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“A joint Fourth of July celebration was held by the Community Center of Burville, D.C., last Monday at the school. Basketball, baseball, and tennis and speaking furnished parts of the program. One of the chief features was a competitive drill between…

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"The national known Trumpteers [sic] quartet of New York thrilled a large audience at MI college last Wednesday.
Mrs. Celestine Forster Dixon and three children of Detroit visited her parents last week.
Wilfred Foster left for Michigan…

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The Chicago White “bargain bills” will number twelve during the 1952 season at Comiskey Park. Ten of the double headers will be Sundays with two Sunday dates calling for single games, and two of the twin bills will be staged on Holidays.
The…

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"Social clubs are invited to plan their picnics at the Junior Deputy Sheriff’s park. Private picnic areas will be available if wanted. For reservation call or come by the State Press office. There will be plenty of barbecue for everyone at the park…

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"Patriotic colors with flags set the back ground for a gala 4th of July party for approximately 400 patients at the State hospital held on the spacious grounds. Awards were presented to the winners of the “Hog Callding”, and “Ball and Foot Race.”…

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“PITTSBURGH, Pa – Interest in the July 4th games between the Pittsburgh Homstead [sic] Grays and Pittsburgh Crawfords is growing leaps and bound. Fans of both races have been watching the performances of the two clubs which represent Pittsburgh in…

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"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…

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"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…

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"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…

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"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…

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"Celebrate July 4th
Week-end
CHARITY HORSE SHOW
A NATIONAL HORSE SHOW – 7500.00 IN PRIZES
LIVESTOCK SHOW GROUNDS – JULY 2-3-4, 8:00 P.M.
Special Section Reserved For Colored"

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"The Williams, White Sox softball team cavorted to a 23-13 victory over Benton’s Red Sox on the 4th. Funeral services for R. H. Graham were held at Bethel AME Church July 4th. Masons and Eastern Stars almost filled the huge edifice. People here will…

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"Some grudges die hard, as in the case of Heavyweight Boxing Champ Muhammad Ali.
He’s quitting- for the umpteenth time, according to the sports writers who’ve been burned on scoops about his retirement- but there’s one guy he says hes [sic] still…

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"Joe Louis, national and golden gloves boxing champion, who turned professional last week, will meet an opponent yet to be named at Bacon’s Casino, 49th and Wabash Ave., July 4th. It was announced Thursday. Johnny Roxborough, manager of the fighter,…

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"Hon. Frederick Douglass, according to his usual custom celebrated the Fourth of July by inviting a large circle of friends including all his relations to join in a union picnic. The day was warm one, and it was a real treat to spend a day at so…

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"The fourth of July has come and gone. For most of us in Bel Aire, it was a regular old fashioned day without the danger of fireworks. The small fry were as much in in the fun as the adults. Almost every family worked their barbecue pits full blast.…

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"The Junior Deputy Sheriffs will again have on of their greatest [i] in the history of the organization at Camp Dickerson. Six miles out 12th street pike . July 4th There will be fishing, swimming, dancing, and great ball games. Along with plenty of…

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“Mrs. Margaret Dinwiddie is spending several weeks with her son in Detroit, Michigan. . . George Dinwiddie has gone to Richmond, California for an indefinite stay. . . Miss Lois Marie Edwards is visiting in Chicago. . . . The Esther Circle met in the…

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“The automobile races which the Negros of this city have been holding for the past two years have gone a long ways toward giving Savannah publicity in other fields. This kind of sport is a rather expensive pastime and thousands of dollars have been…

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“The fourth of July was celebrated in a fitting manner. No classes were held on that day. In the morning the students had patriotic exercises, the principal address being delivered by a summer school teacher, Mr. M. L. Rooks Brinkley, Ark. In the…

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“One of the greatest amusements staged for the hundreds of pleasure seekers on the fourth of july is the three games of the ball scheduled to take place at Athletic park by the Negro Social Clubs Baseball League.
Never before in the history of…

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“Savannah Negro business men, always alert and to the fore in enterprise, are going to stage the first real automoble [Sic] race meet we have ever heard of. Entries from all over the South, in amateur ranks, are being invited and together with local…

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“Lieut Black well of Ealberton, Ga., lectured to the B.Y.P.U. at Zion Baptist church on last Sunday.
The delegates left on Sunday night for Atlanta to attend the Grand Lodge of the K. of P. and the C. of C.
The Blackshear team went to Way cross…

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“4th of July was a big day at the ball park.

