World News Glance Highlights Diverse Domestic Items
A digest of varied reports includes a farmer and wife chased by wolves in Kansas, efforts to establish community laundries in Allen County, black voters in St Joseph planning a political club, and women in Sydney claiming all land where Atchison stands. Also noted: deer killed in Duluth, Topeka resubmission center closed, liquor transfer firm formed in Missouri, and labor strike actions delayed.
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Meade
Kan
Allen County
Kansas
St. Joseph
Manhattan
Junction City
Richmond
Hobart
Missouri Supreme Court
Sam B. Cook
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Hastings, Neb
San Francisco
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Kansas Commission On Higher Education
United States
Kansas Utilities Commission
Bluff City
Alaska
Garden City
Missouri
Jefferson City
Congress
Reform School
Hunnewell
Topeka
Los Angeles
Santa Fe
Stowerman
Osage City
Mo. Pac
Long Beach
Cal
C. P. Rodgers
Pittsburg
Woman sits as judge in Washington due to Davis absence
Miss Mildred Henthorne serves in Vancouver as the first woman judge in the state during Judge Davis's absence. The federal supreme court rules I C C cannot block railways from financing grain in transit. Tour Vaught is sought in Olathe for worthless checks and Denver police await Johnson County Sheriff arrival. An injunction seeks to stop Chillicothe from opening a new 50900 dollar electric plant. Ten Negro heads of families with children depart Muskogee for Monrovia to farm. A criminal capias issues for John H. Van Prant of St Joseph Railway Co over free streetcar rides to county coroner Dr. Byrd.
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Washington
Davis
Vancouver
Milded Henthorne
Federal Supreme Court
Interstate Commerce Commission
Olathe
Kan
Denver
Gave
Johnson County
Chillicothe
Muskogee
Monrovia
Liberia
John H. van Prant
St. Joseph
C. F. Byrd
Multiple Global Events Highlight Turbulent Era Headlines
A sweep of brief items reports on troops withdrawing from Torreon Mexico and fears for Americans there, a Franco Italian war context in Tripoli, aviation deaths in Johannisthal, papal delegate appointments in Rome, a shooting accident near Lemberg, and Japan China diplomacy. Additional notes cover U S politics, crime, and educational funding amid unrest.
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Torreon
Mexico
Barn Fire Destroys Lee's Summit Stables
A 12 10 a m blaze destroyed Miss Dorothy Cooper's brick barn on Second and West Main, with seven mules and one horse killed. The fire spread to three adjacent private barns owned by Col Younger A J Sigfried and Richard Williams, burning them to the ground. Firefighters saved nearby dwellings, and Cooper's barn valued at 8000 with 4000 insurance. others were partially insured. The blaze is believed incendiary.
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Lee's Summit
Second
West Main Streets
Dorothy Cooper
Kansas City
Col. Younger
A.J. Sigfried
Richard Williams
Miss Cooper
W. H. Maxwell
Lee’s Summit
Panel plans gas price control bill in Missouri
St Joseph public utilities commission president E H Spratt says he will draft a bill for the next Missouri general assembly to let city utilities boards regulate gas and electric charges. He cites a past rise from 30 to 35 cents per 1000 cubic feet and seeks to prevent future increases. The commission has failed to compel the Kansas Natural Gas company to restore the former rate.
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St. Joseph
Missouri
E. H. Spratt
Kansas Natural Gas Company
Local Utilities Commission
Convict John Healy Sparks Iola Public Debate
In Iola Kansas sentiment shifts toward releasing John Healy who is in a penitentiary for a crime another man committed. Town opinion now favors justice over past misdeeds and calls for his release without delay.
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Iola
Kansas
John Healy
Healy
California Delegation Seeks 50000 Defense Funds for McNamara
At the AFL convention the California delegation announced it would present a resolution to appropriate fifty thousand dollars for the defense of the McNamaras in Atlanta Georgia. This action would proceed even if not endorsed by the committee on the president's report.
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McNamara
Atlanta
Georgia
California
American Federation of Labor
Missouri man sues for damages after leg loss
Z. W. Hoppe of Willow Springs files an $8,000 damages suit in Springfield circuit court against Edward Janke of North Dakota following a quarrel in which Hoppe lost a leg.
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Springfield
Missouri
North Dakota
Z. W. Hoppe
Willow Springs
Edward Janke
Emporia College Signs Contract for Girls Dormitory
Emporia Kansas school awards contract to a local builder to erect a girls dormitory costing about 30000 dollars. The new structure will be a handsome building for the campus.
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Emporia
Kansas
College of Emporia
Glanders Case Moves to Rosedale Hospital
Dr G Mc Knight under orders from the Kansas health department arranged for the removal of Carl Olsen a Powhattan farmer said to have catarrhal glanders to the Rosedale hospital Olsen was quarantined a month ago and his horses have been killed and burned after tests showed glanders His wife and two children remain under guard as Olsen battles the incurable disease.
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Hiawatha
Kansas
G. McKnight
Kansas Health Department
Carl Olsen
Rosedale
Olsen
McKnight
Wooden Shoe Factory Still Thrives in Ferdinand Indiana
In Ferdinand, Dubois County, Clemens Luecken operates a forty year old wooden shoe shop serving German residents. The small 12 foot square wood frame, light filled shop houses a six foot log bench and hatchet craft shaping birch and poplar blocks into footwear for men women and children. Prices range from 45 to 65 cents, with birch shoes costing more for durability.
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Huntingburgh
Ind
Ferdinand
Clemens Luecken
Dubois County
Leather Trust
Mr. Luecken
der Holtzschumacher
Uncle Sam
Clements Luecken
Ing
Luecken
Widow 74 Hangs Self in Galesburg Home
Mrs Josephine Munson a widow aged 74 died by hanging with a shoe string in her Galesburg Illinois residence police said. The death is being probed as a suicide and no foul play is suspected.
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Galesburg
Josephine Munson
Labor approves sale of Red Cross Christmas seals
The American Federation of Labor endorsed the sale of Red Cross Christmas seals at its last annual convention. The resolution urged all AFL members to support and promote the fundraising effort to aid tuberculosis study and prevention in the United States and Canada.
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American Federation of Labor
National Association For the
Federation
United States
Canada
American National Red Cross
Red Cross
Mrs Selby Praises Cuticura Soap For Prized Baby
Mrs G A Selby of Redondo Beach California writes that her five month old baby won a prize in a baby contest and has never had a sore or chafe since using Cuticura Soap. She urges others to use Cuticura and notes many mothers thank her for the recommendation. A free sample with 32 page book is offered by Mail.
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G. A. Selby
Redondo Beach
California
Apicultural exchange about bee queens and leadership
The dialogue cites a queen bee as the boss and asks humorously about a presidential bee. The playful exchange contrasts insect hive governance with human political leadership.
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Johnny
England’s Hen Density Stuns Observers in Land Areas
In England the ratio of hens to farmland is noted as one hen per acre. An advertisement touts Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething infants as easing gums, reducing inflammation, calming pain, and curing wind colic at 25 cents a bottle. A quip about practical jokes is attached as a cautionary aside.
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England
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Praised
A Baltimore mother reports her fifteen year old daughter Alice recovered from illness after three bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad cites other letters of gratitude and urges girls with menstrual troubles to seek the remedy and contact Mrs Pinkham for advice.
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Baltimore
Alice
Lydia E. Ham
Lydia E. Pinkham
L. A. Corkran
Rutland Street
Baltimore, Md
Lynn
Mass
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