Ike's West Point Chance Made by Senator Bristow
Baldwin Kansas native Joseph L. Bristow helped secure Dwight D. Eisenhower’s U S Military Academy at West Point. A Baker University graduate, Bristow served as U S Senator and later led the Kansas public utilities commission. He edited papers in Salina and Baldwin and died in 1944 after shaping progressive reforms.
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Gen
Kansas City Star
Senate
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Post Office
Kansas Public Utilities Commission
Baker University
Baker Board of Trustees
Joseph Little
Hazelgreen
Baldwin Index
Baker
France
Sysem Sronger
The
Visitor
Criterion
Baldwin Ledger
Douglas County
Lawrence
Industrial revenue bonds fuel Kansas city growth
The article explains why industrial revenue bonds are tax advantaged for bond buyers and how they reduce taxes for facilities owned by cities. It lists Lawrence’s bond history including Milk Producers Marketing Co 645000, Lawrence Paper Co 500000, Curtis 1000 275000, B F Goodrich 3700000, Packer Plastics 225000, Carol Lee Products 110000, totaling 5455000, and compares incentives with other cities.
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Kansas
Lawrence
Milk Producers’ Marketing Co
West 2Nd Street
Lawrence Paper Co
Lakeview Road
Santa Fe Industrial Tract
Curtis 1000
North Iowa Street
Kansas Turnpike
B. F. Goodrich Co
Packer Plastics Inc
Santa Fe Tract
Carol Lee Products Co
Haskell Ave
Local Names List Patients Friends and Newborns Noted
A long reader list records hospital patients including Mrs Alvena Neil and Mrs Sheryl Snow along with dozens of addresses in Eudora Topeka Emporia Baldwin and Ottawa. It also notes births of a son to Mr and Mrs Robert Gabriel of Eudora and a son to Mr and Mrs Gregory Knight of 1917 Oxford.
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Alvena Neil
Eudora
Sheryl Snow
Powers
Ernest Heavin
E. 18Th St
Jackie Snyder
Conn
Katherine Shepler
Haskell
Jack Joplin
McLouth
Martha Zelinski
Mary Colman
Lester Brewer
Robert Gabriel
Gregory Knight
Oxford
Classes Cancelled for Wednesday Evening
All adult education classes meeting Wednesday evening are cancelled due to excused faculty members. Classes were originally planned but dismissed to accommodate the school day excusal.
Funeral set for Mrs. Clara Belle Butcher at Topeka chapel
Funeral services for 99 year old Mrs. Clara Belle Butcher will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Rumsey Funeral Home chapel with Rev. Harold M. Mallett officiating. Burial follows at Memorial Park Cemetery. She leaves four sons Frederick Seldon F Gray and M Lynn. a daughter Margaret Connett. 13 grandchildren and several great grandchildren. Born September 5 1869 in Chilhowie Missouri she belonged to the First Presbyterian Church of Lawrence and lived at the Presbyterian Manor Home in Topeka since 1963.
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Clara Belle Butcher
Presbyterian Manor
Topeka
Rumsey Funeral Home
Harold M. Mallett
Memorial Park Cemetery
Frederick
Washington, D. C
Seldon
Oklahoma City
F. Gray
Miami, Fla
Rev. M. Lynn
Okmulgee
Okla
Margaret Connett
Fairbanks
Alaska
Mrs. Butcher
Chilhowie
First Presbyterian Church
Lawrence
Obituary: Mrs. Rose White 84 Dies At Lawrence Memorial
Mrs. Rose White age 84 died Monday evening at Lawrence Memorial Hospital after residing in a local nursing home. Funeral services set for 10:30 am Friday at Mercer Funeral Home Holton conducted by Rev. Harold Hamilton with burial at Wetmore. Survivors include two daughters Mrs. Mary Maxwell and Mrs. Karl Westie, a sister Mrs. Eva Estes, a half sister Marie Reason and half-brother Carl Stolzenberger, plus six grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren.
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Rose White
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Ind. St
Mercer Funeral Home
Holton
Harold Hamilton
Wetmore Cemetery
Mary Maxwell
Karl Westie
Bettendorf
Iowa
Eva Estes
Kansas City
Marie Reason
Wetmore
Carl Stolzenberger
Fresno
Calif
Charles G Bitzer Graveside Service Scheduled
Springfield resident Charles G Bitzer formerly of Lawrence and Topeka Kansas will be buried Thursday at Mount Hope cemetery Topeka after a Wednesday funeral in Quincy Illinois He died Sunday Surviving family includes his widow Alicia a daughter Mrs Wallace Weeks Lincoln Nebraska three grandchildren and an aunt Mrs Stanton Olinger Lawrence Kansas
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Springfield
Charles G. Bitzer
Lawrence and
Topeka
Kan
Mount Hope Cemetery
Quincy
Bitzer
Alicia
Wallace Weeks
Lincoln, Neb
Stanton Olinger
la. St
Lawrence
Eugene Jarrett 84 Tonganoxie dies at home
Eugene Jarrett 84 of Tonganoxie died Sunday evening at his home. Funeral services are pending at Quisenberry Funeral Home. Survivors include his daughter Edith Davis of Kansas City Missouri a son Leonard of the home four grandchildren and a great grandchild. He was born January 3 1885 in Tonganoxie and spent his life there. He worked for the Union Pacific Railroad 47 years before retiring.
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Eugene Jarrett Tonganoxie
Quisenberry
Eugene Jarrett
Tonganoxie
Edith Davis
Kansas City
Leonard
Mr. Jarrett
Union Pacific Railroad
Long Easter Break for KC Students Due to Eisenhower Funeral
Kansas City Missouri and Kansas City Kansas schools will close Wednesday and reopen Tuesday April 8 for an extended Easter vacation in honor of Dwight D. Eisenhower's funeral. The break was originally set for Friday through Monday.
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Kansas City
Kan
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Probate and Zoning Notices From Douglas County Kansas
The notice lists probate court actions in Douglas County Kansas including the estate of Nellie Miller and Nathan H. Miller with a petition to determine heirs and real estate description. It also announces a Douglas County Board of Zoning Appeals meeting on April 16 to hear mobile home and land-use applications affecting five-acre parcels near Sac and Highway 40 under county regulations.
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Tawrenece Laily Journal-World
State of Kansas
Kouplas County
Nellie Miller
Nellie M. Miller
Nathan HH. Miller
Nathan H. Miller
Nathan Bh Miller
Aid Park
Douglas County
Kansas
Bloels
Lawrence
Nathan H. Miller, Jr
Lawrence Daily Journal-World
Frouplas County
Edward Ds Davis
Lot A
Lot C
Sac
N.W
Leland Henry
Now
Mer
Isero Kampschroeder
Nsw
Highway 40
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