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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1925
Page
4
A Lawrence man predicts rapid demolition of the Eldridge house to make way for a new hotel. He claims his growing boy and two others could complete the wrecking in about a week. The item appears amid subscription rates, Associated Press note, and calendar verses in the April 11 1925 issue.
Lawrence street railway company plans to complement trolley lines with buses on lighter traffic sections while keeping rail service on main routes between Haskell Institute Santa Fe station and the University. Officials expect a future mix of vehicle use to reduce costs and improve service, not a battle between rail and road. The idea aims for buses to handle shorter hauls more efficiently, with rails remaining for heavier, longer routes. The plan positions the Indiana street line as a test case and envisions a coordinated system rather than competition. Northwestern University enforces a women students smoking ban, provoking reaction about equal rights. male students are not restricted. The university rule sparks controversy over gender equality and enforcement.
The piece surveys editors' crusades to curb crime coverage in Chicago newspapers and a North Carolina plan to omit crime news for fifteen days. It weighs theories on whether crime reporting promotes crime, informs the public, or both, and notes concerns about sensationalism. It also briefly mentions Mrs Stillman and Babe Ruth for contrast.
Dr Albert Francis Zahm, selected by the University of Notre Dame as the Laetare Medal recipient, is a mechanical scientist with a long teaching record. Ohio native educated at Notre Dame, AM in 1885, joined Notre Dame faculty, 1895 moved to Catholic University of America as professor of mechanics. His work in aerial navigation earned multiple honors and he serves as director of an aerodynamic laboratory in the Navy Department in Washington.
A birthday note salutes John W. Weeks, Secretary of War under Coolidge, on turning 65. The item recalls Federal troops capturing Mobile Bay sixty years earlier and notes Col Theodore Rookshet and his brother Kermit sailing from New York to join the James Simpson Field Museum expedition to Turkestan, planning to depart Kashmir toward the Pamirs in mid May.
London April 11 Associated Press Hi aire Belloc criticizes current schooling for heavy emphasis on literature over mechanical arts He says students should follow their natural bent and learn the profession they are most interested in leaving with an apprenticeship rather than wasted time on unsuitable subjects Also mentions a Lincoln recital by Professor Gelich and Mrs Gelich with Mrs Gelich as pianist.
Mary Magdalene and the other Mary visit the sepulchre on the first day of the week. An earthquake occurs as the angel of the Lord rolls away the stone and announces that Jesus has risen, directing them to tell the disciples and to meet him in Galilee.
Easter Sunday radio schedule lists stations and times for church services and music across WHE KFNF KTHS WHO WEAF WGY WOO WCAE WJZ WFAA WTAM WOS KOA and other outlets. Highlights include Capitol Theatre program from Washington at 6 20 to 9 45 p m and various orchestras bands and operettas throughout the evening. A new elevator plan for Topeka statehouse is approved with 30 000 for freight to passenger conversion. Appeals filed for retrial in Lawrence city cases on liquor and vagrancy charges.
New York April 11 The actual condition of clearing house banks and trust companies for the week shows an excess reserve of 26,644,260 dollars. This is an increase of 26,383,290 dollars compared with last week when excess reserves stood at 310,970 dollars.
Washington April 11 Associated Press describes tornadoes as violent rotating storms with small diameters and unpredictable paths. Prof William Humphreys of the Weather Bureau explains the regional geography and air currents that create these rare, destructive systems mostly in the Mississippi valley and not west of Denver. The article notes the puzzling behavior of tornadoes including the skipping effect and rapid ground Contact.
Two new monuments and a grand bridge are planned along the Potomac. A Titanic memorial statue will stand at the foot of New Hampshire Avenue and EF Street, while another statue honoring John Ericsson will be built near the Lincoln Memorial. Arlington Memorial Bridge will connect Lincoln to Columbia Island, forming a famed approach to the capital under a $14.75 million, ten year appropriation. Colonel G O Sherrill leads foundation work as Arlington Bridge Commission designs the span with Lincoln Memorial marble and views of the Capitol dome.
H W Boggess Tulsa chairman of the Petroleum Safety Council urged employers to improve worker safety to resist passage of safety laws by states. He spoke at the council's second annual meeting in Dallas. He defended the move as essential for advancing safety even as he faced criticism. In a separate brief, Maizie the Barred Rock hen won British Columbia’s egg-laying derby at the Summerland experimental farm, besting a Leghorn from New Westminster by five eggs.
Mrs Sarah Benson Stone, longtime resident of Lawrence, Kansas, died Friday March 27 after a nine year battle with illness. Born in Bensonville now Florence near Boston in 1846, she moved to town with her husband Hors Stone in the early 1880s and became a devoted leader in the Unitarian church and local clubs. Her life centered on family, civic work, and service as president of the Women’s Alliance, a trustee, and head of the Quivira literary group for nineteen years.
Prof. H H Nininger of McPherson College told the Kansas Academy of Science that ancient peoples worshiped meteorites as gods. He noted Kansas leads in meteorite finds, with many specimens in state colleges, and discussed the distribution and significance of falls across the state and nation.
The document recounts Kansas meteorite discoveries from Elm Creek in 1906 to the 1923 northwest Oklahoma fall, noting Chancellor Snow’s influence on meteoritics, the Cullison stone, and public interest waning then reviving after a 1923 event. It urges preservation of sizable finds within the state and mentions European museums collecting such specimens.
A Kansas report notes a larger assortment of meteorites than in any Kansas museum, highlighting locally found specimens that outpace institutional holdings. The piece emphasizes regional finds and the potential for expanded public display given the abundance of specimens.
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