The Houston Informer (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 29, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 14, 1929 Page: 3 of 8
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: The Houston Informer and was provided to The Portal to Texas History by the Rice University Woodson Research Center.
- Highlighting
- Highlighting On/Off
- Color:
- Adjust Image
- Rotate Left
- Rotate Right
- Brightness, Contrast, etc. (Experimental)
- Cropping Tool
- Download Sizes
- Preview all sizes/dimensions or...
- Download Thumbnail
- Download Small
- Download Medium
- Download Large
- High Resolution Files
- IIIF Image JSON
- IIIF Image URL
- Accessibility
- View Extracted Text
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
AMERICA’S GREATEST WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
THE HOUSTON INFORMER, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1929
PAGE THE
Green Cleaners
and Dyers
Reduction
Sale
SHADO-GRAPHS JONES CHOSEN
MOSIACS’ HEAD
Graves dug with teeth are more
than six feet.
BY COMMITTEE
Cleaning. Pressing, Dyeing and
Alterations
ON ALL
JEWELRY
We Mend Your Clothes
Ladies’ Work a Specialty
HAND BAGS
POSITIVELY NO ODOR
OF GASOLINE
And All
LEATHER GOODS
1321 Ruthven St
Phone Preston 2827
Office and Laboratory: 2619 Odin
Avenue, 5th Ward
Residence: 2519 Opelousas Street
DR. C. H. L. MOORE, M. D.
General Practice
Office Hours
9 toll a. m., 1 to 3 p. m.
Sunday by Appointment
Phone Pres. 8368 Houston, Tex.
OTTO'S
LOAN
OFFICE
407 TRAVIS ST.
MAMBA’S DAUGHTER
By Du BOSE HEYWARD, Author of “PORGY”
'with a Broad Street address and a
adequate income. Now he could thin
seriously about marriage, and nex
week Valerie’s unit was due to sai
from France.
Hours: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. 3 to 8 p.m
Office Phone, Pres. 5288
415 Odd Fellows Temple
DR. CHAS. W. PEMBERTON
MEDICINE AND SURGERY
Res. phone, Hadley 5440
CHICHESTERS PILLS
% MAA
ELA Brand Pills in Red and Gold’ O)
Out, metallic boxes, sealed with Blue V.
H — Ribbon. Take no other. Bey -V
e of your Druggist. Ask for €
I L VP CHI-CHES-TERS DIAMOND
I M BRAND PILLS, for 40 years known
Y 7 as Best, Safest, Reliable. Buy Now 1
SOLD BV DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE
KNO XI
LI QU I D
Office Phone Pres. 5581
Res. Phone: Fairfax 5247
Office Hours:
8 to 12 A. M.—1 to 8 P. M.
GEORGE W. ANTOINE M.D,
Physician and Surgeon
Residence: 2301 McGowen Ave.
Office: 401 Odd Fellows Temple
Unnatural and mucous dis-
aiurges can be a raided by de-
straying the germs of infectious
diseases. $1 10 At all druggists
Office Phone, Preston 6350
DR. WALDO J. HOWARD
DENTIST
Suites 201-202-203 Odd Fellows
Temple
Louisiana St. at Prairie Ave.
’ X-RAY EXAMINATIONS
Houston, Texas
DR. C. M. NICHOLS
Physician and Surgeon
Office: Taborian Bldg., Suite 220
Preston 4181
807 1-2 Prairie Avn.. Houston. Tex
See or write for
"QUESTIONNAIRE"
You can roughly examine yourseb
and take home treatments for chronic
complaints by mail C. 0. D.
—0—
Holliday’s Specific
For syphilis, blood, aching bones
lost vitality, etc.
Prices $2.95 and $8.95. To be tak
en by drops, an improvement ove
shots.
Fairchild Undertaking Co.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
EMBALMERS
1015 Dowling Street
Phones:
Fairfax 1835
Fairfax 6464
Res. Phone Fax. 2751
Office Phone Pres. 6958
F. F. STONE, M. D.
SPECIALIST
EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT
Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted
Office and Hospital Practice
Suite 406-407, Fourth Floor
Odd Fellows Temple
Louisiana and Prairie
Holliday’s Ketonol
For swellings, rheumatism, stiff
ness, pains, sores, piles, etc. Price
$1.25 and $4.00.
—0—
Holliday’s Cinotol—F
For female’s irregular, discolored o
erampy, painful menstruations. Pric»
16-oz size $2.50.
