Evening Star Newspaper, January 8, 1922, Page 15

159 REACIERACESED S BLACKHANOE | ok THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. U, JANUARY B, 102-PART 1. . rBuy$5. 00 Worth of Records And We Will Deliver to Your Home One of These Wonderful Vitanola Phonographs (The Phonograph of Marvelous Tone, Natural as Life) 3 LANSBURGH & BROTHER 420-30 Seventh Street Northwest James H. Hall, Colored, Held in Case of Threatening Frederick Letters. Special Dispetch to The Star. FREDERICK, Md, January 7.— | Traced through the lettering of a | sign on an automobile repair shop | he conducted in an ulley, James H { Hall, negro, evangelist, one-time | Brooklyn saloonkecper, a longshore- | man, was arrested in this city yes- | terday afternoon, charged witi ka<e ing written “blackhand letters” to Judge Glenn H. Worthington, Holmes ! D. Bak ice president of the Citi- zens' nal Bank, and to ex- | Sheri iam O. Wertenbaker, | The letters were mailed last March {and the investigation was dropped {after five or six Washington opera- § failed to run down a possi- PAGE 2—STORE NEWS for Manday, January 9, 1922 \ Brighten Your Home Without‘ Lightening Your Purse ---is the mission of The Sales of January and we have an easy way for you fo pay* e i ORI D) s A N i | ™ vas reopened three weeks { ago, when Postmaster J. A. William- {son and a rural mail carrier saw the negro lettering a sign on his | Barage, the lettering being an exact enlargement of the four blackhand letters. chases for this occasion. - We didn’t leave it until the last minute, but prepared long ahead—hence our success in this endeavor. Among the many striking val- ues are— - y i !I Wilton and Axminster Rugs . . 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