Unseen Values and Politics in the 1935 Journal
Front page column discusses social security bill under scrutiny, relief administration politics, Huey Long’s Louisiana moves, and Ickes as target. Notes Hitler’s birthday gifts and Dawes bonds issues with Germany. Mentions dust storms, Eudora underpass request, and highway safety for small towns split by main roads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Relief Administration
Louisiana
Georgia
Roosevelt
Huey Long
Ickes
Huey
NRA study from Brookings casts doubt on recovery impact
The Brookings Institution completed a study on the National Industrial Recovery Act and concludes that the NRA largely retarded economic recovery. After nearly two years of the New Deal, unemployment remains high, the budget out of balance, and the national debt larger than before. Opinions differ on an alternative path, but the report emphasizes ongoing recovery needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NRA
Brookings Institution
Lawrence Rotary elects Rowlands president and officers
In a Lawrence board meeting Robert J. Rowlands was chosen president of the Rotary Club with Karl Klooz as vice president and J Frank Jones re-elected secretary. Rowlands succeeds H B Hunger ford as president. Hail storm damages crops lines and property. Dedicate New Organ at Christian church details of service and concert. Local notes include scarlet fever recovery and social visits. County bounty on coyotes collected by Ben Brecheisen. Claus Otten, 93, visiting old friends in town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert J. Rowlands
Lawrence
Seventh
Massachusetts Street
Simmons Hospital
Telephone Company
Electric Light Company
Christian Church
John D. Zimmerman
Topeka
Lee Seifert Greene
Juliet Dowdy
Leon Fauley
Lua Elizabeth
Edward Baumgartner
Charles Kinnamon
Courtney Dodd
Parsons
Reobert Reynolds
Ben Brecheisen
Baldwin
Claus Otten
Salina
Frank Meierhoffer
E. A. Wilder
Mr. Otten
Westminster Corner Stone Laid at Mt Oread Sunday
Twenty five years ago the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Lawrence planned to lay the corner stone of the new Westminster building on Mt Oread at 3 30 Sunday afternoon with appropriate services. The event was to be of special interest to church members and featured Hon A C.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Germany
Reichsmarks
J. R. Griggs
New Quarters
Old Place
G. W. Hamilton
Lawrence
Denver
Bell
New Jersey Street
Joe Dunkel
Daryl Dodds
California
Mr. Dunkel
McCanles
Poor Pa by Claude Callan
Daisy follows her mother into marriage as her mother had three husbands before. The line portrays a woman echoing her mother’s choices as Daisy attends her second wedding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poor PA
Claude Callan
Daisy
Publishers Syndicate
Forty Years Ago Pi Phi Spring Party In Lawrence
Forty years ago last night the Pi Beta Phi fraternity held its spring party with guests in powdered hair. Buch's orchestra provided music while patronesses Mrs. Paul Re. Brooks, Mrs. A. D. Weaver, Mrs. J. W. Green, and Mrs. Peter Emery assisted in reception. Several local teachers and townspeople attended as announcements of weddings and moves among Lawrence residents highlighted the social scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pi Beta Phis
Buch
Paul Re. Brooks
A. D. Weaver
J. W. Green
Peter Emery
Pi Phis
Bertha Poehler
Anna M. Bundy
Lawrence
Northeast Kansas Teachers Association
Kansas City
Kansas
Peaks
Smith
Marcia Wood
Joe March
Julia Flinn
Laura and
Marie Lyons
Virginia Spencer
Mattie Hyde
A. J. McAllaster
Jewell ZicAllister
Lola Phillips
Nell Morris
South Kentucky Street
Stella Miller
Robert W. Neal
Cordley
Miller
University
Mr. Neal
Gleed, Ware, and Gleed
Topeka
E. F. Engel
Sol Marks
St.Louis
Highland Presbyterial to Meet in Nortonville Kansas
The 54th session closes with decision to hold the next Highland Presbyterial in Nortonville. Music events cap Lindsborg festival week as Bethany College orchestra and chorus perform, with Good Friday Bach and Messiah pieces drawing large crowds. Students compete for music scholarships today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blue Rapids
Nortonville
Kan
Bethany College Symphony Orchestra
Lindsborg
Lindsborg-Bethany
Marriage Drama in New Concord Ends in Question of Twins
The Stimson marriage falters as James suspects Jane of infidelity due to her pregnancy as the town of New Concord cites the same theory. He storms into his office and returns home with a useless gift and flowers for Jane, while the rumor of twins lingers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James
Jane Stimson
Jane
New Concord
Tragedy Returns to James Mon Avee
After Jane's deathly illness and the loss of their twin daughters, James confronts financial strain and family tensions. He borrows from her father, faces admonitions on money, and endures Jane naming their son Norris Northrup Stimson. James grapples with self doubt while deepening rift with Mrs Northrup and Aunt Sarah.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane
James
Mrs. Northrup
Anna
Doctor White
Mr. Northrup
Roos
Ters
James Stimson
Norris Northrup Stimson
Sarah
Lou
James Brewster Stimson
Julia
Little Norris
Marced
H. Farnham
Christopher Columbus Crow Tale Sparks Chatter
Mary Graham Bonner reports in a quirky scene where Bonner notes Top Notch the crow and Willy Nilly converse with Christopher Columbus Crow perched in a nest. The exchange hints at a disturbance as Willy urges a later meeting while the crow insists he is fine despite the urgency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Graham Bonner
Christopher Columbus
Bran
Christopher
Christopher Columbus Crow
Willy. Nilly
Willy Nilly
Christopher and the kingbird tale shared in whispers
Willy Nilly helps Christopher hide his scarred appearance after a failed confrontation with a kingbird. Christopher begs secrecy, admitting his loss and hoping others never hear the tale. Top Notch confirms the description as the group disperses.
