Manufacturer’s Army of Women Sales Reps Sells Fashion Frocks
Phil Meyers built a defying direct sales firm with more than 50 000 women reps most are housewives. They field 300 dress styles from 2.98 to 15.98, earning up to 60 a week. Reps door to door in towns, some on foot or horseback. Meyers notes turnover and praises women’s honesty in business.
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Small Dams Favored In Kansas Flood Control Policy
Directors of three organizations endorsed a policy backing the maximum use of small dams on Blue River tributaries as part of a basin wide flood control program. The proposal, from the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, urges coordinated plans with the U S Department of Agriculture and the Corps of Engineers. Copies go to the Missouri River Basin Survey Commission and a hearing in Manhattan may be held. The annual High School Home Economics Day at the University of Kansas will be on April 26, with a nearby Kansas State College event the same day. The KU program includes a 10 am welcome, a skit Opening Doors, a tour of the home economics labs, a box lunch, and a fashion show at Spooner-Thayer Museum.
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Fraser Theater
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Spooner-Thayer Museum
Quartz Filament Bends Channel Light at Curved Bend
When a quartz filament is bent light that travels along the filament will follow the curve and be deflected at the bend.
Ohio Farmer Seeks Owner of $700 Lost at Roadside Stand
A 71 year old Willoughby farmer reports finding a Buick with New York plates and a canvas top trailer last August 5 at his roadside fruit stand plus a $700 item. He asks the New York woman to identify herself and claim the property.
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Max Gives List of 200 Trailer Owners to Albany Bureau
Max wrote to the License Bureau in Albany and obtained a list of 200 persons who own trailers. His daughter Elsa appears among the names.
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Bodies of 11 Fliers Taken From Mountain
Golden Colorado report on a bomber crash near Golden where 11 airmen died. Bodies were carried down a mountainside by horse teams through deep snow to a Denver mortuary after wreckage found on Golden Peak. Aircraft based at Randolph AFB Texas was en route to Lowry AFB Denver from Fairfax Field Kansas.
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Ellinwood approves $122000 school bond for auditorium addition
A special 122000 school bond issue for Ellinwood High School passed with 369 votes in favor and 193 against. The funds will fund an auditorium addition and some new classrooms.
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Rice and Thompson Will Represent 2nd District
Carl V. Rice of Kansas City and Charles Thompson of Garnett were elected as Second District delegates to the Democratic national convention in Chicago. Francis W. Blake of Kansas City was chosen as delegate at large at the local convention. Rice, retiring national committeeman, campaigns for Senator Kerr of Oklahoma for the presidential nomination.
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