotional notice from K. Ebersole PTG. Co. promises deliveries for $2.50 to any location with no surcharge and free bee samples first. It highlights owning their building with no rent and urges respondents to drop a postal note or phone as an agent will call promptly.
Society printing firm offers wedding invitations and society printing items. Entertainment tickets priced at 2.25 per 100. Den line advertises home or office printing with samples. Calls to Ridge 692, 1 Leeders Ave, Cincinnati Ohio.
Rabbi David Phillipson at Rockdale Avenue Temple laments Christian sermons portraying contemporaries of Jesus. He says the Christ story fuels anti Jewish prejudice and that the teaching in pulpits and Sunday schools sustains ill will toward Jews.
A jury in Oxford Mississippi on December 12 refused Miss Frances Birkhead damages in her suit against Governor Lee M. Russell. Defense attorney W. Houston urged the governor and Mrs. Russell remain happily together. Plaintiff’s attorney T. H. Campbell argued for the plaintiff’s character.
Excerpts from a Greensboro Daily News editorial reprinted by the NAACP condemn the Ku Klux Klan as an insult to the white race. The piece argues the order relies on cowardly means and attacks the Negro’s right to fair trial and equal protection under law.
The girl who served as stenographer to Mississippi Governor Russell sued him for seduction under promise of marriage. The suit claimed marriage would follow his divorce, and a prior criminal operation by her did not justify a verdict to disrupt the governor’s domestic life.
The text contrasts Christian and Jewish roles in Jesus’s life and condemns anti Jewish bias. It then shifts to a Black perspective, noting no involvement in Christ’s destruction yet facing relentless discrimination, and ends with a call to compensation in a heavenly afterlife for the Negro.
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