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Newspaper
The Union
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1918
Page
2
The Union urges readers to subscribe, promoting fellowship among people and cooperation for shared interests. It emphasizes spiritual, material, mental, moral, and political progress and warns against borrowing from others while urging purchase and membership.
An offer to receive The Union by phone or postal card, promising ten cents monthly. It proclaims the paper’s twelve year history and political leanings with a tongue in cheek tagline claiming truthfulness when read in The Union.
A letter from Mrs Viola Pennie recounts a racist incident in a Ninth and Linn grocery where two policemen used the slur Nigger. Pennie defends Black soldiers overseas and urges readers to overlook ignorance, while noting both good and bad people and cops, and calling for justice.
The piece accuses Governor Cox of political deception by posing as a friend to Black voters. It recounts Willis blocking The Birth of a Nation in 1915 and Cox’s 1917 order to allow its Ohio exhibition. The article notes past attacks by Cox supporters against Willis and ties Cox to the film’s revival before an election.
How To Get It. Send name and address to W P Dabney at 420 McAllister Street. Cost is 10 cents a month or 1 dollar a year. Order now before the price rises. The Union is twelve years old. We deliver to homes and do not chase weekly sales.
A Dorchester woman, active in St Mary’s Episcopal Church, gained recognition as a capable newspaperwoman and public speaker. She helped distribute fruit to colored soldiers at Camp Devens ill with influenza, earning local distinction as a prominent member of her race.
John Klump a 46 year old bartender at George Gerdes saloon Sixth and Smith streets was shot Thursday night by an unidentified Negro and died en route to General Hospital. Police say the assailant entered the saloon after an argument drew a revolver and fired twice. Patrolmen Botts and Lanman pursued. Botts fired at the fleeing suspect after he allegedly pointed a pistol at the officer. the Negro escaped.
Telegrams of protest against compulsory work laws applied to Negro women were released by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. They address President Wilson and Governor Brough of Arkansas, citing reports that Arkansas planters seek to force Negro women to work on cotton plantations. Similar compulsory labor laws for Negro women are reported in a Georgia town.
In a raid by Night Chief Kir gan and Detectives S Johnson, Sam Eldred, and Harry Ward at 677 West Fourth Street, thirty four Negroes and one white woman were arrested for a game of chance and Board of Health violations, with twenty four cases of beer seized. Wesley Taylor, resident of the dwelling, was charged with similar offenses. At 611 Carlisle Avenue nine Negroes were arrested Saturday night with beer and wine seized, charged with Board of Health violations. some suspects had influenza medicine on arrest.
Ohioans recall the 1917 insult as the governor’s friends claim the film’s owners will remove it from service in Ohio at his request. Cox resists the eleventh hour shift, while thousands of Black citizens and supporters demand equal rights under the Fifteenth Amendment and fair play. The governor’s late stance underscores past duty failures and signals political camouflage amid ongoing agitation.
Letter from Frank A B Hall to W P Dabney at City Hall reports his son Alfred J Hall has been inducted into the Students Army Training Corps at the University of Cincinnati on October 10 1918. The note thanks the city official for assistance and credits Attorney A Lee Beaty for the broader war effort amid a wartime victory tone.
The funeral for Mrs Geraldine Louise Pindell wife of William Monroe Trotter editor of the Guardian was held yesterday at 2 o'clock from her home 97 Sawyer avenue Dorchester The Rev Walter B McClane rector of St Bartholomew's officiated.
The service at Episcopal Church of Cambridge featured Elijah arias and Crossing the Bar sung by Harry Delmore. Interment was at Fairview cemetery. Geraldine Louise Trotter, born October 3 1873 in Boston, died October 5 1918, championed equal rights for colored Americans, led Boston Literary Association, aided prisoners, aided colored soldiers, and organized support networks.
In Paris, Ella Gow a Scottish volunteer with the American Y M C A. redeems a Fiat truck by dismantling and rebuilding it. The lieutenant doubts a woman can handle the heavy vehicle but Gow explains the method and completes the feat in two weeks, proving her skill. The story highlights courage and ingenuity amid wartime duties.
A colossal service flag weighing over 110 pounds was presented to the United Confederate Veterans and Sons of Veterans by a Colorado delegation. The flag carries 167,000 stars, each representing a direct descendant of a Confederate soldier now serving in the U S armed forces.
A White Soldier in France reports an elegant new clubhouse for the men, featuring the New York Colored Brass Band with 45 musicians, praised as good as Sousa. A French noblewoman known as Countess Santa Maurrice presented each musician with a silver cigarette case filled with cigarettes. Two Cincinnati drummers recalled shots in front-line trenches, stating they would only fight with their own ammunition.
Mrs Sallie Nevins of Terre Haute Ind learned from Washington that her brother Private Ray Hamilton had been reported missing in France. A subsequent letter revealed he changed his name to Nauglebach to avoid the Teutons and that he planned to marry Mile Robin Emile. The War Department later advised he had returned to duty after a hospital stay from July 20 to August 17.
A fragment critiques white writers for citing "craps" with colored soldiers and claims learning from colored people changed white tastes. It argues whites owed a debt for learning that chicken and watermelon are edible, and that gin benefits digestion, as taught by colored people.
American soldiers and sailors on leave in French cities face bread limits issued by cards. They receive three tickets a day, 100 grammes each, with no outside meals unless detached or on special duty. Many skip carrying bread, hoping to find it in restaurants or go without.
The article lauds women clerical workers in Paris who support war efforts by freeing men to fight. It cites Y M C A, K of C, Salvation Army, Y W C A, ALA and Jewish Welfare Board, listing 650 Y M C A women, 1210 Salvation Army workers, 50 stenographers for K of C, 5 Y W C A, and a dozen librarians with Red Cross purse donations and numerous canteen and entertainment roles.
Correspondent Corp. Royal Thurver of Reedsburg Wisconsin recalls German machine gunners using abandoned French tanks as shield behind which they fought Allied troops between Fismes and Soissons after crossing the Vesle. He was wounded in the chest and arm by a machine gun. The Germans eventually surrendered as Allied forces worked around the armored barricades.
In Klamath Falls Oregon Retha Oden and Scott Oden aged fifteen and twelve living at Pine Flat fifty miles southeast of town killed a 200 pound bear. They used their father 4082 special rifle to finish the bear with one shot. Locals celebrate with bear steaks and promise each boy a coat for Christmas.
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