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Newspaper
The Union
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1919
Page
2
The Union announces policy on loyalty and unity and promotes Government life insurance at government rates. It advertises ordinary life, twenty payment life, and endowment options maturing at 62, urging veterans to carry continued coverage back to civilian life. W G McAdoo appears as a referenced official advocate.
Public notice urges readers to subscribe to THE UNION by sending name and address with payment of ten cents per month, framing it as a direct appeal to support local news.
The Colored Business Men's Club of Northside elected Burt Crooks president for a third term. Edward Davis became vice president, John Bland treasurer, R L Matlock secretary, Dan Akers assistant secretary, H C Williams head of trustee boards, T Littlepage secretary for the trustee board, George Cobb trustee, John Stiles trustee, Bennie Lewis trustee, William Dickey sergeant at arms. A grand lecture on Colored Boys in France and officer installation are planned at Kirby Road hall next Thursday evening January 28, 1918.
A Gazette report recalls Booker T. Washington and family escaping to Ohio then St. Louis after a Sheffield Alabama lynching. White allies warned of plots against him for opposing the murderers. The piece questions Southern safety in democracy and urges cabled messages to Wilson Moton and the World Peace Conference.
About four million officers and men in the Army and Navy are insured with the U S Government for nearly thirty seven billion dollars. Hold on to this life insurance by paying premiums to avoid lapse and preserve the right to change it later.
A terse classified notice seeks a middle aged man and wife who enjoy country life, understand farming, and are industrious honest and careful with stock. Address W P Dabney 420 Mallister Street Cincinnati.
United States Internal Revenue Collector A C Gilligan hurried to Prosecuting Attorney Louis H Capelle after a notice that as bondsman for former Magistrate Frank H Reppert and Constable Charles Timberlake he must produce them in court or face bond forfeiture. Reppert, who once led a roadside court on Wooster Pike arresting motorists on Sundays for speeding, was fined 200 and costs. Timberlake 100 with costs 73. Reppert's conviction was upheld by the Supreme Court. Since July, Deputy Sheriff John J Wenner has sought Reppert. He also opposed an anti inter marriage law Reppert championed years ago.
In Belfast a crowd watched Americans and Canadians play baseball. Afro American Lewis A. Mitchell, a drummer and artist, entered as emergency pitcher after Stanley was injured. Mitchell, wearing street clothes, held Canada to one run in three innings, helping the U S to a 5 5 tie and saving them from defeat.
Sunday Wallace Reid and Ann Little in The Man From Funeral Range. Monday Antonio Moreno in The Iron Test and an LKO Comedy. Tuesday Annette Kellerman in Queen of the Sea with sea life and a million dollar production. Wednesday continues with Fox features. Thursday Eddie Polo and Noble Johnson in The Lure of the Circus. Friday The Baby Grands Jane and Katherine Lee with Swat the Spy in vaudeville. Matinees daily at 1 30. Admission 10 and 15 cents.
Palace Cabaret drew many distinguished visitors with a fairyland atmosphere. The Tuesday night show featured an augmented orchestra with saxophones and standout vocal and jazz performances.
The article recalls how a city man nicknamed Indian rose to lead a regiment in France, earning the moniker Big Chief before returning home with 1596 white soldiers. It also explains the rename of International Bible Students to The Watch Tower Bible Students and the movement of its offices from Pittsburg to Brooklyn.
A terse notice indicates that an important local class matter will be observed in these columns. It signals forthcoming coverage or actions but provides no specific details, dates, or names, leaving readers awaiting further clarification in subsequent editions.
A respectful dedication to W P Dabney editor of The Union Cincinnati Ohio. The poet praises the editor as fearless and upright urging a stand for pure wholesome truth. The lines invoke the biblical eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth as a moral motif.
The respected author Ray G. Dandridge, long invalid, earned fame in this city for a highly prized book of poems. He remains a steadfast denouncer of shameful deeds and advocate for law enforcement, praising the Union while condemning segregation and Jim Crow, with the Devil cited as their inspiration.
The Freedmen's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church adopted a resolution urging the Senate and House to pass a federal anti lynching law. The Board memorializes Congress to stop lynching nationally, citing federal action and local accountability. Over $500,000 was appropriated to continue the society’s educational work in the South, with board members present.
Present at the meeting were W. A. Rungle St. Louis Frederick D. Leete Atlanta Wilbur P. Thirkield New Orleans Bishop William F. Anderson Cincinnati president of the Board of Managers could not attend as he is in France handling denominational matters of interest.
Casualty lists bungled Soldiers' mail dumped pay held up Ford's Eagle Boat Plant probed In Washington DC after armistice. Two months after the ceasefire the War Department added a thousand clerks to compile unknown casualties. Corrections fill space as lists lag behind.
The War Department’s failure to maintain proper name records led to thousands to a million letters never reaching soldiers overseas. Otto Praeger told the Senate Post Office Committee on January 9 that eight to ten carloads of first class mail remain undelivered and will be returned to the United States for dead letter processing. He tied the problem to broader departmental inefficiencies in allotments and casualty reporting.
The note thanks many subscribers for inducing friends to subscribe to The Union rather than borrow it. At ten cents a month, some free readers appear embarrassed by the price. Readers are asked to send name and address so the paper can handle the rest.
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