GLOBE LIGHTS Page of Witty Observations from Atchison
Short Jenks and readers share satirical vaudevilles on town life. The column satirizes politics, taxes, marriage, editors, and public affairs with humorous quips about Santa Claus money needs, labor, Hoover, Landon, andRoosevelt era concerns. It notes Kansas wheat, road contracts, and national economic strains while preserving the paper’s light editorial voice.
Consolidation of Kansas state commissions and bureaus urged
A speaker calls for consolidating Kansas state commissions and bureaus and abolishing many inspector jobs. He cites collisions between inspectors on streets, inflation fears, and suggests drastic measures to restore order. He notes Chicago racketeering and urges federal action. Italy debt date cited, holiday wishes appended.
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Kansas
Commercial
Tragedy in Russia as Five Year Plan Fails Farms
Victor Murdock warns that Russia faces a severe food shortage despite industrial gains. Livestock is down 40 percent, fodder off 50 percent, and crops 20 percent lower. Meat milk and sugar are scarce for peasants while cities stay comparatively supplied, signaling looming social tragedy rather than political upheaval.
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Victor Murdock
Russia
Atchison Daily Notes Highlight Wide Range of Local Goings On
Numerous items describe illnesses and recoveries including Dr Don Strode and Harold Masters among others. Community notes cover deaths births political chatter and local scenes with colorful quotes and short anecdotes from Atchison and nearby areas.
Community Chatter From Atchison Daily Columns
A mosaic of late 19th or early 20th century quips and notices from Atchison news items. Includes light social commentary on chores and Christmas shopping, humorous quotes from residents, a dog scare in Jamestown, fruit markets in Washington, and local personalities like Jack Spencer and Bert Jones. Mentions a boxing and wrestling tease, political figures, and a somber note on the death of G. E. Hanna with context on his blindness and health.
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Atchison
Jack Spencer
Jamestown
Washington State
Jude Johnson
Globe
Joe Connor
Doniphan
Deacon Miller
Wirt Hetherington
Bob Snowden
Bellevue Country Club
George Wolf
Snort
Dilgert’s Co. A. K. N. G
Bert Jones
Bert Gilmore
Gilmore
Congressman Lambertson
Los Angeles
Lou Cochran
Will Rogers
Jolson
Rogers
G. E. Hanna
Jim Bausch
Atchison Daily News Notes Local Happenings
Local items include Mrs. Genebach under a doctor’s care, illness for Mrs. Linley, and Pat McCann’s black eye from basketball. Reports of seven burglarized stores in Marysville, a calf born without a tail at Downs, and opinions from residents on winter conditions. Obituaries note Albert Loring of Minneapolis and Pillsbury Mills ties to Atchison. Wedding notices for Virginia Alice Massey and Charlies Meyer Ballard and Eva Mae Swigart and Francis B. Hyde announce societal connections. Community updates cover missing items, burglaries, a Christmas dance by the Elks, and Rotary plans for a tree gift event.
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R. G. Sithen
Nellie Stone
George A. McKinney
Clair Wilmuth
Hugo Bryant
Marysville
Kas
Downs
Albert C. Loring
Ue Pillsbury Flour Mills Co
Minneapolis
Atchison
Gene Howe
Amarillo
Ray Toulette
Kansas City
Chamber of Commerce
W. P. Waggener
Pillsbury Flour Mills Co
Great Northern Railroad
Buffalo
N. Y
Atchson
William Massey
Ash Street
Virginia Alice
Charlies Meyer Ballard
Effingham
Horton Christian Church Parsonage
C. FP. Foust
Eugene Martin
William J. Gannon
Eva Mae Swigart
Francis B. Hyde
Robert Hyde
Mary E. Hyde
Donald Russell
Woolworth
Eleventh
Main Streets
Maloney
Brown-Gilmore
Rushville
George Edwards
The
Elks
Andy Kirk
Malcolm Reid
Dallas
Tex
Robert Read
Reid
Jared Fox
Coffeyville
Louis Linley
Dorothy Murphy
Newton
Miss Murphy
Mt. St. Scholastica
Harry Turner
Metropolitan
Commercial Street
Leather Products Co
Johnny Burbank
Kansas
Northwest Missouri
St. Benedict's College
Leonard Schwinn
St. Benedict's
Atchison Rotary Club
Rotary Annes
Byram
W. D. Wolfe
Gilbert Guthrie
T. D. Lyons
Arthur Bymann
Ralph Pletcher
William Allmann
Mrs Eli Newlin Dies at 72 in Atchison Home
Mrs Adelia West Newlin 72 widow of Eli Newlin died this morning at her home 501 Park Street after a long illness with heart trouble. Body at Lawin Douglass funeral home. Born Oakland Illinois July 27 1860 she came to Atchison 12 years ago from Christman Illinois. Survived by sisters Maggie Turner Georgetown and Anna Smith Atchison and by brothers William D Spencer Los Angeles and H C West Nebraska.
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A. Fred Lutz
New York
Beloit
Central Branch
Fred Lutz
Cleveland
Knights of Columbus
Kansas
Fred Luts
Mr. Lutz
Fred Jr
Mitchell County
Kenneth Skinner
South Fifth Street
Earl Compton
Atchison Hospital
Compton
Fifth
Skinner
Jack Blanke
Clarence Blanke
West Atchison
Franklin School
Vera Tatham
Vera
Norman Olson
North Second Street
Kansas City
Florida
Jo Anne Manners
Adelia West Newlin
Eli Newlin
Park Street
Lawin & Douglass
Newlin
Oakland
Atchison
Christman
Ill
Mr. Newlin
Georgetown
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Oklahoma City
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Mound Street
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South Third Street
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Boo” Colgan
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Bush, Mize & Silliman
Harry Berkson
Poland
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