Kansas City newspaper notes economy in city elections
The April 3 1950 Lawrence Kansas Journal World reprints editorials on Kansas city votes showing widespread caution against new bond issues and a shift toward economy. It contrasts Missouri results and discusses fiscal restraint, gasoline taxes, and municipal finance amid postwar depression concerns. It also covers census questions, naval conference delays, and seaplane progress with brief local notes on business, education, and social events.
Town News Long List of Local Moves and Weather
In The Old Home Town Mr Terrill of Louisiana Mo an old resident of Lawrence visits with friends in this city Mr J Arthur Henley of eastern Indiana has located in Lawrence and will join his brother in the wire fence business Major J S Wilson returned yesterday from Parsons where he attended a meeting Soet the Good Templars of the state Eudora Item A neighbor asks if Mr Pilla has increased stock to four or five thousand dollars and taken a partner answer yes and predict the firm name will change to C Pilla Son in about twenty one years Hail storm last evening very severe for the season hail stones four and one half inches damaged exposed faces Baldwin City reports heavier storm Wilbur F Presley one of the University students has joined J B Watkins Co as stenographer and operator Presley to be heard from later The normal department will graduate A E Parker W H Carruth Carrie M Watson Helen W Bay Ellen Hill Abbie Coltrane B S Hutchins A H Pearson and H W Chase June Prof G W F Smith the department principal is succeeding finely in his work.
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Terrill
Louisiana
Lawrence
J. Arthur Henley
Indiana
J. 5. Wilson
Parsons
the Good Templars
Theate
Eudora
Pilla
Wes
C. Pilla & Son
Presley
A. E. Parker
W. H. Carruth
Carrie M. Watson
Helen W. Bay
Ellen Hill
Abbie Coltrane
B. S. Hutchins
A. H. Pearson
H. W Chase
G. W. F. Smith
Misses Sternberg Host Vacation Jubilee on Friday Evening
Twenty five years ago report notes Misses Genevieve and Eugenia Sternberg hosting a vacation jubilee at their home Friday evening. Lincy Griggs plans to travel to Washington DC soon to take the U S Marine Service exam. Mrs Henry Carroll visits daughter Margaret at St Marys Academy in Leaxersworth. Carl Rankins departs with spouse for Crown Agency Montana after weeks with relatives. A Modern Dairy H M Chamney mentioned in passing.
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Genevieve
Eugenia Sternberg
Lincy Griggs
Washington, D. C
United States Marine Service
Henry Carroll
Leaxersworth
Margaret
St. Mary's Academy
Carl Rankins
Crown Agency
Mont
Ellen Divorced Husband Before Marriage Year
A short syndicated note recalls Ellen divorcing her last husband prior to marriage. The remark suggests she feared becoming attached to him, reflecting a cautious stance on long-term unions.
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Ellen
Ima
Publishers Syndicate
Lister the English Surgeon Who Pioneered Asepsis
Joseph Lister born 1827 in Essex and later Lord Lister transformed surgery with asepsis. Drawing on Pasteur, he attacked infection, tested carbolic acid, faced strong opposition, but refined techniques until wounds and surrounding contact became bacteria free.
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Lister
England
Joseph Lister
Lord Lister
Essex
Pasteur
Overnight AP digest of political and crime items
Washington tariff bill moves to Senate committee. Bentonville couple linked to insurance plot. victim identified as friend. Tulsa Hawks erose continent? 800 cases of liquor seized on British schooner. Senator McKellar urged to oppose government production. Muselejeal power dispute. Sebring husband kills wife and child with ax. Missouri Idaho New Jersey census first completion. Houston-Senator Moses talks. he heads to Bar ing. Vienna ex American minister Washburn dies. London govt resists religious tensions with Canterbury bishop. Hamburg bomb injures none. Atlanta gas plant fires extinguished by natural gas.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate-House
Patierente Committee
Bentonville
Ark
Liveman
Wir
Pearman
Tulsa
Okia
Haivks
McKellar
acks—Heaver
Sebring
Fla
Missouri
Idaho
New Jersey
Huston
Moses
Riday
butlin—Cossrave
Vienna
Albert H. Washburn
Austria
London
Canterbury
Hamburz
Jacqueline on Her Own by Richard Starr
Teddy Montrose faces creditors and hunger with five pounds. He splurges on dinner at Mascarini and notices Jacqueline Grey, brown eyed and bold, across the table. Their cab ride sparks flirtation as Teddy shares a dream of life as adventure and Jacqueline tests his vanity and charm.
