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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1925
Page
2
Lawrence city commission adjourned session reviewed an agreement with J Hunter to permit sewer connections in the West Hills district linking to Ninth and Michigan streets. City engineer to supervise. Sigma Nu may gain a wing hookup. Final action slated for Thursday night.
Hector W Cowan of Catskill New York will join University of Kansas athletic association guests at Saturdays Relays. He was KU's first paid coach and led the Jayhawker football team in 1893 94 and 95. Cowan, Princeton graduate, played guard and tackle for the Tigers in 1888. He will be hosted by Prof E M Hopkins and hopes to meet players he coached at KU including Dr John Outland O K Williamson A R Kennedy W H H Pratt Irving Hint and Fay Moulton.
At the American Institute of Electrical Engineers convention in St. Louis on April 15 Chester W. Rice and Edward Kellogg of General Electric demonstrated a new sola speaker. They replaced the horn with a digrapham and used a baffle board to reflect sound, reducing roughness and metallic distortions. The cone is driven by a coil in a magnetic field, yielding clearer articulation and extended high frequencies.
Chicago on April 15 reports Russell Scott was placed in death row awaiting execution. The Supreme Court is expected to intervene tomorrow, with the date set for the hanging at 11 am after his murder conviction. The death cell transfer occurred from the county jail's murders row.
Funeral services for Mrs Caryl J Dodds were held at 2 80 this afternoon at First Presbyterian Church with Rev BE A Bleck officiating. Burial followed at Oak Hill Cemetery. Pallbearers named. Rev Mr Ralston to lead later services with burial at Maple Grove Cemetery. Fred Ziesenis, 82, died at home in Baldwin after a life as an early settler. funeral plans pending with local arrangements. Easter visit noted with Mr Barris and others.
San Francisco April 15 AP preparations complete for departure of a grand fleet of the United States with more than a hundred vessels to sail for maneuvers at Hawaii and a cruise to Australia. Admirals boats and captains gigs shuttle between shore and man o war row as the Armeda berthed. Signals indicate readiness for early reconnaissance beyond the Golden Gate. Admiral Robison to direct operations from the USS Germania as plans unfold for recapture of the Hawaiian Islands. State Grange leaders Caldwell Davis of Fort Statte and John Nottingham visited Mr and Mrs Bussing in Lawrence on Grange business.
The Ideal Clothing company, through its parent company The Independent Stores, has purchased the bankrupt stock of Wells Clothing of Kansas City. The stock will be offered for sale in Lawrence. A distribution ad notes the purchase and intended sale of the acquired goods.
Topeka April 19 charters granted by the state charter board include C.oW. Parker Amusement Company Leavenworth $100000 Osage Ice and Ice Cream Company Osage City 25000 Municipal Power Transmission Company Ottawa 50060 Strout Gundy Clothing Company Belleville 10000 Quick Service Tire Company Independence 1090 Gordon Motor Company Pleasanton 16000 Clinical Building Association Pittsburg 48000 G H W Coal Mining Company Mulberry 10000 Kansas Acetylene Gas Company Wichita 60000 Rent O1 Products Company Kansas City 10000 Blankinship Clothing Company Fredonia 10000 A J Transportation Company Arkansas City 25000 Hillel Kosher Sausage Company Leavenworth 10000 Farm Land Business Exchange Association Wichita no capital Kansas Geological Society Wichita no capital Sigma Phi Fraternal Society Kansas City no capital Foreign corporations charters include Mississippi Valley Structural Steel Company Illinois no capital Kay County Gas Company Oklahoma offices Arkansas City 595000 Kansas Browning King and Company Virginia Kansas City 30000 Western Salt Company Ohio Lyons Milwaukee Corrugating Company Wisconsin Rosedale 25000 Shredded Wheat Company New York Topeka capital Ruth Fuel Company Oklahoma Columbus 10000
In Gary Indiana prosecutors said Mrs Anna Cunningham would be formally charged with murder for arsenical poisoning deaths of two of her sons Harry and Walter. Bodies were exhumed near Valparaiso as reports from a Chicago coroner chemist confirmed poison in the children.
The Day in Wall Street notes alternating heaviness and strength as rails stay strong and industrials rise on short covering while trade news weighs late trading. About 1,150,000 shares traded. County Attorney George Melvin traveled to Leavenworth on business peerage read the Want Ads.
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