Transcriber’s Note: This is a reprint edition provided by the Negro Universities Press, New York, 1969. Articles split across pages of the magazine have been re-joined. Adverts have been moved to the end of the publication.
THE
HALF-CENTURY
MAGAZINE
AUGUST, 1916
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The
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VOLUME I AUGUST, 1916 NUMBER 1