Lawrence spring trades fair opens tomorrow night
The second annual Lawrence spring trades fair is set for 7:30 PM tomorrow at the national guard armory at Eighth and New Hampshire streets. The four day event runs through Saturday with booths representing manufacturers processors wholesalers and retailers. Tickets with each dollar of merchandise redeem admission is 10 cents otherwise. Grand prizes will be awarded Saturday night with prizes to be announced later. Participating merchants include Kansas Public Service Green Brothers Hanna Radio Independent Laundry and many others. The event showcases furniture home and kitchen equipment foods and more with two school booths displaying student work.
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Lawrence
National Guard
Eighth
New Hampshire
Armory
Lawrence Public Schools
CWA Exhibition Promises Renaissance Style Art Display
Washington April 3 The CWA plans a grand exhibit in Washington from April 24 to May 24 showcasing nearly 1000 works by artists funded under the Civil Works Administration. Barbes Watson, administration officer, hails the display as surpassing Venice's renaissance direct employment.
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Watson
Societe On
Washington
CWA
Venice
Barbes Watson
Public Works of
Annual Meeting Tonight at First Presbyterian Church
The annual congregational meeting of First Presbyterian Church at Ninth and Vermont streets will be held tomorrow evening. A dinner at 6:15 precedes the 7:15 business meeting. Each family brings a covered dish. The Women’s Guild April unit serves dessert. Reports from church departments will be heard and vacancies filled by election. All members urged to attend.
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First Presbyterian Church
Ninth
Vermont
Women's Guild
Marriage License Issued for Burns and EB Burns
Joseph EB Yatel and Oliv ene Burns, both of Muscotah, obtained a marriage license and were married by Probate Judge L. H. Menger.
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Joseph Eb, Yatel
Olivene Burns
Muscotah
L. H. Menger
Former Sheriff Farley Dies After Seabury Probe Fallout
Former New York County Sheriff Thomas M Farley died at Fifth Avenue hospital after an appendicitis operation. A central figure in the Seabury investigation of 1932, he was ousted by Governor Roosevelt for unaccounted bank deposits. Known as the Santa Claus of Yorkville, he built a local image issuing picnics and charity while serving as a district figure since 1929. Born in Yorkville in 1888, Farley was a longtime Tamany ally whose career rode the probe waves through the era.
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New York
Thomas M. Farley
Fifth Avenue Hospital
New York County
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Samuel Seabury
Farley
Yorkville
Santa Claus
Tammany
New York City
Woodlawn PTA Presents Gay Three Act Comedy at Schoolhouse
The Woodlawn P T A sponsors a three act comedy titled Gay to be staged at the schoolhouse on April 5 and 6 at 7 30 pm. Proceeds fund new library books. Directed by Mrs A B Ewing the cast features Gay Marshall Blossom Ewing Annette Burns Dick Royster and Hugh Randall among others.
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The
Woodlawn P. T. A
A.B. Ewing
Gay Marshall
Wall Flower
Blossom Ewing
Betty Marshall
Ralph Hubbel
James Warner
Archie Mills
Bobby Ellis
Lawrence Mills
Annette Burns
Jeanette Bowersork
Dick Royster
Hugh Randall
Elsie
Mildred Ewing
Jean Orietta Bower
Milly
Ida Good
Sister of Will Rogers Held Against Pneumonia
Mrs Tom McSpadden sister of humorist Will Rogers remained in stable condition after an attack of double pneumonia. The family said the reader is in Chelsea Oklahoma where she was reached after arriving from the west coast. Rogers himself is in California.
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Will Rogers
Chelsea
Okla
Tom McSpadden
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Kansas Public Service Corporation
Jenny Wren Company
Green Brothers
Hanna Radio
Independent Laundry
Brinkman Bakery
Nehi Bottling Works
Cornelia Byrd Fur Company
Achning Hardware Store
Bell Music Store
Kansas Electric Power Company
Poehler Mercantile, Company
Columbus Foods Corporation
South Lawrence Lumber Company
Cutter Hardware
Kennedy Plumbing Company
Lawrence Steam
Keeler's
Journal-World
Ward’s
Gustafson Jewelry
Rumsey-Allison
Veatch Furniture Company
Virginia -May
Weaver’s Dry Goods
McNish Bottling Works
Cooke Grocery
Langston Memorial Company
American Service. Company
Presbyterian Church
Hotpoint
Seabury
Woodlawn
Cuttex
Mae Pe
Ike
Fidner
Eldridge
Merchant's Fair
Cooke
Sherwin-Williams
Detroit-Jewel Gas
Coleman Pressure
Fairbanks-Morse
Atwater-Kent Radios
American Fence
Goodrich Garden Hose
Kutter
R.D. Brooks
Green Bros
Kelvinator
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