HAIR GROWER
Officially listed on New Yon
Chemical Market. Price $1.00.
Ask for other products
Call or write-
DR. AUSTIN J. HOLLIDAT
Chemist
Phone Fairfax 2044
1214 Pease Ave
Houston, Texas
FOR HIGH-CLASS SHOE
REPAIRING
Visit
LIGHTNING REPAIR
SHOESHOP
FRED T. LEE, Proprietor
PARROTT AND SMITH
PAINLESS DENTAL CLINIC
Phones: office Fairfax MIT; Res. Fair-
fax 9467; Residence Fairfair MM.
Free Extractions and Treatment Thurs-
day Evening from 2 to 4 P. M.
Teeth Extracted, Crowns, Bridge Work,
Plates and Fillings.
1 PRICES ARE BIGHT AND
REASONABLE
222 WEST DALLAS AVE.
Suite 114
Pilgrim Building
Houston, Texas
417 MILAM ST.
PRES. 5373
Dr. 0. L Lattimore
DENTAL SURGEON
409) MILAM STREET
All Classes of Dental Work
Neatly Done. Bridge Work
A Specialty
Hours: 9 a. m. to 12 noon
2 p. m. to 5 p. m.
Sundays by Appointment
Phones: Office, Preston 1450
Residence, Cap. 6551
M. W. JORDAN
Notary Public
Office: 1502 Srdnor Street
Phone Capitol 5488-J
Prompt Service
Phones: Office F-9860 Res. F-0727
Hours: 1 P. M. to 5:30 P. M.
J. M. LAWSON, M. D.
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
MT Pligrim Bids.
Res. 3237 Reeves Ave.
PRESCRIPTIONS
OUR SPECIALTY
Peoples Pharmacy |
VIRGIL B. BYERS, Ph. c.
A. B.Fedford, jeweler, watchmaker
and optician, successor to B. F. Taylor
and Co., diamonds and jewelry; eye
alas p accurately fitted. 219 W. Dal.
415 MILAM STREET
Same Phone: Pres. 1909
DR. T. M. SHADOWENS
Odd Fellows Temple Phon P. 2091
RIDISEASES—No Mat
DAUL ter How Bad or Old the
Case or What’s the cause send for
FREE booklet about Dr. Panter’s
Treatment used successfully for over
25 years in the most severe and chorn-
ic cases. Write now—Dr. Panter, 179
West Washington Street. Room 412.
Chicago.
GOOD NEWS!
For the First Time in the History of
any Newspaper.________
DR. S. CHARLES GOULD
Eminent Specialist, has consented to
give beauty advice and treatment to
the readers of this paper.
The reputable doctor is the ONLY
reliable authority for scientific ad-
vice upon the care and treatment of
the skin.
For more than twenty years Dr.
Gould has successfully treated per-
sons prominent in all walks of life,
including MOVIE STARS, theatrical
stars, society women, doctors, law-
yers, clergymen, magnates of the
business world, and many others too
numerous to mention. This assures
you of his reliability and high pro-
fessional standing. As a reputable
licensed doctor he gives you the same
careful advice and treatment as if
you were a patient in his office.
Perhaps you have worried about
your complexion and have searched
for ways to enhance your beauty and
still you’re not satisfied. THE REA-
SON IS SIMPLY THIS—there is
more to a complexion than merely a
bit of whitening cream and a dab of
powder. WHAT IS THE WONDER-
FUL SECRET? Why have Holly-
wood’s “STARS” and society women
given up the haphazard use of cos-
metics and adopted other methods?
NOW YOU MAY KNOW. YOU MAY
HAVE THE VERY SAME METHOD,
used by these beautiful women.
COMPLEXION ANALYSIS BY
DR. GOULD
The only way to secure the EXACT
treatment to best harmonize with
your complexion, accentuate your
beauty, and enhance the charm of
your personality is to have YOUR
COMPLEXION ANALYZED AND
YOUR PERSONAL REQUIRE-
MENTS DETERMINED. This Dr.
Gould will do for you. Simply write
him a letter giving age, weight, color
and condition of skin, flight or
dark, dry or. oily, wrinkled or other-
wise) and general health, and enclose
ONLY the analysis fee of $3 in re-
turn you will receive a most liberal
amount of treatment best suited for
your individual complexion. THE
SUDDEN CHANGE TO COMPLEX-
ION BEAUTY WILL AMAZE YOU
AND YOUR FRIENDS.