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Jacqueline
Richard Starr
Teddy Montrose
Mascarius
Ay 6
Teddy
Jacqueline Grey
Femuc
Juirea
Din
Date of Storms Ride With Little Black Clock
John and Peggy embark on a perilous voyage guided by the Little Black Clock aboard an old sailing craft. They observe the Cape of Storms, soon to be renamed the Cape of Good Hope, as Vasco da Gama contemplates a water route to India amid pressure to abandon the voyage. The suspense centers on whether the Portuguese explorer will proceed despite dissuasion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Bermuda
Atlantic
Mary Graham Bonner
John
Peggy
Cape of Land
Africa
Cape of Good Hane
Vasco da Garm
India
Percy
Tomorrow- stories of Danger in flashes of life
AP reports a collage of brief items from cities New York Savannah Chicago Slayton Slayton New York Hunter College J T Jeffries Ira L Pennington Glasgow King’s Mountain brief notes on elections births ages hair loan voyage and a high school pitcher with a tricky delivery multiple locales and names appear in the wake of a miscellaneous danger themed feature with quirky anecdotes
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Associated Press
New York
Sato
Jom Te Voorhis
City Board of Elections
Taramany
Savannah
Chicago
American Research Foundation
New_York
Hunter College
Slayton
N. M
Twins Gordon and Bill Hughes Work as Pickers
Gordon and Bill Hughes are twin pickers, with one brother right handed and the other left handed, highlighting their contrasting handedness in their labor.
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Gordon and
Bill Hughes
Baldwin Notes On Visits And School Activities
Miss Louise Sumwalt from Kansas City visited Baldwin friends and had prior ties to the Institute faculty. Baker graduate Miss Lorna Bailey, a violinist, visited Ada Bailey and college friends. The Gem Theatre will install sound equipment by April 5 and begin talking pictures. A Baldwin 4H Club meeting is set for April 22 in the high school auditorium with Prairie City and other districts listed. Rotary guests from Ottawa invited to a dinner. Several Kansas City visitors and local church and school events are noted along with Boy Scout affiliations and a chicken dinner by the Women’s Relief Corps.
