Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York † 180,00 San Francisco**45,000 New York Curb 29,000 Cincinnati 11,000 Philadelphia 10,500 Boston 9,000 New Orleans 6,500 St. Louis 4,500 Detroit 4,125 Chicago ‡$3,000 Cleveland 3,000 Baltimore 1,850 Pittsburgh 1,600 Louisville 1,200 Washington 800 The cause: "The Chicago Stock Exchange has been in a half-comatose condition many years simply because it has been surrounded by the narcotic atmosphere of fatalism...
Thus readers of the Pittsburgh Courier (famed Negro Weekly) read last week an article by Author Langston Hughes, bitterly assailing those members of his race whom he considers a pale reflection of white civilization. Meeting upper-level Negroes of Washington, D. C., Mr. Hughes found them critical of Jean Toomer, Rudolph Fisher and Zora Hurston, Negro novelists, of many another Negro author who has written realistic, often tragic narratives of the Negro masses. "Why doesn't Jean Toomer write about nice people?" asked the Washingtonians. Why didn't Rudolph Fisher's City of Refuge* deal with "decent folks"? And they...
Author Hughes is well qualified to speak for the "bad New Negroes," being himself prominent among them. Though still a student at Lincoln University, he has already published two books of poems, The Weary Blues and Fine Clothes to the Jew. Readers of the Pittsburgh Courier looked forward to its next issue in which Mr. Hughes was to continue his criticism of Negroes who "still think that white people are better than colored people...
...Pittsburgh officials, frightened at the appearance of rabies in their district, have devised an efficient method of killing stray dogs. Three motorized wagons patrol the streets. Each wagon has an air-tight box into which the poisonous exhaust gases of the motor enter. Whenever the dog-catcher on the driver's seat sights an unmuzzled dog unattended by a human, he tries to snare it. If he does catch the dog, he heaves it into the suffocating box and soon the live dog is a dead...
April 21 will be spent in Pittsburg. Here the members of the Club will be given the opportunity of seeing the city. Dinner will be given in the evening by the Club for the officers of the University Club of Pittsburgh. In Washington, on April 22, the Club will give two annual concerts for disabled veterans. The evening concert will be held in the Cosmos Club. The last day of the trip will be spent in Albany, where members will see the city's sights in the afternoon, and end the series of concerts with one given in the evening...