DR. CHARLES GOULD
797 City Nat’l Bank, Bridgeport Conn.
When seeking advice only, enclose
self-addressed stamped envelope for
prompt reply.
CALAJOESIPETEA
World’s Colossal Stomach
Herb Compound
Powerfully Kills and Washes Poison
From Your System!
A powerful kiler of stomach-destroying
germs. Washing the intestinal tract clean
of sticky Sitka, stubborn waste and poison-
ous accumulations. Stimulates the kidneys
and eliminates lack pains. Flushes that
lasy liver to normal activity, creating Pep.
Charm and Vibrant Health. That suffer ing
feeling and haggard “old” look disappear at
2-2 — ply taking a cup of CALAJOE’S
FE TEA before going to bed
banishes fever, colds, cramps,
ampa, indigestion, gastritis end
L Man that are taxi chauffeurs
er met from theff.Mtompcmne
facts of alcoholic overindulgence.
Are Keps Healthy and Vigorous
x bitter salts and druggy candy
ous when taken toe often. Na •
ate. Bitter salts are too drastic
CALAJOES GOLDEN-LIFE TEA
I effective to the most delicate
Send Sec to
TRIANGLE PRODUCES CO.
Statin L New York City. N %.
■ WANTED: Our agents are m tins
oney selling CALAJOES GOLDEN
SA. Bo can you write for part. m
PHONES: Office Fairfax 1891,
Res. Fairfaix 3065
Hoars: 8:30 a.m. to 12 m., 1-7 p.m.
Sundays By Appointment
DR. N. L. BURCH
DENTIST
24204 McKinney Ave.
Covington Bldg. Houston, Tex.
Our Alic.
Poeo Aya Game Day
You Dee
AMERICAN MUTUAL
BENEHIT ASSOCIATION
HOUSTON, TERM
Little Rock, Ark.—(ANP)—At a
meeting of the national committee of
I management of the Mosaic Templars
of America held here last Saturday,
Judge Scipio A. Jones, one of the
I most illustrious Negroes in American
life today, was elected national grand
master of this well-known fraternal
beneficiary society which has been
insuring the lives of members of our
group for more than forty-six years.
Grand Master Elliott died last week.
Judge Jones has been the national
attorney-general of the order for
more than a quarter of a century and
his superior qualifications and experi-
ence especially fit him for this highly
responsible position. His election was
unanimous because it was the consen-
sus of opinion of all that Judge Jones
was the logical man to assume charge
of America’s largest and one of the
oldest business institutions of the
race now carrying on both a lodge and
insurance business. Judge Jones an-
nounces that he will make public soon
his plans for the future as regards
a nationwide campaign that he is
(Continued From Last Week)
• •••••
He was living in town now, back
in the little brick house. Polly had
fulfilled her destiny and had done
very well for herself. Her husband,
already out of the olive-drab, was
back in his substantial law practice
in Richmond; and Richmond was one
the state of Arkansas and has been
largely responsible for whatever suc-
cess they have attained. He is trus-
tee of Shorter College and is one of
the most active and outstanding lay-
men in the African Methodist Episco-
pal Church. His record stands un-
chanllenged as one of the most use-
ful figures in Negro life for the past
quarter century and he is loved and
highly respected by his own race as
well as by the white race. Mosaics
all over America will rejoice to learn
that Judge Jones has been elected as
national grand master of this great
order and will give him their unstint-
ed support to keep the organization
in the forefront of all Negro frater-
nals in America.
of the very few other cities in Ameri-
ca in which a Charleston girl could
contemplate existence without an in-
stinctive shudder of repulsion. Then
there had been another change in the
little house, a sad one from which
Saint’s mind still winced when his
thoughts touched it. Mauni Netta
had gone. Almost a year before,
when the carnage had been at its
height, unknown except in her tiny
orbit, the old woman had joined in:
the vast migration and answered the
call of the only voice that could pro-
claim her emancipation from the
Wentworth family. Now, try as he
might. Saint could not, become accus-
tomed to the crisp mulatto maid who
had come to take her place.
But there were pleasant things to
think about. There was the car to be
exhibited as a symbol of success and
to serve when he went the rounds of
the several stores under his control.
There also was his desk in the main
downtown office. These things meant
the realization of his mother’s defi-
nitely patterned dream, and it was
also beginning to mean a great deal
to him. He was now a gentleman
Little girls with
pretty hair will
always be
pretty
JUDGE SCIPIO A. JONES
contemplating in the interest of the
order.
