A Grand Festival will be given on Monday, July 5th, by a Committee of Young Ladies and Gentlemen for the benefit of the A.M.E Church, Powell Street, in the Vestry Room. Dinner from 12 to 4 P.M. Admission day and evening Free.
"Parks Crowded With Amusement Seekers
Few Accidents of Serious Nature Many Strangers Among Crowd A Day of Mirth and Merriment Nearest Attempt at Sane Fourth
The Fourth of July, as usual, was very widely observed throughout the city and at the…
“Tickets sold July 3rd and 4th, valid for return until 5th, between all stations east of Ohio river points and west of Baltimore within a radius of 200 miles from selling station, also from Washington to Elkhom, Va and its immediate points on N&W…
"Hy Snoden, James Woodruff, and Mrs. Turner are sick. Rev. S. H. Hazzard held his third-quarterly conference and meeting Saturday and Sunday at the A. M. E. Zion church. Mrs. Mose Starling left Friday night to Kentucky on a vacation. Fred Dula spent…
"New Year’s Day we share with all the world, and Christmas and Easter will all Christendom. The Fourth of July is emphatically our own day, but it is purely patriotic in its significance. Thanksgiving Day is as distinctively American as the Nation’s…
"In a Fourth of July address Mayor Shank once said, apropos of George Washington and truthfulness:
“Few of us, alas, can lay claim to that absolute veracity which was Washington’s boast! Thus the shoe pinches us all when the story of Jack Smith…
"Casualties in United States From Celebration of Fourth.
Chicago.-- Latest reports on the number of casualties in the United States due to the celebration of the Fourth of July show that 39 lives were sacrificed and 1,217 were injured, as compared…
"The Junior Deputies 3rd annual picnic and barbecue will be held July 4th at Camp Dickinson junior deputy’s camp. 6 1-2 miles out 12th street pike. Dr. Oba B. White, chairman, A.T. Miller, co-chairman. There will be baseball games between the colored…
"“I allus enjoy hearin’ the Declaration of Independence read on the Fourth of July,” said Farmer Corntossel.
“It is a noble document.”
“Yes. But what I particularly admire about that kind of program is that it prevents a professional orator from…
"If Fourth of July be warm and fair,
Expect to smell powder everywhere.
If rain comes down and wet us through,
Look out for bands and processions, too.
If the sun shines bright and the sky be blue,
The balloon may go up at half-past two.
If…
"In accordance with a suggestion from the Mayor, a large number of citizens assembled in the Twelfth District Court Room, to take preliminary measures for celebrating the anniversary of our national independence. Judge J. C. Palmer was appointed…
"19 Killed; 427 Injured
In Some Cities the Fourth Was Celebrated in a “Sane” Manner and No Deaths Were Reported.
Chicago, Ill.-- Statistics compiled regarding Fourth of July casualties throughout the country indicate a much smaller list of…
“Physicians exploded a giant firecracker at the bedside of James McGowan at a hospital in Logansport, Ind., in the hope that the nervous shock would stop his hiccoughing, from which he had been suffering for five days, but though he was quieted he…
"Lawn hunts are splendid games for a Fourth of July party. For a contest hunt, for example, dozens of pieces of white note paper, each with a question of some kind, are hidden all over the lawn, in the bushes, hedges, the rustic seats, the flower…
"Time was, not so very long ago, when the boys and girls, too, for that matter, thought there couldn’t be a Fourth of July without a great noise of bursting firecrackers and other dangerous and loud, banging fireworks. Now things are quite different.…
The Democratic Committee of Arrangements for the celebration of the 93rd anniversary of American Independence, under the lead of the distinguished gentleman from Alcatraz, have gotten themselves in a confounded snarl, the Republicans are laughing…
"The Fourth of July was a very enjoyable day for Herbert E. McCrae, when his mother, Mrs. Maggie McCrae prepared a delicious birthday dinner for him and had guests, Miss Lela Ross, Mrs. Virley Webster and her mother, Mrs. Mary Hogan: his sisters Mrs.…
"On this Fourth of July, the one hundred and seventy-first anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, it is fitting that we pause and take stock of what this cornerstone of our American way of life really means, that we re-affirm…
One hundred and seventy-three years ago this Fourth of July there rang forth upon a then unheeding world the “unanimous Declaration of the thirteen UNITED states of America.”
At the time, though bells rang and crowds in the streets of Philadelphia,…
"The Fourth of July being celebrated with fire works around and about for almost a month before the date, has come and gone with its usual amount of casualties."
CHICAGO, Ill., July 1- Going somewhere over the Fourth of July?
If so, then plan for the trip safely. But even if you stay home, keep safety in mind for the of July holiday- one of the most dangerous, week-ends of the year.
