16 Nov 1918
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Newspaper
The Union
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1918
Page
1
The image highlights fellowship between foreign soldiers and colored American heroes. It features Oscar H. Calmeise, son of police official Scott Calmeise, injured in a 1910 Middletown Ohio railroad crash on Jack Johnson Day, who recovered and went overseas to serve, fighting in harsh trenches with his rifle.
A color town quarrel over a party line between Mrs. Sadie Conrad and Mrs. Copeland escalated when a death notice delayed calls. Accusing each other of insults, the women clashed in public, and Mrs. Copeland was later beaten by a mop handle, needing medical care.
Camp Sherman will provide 1200 to 1500 industrial furloughs for Negro development battalion troops to work on construction around the county. The program aims to ease national labor shortages by enabling contractors to hire these units for overseas service readiness. Lieutenant H E Johnson travels to West Chester to visit his ill brother. Lieutenant Mathews leaves Base Hospital and is now mobile. Mr S J Townsend departs for Cincinnati for his wife’s sister’s funeral.
A report describes Mrs. Conrad fined for assault and battery after a dog incident amid commentary on courthouse resolve and a note that the telephone will be changed. Separately, William M. Riley, a St. Louis Negro optometrist, is cited as the first black legislator elected to Missouri's state legislature in a Republican victory over a white Democrat in the Fourth District.
A reader notes trains leaving Grand Central Station include Jim Crow cars with separate toilets for men and women. The letter criticizes Democratic railroad control and accuses the party of favoritism toward Black riders, calling it an outrage.
On Monday night a white man insulted a colored man then was defended by a police officer who later punched the unarmed man near Manhattan restaurant. The account condemns biased policing and urges fair treatment of Negroes and white citizens alike. A white witness supports the defender of peace.
Rumor says William L Anderson the printer and writer for the new paper will sail for Europe’s battlefields. Miss Jennie Porter and a brass band at the Y Wednesday night indicate a farewell reception. We wish Anderson luck as war’s end brings new chances.
The writer emphasizes the injustice of police brutality toward Black citizens during a patriotic period. He argues a policeman has no right to strike and should arrest wrongdoers, letting the courts determine punishment. He notes strikes and salary tensions as contributing to improper police behavior and urges accountability within the salary system.
A mob of about 100 men dragged William Bird from the jail and hanged him after a running fight with officers. Bird, captured this afternoon, was surrendered to the mob without violence following a disturbance in the lower section of Sheffield. This marks the second lynching in the South in recent days amid national debate over a federal anti lynching law.
A fragment reflecting on civil rights violence and the paradox of a Negro soldier dying for freedom abroad while Black people face lynching at home. The text evokes moral critique through a literary allusion and calls attention to domestic injustice and national hypocrisy.
The New York Age quotes a Cincinnati editor criticising Mr Union and defends vigorous press disagreement. It notes Cincinnati’s rising subscriptions and back-subscriptions payments while urging readers to keep up the fight, contrasting journalistic battles across cities and eras.
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