Order Founded Forty-six Years Ago
The Mosaic Templars of America
was founded in Little Rock, Arkansas,
on May 22, 1883, by the late John E.
Bush, and the late Chester W. Keats.
Although the organization was origin-
ally formed for the Negroes of Ark-
kansas, its growth was so phenome-
nal that in a few years it had grown
from thirteen members and fifteen
cents to more than 100,000 men, wom-
en, and children and with assets ag-
gregating nearly a million dollars.
The order extends in membership
from New Jersey to Florida on the
Atlantic Seaboard, from Florida to
Texas on the Gulf Coast, as far north
as Michigan and ’as far west as Ari-
zona. Since its humble beginning it
has grown to be one of the largest in-
stitutions of its kind ever established
by the Negro race in America. It has
rendered more genuine service in
more tangible ways to the race group
in America than any other institution
of its kind. During the past fourteen
years the order has paid to benefici-
aries of its deceased members $4,000,-
000 and has lent its members more
than 3250,000 to save their homes,
farm lands, and other properties from
foreclosure. When Mr. McAdoo was
touring the country during the World
War in the interest of the sale of
Liberty bonds, Judge Jones personal-
ly handed him a check for $50,000
for Liberty bonds for the Mosaic
Templars of America. Later on this
order invested $75,000 more in Lib-
erty bonds making a total of $125,000
worth of Liberty bonds bought by the
Mosaic Templars of America. The
headquarters is located in Little Rock
where the order was founded and
owns here three magnificent build-
ings valued at more than $300,000
which are situated on Broadway, the
main boulevard of the city of Little
Rock. In addition the order owns
valuable farm lands, hospitals, old
folks homes and state temple build-
ings in eight of the twenty-six states
in which the order does business. The
order stands on its unrivalled forty-
six years of real achievement and
genuine service to the Negroes of
America.
Scipio A. Jones Logical Leader
Scipio A. Jones’ achievements are
as many as those of the order to the
leadership of which he has been elect-
ed. He is one of America’s greatest
lawyers, for his victory in the famous
Elaine cases easily stamped him as
such. He has practiced law in the
courts of Arkansas for more than a
quarter of century and has gained
more recognition in his profession
than any Negro lawyer in Arkansas.
He has served as judge of the muni-
cipal court of Little Rock and has al-
so served as special chancellor of the
Pulaski Chancery Court of which Fed-
eral Judge J. E. Martineau was chan-
cellor before his election as governor
of the state. He was the first color-
ed lawyer to beat the white Shriners
in the courts and to win a signal vic-
tory for the colored Pythians of Ark-
ansas when an effort was made to
put them out of business. Judge
Jones introduced President Hoover at
a reception that was tendered him
by the Negroes of Arkansas at Pine
Bluff, Arkansas, in June, 1927, in
recognition of their appreciation of
his services as chairman of the flood
relief committee for which position
he was selected by President Coolidge
when he was secretary of commerce.
Judge Jones is the acknowledged po-
litical leader of the Negroes of Ark-
ansas and has been for nearly a quar-
ter of century. He has been delegate
to the Republican National Conven-
tion three times and was offered the
recorder of deeds office by the late
President Taft, but declined to accept.
He is also the legal counsel for near-
ly every colored fraternal order in
LOANS
MADE ON AUTOMOBILES
Easy Payments Prompt
Service
617 Pi
Ave. Phone P-4459
Nelson’S
HaIRDrESSING
makes
Pretty Hair
because it keeps it in place, permit-
ting the most becoming styles of hair-
dress, and a neat appearance at al
times. Get NELSON’S from your
druggist, or write Nelson Mfg. Co.,
Richmond, Va.
as wre as
money can buy
reeor That is why a tablet
*.=s10ver or two of St. Joseph’s
2-sr.J0Ke Pure Aspirin brings
Net Pu onquick, safe relief from
p.O headache, neuralgia,
2 earache and muscular
A C pains. Ask for it by
name!
St. Joseph's
PWw ASPIRIN
Mamba sat in her window over the
old carriage house in the rear of the
Atkinsons’ garden. About her every-
where the spring was busy with its
splendid occupation of the old city.
At the pavement’s edge it had' cap-
tured a gnarled oak that had not
yet waked from its winter sleep, and
had buried it beneath the headlong
rush of a wisteria vine Now, from
this vantage point, flying columns
were being flung to right and left to
whelm the chrome and madder of a
winter wall beneath invading mauve
and purple. During the night the
wind had changed. It no longer lash-
ed in from the sea with its wintry
tang of salt, but swept across the city
from the southwest in a broad lan-I
guorous tide, heavy with earthly
smells from the waking sen islands.
