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Newspaper
The Union
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1919
Page
2
The Union edited from Cincinnati by W P Dabney with editor and business manager credits and subscription rates listed. The text proclaims the publication aims to spread news and promote loyalty, pride, and communal effort across spiritual material mental moral and political fronts.
A brief notice urges readers to subscribe to THE UNION, urging them to buy the newspaper rather than borrow it. It requests subscribers send their name and address, highlighting a ten cent monthly rate.
Mrs M L Young becomes proprietor of the drugstore at 408 W Fifth, formerly Gaither Drug Store, with a well chosen line of toilet articles. Her husband Dr Young assists in dispensing and compounding prescriptions as they invite customers to enjoy sodas and sundaes.
In days of old Rome a Christian service was held at the Coliseum to honor Italian boy scouts who served at the front and were killed in action. Monsignor Bartolomasi presided, and scouts in uniform occupied the arena with rifles, evoking memories of ancient gladiators. The piece condemns racial injustices and envisions a future colorless society based on conduct.
Father Kelly argues that Britain's imperfect mercy toward Ireland does not justify lingering rule. He recalls colonial resistance to taxation as a fight for principle, noting the Boston Tea Party and the Declaration of Independence, and stresses self government as an inalienable right.
The excerpt argues Ireland should be a republic free from English rule, asserting government by consent, condemning force as illegitimate. It likens national enfranchisement to rightful ownership and asserts England cannot gain justice by coercion, urging people of color to consider this call for self-determination.
Private Sol Butler of the American army won the trials in the running broad jump at Pershing Stadium on Saturday June 28. He received the medal of the fourth class of the Order of Danilo from King Nicholas after the cheers. The husky Negro grinned widely as the King patted him on the back.
Judge Samuel W. Bell praised Negroes for their World War service during the fifth anniversary celebration of the Baptist Seminary in the Church of the Living God at Fourth and John streets. He stated 60,000 Negro soldiers fought and praised loyalty to Old Glory, asserting no Negro traitor history exists.
The President left France with little fanfare at the port as his special train stopped just 50 feet from the motor launch to the George Washington. Thousands gathered at the embarka tion pier offered scant cheers and applause during the brief event.
At the North Central Conference closing session of the Colored Free Will M E Church steps were taken to press Congress for special legislation. The plan envisions a buffer state settled by Black Americans along the Rio Grande River in Texas and Mexico.
Mrs Mary M Emery widow of Thomas J Emery donates 25000 dollars to modernize and expand the Avondale orphan asylum for colored youths located at Van Buren and Melish avenues. The gift follows a board meeting and stems from a Yale graduate J H Robinson survey aided by the Negro Civic Welfare Committee of the Council of Social Agencies.
A report on Malekula island in the New Hebrides notes the natives are bellicose but honest and welcoming to visitors. It describes village forums, dances, banyan tree playgrounds, and social clubs for men. The island remains under Franco-British oversight and native archers take pride in marksmanship.
A Toulouse election tale reports a voter who learns his name was misrecorded as Gonzague Tartarin instead of Marius Tartarin. Confronted with the register, the man realizes the man who voted is his father, dead four years, and he laments missing the chance to meet him.
Italy asks for the coronation robes once worn by Hapsburg rulers now kept in Vienna’s Hofburg. The ensemble includes a mantle an embroidered alb and a gold scale girdle rooted in Sicilian Norman and Saracen craftsmanship with roots tracing to Henry VI and Holy Roman empires.
Gabe Gosnell of Grudge recalls seeing a lone ant on his seventh floor hotel window sill in Kansas City. He muses that the tiny creature looks less out of place than himself amid city rush and uproar, reflecting on urban life and displacement.
The Commission des Routes of the Vosges district plans to relaid four great mountain roads from France into Alsace. The new route will open upper Alsace to pleasure automobilists and provide an approachable touring circuit for future tourists.
The article asserts science can combat locust plagues by timely and thorough preparations. It notes locusts’ hunger for fruit ties as a target and warns that without vigilance, their flight can leave ruin in its wake, but contemporary science offers protection and remedies.
Charles Johnston argues in the North American Review that self government for India risks reviving Brahmanical rule and its caste system. He criticizes educated elites in Calcutta and cites priestcraft, idol worship, and blood sacrifices as impediments to liberty, while noting Buddha’s challenge to these evils.
A high school sophomore resists poetry until an ultimatum threatens his basketball spot. He produces a clumsy verse about himself, prompting the teacher to praise him sarcastically and later preserve the student’s memoranda.
Maj. Gen. Cuthbert Wallace recounted a tale from a French hospital where nightly German bombers terrorized staff and patients. A nurse off duty returned to soothe a bedridden man by singing to him as bombs fell, dying while saving him. her name was not revealed.
A pair of local fire laddies on a hunting trip hear a shot and trade quips about finding game. One proclaims pheasant, the other realizes it’s a screech owl. The joke ends with the hunter saying he eats the meat regardless of the voice.
Arctic explorer Donald B. MacMillan argues that airplanes cannot reach the pole and that dirigibles would be prohibitively expensive for a polar dash. He plans to rely on dogs for future explorations. He notes no smooth ice for landings and estimates total expedition costs around one million dollars.
In a London Tit-Bits style quip, Blank complains of a bad day at work after missing time off. His colleagues ask what happened. He recalls fishing with a girl who defended the practice by noting fish wag their tails, implying happiness.
A Chicago Tribune note about a country wedding ends with a twist as the bride travels alone for the honeymoon while the bridegroom stays to feed the stock and plans a river trip to shoot ducks upon her return.
Lincoln Theatre announces a week of Paramount and Fox features with Dorothy Dayton in The Home Breaker on Sunday, Francis Ford and Kitty Gordon in Mandarin's Gold on Monday, For Better For Worse paired with Don't Change Your Husband on Tuesday, Enid Bennett in The Law of Men on Wednesday, The Hand of Vengeance and Submarine Pirates on Thursday, and The Love That Dares on Friday along with the Our Typhoon Cooling System claim.
The Waldo mine owner near Grants Pass reportedly struck gold by turning gravel in the old Rogue river channel. The 4200 acre holdings span an area believed to cover the former river bed and are said to be rich in pay dirt across nearly every foot.
A Polish wedding crowd danced into early morning as guests paid the bride $1 per dance. After about forty five dances the bride aimed for $30 and nearly reached it before collapsing and dying on the floor.
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