Abyssinian clash spurs fear of Italian expansion in Africa
The article describes an Italian force clashing with Abyssinians over disputed territory as Mussolini presses for reparations, rejects League of Nations involvement, and hints at Italy’s aim to seize new lands, recalling a similar failed campaign under Menelik.
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Dillinger Escape Details Reported by Daily News
The Daily News said John Dillinger paid $11 000 to a middle man for an Indiana jail breakout at Crown Point in March but the intermediary kept part of the money. Indiana officials plan to indict more accomplices. The tale links the wooden gun escape, gang history, and a Chicago cabaret plot to flee to Mexico.
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Letters to Santa Claus From Ada News 1919
Eight child requests for Christmas appear in The Ada News files from 1919. Dick Simpson asks for a rocky horse ball jacks nuts and fruit Trooper Shaw wants an airgun BBs and a bicycle Margaret Meaders seeks a sleepy doll a doll buggy dishes fruit nuts candy and more John Harold Criswell requests a wagon candy gum bananas crapes a soldier doll and nuts Sarah Hale asks for a doll doll buggy furniture and a small dish set
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Margaret Meaders
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Sarah Hale
Notes on daily life and oddities from a bygone era
The passage ribbles through humorous vignettes about money worries, wheat scarcity, aging, odd ethics of castor oil, Notre Dame's Fighting Irish having an Irishman named Sullivan, a musician losing an instrument in Oklahoma City, and a joke about bass drums not being lost.
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Fragmentary Column Recounts a Biased Antisemitic Quip
A short clipped text references Herman Schwab and a friend quoting a hostile remark about Jews and a cruel hypothetical about Dionne quintuplets. The fragment hints at antisemitic sentiment and political contempt during a hostile era.
East Central Junior and Senior Debaters Reach Semi Finals
East Central's senior boys Homer Ledbetter and Paul Hughes reached the debate semi finals at Winfield before losing to Augustana Illinois. They debated Bethel college Augustana Rock Island Den ton Denton Tex Emporia Emporia Kan McPherson Kan Washburn Topeka Kan. Nebras ka Wesleyan won the event. Der wood Clay and R E Carlton faced Arkansas City Junior college Tulsa University Altus Junior College and were eliminated in the fourth round by Washburn junior college Topeka Kan. The junior division had seventy two teams. Wichita Falls Junior College claimed the title. Viola Ramsey and Dorothy Summers debated four matches against Bethel Augustana Alva Teachers and Bethany Kan defeated by Bethany. The pre season tourney drew teams from eight states Missouri Oklahoma Illinois Nebraska Arkansas Kansas Texas Colorado.
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