Atchison Starts Its Next Boom Lets Go
Atchison reports renewed confidence as Pillsbury grain storage expansion and a $100000 Sterinite radio plant upgrade spur growth. New St Benedicts construction, White Clay sewer extension, and oil depot projects line Sixth and Kansas avenues. Groundbreaking for six new homes and The Globe Home Beautiful indicate broad development. city slowly advances without an overbuilt boom.
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Atchison
Holladay
Overland Express
Plains
Fowler Packing House
Kansas City
Fowler Packing Company
Pillsbury
Steinite
St. Benedict's College
White Clay Creek
Marland
Sixth and
Kansas Avenue
Fifth
Utah Avenue
Ninth
George Schaefer
North Seventh
Laramie
Kearney
Will Braun
Tenth
Ben Thomson
Hospital
Iola Chamber Offers 200 to Corn Growers in Allen County
The Globe notes a $200 prize plan by the Iola Chamber of Commerce for top yields on five acres each in bottom land and upland. It discusses farm policy, the possible veto of the McNary Haugen bill, and urges Allen County farmers to boost all crops, apple growing, and dairy and poultry production. The paper invites reader letters to its What the People Say column.
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Iola Chamber of Commerce
Allen County
Atchison County
Atchison Chamber of Commerce
Globe
the Globe
Kansas governor race hints at fresh leadership from DP. M. Hamilton
Great Bend Tribune speculates on a divided old guard in Kansas GOP with candidates Seth Wells Dan Chase Ed Frizzell Motter Hopkins Griffith Reed White and DP M Hamilton named as a potential unity choice. Hamilton aged 54 as a youthful, capable speaker who could win and govern, praised by friends. The piece notes Texas success with young leadership.
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Kansas
Great Bend Tribune
Old Guard
Seth Wells
Dan Chase
Ed Frizzell
M. Hamilton
Texas
Hamilton
Missouri Pacific highlights record industrial growth in last year
Missouri Pacific notes 635 new industries located along its lines last year, the most in its history, signaling a southwest manufacturing shift. Oil led the new developments, with coal mining second, prompting Atchison to push efforts to attract a coal company to operate its local mine despite earlier failed attempts.
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Missouri Pacific
Atchison
West
Atchison Chamber of Commerce
Nebraska
Cal
Globe Sights in a Patchwork of Wit and Wisdom
A collection of quips and observations from Atchison writers and readers on labor money and manners. Humorous asides touch on peddlers, conformity, education, and American life with sly jabs at greed, politics, and social norms. References include Thomas Dekker and Walt Whitman.
Troy to elect Apple Blossom Queen March 9
Troy residents will vote March 9 in the auditorium of the new high school for the Apple Blossom Queen with a 7 to 9 pm polling window. Voters name 13 on the first ballot, 18 advance to the final, and the top candidate becomes queen. A free entertainment and auction will accompany the event to defray queen and attendants’ festival expenses.
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Troy
Centre Township
FE. F. Karr
Doniphan County Orchard Sells At 450 Per Acre
Doniphan county orchard land near Troy sells at 450 per acre for 60 acres. Glen O'Brien sells his half share. Additional parcels include 40 acres north of Troy at 125 per acre and 10 acres near Sparks at 2500 total.
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Doniphan County
Troy
Glen O'Brien
G. W. Kinkead
Sparks
MISS MARGARET HAYES DIES IN ATCHISON COUNTY
Miss Margaret J. Hayes aged 53, lifelong Atchison county resident, died at Atchison hospital after a ten day illness from a tumor. Survived by brothers James, William, Patrick Hayes and many nieces and nephews. Funeral at St Benedict's church with rosary and burial at Mt Calvary. no flowers.
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Margaret J. Hayes
Atchison County
Atchison Hospital
Miss Hayes
William Hayes
Hayes
Deer Creek
James
Home Place
Patrick Hayes
North Fifth Street
Perry Hayes
North Third Street
Mt. St. Scholastica's Academy
St. Charles
Harcuff
St. Benedict's Church
Mt. Calvary Cemetery
Nick Boos
Conrad Handke
Henry Wolters
Michael Bourke
John O'Keefe
James Mullins
Mystery of the bloody coat and hat unresolved
In Atchison the mystery of W C Moore’s disappearance deepens as detectives fail to locate him. Clues include a bloody coat and hat found in an alley behind Parrot & Ganter’s, a slag fragment possibly linked to a struggle, and reports of a red car with fresh paint marks. Theories range from murder to a staged disappearance or a brawl, with witnesses noting Moore’s Oklahoma home ties and a substantial sum of money on him. Police await word from Oklahoma and pursue leads on his Kansas City trip for restaurant fixtures.