It was the season when youth strains
forward with racing pulses; when
age, disturbed and saddened, takes
stock of the past and draws solace
from such philosophy as the yeara
may have brought With elbows on
the sill and her face propped between
her palms, Mamba looked upon the
alarming visage of spring with an
expression in which the spirit was
still unvanquished but in which fear
was held at bay only by her old in-
domitable look of determination.
Under her feet the years were
gathering speed alarmingly now.
There were black moments when she
would wonder whether she had it in
her to hold on until Lissa could take
care of herself and make her own
way in that strange new world of
hers. The Atkinsons’ children were
growing, too, and no longer needed
her care. But she had made no mis-
take when she had elected the family
as her white folk and bound them to
herself by an illusory mutual past.
As the boy and girl achieved emanei-
pation from her watchful eyes and
became absorbed by school, athletics
and the social diversion of the ultra
social old city, she felt herselfgrad
ually taking rank as a pensioner of
the family. Now the thousard-and-
one odd jobs that had engarged her
time when she first insinuated her-
self into the lives of the Wergarathe
were again her lot. She reL
carried the slipper bag to danpeieer
Jack, now a breezy lad of seseersih
ro-plendent a his first dinnensensinn
and hsusrunowas heingmerssini
cuilv fin-han-aan expensy.
went rolling out of the gamdeed
big new car that had comperes
under Mandais room i theecre
ria 1 * ' vengerrs B
O be shined .fl. *. 1 to h-
the front door to bestendedhensesine
koninghe:
as long as she could hold BE
ersfullv aunt themes
ngvaluable for actual vanees,
would fare, well. Her laresed
over the varagy gave
......I home and her white S
. ut as they did Manises
hen But if she failed,,
t critical of all tingeed
wlandchild, the girl would oniee
claim on the Atkinsons—and her me
mother would be less than useless as
a guiding band. Sometimes now on
Sundays, after the long hot walk to
meet Hagar, there would be moments
when she would forget names and
faces and the st.eady light of her pur-
pose would be obscured by blowing
mists. Then she, would summon her
forces and pull her faculties together
again, but it was an effort that al-
ways left her shaken.
Had she spared herself in any par
ticular in her sacrifices for Lissa, list
hardness to Hagar would have been
quite without justification, but she
had given everything that she had
looked forward to in her old age for
the girl, and so, as a matter of course,
should the mother. When Lissa reach
ed the age of seventeen, so long had
it been since she had seen her mother
that the figure had first grown vague
and then been remodeled in herim-
agination into at least partial con
formity with her new standards. To
her friends Ma, who was now “Mam
ma,” was employed “up state” and
sent her the money for clothes, mu-
sic, and all of the things that en-
abled her to hold her head up in the
Reformed Church set. The
voice was beginning to attract attan-
tion. She was doing solos in church,
and in programmes given at the new
colored Y. W. C. A. rooms. In an
pea rance she was unforgettable. 44
large girl for her age, her figure was’s
well developed and straight as an In 1
dian’s, and that almost obscured
strain of Indian in Mamba had flared - 1
up in the grandchild, as it so often
will, and given her a skin of pals
lustred bronze through which the
color beat in her cheeks and her full-
lipped mouth. Her hair, fine and
straight, was worn after the fashion
of the Mona Lisa, and beneath it
she held in reserve small close-set
ears, which, like her beautifully mod-
elled hands, were a heritage from
her mother’s people. But her glory
lay in her eyes, which under stress
(Continued oa Page Five)
IRISTMAS CARDS
MN in
Now is the time to have us make your
Christmas Cards. Order now while the stock
is complete, as we have only a limited num-
ber of sets at these extremely low prices.
SPECIAL OFFER
Our Combination Set, consisting of 12 Beautiful Cards 41x64 inches
with two artistically lined envelopes to match, and your name engraved,
all for only--
$1.98
Mail orders given prompt attention. Phone and our
representative will call.
WEBSTER -RICHARDSON PUB. Co., Inc.
PHONE PRESTON 1243
409 SMITH STREET
HOUSTON, TEXA
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Matching Search Results
View five places within this issue that match your search.Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Richardson, Clifton F. The Houston Informer (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 29, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 14, 1929, newspaper, December 14, 1929; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1637690/m1/3/?q=denton+history: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.