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Newspaper
The Union
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1919
Page
2
The Union announces its aims to foster loyalty and unity among readers. It urges self-reliance, mutual cooperation, and civic engagement, asserting that shared effort advances spiritual, material, mental, moral, and political progress. It promotes subscribing at ten cents monthly.
Attaches of Coney Island hosted a Tuesday evening banquet at the Hotel Sterling. The event was described as a scene of beauty and a paradise of pleasure as praise for the Sterling and its staff, led by Mr. Michelson, circulated widely.
A. H. Snowden, a Negro, admitted after selling his wife for $10 and later sought revenge by shooting at the couple. He fired several rounds. one grazed the wife’s leg as Ballard Debeny at the station house produced a receipt proving Snowden lawfully purchased the wife.
In Richmond a mass meeting adopted a resolution urging Congress to create a Negro industrial commission to take official charge of Negro problems. The proposed body would have three Negroes and two whites named by the President and would investigate propaganda, promote thrift, and foster race relations nationwide.
Paul Robeson, a dominant all around athlete at Rutgers, завершил свою карьеру в колледже после четырёх лет выступлений. Он был ключевым игроком в футболе баскетболе бейсболе и легкоатлетике но команда не смогла победить Принстон до последнего матча, где его клятвенное выступление привело к победе Принстона в финальной игре 5-1.
The Colored Industrial School will open on Monday September 8 1919 offering day and night classes in bricks laying plastering concrete automobile machinist plumbing steam fitting electricity carpentry tailoring dressmaking house painting cooking millinery laundering English mathematics and music.
Social notes recount a Tuesday evening gathering at the Sterling Hotel banquet hall with Mrs. White and her son returning from Maysville Kentucky. A Walnut Hills Court tennis tournament between Walnut Hills Tennis Club and the Y Tennis Club is announced for Friday and Saturday with a large crowd expected.
The editorial argues the Negro education issue is national, not sectional, urging that segregation harms rights. It contrasts Leavell’s views with the NAACP, contending that quality education or a separate school both affect self-development and civil rights. Public institutions must be open to all citizens.
The piece argues that Robeson’s ascent as a college star came through mixed schooling, noting he met white audiences on their ground and proved his ability. It contends that in a segregated school for colored students, whites might have ignored him or paid him little heed.
Reprinted report of Marquis Okuma former Prime Minister speaking to the Japan Civilization Society. He denounces the failure of the Peace Conference to adopt a declaration of racial equality and argues whites control the world though they are less than a third of humanity. He predicts Anglo American influence will supplant German power and warns of the need for non Western development.
A hearing was held by a National Equal Rights League delegation led by Secretary Wm Monroe Trotter to press amendments to the League of Nations and the Peace Treaty. The amendments call for full protection of life and liberty for all inhabitants and equal civil rights for minorities, with a nationwide convention urged to “Make America safe for Americans” and Trotter to share his Paris passage.
Bible Students held a Sunday talk on Revelation chapters 8 13 and 11 14 at Knights of Honor Hall with speaker C P Packson. The Mt Carmel Baptist Church rally on Eastern avenue raised over 1100 dollars and commended pastors officials and members for the effort. Miss Celia Edna Smothers and Perry Johnson of Oxford Ohio wed at the bride’s home on August 23 with several local guests in attendance.
Dr and Mrs S J Watkins announce the engagement of their daughter Anna Mae to J R A Snowden. Miss Ruth Corbin of Paris Kentucky paid a flying visit to Covington last Sunday. Dr S J Watkins left for Memphis Tennessee last Friday. Mrs Charles Smith of Banklick went to St Elizabeths Hospital for an operation. Mr Willis Griggs met with an accident.
Printing done cheap for church events and social functions. Entices printing of entertainment tickets, socials, dances, picnics, lectures, and more at 1.85 per thousand. Also offers wedding invitations, announcements, business printing and cards. Telephone Ridge 295 R. Kemper Lane Ebersole Printing Co. 3710 Lueder Avenue.
In Washington on September 1, 1919, the Foreign Relations Committee under Chairman Henry Cabot Lodge refused to grant passports to Paris for colored delegates, highlighting the South’s hostility to colored citizens as Democrats sparred with Republican leadership.
Armed posses search for a white man who attacked Stella Vance, 15, of Indian Creek, 15 miles north of town, as she walked home from school this afternoon. The assailant accusedly tied her to rocks.
Madam D L Butler's Grower and Treatments promises soft straight glossy hair. A list of ladies who completed scalp treatment and hair dressing courses is given including Mrs J B Laine Elizabeth Reed Ivanona Berry Hannah Smith Marjorie Anderson Mrs Thompson. Instructor Madame D L Butler based at 1333 Lincoln Ave Walnut Hills Cincinnati with phone Woodburn 3434 L.
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