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Louise Sumwalt
Kansas City
Baldwin
Miss Sumwalt
Institute
Heten
Dorothy Deel
Lawrence
Lorna Bailey
Ada Bailey
College Friends
Bailey
Baker
R. A. Tulloss
Helen
Rantoul
Katherine Tulloss
Delta Delta Delta House
A. L. Meyers
Gem Theatre
Ferne Daugherty
Kan
Anna Elwell
Otttawa
J. J. Elyell
Women's Athletic Association of the College
Kansas
Hazel Gifford
Trances Himes
Grace Vaughn
Prairie City
Clover Leaf
Willow Springs
Spring Creek
Globe and Union
Baldwin High School
Baldwin 4H Club
Rotary Club
Rotary Ann’s
Ottawa Rotary Club
Virginia Farrar
Geraldine Porterfield
College Department
George Swan
Boy Scout Organization
Dee Potts
D. L. Young
Charles Barkley
Maywood Smith
Scott Morgan
Edwin Howell
Aubrey Butgers
Irving Gilman
Lyle _ Enyeart
William Gisbon
Gino Lucas
Ted Cragoe
Donald Leach
Donald Winters
Donald
Raymond Tomlinson
Ottawa
Victoria Brownrige
Isaac Brownrige
Alice Tidd
Helen Bruner
Dorothy Faidiey
Neosho Falls
John Thexton
Mary Diurst
Welda
S. C. Tucker
Hopewell
Cora Showalter
Grace Black
Edith Jenks
Toneka Ar‘rived
T. A. Evans
Roberta Sowers
Onega
Myr
Terix Sowers
Wan
W. E. Bruner
J. F. Carpenter
U. S. King
Jessie _King
Earl Hill
H. K. Ebright
Vinland
Blue Mound
Coal Creek
Vinland Rural High School
American Association of
University Women Plan Fall Conference At Baldwin
A university women group will hold its regular meeting at Dean Grace Irwin's home on South 8th Street with Dr. W. E. Bruner as speaker. A Topeka gathering of Girl Tesanver leaders discussed a fall conference in Baldwin expecting about 300 girls. Annie B. Sweet hosted last Saturday. Also reported is the wedding of Allie Gayle Quayle and Ward W. Wilcox at Dream Haven with brief reception details.
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University
Grace Irwin
South 8Th Street
W. E. Bruner
Bruner
Kaniga
Topeka
Gilbert M. Gander
Baldwin High School
Baldwin
Annie B. Sweet
Allie Gayle Quayle
Ward W. Wilcox
Dream Haven
Methodist Episcopal Church
Wallace’ Bruce Fleming
Baker University
Wilcox
Delta Delta Delta Allance
Wil ‘Cox
University of Kansas
R._ W. Wilcox
C. H. Graham
Ripley
Local Notes On Travel And Health In Beatrice Area
North Lawrence Glen J Culver and wife vacation through the south visiting Fort Worth San Antonio and Galveston. They will tour Shreveport Hot Springs and return to Beatrice Nebr with stops in Lawrence before settling home. Mrs Culver improving with warmer weather. Dr S W Longan of Kansas City a Thursday speaker on Parliamentary Pickles. Congratulations to Zeldon Bennett and wife on recent marriage at M E Centenary parsonage.
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Glen J. Culver
Fort Worth
San Antonio
Galveston
Shreveport
Shrine Temple
Hot Springs
Ark
Lawrence
Beatrice
Nebr
A. J. Culver
Florence Biggs
Paplewell
S. W. Longan
Kansas City
Dr. Longan
A. B. Ewing
John Ferguson
Clarence Kemper
Chas. Fincher
Nellie Gully
Glen Zimmerman
Zeldon Bennett
M. E. Centenary Parsonage
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Country Dance for Good Scouts Shut Down Near Ottawa
Franklin county officers halted a country dance near Ran touli north of Ottawa when promoters lacked a township license. Sheriff Geiger called off the event at Scout hall and cited nuisances and boisterous conduct, questioning why dancers traveled to a secluded camp-like site.
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Franklin County
Rantoul
Ottawa
L. C. Geiger
Geiger
Driver Sleep Causes Butter Truck To Be Seized
Police took custody of a Harrow Taylor butter truck in Kansas City after the driver, James Best, fell asleep at the wheel. The incident left the shipment in the police’s care and under investigation for handling and safety.
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Best
Massachusetts Street
Richard Hughes
John Callahan
Will Johns
Johns
Eget
Utter
Harrow Taylor Company
Kansas City
James Best
Local farmer praises Gly-Cas for rheumatism relief
O H Flora of Lawrence RR No 8, a respected farmer, says Gly-Cas relieved his sunatic rheumatism after two to three boxes, noting pain in hips shoulders and back eased and constipation resolved. He trusts Gly-Cas for stomach liver kidney and neuritis relief and praises The Gly-Cas Man at Round Corner Drug Store.
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Round Corner
Gly-Cas
Mgr
Flora
Lawrence
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