Weather, politics, and crime mix in early 20th century notes
A compilation of brief items covers the Associated Press usage rules, a four month English prison term for a wealthy American in a manslaughter case, and remarks on Americans abroad. It notes a Kansas state tax proposal to shift car taxes, Twain on weather reports, European communist demonstrations, Sarajevo arsenals, and changes to doors at Topeka state capitol. Also mentions northeast Kansas park plans and regional funding decisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
State-Tax Code Commission i
Coromission
Kansas
State Capitol
Topeka
Smanner
Forestry, Fish and Game Ission
Kansas ‘Park
Tonganoxie
Commission
Sian
Mple
Wheat receipts at Kansas City July fall short record
Wheat receipts at Kansas City for July were 275 cars below the prior record, with market men saying the main rush to market has passed and railroads can move the remaining crop without confusion. An immense amount still remains to be moved, a task to finish soon before the crop is ready for market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Old Home Town Highlights From August Reels
A retrospective column recalls local events from fifty years ago and ten years ago, noting arrivals, business changes, and social happenings. It mentions Bob Ingersoll and Liberal camp meetings, a move of Julius Miller to Atchison, the wire fence factory expansion, prairie chicken hunting plans, a moonlight lake party for Ida Steinberger, and forthcoming world’s fair trips by J H Cohn and Miss Levy. It also covers a houseboat trip to St. Louis, automobile fever among Lawrence residents, Nash Walker’s New York trip, and theater plans for November 1. Ten years back, World War memories and post activities for American Legion units are noted, along with local families traveling to events in St. Louis and Excelsior Springs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kaw Valley
Bob Inger‘soll
Ingersoll
Kagans
Campbell
Grange Tore
H. Bowman
Tracers
Massachusetts
Julius Miller
F. W . Wieman
Atchison
Miller
J. 5
Dee
Tri East
A. Henley
M. W. Warne
Levy
St. Louis
Cohn
New York
Prof
George Hood
T. R. Hood and
Beck
Pomona
Cal
Will Randall
Clay Center
Kan
Prof. Hood
Lawrence
W. E. Spalding
Ida Katherman
St. ‘Louis
Louise Wiedemann
Harriet Gries R
Edward Wiedemann
Kansas History Notes and Local Social Roundup
Local notes record a Kansas History course at the University of Pet ers and threshing at Harmas of the eeeeard Investment company with wheat testing sixty one pounds to the bushel. The report mentions Mr. Hosford predicting twenty to twenty five bushels per acre on 160 acres and lists numerous social visits, family movements, and community events across Lawrence and nearby areas, including relatives from Kansas City, Neodesha, Linwood, and Olathe visiting or traveling, along with mentions of injuries and recoveries and farm incidents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Peters
Harmas
Eeeeard Investmentmpany
Southwi Wrence
Hosford
Mize
Irma Barnett Starr
Neodesha
Selah Barnett
Linwood
Guy V. Longstretch
Willoughby
Koeller
Starr
Kansas City
Tulsa
Okla
Morris
Gordari-Sigman
Charles Nease
Stack
Sarah Mize
Herman Knop
Olathe
W. S. Mize
J. A. Reynolds
George Chrisman
Chrisman
Verner Chrisman
Johnson County
P. O
Luther
Frank
Rogers
Bonner Springs
Lucille Lawrence
Pauline Moll
Beulah Reynolds
A. T. Broveak
Jané
Robert
Geraldine Allen
Local Social Roundup and Obituary Notes
Miss Eureva Wilson and others visited homes in the community on Wednesday. The Belvoir Farm Bureau met with several members present and outings noted. Infant Darlene Tietto born at Memorial hospital. local visits and threshing activity reported. Rev. Christopher J. of St Marys, a former professor and missionary, died, with burial at the college cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eureva Wilson
Chris Kraft
John Stull
Henry Stull
Ernest’ Wulfkuhle
Kansas City
Belvoir Farm Bureau
M. J. Murphy
W. Walikuhle
Orville Platz
Mit
D. A
Henry Montfort
Alton Rat
Ha Wulfkuhte
Robert
Donald
Larun
Rank
Albert Hildenbrand
Harold
Edwin Hildenbrand
Henry. Stull
Naomi -Hildenbrand
Ben Kellogg
C. J. Ne
St. Marys
Kal Re Ue
Christopher J
St. Mary’s College
Kansas
Julian's Message Ends In Morning Ghost Hunt
In a moonlit tale from 1928, Sir Richard and Helen chase a hidden note from Julian via Truffeni the gypsy queen. They debate a trap to expose Viscount Brocklehurst, then confront a fearsome paper trail behind the old Moat House Gardens. The scene ends with a nighttime gathering and ominous omens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard