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J. 8
Martin
Kansas
Tax Department
The
Public Service Commission
Paulen
A. C. Walz
Father Francis Orr
Leavenworth Catholic
Pius XI
Leavenworth
Atchison
Father Orr
St. Peter's Church
Kansas City
Kas
W. C. Moore
Parrot & Ganter’s
Moore
Jim
Woodard and
Blackwell
Okly
Fiost
Oklahoma
B. &. Huntsinger
New Life
John Best Moves to Monrovia Farm
John Best and family of Atchison plan relocation to the late A. S. Best property known as the Kirkpatrick place. Land mostly rented to A Churchill and Wiliam Sharp. Best served as probations officer and custodian of the county building. Local notes mention a land sale in Horton, boxing referee Harry Wills in Hot Springs, a lengthy Missouri Pacific freight train through Atchison, a Jackie Coogan showing at the Orpheum, a call for cleanliness on Commercial Street, a brake claim by a motorist, and community events including Apple Blossom queen selection and Rotary debates on farm relief.
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Russell Haster
St. Benedict's
Kansas City
Fred Armstrong
Atchison Hospital
Irene Heald
Steinite
Harry Banks
Emma Snyder
Jacksonville
Katherine Kaiser
Alexandria
M. J. Hines
Anna Caldwell
Hines
Shannon
St. Benedict’s
Rio Grande Valley
Dorchester Avenue
Chicago
Arthur White
White
Mary Guthrie
Atchison
Ada Smith
Effingham
Maurice P. O'Keefe
Cynthia Woodard
O'Keefe
Woodard
Ernest High
W. A. Jackson
Jackson
Trussie Johnson
James H. Johnson
Independence Creek
Doniphan
John Best
Best
Kirkpatrick, Place
John
A. Churchill
Wiliam Sharp
Harry Turner
Jim Challiss
Horton
Charlie Dove
Hot Springs
Ark
Harry Wills
Missouri Pacific
Washington School
Jackie Coogan
Orpheum Theater
Commercial Street
Arch Hunt
Doniphan County
Troy High School
Atchison County
The
Globe
McNary-Haugen Farm
Rotary Club
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Globe Sights
Thomas Dekker
Kuhbridge
Hell
Jimmie
Heaven
Colton Clover
George Washington
Arkansas
Frank Welsor
Woodbury
N. Y
Walt Whitman
Amy Lowell
Henry Ford
Roy Allen
Lockwoul Hazel Company
Steve Wilcox
Chandler Llamber Company
Mabel Fink
Inigo Orlepp
Kresge
Pillsbury Mill
T. Raterman
Hatch Hardware Company
William Jackson
Charles Runbeck
Council Grove
Ed O'Donnell
Carl Warkentine
Midland Milling Company
George Morris
Q Streets
Topeka
Thomas Whitehead
Robert Cleary
Riley Street
Sam Brushwood
South Tenth Street
Atchison County Medical Society
Isabelle Patton
Mitchell Buhrmaster
North Ninth Street
Frederick Parohl
Brown County
Nels Fletcher
County Register
Orval J. Shaver
Shaver
Charles L. Hackbarth
Ernest Haag
BE. T. Shelly
Leavenworth Road
Frank Shumaker
Clifford Eiche
Arthur Howe
Fort Leavenworth
Ed O'Neill
Sixth
Main Streets
White Clay
Seventh
Richard Patterson
South Carolina
University of Kansas
Patterson
Henry Broadbent
Charlie Glenn
Alton
Glenn
Eleanor Patterson
Pete Muncie
Lilly Muncie
Muncie
New York City
Matt Funke
St. Patrick's
Tony Kilkenny
Ben Shaw
Riley West
Paulick
Q Street
H. A. Weber
Brush Creek
Harry Hillyer
Atchison Monument Works
Margaret Hayes
National Underwriters
Solomon Rosenbloom
Pittsburgh
Sam Amidon
Wichita
A. C. Winsor
George F. English
Wathena
Blancher
Schrader
Great Bend
Lawrence
Hutchinson
Independence
Emporia
Kansas Cities
Missouri Pacific Shop News
H. Waite
Fred Walz
Speed
Cleve Grover
Charlie McKee
Arthur Reeves
A. Wittesbeck
Frank Swiderski
H. M. Watts
Greenleaf
L. F. Adams
Roundhouse
Raney
Knights of Pythias
J. G. Edwards
Larned
A. E. Barnes
Columbus
Wheeler Barlow
Ward Lockwood
James Shepherd
Zion Baptist Church
J. W. Wilson
Knights of Tabor
Roy Ostertag
St. Benedict's Washburn
Carte
Monrovia Farm
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