Self Segregation Obscured by Racist Real Estate Propaganda
From The Defender Chicago, the column attacks white segregationists who push self segregation rhetoric. It recounts a real estate dealer urging a Black buyer to move only into all white or mixed neighborhoods and urges resistance to such attitudes. The piece asserts Black readers should buy where they are not wanted to prove prejudice wrong.
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Spest
State Street
Boulevard
Ced
Grand Boulevard
39Th Street
United States
Saratoga Springs
N. Y
Saratoga
Statements on subscription policy and reader honesty
An editorial critique denounces freeloading readers and race baiting while announcing a shift in payment policy. It explains that yearly subscribers must prepay, monthly subscribers pay month to month, and criticizes past credit practices where subscribers paid late or not at all. The piece laments dishonesty and defends in advance collection.
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Ananias
Sapphira
Jesus
Crap Games Continued By Soldiers
New York A thousand dough boys returning from Germany on the transport Crook learned their ship had sprung a leak last Tuesday and had been in danger during great gales in the North Atlantic. Captain Frank Reppa commented that not a crap game was stopped as the Crook was lashed to her pier at the Brooklyn navy transport base. The St Mihiel escorted her up the bay. White soldiers. white crap games. Times have changed.
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New York
Germany
Crook
North Atlantic
Frank Reppa
Navy
Brooklyn
St. Mihiel
Shipboard Losses Mystery Near Los Angeles
A Matson liner Buckeye State reported by radio that Mrs. Alice M Hills of Amherst Massachusetts and Harold Halloway a waiter of Negro race leaped overboard within two hours of each other about 300 miles south of Los Angeles yesterday. The captain offered no reason, though readers can infer an implied cause.
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San Francisco
Cal
Alice M. Hills
Amherst
Mass
Harold Halloway
Matson
Buckeye State
Los Angeles
John T. Diggs
Diggs
Georgetown woman freed after self defense plea
Set Free Edmonia Snell, who last year stabbed Jessie Canty, was given a suspended sentence on February 18 and is now at liberty. She came from Georgetown, Kentucky. Her plea of self defense and other extenuating circumstances secured her liberty, thanks to the eloquence of her attorney, R. G. Brown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edmonia Snell
Jessie Canty
Georgetown
R. G. Brown
Dabney stand on race questioned after shooting case
A Dabney described as highly regarded on race issues faced scrutiny when it emerged he advised a mother not to hire a lawyer after her boy was shot. The county provides a prosecuting attorney for the case, and local guidance could not alter legal representation. The Cincinnati branch of the NAACP weighs in on the matter.
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Dabneyery
Atorney
X the
Cincinnati
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Patrolman Athey Shot While Apprehending Tire Thieves
Patrolman Everett Athey 31 of 1172 Coppin avenue was shot twice at Locust and Arms while attempting to arrest two suspects for stealing auto tires. He suffered bullets through the right leg and into the lower abdomen and was taken to General Hospital. the two assailants, described as Negro, fled the scene.
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Everett Athey
Coppin Avenue
Locust and Arms Place
Athey
General Hospital
Garvey Pleads Not Guilty in New York Conspiracy Case
Marcus Garvey, head of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, appeared in Federal Court in New York and entered a tentative not guilty plea to a conspiracy to defraud investors in a $10,000,000 stock scheme. He was held on $2,500 bail alongside three company officers who also pleaded not guilty.
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New York
Marcus Garvey
Black Star Line
Garvey
The
Associaion For the Advancement of the Colored Race
Universal Negro Improvement Association
Elie Garcia
Geo. Tobias
Orlando M. Thompson
Cincinnati Branch President Sees Vindication for Order Leader
The case has drawn broad national interest. President Ware of the Cincinnati Branch believes the head of the Order will be triumphantly vindicated.
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Ware
Cincinnati
Order
Proud of Our Women and the Color Line Myth
A biased tract lauds Black women while condemning interracial dynamics and urging race leaders to promote virtue. It contrasts slavery era exploitation with alleged contemporary moral risks, cites eugenic tropes, and questions women’s safety under white men, urging religious figures to defend virtuous womanhood.
Wealthy Indian queen and Haiti policy critique in local letter
A reader in Good Looking Hot Springs notes personal health and travel, mentions Miss Lillian Taylor with a $29,000,000 fortune, and remarks on race and society. The piece then runs an editorial from the Cincinnati Post condemning General Russell for Haiti occupation abuses, with Senate testimony cited on killings, coercion, and the 1920 plebiscite.
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Senate
Haiti
Russell
National City Bank
Siker
Cincinnati Post
Whitewashing Haiti Mission Prompts Maladministration Probe
A report notes President Harding may appoint Brig. Gen. Russell of the Marine Corps as personal representative in Haiti. Charges of maladministration in Haiti remain under investigation.
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Harding
Haiti
Gen. Russell
Marine Corps
Pen Pencil and Brush Club Meets at Ed Burch Home
The Pen Pencil and Brush Club met at the residence of Mr. Ed Burch on Wednesday evening. The group held a very unique luncheon last week at the Paris House.
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Pen, Pencil and Brush Club
Ed. Burch
The
Pen Pencil and Brush Club
Paris House
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