That is the advice of…
“Years ago the late Paul Lawrence Dunbar, while living in Chicago, was requested by one of the daily papers to contribute an article on ‘Independence Day’. He did. The title of it was: ‘And yet we celebrate.’ It was a masterpiece in which the colored…
“‘The Negro in public life must master the art of government and unite with the progressive public consistence of this ago. In office he must not merely a Negro job holder but a citizen who has been entrusted with important public functions. Above…
"Chicago Ill. July 22. - There is no such thing as an Independence Day celebration South of the Mason and Dixon line, according to J.C. Holmes, white, writing in a local paper. The people of that section show their enthusiasm by burning firecrackers…
“Washington, D.C., July 9
The National Equal Rights League and the United Colored American Committee Friday noon, had an audience at the White House at which time they presented the race’s sesquicentennial of the Declaration of Independence…
“Mr. and Mrs. Honner Myles and children Dermott, Ark., were recent visitors of Mr. and Mrs. George Spivers. News came of the death of Mr. Nesby Mitchell of Little Rock Ark. Miss Jessie Allen who has been seriously ill, is no better; she was carried…
BOSTON, MASS., June 1, 1927---
“Last Week’s continued rate of “two lynchings a week: has aroused fresh interest in the proposal urged by the National Equal Rights League that June 17th, anniversary of Bunker Hill be everywhere publicly celebrated…
“The religious summer school has a fairly good enrollment. The ten-day session will end Wednesday July 10. Prof. Clement Richardson addressed the High School Bible Class at the Grace Cathedral, Sunday Morning, July 7th. He told the young people of…
“Among the many events worthy of mention on the coming 4th of July, our national Independence Day will be the launching of the big Summer Drive for $150000 by Roger Williams University of Nashville, Tennessee. The Drive is to be carried under the…
“The Inter-Church Camo at Camo Hyde will be held July 1-6, 1929. The churches are asked to send in the name of a boy chosen by them, to G. B. Winston at the Y.M.C.A. The parents are also asked to do the same before June 15th Parents, give your boy a…
“AS THE TWIG IS BENT—THE TREE WILL INCLINE”
“The above saying, even though old, is only too true today. Every conscientious parent is keenly aware that the big task of training a boy to useful manhood is to see that the proper growth of the twig is…
“Sunday was a fine day, we had good services at the Mt. Zion. Rev. Broils, of Council Grove preached for us. Rev. Cooper and his members were with us, he read the scripture lesson, Mark 6:17. Rev. Broiles who took for a text Mark 6:17 preached a…
“Each church is requested to send Pastor and two or more workers. A great time for study, inspiration, and information. You can’t afford to miss it. Competent leaders and wholesome pleasure. Church music under the directions of Mrs. Dorothy Sims…
"The fourth of July used to be a day that all Americans, regardless of race, creed, color, or station in life, could feel a sense of unity and discard, for a day at least all thoughts of inequality and inequalities and lose themselves in the…
"RICHMOND -- Pfc. Edward McGriff, of Winnsboro, S.C., who is serving in North Africa in the army, thinks that it won’t be long before American soldiers will be returning home after winning the war. Pfc. McGriff, in his first letter to his aunt, Miss…
"PITTSBURGH, PA. – Sgt. Joe Louis, world heavyweight champion, Monday predicted that prize fighting will experience a big boom after the war.
“We’ve got a lot of good boxers in the service who will turn professional once the war is over,” Joe…
"CHICAGO – America’s celebration of the Fourth of July reveals to the colored soldier more than anything else the injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim, Colden Brown of New
York City told the March-on-Washington Convention…
" JACKSON, Miss.-- “I don’t see any end in sight for the Freedom Riders’ coming to this city as long as interstate travelers must bow to racial segregation at bus terminals and railroad stations.”
This was what Richard Haley, a field representative…
"NEWPORT, R.I.-- The expected suit against the city by the Newport Jazz Festival jelled here with notice of a claim for $450,000 in damages arising from cancellation of the jazz bash program following the riots of July 2. Counsel for the Newport Jazz…
"NEWPORT, R.I.-- The annual Newport Jazz Festival has been set for July 4 weekend with one of the greatest arrays of talent, jazz and also “balletts” ever assembled.
The “ballet” will be danced by Modern Jazz Quartet’s [sic] “Fontessa.” Jazz stars…
"STERLING, ILL.---(UPI)---
A beauty shop operator and a telephone installer faced murder by arson charges in July 4 fire that killed four persons.
Whiteside County Chief Deputy Sheriff Boyd Kimmell said charges would be filed her against John H.…
"July is here it started with a BANG! courtesy of fireworks, and ecstatic that school is out young’uns.
Watermelon, picnics, popsicles, and picnics seem to be the order of the day around these parts. And Bar-B-Que’, you can smell it for miles…
"Vito’s Super markets, with four locations on the South Side, will help its customers celebrate the Fourth of July with a string of bang-up bargains in the biggest grocery sale of the summer season.
In what is perhaps one of the longest special sale…
"Rev. A. M. Jefferson of Little Rock preached at Fellowship Baptist church. Sunday Mr. and Mrs. R.M. Williams [ill] here... Miss Mae Elizabeth Brown is home from New York visiting Mr. and Mrs. Odie Brown.. Mrs. Lilliam Loving and children. Bill and…
"TO BE HONORED- James Hicks 1823 Bishop, who served the Pullman company for the past 33 years as porter. Has retired with honors and will be honored with a banquet given by the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters July 4th from 7 to 9 p.m. at the…