Globe Lights on Friendship and Local Baseball Support
A concise reflection on recognizing genuine admiration without flattery. The piece commends a city for lacking a professional baseball team to back and cautions against criticizing someone content in his routine, highlighting the value of honest, simple acts.
Daring sea crossing and growth pains in 1881 editorial
An 1881 feat by John Traynor and Ivan Olsen opens with a bold Atlantic crossing in a small row boat from Bath Maine to Falmouth England. The piece weighs on peace and preparedness, cites Hoover and Coolidge, notes military spend, praises aviators and Carl Gustaf de Laval for inventing the cream separator, and reflects on America’s rapid growth from 1780 to the present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Traynor
Ivan Olsen
Atlantic Ocean
Bath
Maine
Falmouth
England
Carl Gustaf de Laval
Autos and Better Homes in Atchison
The piece argues autos boost home life by enabling suburban living, citing Erskine of Studebaker and census trends showing rising suburbs like Oak Park and Evanston. It notes Atchison boasts beautiful homes, dismisses fears of cars eroding home life, and critiques crime in Kansas City, proposing army barracks to aid law enforcement and praising Atchison’s tax rate cut coverage as strong local advertising.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert R. Erskine
Studebaker Corporation
The
North American Review
Erskine
Oak Park
Evanston
Chicago
Atchison
Kansas City
Globe
Army of the United
United States Army
Atchison Dispatch
Atchison Day's Doings Shows Wide Weekly Slice
Local notes recount rain wishes, travel tales through Kansas, health and work updates, church fairs, family moves, and community events. From baptisms and weddings to road trips and rail talk, the column bundles everyday lives across Atchison and nearby towns with colorful local color and names.
DAY'S DOINGS IN FREDONIA AND BEYOND
A compact look at local happenings: Harold Cowan to race in Fredonia Friday and Mrs. Wade runs Wade cafe on North Eighth. Various notes include Tobe Stanford starting vacation, Fred Heiser haircuts, Miss Helen Ross recovering from surgery, Dolly Ruble visiting Rushville, and Horace Lindsay returning from Atchison hospital. Also listed are community items from Falls City gas franchise vote, Courtney Turner to seek observation in Kansas City, and remarks by Charlie Arensberg about highway tacks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Stark
Boston
Wichita
Kansas City
Asa Barnes
Ebenezer Baptist Church
Riley Street
Ray Flynn
Bailor Cultivator Co
Luther League
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
Frank Schletzbaum
Tenth
Spring Streets
Fred Bergin
Chicago
William Bergin
Atchison
Buster Mulkey
Dodge City
Mulkey
George Knapp
Will Langan
Will Kelly
Burlington
Doniphan County
Troy
Independence Creek
Wathena
Ellen P. Allerton
Milwaukee
Methodist Board of
S. L. Buckner
Buckner
Missouri
Melvin Andrews
Junction City
Kas
Ada Church
Sugar Lake
Oscar Seeber
Andrews
Dave Beauchamp
Central Branch
Dave
Bill Kienzle
South Atchison
Frank Bochris
Emma
Larry Degan
Bob McQueen
Dwight Hillyer
Valley Falls
Joe Wade
M. Quigg
Steve Jeff Allison
Rushville
Blaine
Gunnison
Kansas
Harmon L. Mills
Globe
J. L. Berry
Noble Prentiss Darrah
Hugo Orlepp
Orlepp
Hays
Colorado
Salina
Ellsworth
James Zouzas
Hayden
Pete Pappas
Kanopolis
Hutchinson
Russell
Victoria
Gorham
St. Benedict's
Russia
Catherine the Great
America
Prairies
Fort Hays
Ft. Hays
Denver
Ft. Riley
State Normal School
Abilene
Smoky Hill
Republican
Ft. Leavenworth
Ellis County
Mark Twain
Meriden
Manhattan
Herb Gilman
Vernon Haase
Company A
Camp Whitside
Marie DeDual
Omaha
Topeka
George Stanton
St. Benedict's Church
Yesteday
John Hansen
John Foley
Frances Hanson
Eighth Street
Commercial Street
Kansas Avenue
N. A. Shearer
Grover C. Allison
Parallel Street
Dora Gore
New York
C. P. Waisner
Waitsner
Chester Keating
Waisner
Earl Carroll
Irving Berlin
Eddie Cantor
Venice
Ed Evans
Irene Bridgeman
Berkeley
Calif
Good Intent
California
Lillian Bridgeman Jr
Miss Lillian, Jr
Daisy Munns
Miss Munns
Lillian Jr
Irene
Lillian Bridgeman
Crooked School
Cora Nevins
Miss Nevins
Crooked
Shannon
Daisy Munn
Daisy
Clint Milliken
Los Angeles
Klackman
Dora Robinson
Lookout Mountain
Carless” Atchison
Lin White
Nebraska
Iowa
Charlotte
Harold
Margaret Kraettli
Leland Brown
Fred Heiser
Savings Bank
Helen Ross
Effinghan
Atchison Hospital
Dolly Ruble
L L
Gardner
South Fifth Street
Horace Lindsay
Winchester
Courtney Turner
Charlie Arensberg
Hiawatha
Bill
Harold Seever
Genfire Steel Co
Seever
Genfire People
Eli Cooper
Mr. Cooper
Des Moines
Also Mentioned on This Page
Atchison Weekly Globe
Globe Publishing Co
Main Streets
Atchison, Kansas
Globe Lights
Cupid
School of Experience
Hell
Uncle Sam
Hoover
Calvin Coolidge
President Hoover
White House
George A. Leonard
Pawnee, Neb
Powers That Be
Bill Porter
Bill Hayes
O. S
John Berridge
Leavenworth
Odd Fellows
Sam Estes
Grove
Elton Ritchey
Atchison Lodge
Lee Gunnison
Harold W. Payne
Coffeyville
North Seventh Street
St. Louis
White Cloud
Greg Griffin
Ernest Tonsing
Loyd Stuckey
Midland College
Cody
Wyoming
Balie Waggener
Snort
Seventeenth Street
Father Henry
al Fannan
Woodman
Colo
Henry Fenter
South Seventh Street
Locomotive Pinished Material Co
Dolan Mercantile Co
Black & White Syndicate
Bill Bowen
St. Joe
Atchison and
Rhode Island
W. J. Miller
Everest
W. P. Lambertson
Claude Meyer
August Janson
Ann
Cleo Furst
South Eighth
Cail Colwell
North Seventh
Carl Newman
Everett Williams
A. L. Barlett, Jr
W. P. Waggener
Guy Stanley
Woods Brothers Corporation
Fairfax
Atchison and Leavenworth
Franklin Moore
Gene Harrison
St. Mark's’ Lutheran Church
Atchison Water Co
Missouri River
Corning
J. M. Chisham
McLouth
Tristate
McLouth N
Lila Moen
Mary Lawrence
Kresge's
Lawrence
Harold Cowan
Fredonia
F. W. Wade
Wade Cafe
North Eighth
Tobe Stanford
Harch Hardware House
John Kelley
Oklahoma City
Clarence Miller
Rio Blanco
Benedict's College Club
Harry Bosworth
George Linck
Federal Prison
al @erkmen
New Mexico Rockies
Grand Canyon
Yosemite
Pacific Northwest
Indian Detour
Colorado Rock
National Parke
Featur
Sante Fe
Bante Fe
Co. M. Rathburn
Atchison Union Depot
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