Julian
Landi
Tom Pittah
Julien Guyfford
Pitt
Helen
Gregory
Truffeni
Bruffeni
Sir Richard
Lennon
Seaford
Jonas Skag
Dave
Old Truffeni
Tom Pitt
Naportation
Captain Despard
Captain Archer
Midnight
Viscount
Brocklehurst
Young Allison
Montaigne
Weare
Taltan
Allison
Moat House Gardens
Feni
Titus Oldcraft
Jonathan
Sunday and midweek visits around Lecompton and Lawrence
Grandmother Kurtz and Minnie, Henry Kurtz, Emma Strobel and daughters Anna and Alvena hosted Sunday dinner with William Buchheim in Lecompton. Several families from Hesper, Prospect, Lawrence and Leavenworth visited others for threshers, dinners, and shopping occasions during the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kurtz
Minnie
Henry
Emma Strobel
Anna
Alvena
William Buchheim
Lecompton
Walter Parker
Leone
Roscoe
Carl Kurtz
Verner
Elmer ‘Urtz
Hesper
Ed Olmstead
Leroy
Prospect
Jake Strobel
Gus Koch
Kansas City
Eddie Mad
Robert Reusch
Charlie Kurtz
Miss Minnie
Edwin Abel
Lawrence
George Catlin
Marie
Ben Neis
Ruth
Floyd -Broer
Little Kathleen
Anna Grist
Evabelle
Alice Marie
Lewia Lee
Elmer Kurtz
Local social notes detail neighbors and visits in Kansas area
The piece lists numerous neighbors and relatives visiting, calling, or staying with families in Hesper, Linwood, De Soto, and nearby towns. It mentions Miss Ruth Resat, Miss Elsie Neis, Miss Anna Grist, Miss Helen Strobel, the Kurtz, Strobel, and Neis families, and several excursions to Exceler Springs and Kansas City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hee Pny
John Reusch
William Cook
Roscoe Parker
Kurtz
Elsie Neis
Hesper
Anna Grist
Helen Strobel
Ruth Resat
Billie Edelbrock
Dora
Delbert Ingayne
Starland Bowen
Linwood
Sanday
John Bowen
Henry Kurtz
Chris Meuffle
de Soto
Pete Ness
Har
Sain Nes Jo
Jake Strobel
Pearl Strobel
Alice
Arthur Strobel
Arthur Bernits
Exceler Springs
Leslie Kindred
Evabelle
Alice Haris
Lewie Lee
Kansas City
Kindred
Bessie Campbell
Carl Kurtz
Roy
Emery Kurtz
Harry Broer
Will Eisele
Franklin
Robert Reusch
Wayne
Joe Strobel
Grandma Eisele
Leslie
Fred Neis
Clarence
Willie
Verle
Neis
Gigeon Neis
Johnson
Eudora
Harry Long
Neatles
Soviet Student Rebukes Bucharan Emir in Open Letter
Izvestia prints an open letter from Kakhmurad a Moscow Workers University student to his exiled father the former emir of Buchara. He recalls leaving home at age nine two decades in Moscow and accuses his father of seeking to restore imperialist rule and undermine the Soviet state amid regional tensions and propaganda.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Izvestia
Kakhmurad
Moscow Workers’ University
Buchara
Afghanistan
Bay
Basmach
Arm
Shakhmurad
Tadjikistani
Bachai Sakao
England
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Journal- World Sv
Tee World
Company
Simons
Cerca Tenes Ee
York
Fran
Alcorn
Madiaca Ave
Associat
Associated Press
Alee Sissatohen
Herain
Aias
Regeyveds
Sar
Saturna
Bae
Europe
London
Mark Twain
Sarajevo
Jugoslavia
Mr. O'Neill
Hane Dian
Dyne
Ting
Jay
Frank Webster
John Usher
J. B. Wheeler
William Thacher
F. E. Boswell
Iat
Ida Steinberger
Peote
A. Young
Excelsior Springs
Grandpa Young
Wil Pandson
Ernest Youn
Miss Morse
Argonne
Tokio
Harold Bromley
Tacoma
Bromley
General
John H. Rice
Clarence Deming
Edgerton
I. T. Martin
Don Miller
Sas
Mia
Howard Phillips
Mis
W. Philips I. T. Martin
B. S. Dow
Irene Butcher Little
Bettie Lou
Sie Hollingsworth
Junia
Kansas Gyrth
Dicken
Thei Lawrence
Charles Jewett
Mansfield
Martha
Sarah Agnew
Stanley
Ralph Harbison
Wilbur Mason
Eldorado Springs
Oklahoma City
Earl Steed
Lon Hale
W. A. Gordon
Springfield
Ralph Boone
Boone
G. H. Boone
Colony
Lou Penner
Harvey. Dent
Oma-Dent
Isner Osborne
Winnwood Beach
Plummer Woodley
Keen City
Busby and Son
Pone
Aren Harbison
Albert Luther
Eatlans City
Grover Fore
John
Hensen
Lee
Car Gaushter
Leene
Garrell
Belle
W. L. Blaylock
Ralph
Leslie More
Esther. Smith
Evelyn Blytock
Hazel Russell Oan
Meard Gardner
Lassey
Ha ‘Ag- Sonnac
Blaylock
Amy Bond
Mae Rattles
Sol
Mark Massey
Beha
Trinity Lutheran Hospital
Myrtle Teamer
Doris
Marguerite
Jesse Rattles
Ernie White
Louie Middleton
Warlie Cunnigham
Loraine Brown
Gertrude Newton
Newton
Hazel
Rattles
Bond
Yarnold-Stull
Chicago
Poor. Paby
Claude Callan
Loy
Kins
Era
Jeffery Farnel
Titus
Black Nick
Rob
Eacy
Oldcraft
Robs
Murm
Nick
Camlo
Trufféni
Wentzelow
Titus :Oldcraft
Fortun
Jefery Fernel
Reten
Evening Star
Bayer
Bucharan Emir
the ? JR. Inv.Co
Ail Kets
Lawrence National Bank “Wheig Gels Pias
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