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Newspaper
The Union
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1918
Page
2
The Union print explains its mission to inform and unify readers in Cincinnati. It stresses loyalty, pride, and collective effort across spiritual, material, mental, moral, and political life as essential for the race to succeed.
A Seneca aphorism about reciprocity appears as a reflective motto. The line cautions that kind or harmful acts return to the doer, underscoring moral cause and effect with timeless gravity.
A compact reader appeal urges purchase of THE UNION newspaper with a call to subscribe for ten cents a month by sending name and address. The notice emphasizes support for the paper and a simple subscription method.
A colored man washing windows in a tall building falls from the twenty fifth floor after neglecting safety. He dies. later voices warn readers that many prosper now but must save and plan for the war’s end and crowded job return. Those who save may endure. others face grim futures.
The War Council of the Y W C A led by Miss Eva Bowles plans recreation centers for colored girls. The Over There Y M C A tents and huts provide comfort and inspiration. Twenty eight secretaries serve on European battlefields, and ninety in U S camps. The Fifteenth New York colored regiment played a key role in the offensive begun September 26, suffering losses. Complaints to McAdoo suggest possible improvements in Jim Crow conditions. St Marks Church in New York raised nearly ten thousand dollars through its clubs. Fred D Ballon and Robert Pritchett, Y M C A war workers.
Reports from the era describe widespread influenza graves at Mt. Auburn in Baltimore and rapid burials for nearly 200 bodies. notes on colored workers include an automobile course for colored girls in Maryland, elevator operators in government buildings, and Khaki Club work in Petersburg West Virginia. mentions nurse appointments, a New Jersey isolation hospital, and segregation avoidance statements.
Ralph W. Tyler reports arrival in Paris after a ten day voyage from New York aboard a liner full of notable writers and Allied supporters. He notes the democratic ambiance aboard and experiences friendly, at times disarming, treatment despite his darker skin.
Passage describes colored servicemen aboard a ship with diversions by a service battalion and an engineer regiment. The troops, noted for good humor and boxing bouts, sing songs like Three Months From Now We Will Be In Germany, boosting morale among white passengers as they cross the seas toward war.
Superintendent Hays and teachers arrange a grand Sabbath school rally for fall. Visitation plans halted by epidemic. teachers write to or visit class members to stay connected. Miss Lucille R. Buckner, hospital patient and school pianist, returns amid appreciation for prayers and tokens. Pastor Jones organized official board visitation to aid church work during quarantine. dues report weekly. Birthday observations for Hays withheld due to war and epidemic. multiple dinners and congratulatory messages noted. The Sick section reports Lena Bell improving, and Edna Jackson and Mary Partrage now better after illness.
The Hays Club list tallies receipts from Geo W Hays four dollars to Kate P Harris two dollars and twenty five cents among many donors including Anna Love one dollar ten cents Eliza Saunders one dollar Maggie Hawes two dollars Emma Jackson one dollar and others totaling thirty eight dollars and ninety five cents.
A correspondent writes from Paris praising Black soldiers and intent on visiting the front. He defends their intellect and accuses detractors of underestimating their bravery and patriotism. He plans to report stronger news in a future letter.
Hynicka as commander in chief Hornberger chair of campaign committees and others praise the army that charged and demolished Democratic fortifications in Hamilton County on Tuesday November 1th. Thousands of Republicans in the county acknowledge a strong political organization and claim it to be the strongest in America.
A 1918 Newark letter by Jos C Manning denounces cowardice among African Americans and praises those who stand for race rights. He condemns those who tolerate oppression and urges unity and bold action in the struggle for justice.
Mrs Susan Foster age about sixty one died of pneumonia at her home in Lawnside New Jersey Her undertaker business at 935 Lombardi Street passed to her husband the late Addison Foster Fifteen years ago she introduced stylish carriages to the trade born in Baltimore she was a longtime member of Central Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia Tribune reports obituary reads.
The Rev. J. H. Dorsey, one of the nation’s four colored Catholic priests, is named pastor to Monica’s Catholic Church in Baltimore. A native of Baltimore, he trained at Epiphany Apostolic College and St. Joseph’s Seminary, was ordained at St. Francis Xavier Church in 1962.
The subject is described as eloquent magnetic and enthusiastic and his work is said to have long benefited the mother church of Christianity.
In France, signal corps workers rushed to string telephone lines to troops and headquarters amid shelling. They repaired cuts swiftly as German shells exploded nearby, working through ruins and wheat fields. A crewman joked he could sleep only when the danger paused, fearing every whistling shell was aimed at him.
Renewed evidence of German ruthlessness shows a captured army order from a southern Vesle region. It demands forced civilian labor for army needs with meager wages in paper currency and mandatory payment in gold or silver for rations, while supplies are seized and resold to inhabitants.
The defendant Albertina Smith is required to answer on or before November 18, 1918, else judgment will be taken. Nathan Smith, plaintiff, with attorney H. P. Karch of Second National Bank Bldg., Cincinnati, Ohio, files the case.
Three room modern flats offered at 12 and 16 dollars per month. Private bath and toilet included with use of laundry facilities. Located at 2225 Concord Street Walnut Hills.
Mrs Cora Sorter completes the Poro System under Mrs Emma H Young and announces readiness for business at 958 Barr Street in the city.
Albertina Smith of 945 East Thirty second Street Los Angeles California is named as defendant in Nathan Smith's petition in the Court of Common Pleas Hamilton County Ohio Division of Domestic Relations case 169258 praying for a divorce and other relief on grounds of gross neglect of the defendant.
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