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Newspaper
The Union
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1921
Page
4
Free Bible lecture Sunday May 29 at Knights of Honor Hall at 3 PM. All are welcome. No collections. Mrs Rosa L Willis entertained fourteen guests with a cami party Friday evening.
Family of Annie E Harris thanks friends and neighbors for kindness during illness and loss. Special gratitude to Reverends Blackburn Gray and Smith for comforting words, to Floral Offerings and Prince Rankin Undertaker for funeral care, and to the Choir for their singing. She leaves a nephew and two granddaughters. Bereaved son and daughter William Harris and Josephine Harris.
Public notices and personal updates from the town. Mrs. Addie Whitaker plans to move to Nashville to start a new home. Mrs. Jane Ellington remains ill. Mrs. Cora Armstrong and her son return from Kentucky visit. Mrs. Alice Hawker suffered a serious accident. Bettie Fulton continues illness. Mrs. Murphy praises The Union over other papers. Wedding chatter surrounds Miss Green and the celebrated cake. Pastor Green kept steady musical time. Mr. Silas Crumbaker shows signs of convalescence.
Mrs Myrtle N Grandison and sister thank friends for sympathy after the death of Margaret Nunns. Mrs Florence Smith extends gratitude to Rev Foote and undertaker Jas H Thompson, and others for musical contributions. Dr E D Colley recovering from pleural pneumonia and plans to reopen. Mrs E D Colley travels to Annapolis for mother-in-law’s funeral. Social events include a reception by Mrs Drake, Art Embroidery Club meeting at Mrs Geo Wilson, and a musicale at Douglass School led by Miss Hettie G Taylor and Mr N W Ryter. Amanda Mason of Liberia visits Miss Viola Burgess. ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE.
A mass meeting at St Johns A M E Zion Church Cor Barr and Mound Streets led by Rev Jas P Foote Wed evening June 1 1921 830 PM with Rev B Smith and Col BE A Hunt as speakers admission free Prominent speakers and work discussed Mr and Mrs C L Harris traveled to Victoria Texas to bury Mrs M S Gross high school girls attended a conference at H M C A and visited Crescent View Dabneys Farm with many vehicles present
The National Equal Rights League sent a telegram to the President from Boston on May 17 1921 protesting Frank Linneys U S Attorney appointment in North Carolina. The league urged withdrawal claiming he blocks Colored citizens voting and cites the 14th and 15th Amendments and the Department of Justice enforcement. Rev M A N Shaw was listed as president.
Berlin reports a journalism piece from Budapest noting the League of Hungarian Women seeks police yardsticks to judge if public skirts exceed a supposed moral line. The memo highlights color prejudices, integration fears, and a satirical comment on police recruitment and social roles amid lines about ladies and limbs.
Jackson, formerly of this city, has excelled in Charleston West Virginia at the Shipbuilding department. He owns a beautiful home and earned the highest percentage in last winter’s quartermaster examination among 500 candidates.
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