Adkins Brothers Set Pace for Undertakers in Kansas City
A Kansas City Sun reporter visits the Adkins Brothers Undertaking Co. at 2122 Vine Street, noting their new two story brick building, luxurious interior, and rapid professional progress. The firm, run by Charles H. and R. V. Adkins, features a dedicated funeral home chapel, a family sitting room, and a round-the-clock staff room, showcasing lavish decor and a strong racial development message.
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Kansas City Sun
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Adkins Brothers Undertaking Co
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Adkins Brothers
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Hopkins Dry Goods and Notions Catalog Notice
Hopkins Dry Goods and Notions offers high grade shirts, underwear, hosiery, silk ties, collars, georgette waists, satin camisoles, gowns, and dresses. Ladies and gentlemen accessories include brooches, lavallers, rings, fobs, pins. Cleaning department available by Bell Phone Melrose 4242.
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Bell Phone
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R. L. Hopkins
Adkins Brothers Funeral Home advertises services and open house
The Adkins Brothers Funeral Home showcases a full supply of undertakers goods and a six car garage behind the building. It notes a Chandler Limousine, office staff Miss Fannie Sherrill, custodian G C Cole, and associates B L Graham and Geo W Scales. Public inspection is scheduled Sunday June 20 from 1 30 to 10 20 pm. Washington reports an anti lynching bill favorably reported by the Horse Judiciary Committee allowing appeals for equal protection and penalties for mob participants with counties losing funds if lynchings occur.
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Washington, D. C
Horse Judiciary Committee
Gro
Time in Malay and Indian Customs Compared
The text notes how some Monammedan tribes in India and across the Indo-Malayan peninsula chew betel leaf as a time indicator, a process taking about twenty minutes to pulp. It also mentions Malays measuring time by drying the wet hair on an eight minute head.
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India
Indo-Malayan Peninsula
Diamond of the First Water Educator Speaks
A prominent educator and literary man in the office recently proclaimed a striking line about discretion. He stated a stenographer knows when not to talk, an assertion he compared to discovering a diamond of the first water. The remark is expected to provoke thought across many readers.
Look to Future Food Supply Prompts Local Agriculture Rise
With imports scarce, Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States promote local food production. Rubber plantations allocate land to crops, and a surge in mechanized farming follows as a shipment of tractors was sold readily.
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Straita
Federated Malay States
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