# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1926_S106
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

The Ladies’ Aid Society for Colored Missions, St. Louis.

heart —a tenant who had no questions to ask and
who felt compelled to pay whatever rent was de-
manded of him. Consequently rents rose in cities‘
like Detroit‘and Chicago to unprecedented heights ;
single rooms brought as high as $15 a month,
though unfurnished and without running water.
In areas that had housed possibly three thousand

before the coming of the Negro, now ten thousand
and even fifteen thousand found living quarters.

Chicago’s share of this great migration has
reached almost two hundred thousand. Men and
women walk the streets looking for houses and
rooms and offering to pay landlords from five to
ten dollars a month more rent than previous tenants

St. Louis Colored Mission-School.