Flashes of Life brings oddities from the nation
A roundup of brief items covers the 1773 tea party ruling that the government sponsored the action by dumping 3,500 chests of tea into the sea after a fire left it unfit for consumption. Other notes include birth month fame studies from Carlisle naming August as most famous. a Charleston printing order for a plate to print five dollar bills leading to an arrest. a Kansas City zoo keeper proposing the name Goliath for a four month old grizzly. and Spokane relief calls for ducks, with a Washington game-commission chair responding to a flood issue near Walla Walla.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Kansas City
Tex Clark
Swope Park Zoo
Golly
Ose
Clark
Spokane
Wash
Maurice Ahlquist
Thomas A. E. Lally
State Game Commission
Ahlquist
Walla Walla
Arbor Day Planting Boosted by Drought and Dust in Nebraska
Lincoln Nebraska April 20 Arbor day carries extra weight this year as drought and dust storms threaten the state Residents anticipate planting over a million seedlings and transplants The observance centers at Arbor Lodge former home of J Sterling Morton and now a state park Government shelterbelt program and civic tree planting efforts join Nebraska College of Agriculture and federal partners in supplying trees to farmers Rent that extra room with classified ad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska
Arbor Lodge
J. Sterling Morton
Nebraska Naturalists
Nebraska Agricultural College
Radio Programs Saturday Evening Apr 20 Schedule
A dense listing of radio programs across stations KMBC WDAL WDAF WREN and others for Saturday evening April 20, detailing orchestras soloists, dramas, variety shows, newscasts, and polarizing time slots, with many performers and program titles including Martha Mears the Marin Sisters Grace McTiernan Phil Cook and Percy primetime blocks from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. plus a Sunday schedule continuation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
KMBC
Preddie Bergin
Orch
WDAL
Martha Mears
Marin Sisters
Wdae Armstrong
KMHC
Suilton Charles
Wren
WDAF
Kansas City
Grate Hayes
Phil Cook
Roxy and His Gang
Eric Madriguera
Benny Venuta
Richard Bonelli
Andre Kostelanetta
Stars of Tomorrow
Mayfair
Bill Hogan
Paul Whiteman
Cleveland Symph
Uorville Knapp
Ray Harbeck
Leo Zollo
Pope Pius
Pope Pius XI
Rome
Soldier's Field
Chicago
Grand Canyon
Elden A. Ardrey
Arlington
Hollywood Bowl
Seattle Wash
Doctor
Aunt Susan's
Radio Pulpit
Federation of Music Clubs
Burris Jenis
Meherway
Fritz
Wren—Press
KNBC
Wren—Walberg Brown
Jerusalem
Major Bowes
Capitol Famir
Music World Review
Davidson
Joan
Jeri
Stone Church
Larry Larson
Radio City Music Hall
Italy
Kelly
Daniel A. Poling
Babe
EMBC
They
Engle
Megs Ley Dan
Ginatrellz
WREX
Ald Bond
Henry Deering
MBC
Eddie Dunstedter
Ren—Lux Radio Theatre
Wrae
New York Philharmonic Symphony Society
FAS Wdal
K. C. Rhythm Symphony
Dr. G. Charles Gray
Wren—Temple of Song
Honger Sentinels
BOEBC
Counter Church of Hollywood
Ay Sbmealaan
Frank Ww
Daft ‘Wons
Also Mentioned on This Page
Journal-World
the World Company
W. C. Simons
Dolph Simone
Awrents
Lorenzen & Thompson, Inc
West 44Th St
Michigan Ave
San Neisco
Sansome
Angelez
New
Lawrance
Marehard
Congress
House
Hugh Johnson
Congressional Committee
Adolf Hitler
Kaiser
Eudora
Sophia Menger
Mary Menger
Connecticut Street
Newton
Halstead
Emma Hansen
Mary
el Reno
Okla
A. G. Menger
Santa Fe Hotel
S. A. Darland
Engle and Lawson
Darland
Kentucky Street
Pi Phi Party
The
Junction City
Army
Fort Riley
Detroit
Cleveland
Louisville
Indianapolis
Cincinnati
Belle Plaine
Winfield
Earl W. Teets
Bloomington
James Monaye
Top Notch
Carlisle
B. C. Herber
Dickinson College
Pennsylvania Academy of Science
Charleston
W. Va
Federal
D. C
Allerton
Little Red
Lawrence National Bank
Uni
Leota Turner
WDAE
Graceland College Chapel
Nees
Benoy
Joe Penner
S2petha
Lutheran Church of Our Redeemer
Opera Guild
Howard Ely
Detroit Symphony Orch
American Musical Revue
Walter Winchell
Sherlock Folmes
Wayne King
Gibson Family
Fray and Braggiotti
Robi
M. LaFollette
Minute Men
Wendall Hall
LDS
PressRadio
AWDAF
Tres
BMBC
Hagy Hollow
Wren—Kellosg
Buddy
Ginger
Sam and
Lanny
K. C
the O'Neills
Imperial Grenadiers
KKMBC
Jimmy Allen
Askansas City
Buck Rogers
Red Davis
Lowry Koblet
Boske Carter
Dangerous Paradise
Uncle Ezra
Fray and Bragaiotti
WRE
Richard Himber
Edwin C. Hill
Howard Barlow
Ren—Sinclair
Bob Chester
Bismarck
KFKU
Kenneth Rockwell
Cornel
Helen Rhoda Hoopes
Alfred P. Sloam
General Meters Corporation
Gerard Swope
General Electris
World Trade
World Peace Foundation
W. 40Th St
First National Bank
the First Savings Bank
of Lawrence
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