Local notes and ads across city pages
Short summaries of miscellaneous city items include Dr. L B Salzer chiropractic and watch repair updates, death notices for avia tors, a firecracker safety remark, Deer Creek ice cream at a picnic with specialty flavors, a Methodist provision sale at Seeger’s meat market, a local wit’s claim of kinship, a sign about brick ice cream, and arrival of two large Missouri Pacific freight engines from Kansas City for Central Branch wheat crop hauling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. BE. Salzer
Zimmerman's
Harcuff
St. Joe News-Press
Deer Creek
Mary and Martha
Methodist Church
Seeger’s
Commercial Street
Field
Bill Field
Missouri Pacific
Central Branch
Kansas City
Atchison Mills Eye Big Export Trade Return
A mill man says Atchison mills are positioned for a large export business for the first time in two years. Wheat crops are 80 million bushels short nationally, but Central Branch and southern Nebraska tributary regions to Atchison are strong. Mills expect continued busy operation and full capacity for months. Street chatter warns of extreme heat in the Missouri River bottoms endangering farmers working in the hot, waterlogged soils.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atchison Mills
Nebraska
Atchison
Wonder Girls Father Dies in California
E F Dennis aged about 50 died in Los Angeles on June 22 after a long illness. Father of Gene Dennis the Wonder Girl, he lived in Atchison for years before moving two years ago. Survived by widow and two children, with funeral plans not yet announced. The family resided at 500 South Fifth Street in Atchison, and 672 Lucas Avenue in Los Angeles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. F. Dennis
Los Angeles
Calif
Atchison
Dennis
Gene Dennis
Wonder Girl
California
South Fifth Street
Lucas Avenue
Frank Dennis
Eugene Dennis
Austin Dennis
Missing Chickens Prompt Police Lookout Across Two Cities
John Farris of Nortonville reports 125 chickens stolen from his hen house Tuesday night. He asks Atchison and St. Joe authorities to watch for suspected disposal of the birds in St. Joseph.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret B. Flinn
Columbia University
New York
Mt. St. Scholastica’s
Monica Dougherty
Irene Adams
Alfreda Meyer
Frankfort
Kas
Margaret Deckard
Annette Donnelly
Virginia Seybold
Atchison
John Farris
Nortonville
St. Joe
Charlie McCallan
New Optical Shop Opens by Dr Donald Fry at 713 Commercial
Dr Donald Fry opens a new optical shop at 713 Commercial, converting the entire building into an attractive store. He comes from Belleville Kansas has ten years in optics including time in Kansas City and is an optometerist highly recommended. He is J N Arthur’s son in law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald Fry
Commercial
Fry
Belleville
Kas
Kansas City
J. N. Arthur
Valley Falls Meeting Flags Road Needs and New Courthouse
Residents of Jefferson county discuss distances from Atchison to Topeka via Williamstown and Valley Falls amid concerns about lack of hard surface roads. A mass meeting in Valley Falls city hall aims to push for more state auto licenses and gas tax funds and to address whether a new county courthouse is needed and its location.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atchison
Topeka
Williamstown
Valley Falls
Jefferson County
Incarcerated Lovers Stella Bryant and Elmer Davidson
Stella Bryant and Elmer Davidson appear content in jail as Stella claims she framed him to land him there. They speak through a cell window, separated by bars, while both serve sentences for vagrancy. Nearby, Fat Allen of Hiawatha nurses a knee injury from baseball.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stella Bryant
Elmer Davidson
Stella
Elmer
Fat” Allen
Hiawatha
Atchison High
Fourth of July preparations and local remarks
Community notes highlight Fourth of July preparations with local vendors, soda promotion, and a fireworks manager Claude Warner who plans a three month tour after July 4. Observers on Commercial street report a quiet pre holiday period though St. Joe fireworks pops already.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. S. Pulliam
Atchison Cash Pro. Co
Bill Prass
Hekelnkaemper
Commercial Street
St. Joe
Claude Warner
American Legion
St. Louis College
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Sugar Lake
Clearwater Beach
Claude Bruce
Clearwater
All
Home
J. H. Goll
Watt
Jake
Jace
Che
A.j.cash Grocery
Steline and
Hekelnea Emper Bros
City News
C. C. Rolls
Bae
Udie Pficon
Missouri River
Inter State State Lines
Inter State Way
Inter State Stage Lines Co
Tee SevaCic, Ae Eae
Wonder Girls
Louis Leff
Baltimore
Mary Shuggart
South Fourth Street
Sherwin Williams
Frank P. Costello
John Schmitt
Vetran
Blair Mill
The
Baptist Church
Globe
Bill Crume
Jackson Park
Berta Wells
Esther Rust
Lancaster and Atchison
Long Beach
Elizabeth Wood
T. V. Byrne
John Kaff Pharmacy
A & Behrens
Chandler's Drug Re
UW At
Delaney Dry Cleaners
Whitelaw
Broeckett’s
Main
Exchange National Bank
Jim Morrow
Missouri
Harry Kew
Leavenworth
John Kew
Lbhayer
Lincoln
Amateur Athletic Union Meeting
Paul Anderson
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