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Newspaper

Atchison Weekly Globe

Location

Atchison, Kansas, United States of America

Date

May 03, 1928

Page

2

Atchison Schools Pride in P T A Visit and Facilities

Atchison hosts the state Parent Teacher Association to showcase its public and parochial schools. The city boasts modern architecture, fireproof buildings, and extensive investments totaling nearly three million dollars in school facilities and equipment.

Atchison Atchison High School Roosevelt Gymnasium North Sixth Street Martin, Lincoln Franklin Washington Branchton Kansas Ingalls St. Benedict’s Mt. St. Scholastica Maur Hill St. Benedict's College United States

Forest Week promotes youth aid in fire prevention

American Forest Week launches with a radio program featuring President Coolidge. Emphasizes youth pledge power, cautions adults, and cites a Texas timber fire as evidence. Mentions Kansas City Star coverage of the Waggener political dynasty and a miscaptioned photo mix up between Waggeners and Stecher.

Coolidge Boy Scouts Amarillo Texas Kansas City Star Waggener Kansas Babe P. Waggener Menory Atchison W. P. Waggener Hutchinson Babe Waggener II Kansas Democracy Glick Moonlight Overmeyer Blair Harris Orr Star Harry C. Stetcher Osage City Free Press Stecher Albert Hall Farmington St. Joe Main Street Kansas Avenue

Kansas Democrats proposal sparks mock convention action

Kansas Democrats choosing presidential delegates for Smith or Reed faced a dry plank dispute. A Kansas university student mock convention nominated Curtis for president and passed a resolution calling for repeal of the Volstead act, offering a satirical jab at prohibition.

Kansas Smith Reed Kansas University Curtis

Heat, cold deaths in Kansas rise over 13 years

State vital statistics show 77 deaths attributed to excessive cold and 273 deaths from excessive heat in the last 13 years in Kansas. The remark notes the seasonal timing as a grim contrast to spring and a snappy jab at the data revealer.

Kansas

Senate backs marines in Nicaragua action

The United States Senate yesterday sustained the administration's move to keep Marines in Nicaragua. The move drew general public approval, as quitting would threaten national honor, though fighting is to be abhorred.

United States Senate Nicaragua

Hoover Against Smith Sets Up Clean Campaign Clash

It appears the race will pit Hoover against Smith in a decisive contest. The showdown frames a stark contrast between the two candidates and signals the campaign’s high stakes as voters prepare to choose.

Smith

Quakes Rock the Balkans Amid Ongoing Tensions

A series of seismic events shakes the Balkans drawing attention to regional instability. Scientists report varied magnitudes as authorities issue advisories while local communities brace for aftershocks and potential displacement. International agencies monitor developments for relief coordination.

Globe Lights: Witty Quotations on Life and Society

A collection of humorous maxims and reflections on health, speed, extremism, work, fashion, and human behavior. Observations range from drivers and shopping to religion and society, featuring quotes about athletes, thought, and everyday contradictions.

Atchison Globe Echoes Town Happenings And Firey Gossip

Local column reports on memorial calls for Dr Shelly and admired citizens, a jail term for liquor offenses, business changes at Harmony Garden store, paving plans, a golden wedding, and civic events including school plays, church activities, and a railroad yard inspection with notes on personalities, dates, places, and local enterprises.

H. V. Ashton H. V. Lott Earl Green Harmony Garden Ashton Atchison Jim Grooms Missouri Excelsior Springs Atchison County

Atchison Daily Happenings Mixed With Life Facts

The itemized column reports a chickenpox case at 713 A street and quarantine at 1023 Ash street in Atchison. It notes community remarks from Parson Shank, a drum corps joke, June courthouse walk of Dean Asper, local business chatter, and various small-town happenings including deaths, bonds, crime, farming prospects, social notes, recipes, and local gossip.

Tucker Newland Ash Street Parson Shank Dean Asper Central Branch Court House L. W. Stanley Topeka Kiwanis Club Atchison Will Hamme Phillippine Islands Manila Virgil Bayless Lee Dewey

Atchison Hosts First Radio Jobbers Convention

A new radio jobbers convention opens in Atchison, marking a first for Kansas and the central west. The event centers on the Steinite radio factory and local hero Fred Stein whose work made this gathering possible.

Atchison Kansas Central West

Sandino Captures Four Mines. Oil Well May Finish Him

An Atchison man notes Sandino the Nicaraguan bandit chief has seized four gold mines. He warns that a single gold mine has doomed many, but if Sandino takes an oil well, his end may be near.

Commercial Street Harry Fitzpatrick F. Gallagher North Fourth Street Omaha William Burns George Fortune Standard Oil Co Stout Battery Shop The Elks Charity Trust Association A. H. Langworth Shelly Virgil Bayless Bayless Warren Daniels Los Angeles Pomona Calif Newark N. J Adam Haynes Globe McAdow Kansas City Hale Bayley Coleman Falls City Dick Gilman Gilman Atchison County Atchison St. Benedict’s St. Joe Francis Johannes Leavenworth Elect Johannes St Benedict's Gilfillan August J. Schwertner Wichita Francis J. Tief Concordia James P Brady St. Mary’s Conception Abbey Conception Gregory Huegle Gregory Gerard Heinz St. Benedict’s Abbey Justin Lion St. Louis Church Good Intent Johannes Missouri Pacific A. R. Layman Interstate Commerce Commission Caryard P. A. Ward H. M. Watts Downs Missouri Pacific Orchestra Carmen Guy Evans Dean Asper Howard Hayes Raymond Bump Frank Ryan Ernest Childs Arkansas Missouri A. B. Whitaschek T. C. Sligar Kansas Division Sandino

Colleges Teach Golfing As Modern Corrective Trend

Colleges and universities move to offer courses in golf as a modern trend to counter an apparent social evil. The piece notes many middle aged men waste their lives trying to learn the game.

Phrase about newspapers and hell

A terse reflection notes some dislike for newspapers and argues there is no newspaper in hell though some newspaper men may be present. The remark uses dark humor to contrast media presence with the absence of a paper itself.

Hell

Gatehead girls seek mayor aid to reach likely suitors

In Gatehead England two girls request the mayor forward their leap year proposals to any likely young men, hoping to find partners.

Gatehead England

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