About 1,500 persons witnessed the triple header on Tuesday.

Latson, right fielder for the Roosters, made a beautiful shoestring catch in Tuesday’s game and doubled Howell of the Eurekas at…

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"Capt. J. S. Blocker, the Tribune’s correspondent of Beanfort, S. C.. spent the 4th of July in the city. He was one of the interested spectators at the triple header ball game. "

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"ASHEBORO, N.C., March 3.- Manager [ill.] A. Mills is anxious to book games with teams in West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. Would like a game in Asheboro July 4"

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"The fourth of July, to children. Seems a long way off, but it takes time to make a bang-up celebrating of the great day. Thus, the Irving Park community council has already begun work in cooperation with the fourth of July committee, planning to…

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"Arthur Gossett Post
American Legion will give a big picnic, July 4
An all day affair
Mckinley Park
Games of all kind
Refreshments served
Come and bring your family"

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"(Special to The Afro-American Ledger.)

Cockeysville, Md., July 9.-A few friends from Baltimore were entertained by Miss. E. F. Foote, on the Fourth of July. The day was spent on the picturesque Gunpowder river, where fishing and…

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"A great outing on the Fourth of July was given by the Rod and Gun Club of Baltimore and Ladies Auxiliary of the Club. The outing was held at Mr. Luther Tucker’s farm at Reisterstown. There were many invited guests from this and other cities. The…

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"To the Editor of the Afro-American Ledger:

Can there anything good come out of Reno? Let’s see. On the fourth day of July, two bruisers met-one wrapped in black skin and the other wrapped in white skin. The bruiser in black skin whipped…

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"Physical Director Crawford has been busy all week circulating hundreds of entry blanks among the athletes of the city, signing them up annual Y.M.C.A. track and field meet at the Beutner grounds on July 4. Word from Capt. Pitts of the English…

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"The Fourth of July celebration started at Mckinley Park. Mr. Burel N. Nealy, [ill] the social and recreational life of the Community. There was plenty to eat and drink.
The swimming events, under the direction of Young Van Leu was a credit to the…

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"Without a ripple of trouble, the faithful members of the YMCA gave its first out door [sic] entertainment last Monday under the supervision of Capt. W. J. Hutchinson. He called it an Old Fashioned Barbeque; and, of Old Fashion means something good:…

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"NEW YORK (UPI)- A pregnant woman shot through the hand at Yankee Stadium July 4th was in good condition Saturday, but said she was not likely to attend another baseball game.
Joan Barrett, 34, was shot by an unknown assailant as she sat in the…

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"The Excelsior Aid and Social Club will spend the glorious 4th of July on Daufuski Island with their friends and well-wishes, where they will enjoy the cool refreshing ocean breeze. There will also be excellent music and dancing, also a hotly…

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"Annual Fourth of July Event At Druid Hill Park Will Be The Largest Of Its Kind Ever Held
The Safe and Sane celebration of the Fourth of July will be started at one oclock on Tuesday afternoon at Ames Memorial M. E. Church, Carey and Baker…

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"An overcast sky for the Fourth of July did not keep large numbers of Baltimoreans from the river and resorts in the suburbs. By far however the largest attendance was noted at the celebration at Druid Hill Park, where a committee under the…

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"Towson Md., July 10.- Miss Mary Ellen Johnson who is a student at St. Francis Convent spent the Fourth of July with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Johnson of Railroad Ave. Rev. W. N. Edwards left the town this week for Norfolk, Va. where he will…

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"Everyone and his brother, from the White House on down, sought to tie his moral convictions, his politics or his identity to the Fourth of July. The leaders of some of the many protests against the war in Vietnam scheduled a gathering in Washington,…

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"NEWARK. N.J- Shady Rest Country Club celebrated with fourth of July attractions, last Friday: Golf, tennis, and cardplaying, with numbers of basket lunches.

A representative group of the New York and New Jersey Wilberforce University Alumni Club…

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“NEW YORK - Forty silver medallions that were to be presented to the nation’s top athletes as the special Fourth of July weekend salute were stolen Thursday from a delivery van outside the Jacob Javits Conventions Center, police said.
The…

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