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Iowa state bystander. volume 19, number 49, May 16, 1913 Item Info
- Title:
- Iowa state bystander. volume 19, number 49, May 16, 1913
- Date Created:
- 1913-05-16
- Time Period:
- 1910s
- Description:
- Contents include but are not limited to local social news (illnesses, births, travel, wedding announcements, lectures, and club events), church services and religious activities (including St. Paul A.M.E., Corinthian Baptist, Maple Street Baptist, Union Congregational, and Asbury Methodist), club meetings and entertainments (Political Study Club, Dramatic Art Club, Woman’s Political Study Club, Dunbar Progressive Club, Sewing Circle, Willing Workers, White Rose Club, Negro Lyceum Association), community religious observances such as Odd Fellows and Eastern Star memorial services, out-of-town visitors and travel updates from across Iowa and the Midwest, detailed coverage of lectures by J.B. Rush on “The Black Girl’s Burden” and comments by Z.W. Mitchell of the Loyal Legion, social activism on women’s and racial uplift, educational and employment achievements (e.g., Letta Cary and Mrs. Coalson), business advertisements and employment offers, city and regional updates from Albia, Clinton, Colfax, Davenport, Enterprise, Ft. Madison, Marshalltown, Mason City, and Mt. Pleasant, funerals and obituaries including Mollie Patterson and Erma Logan Pickett, and other topics.
- Subject (Topic):
- African Americans Black people African American churches African American families African American women African American civic leaders African American business enterprises African American press Obituaries Clubs Vocational education
- Subject (Organization):
- Order of the Eastern Star
- Contributor (Person):
- Ruff, Charles S. Ruff, Thaddeus S. Thompson, John L. (John Lay), 1869-1930
- Location:
- Iowa--Des Moines
- Language:
- eng
- Contributing Institution:
- State Historical Society of Iowa
- Publisher:
- Iowa State Bystander Pub. Co.
- Extent:
- 4 pages
- Genre:
- Newspapers
- Type:
- Text Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Digital Collection Title:
- Amplifying Black Voices in Iowa
- Digital Collection Permalink:
- https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w9156m
- Related Resource:
- Library of Congress Control Number: sn83025186
- Digital Object Identifier:
- bystander1913051601
- Item Permalink:
- https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w9qr4p006
- Metadata License:
- This metadata record is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Source
- Suggested Citation:
- "Iowa state bystander. volume 19, number 49, May 16, 1913", State Historical Society of Iowa, Amplifying Black Voices in Iowa, Iowa State University Library Digital Collections
- Reference Link:
- https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w9qr4p006
Rights
- Rights:
- No Copyright - United States
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- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/