Interurban Dispute Over Lawrence Wires Weighs on Cooperation
The Kansas City and Kaw Valley Interurban faces legal pressure over trolley wires in Lawrence as residents push for closer cooperation. Local business interests seek shared fares and better service to spur growth, while the Interurban weighs responses amid a broader regional debate on public transit, development, and politics. A concurrent note mentions Atchison theater Sunday operations and Michigan soldier bonus momentum, plus Chanute planning a $200,000 hotel funded by its own pine resources.
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Kansas City and
Kaw Valley
Lawrence
North Lawrence
Interurban
Biener
Kansas City
Debate Over Harper Barns Nuisance Near North Lawrence Depot
Residents of North Lawrence protest feeding mules cows and hogs near homes by Harper barns close to the Union Pacific depot. The town weighs rights of residents against the economic importance of the industry, considering cleaner floors and sanitation as a possible remedy or removal if nuisance persists.
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North Lawrence
Harper
Union Pacific
Lawrence
Kansas City
Senate backs Harding suggestions on peace and treaty issues
The senate moves promptly on President Harding's message with a peace resolution, a disarmament proposal, and action on the Colombian treaty. The British Triple Alliance strike is scheduled for Friday, though a last minute backdown remains possible among interested English factions.
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Senate
Harding
England
Fifty Years Ago in Lawrence Adverts and Local Notes
An 1871 Lawrence item reports coal boring discussions by Emporis, fresh market vegetables including radishes lettuce and young onions, and civic notes. It mentions S Smith of Bailey Smith recovering from rheumatic fever, a new University society church on Vermont and Quincy drawn by Wells, barber Jimmy Johnson returning from Topeka to run a shop at Eldridge House, and a city ordinance increasing street railway building to two miles yearly with fare limits of six and eight cents to various destinations.
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Republican Daily Journal
Emporis
C. We Smith
Bailey & Smith
Univer T Society
Vermont
Quincy Streets
Wells
Jimmy Johnson
Topeka
Eldridge House
Jimmy
Kansas Pacific
Twenty Five Years Ago in Lawrence Dispatch
The column notes Matt Potter and the Shimmons boys have broken camp and will hunt no more this season. Topeka hunters bagged 1060 ducks at Lakeview Sunday. A. D. Weaver of Lawrence caught the first bass of the season at Lakeview yesterday weighing 2 1/2 pounds. The Eastern Kansas Medical Society began its sessions this afternoon at the physics building.
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Lawrence Daily World
Lawrence Daily Journal
Matt Potter
Shimmons
Topeka
Lakeview
A. D. Weaver
Lawrence
Eastern Kansas Medical Society
Physicy
City Engineer Keokuk Named Walker
Keokuk appoints G. M. Walker as city engineer. Walker, a well known Lawrence resident, is celebrated for his work and brings a respected reputation to the Keokuk post.
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Hemior
Will Holloway
G. M. Walker
Keokuk, Low
Lawrence
Wheat crop outlook for Kansas improves to 80 percent
Kansas wheat prospects in the central belt reach 80 percent of normal per Edward C. Paxton of the U S Department of Agriculture. If maintained, forecast is a harvest over 150 million bushels, near last year. Area sown this year is 10 367 000 acres with potential declines from abandonment later.
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Topeka
Edward C. Paxton
Vrop Seletan
Kansas
United 8 Department of Ageiculture
United States Department
Costs Fall on Local Construction Projects
Topeka reports lower costs as contracts go to bidding, with a waterworks district plant project $50,000 below engineer estimates and Shawnee county approving a 16 mile road grading contract. A Kansas City firm won the $119,822 bid, $47,140 under estimate. Geisha rivls at Hien School Glee Club concert set for April 18. Hood's Sarsaparilla ad notes nourishment claims.
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Topeka
Tio
Cornate
Shawnee County Commissioners
Kansas City Instruction Company
Geisha Rivls
Hien School Glee Club
Turkish women ban shocks religious order
A staged appearance of Turkish women prompted the Sheikh ul Islam to issue a decree forbidding women of the Moslem faith from appearing on the hoards and public displays, marking a new religious ruling amid rising tensions.
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Sheikh ul-Islam
Local Parlor Bindhopin Kin Held at Westpha
Sunday gatherings fill the community with visits and meals as families attend church and Sunday School. Neighbors like the Lindells Bond and Garbutt households host dinners and socializing, while the Lone Star Ladies Aid group meets and sews aprons bonnets and tablecloths for charity.
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Avery
Curtis
Bavaria
Lone Star
Doin
Houser
Etork
Ditrict
Earl Lindell
Porter Bond
Lone Star Toadies
Aid
Thursh Ternoon
Will Garbutt
Jnoy Curtis
Miller
Will Johnson
Ira Rothrock
Carl
George Boland
Aovrence
Eli Tlrich
Statewide labor protest call in New York to oppose current state policies
Organized labor in New York has been called to assemble today for a protest against the present state policies. The action aims to unite workers under a common front as parts of a broader labor movement.
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Harding Amd
New York
Pure
Pursent
Coen Iek
Mathonm
Sunday crowd hears Rev. Giilith preach
A large Sunday night gathering attended Rev. Giilith's sermon. Numerous locals stopped by homes in Lawrence and nearby areas for social calls and visits through Saturday and Sunday. Kansas Authors to Meet in Wichita links appear with the Quill Club program and city literary events.
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Giilith
George
Willie Roser
Victor
Alfred Dietz
Oscar Markley
Charley Roser
Au-gust Dwtz
Thela Studebaker
Laura Fox
Joe Studebaker
Lawrence
Jexana Corbin
Ami
Jim Hoodges
Fred Pbrokman
Amd
Dena
Hermia
Liger Creek
August
Liertin
Charlie Sanders
Florence Mowder
Gladys
Father Biorgo
Porter
Tani
Kenpeth
Lundey
Ken EH Grigith
CPA
Tobay
Obituary and Real Estate Notices From Local Ledger
The item memorializes an elderly resident and notes era events while listing several real estate transfers with names such as Wulfkuhle Hammond Painter Wise and the Lawrence National Bank. It also advertises Northern table potatoes at 1.10 per bushel and Gibson Mill Building storage. The obit fragment describes a middle aged man active in the day’s events and a sense of community memory.
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Tianae
Pat Thio
AlNie
Aleemany
Nist Wulfkuhle
A. Tor
Hammond
A. G
Rell
H.R
Tristes
Painter
Allison
Hosfore
Divison
Lawrence
Frederike Wise
FLW
Woodrr
Lawrence Nat'l Bank
William L. Ewing
Babcock
Gibson Mill
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