Army Mess Menus Cut to Exact Quantities at Camp Whiteside
National Guardsmen at Camp Whiteside Kansas see preplanned menu sheets showing meals and exact ingredient quantities for 100 men. Col. Paul McFarland notes the shift from daily improvised rations to standardized portions to prevent shortages. meals include beef hash, beans, stewed prunes, chicken and dumplings, with detailed breakdowns for breakfast lunch and supper.
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Camp Whiteside
Kan
Army Mesa
National
Adjutant General's Office
Daily Menu and Civic Notes Span Breakfast to Supper
The fragment lists meals for Wednesday and Friday including breakfast with milk toast bacon and SEAL, dinner beef steak and onions with sides, supper beef stew and more, plus Friday offerings of roast beef and bread pudding. It mixes in editorial chatter about political soundings boards and re-election implications, noting congressmen’ s use of hometown papers to project expressions and adjournment sentiment. A late item reports a gas theft around 1 30 am, with no evidence found. It ends with an ad reminder to call for ad-taker to sell children’s bicycles via classifieds.
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Washington
Washington EAD By Herbert Plummer
A Washington EAD column discusses the prolonged session in Congress. Representative Patman argues members should speak when they have time, while Acting Majority Leader Taylor objects to interruptions. The piece notes members face heat and the session’s length may be overstated.
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Herbert Plummer
Washington
Congress
Patman
Texas
House
Taylor
Crossword Puzzle Clues From an Old Page Readable Fragments
A scrambled list of crossword clues and partial answers. The readable fragments include across and down entries referencing rulers, streets, festivals, animals, clothing, and various wordplay hints. The text shows broken phrases, punctuation errors, and mismatched letters indicating a damaged OCR page.
News gathering in Washington grows amid public interest
The text notes that news gathering facilities in Washington have expanded greatly in recent years. It says senators and representatives often face intense attention from home audiences on public-interest topics, and that experienced newspaper men in Washington monitor news for specific states or cities.
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Washington
Champion Speller Faces Numerous Challengers in Kansas
Topeka reports champion speller Stockmyer of Gardner Kansas plans to defend his 50-year-old class title at the state contest in September. He heads 35 challengers from 20 counties including former titleholder Mrs Otis Adams of Atchison. Contests will be held in spelling bee fashion at the state superintendent office with eliminations. Written tests will accompany the old timers event for school children with 310 entries from county champions.
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Topeka
R. J. Stockmyer
Gardner
Kan
Kansas
Stockmyer
Otis Adams
Atchison
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
L. L. Beeding
George Odor
Iola
A. S. Hall
Farmington
J. M. Johnson
Hiawatha
J. H. Elis
Fairview
F. L. Allen
Eldorado
M. A. Bolin
Leon
Laura Lovett
Burlington
Bert Barricklow
Waverly
W. J. Rumnold
Hope
R. Cowan
Abilene
J. M. Paler
Lawrence
George Reynolds
Baldwin
C. H. Cooke
Fort Dodge
Frank Scott
Grinnell
Arthur Bentley
Shields
Charles Miller
J. W. We
Esbon and Topeka names linked to Moore’s well findings
The Moore’s well at 4 405 75 feet yielded a dramatic flow increase after penetrating a new sand from 187 barrels an hour to 808. Listed names include Esbon R J Steckmyer Gardner Mrs Alien eeues Kingman Fred Freeman and others from Dighton Topeka and McPher son. Other producing horizons noted in Cromwell McAlester Bunton Viola and related sand intervals.
Burgen sand yields new oil horizon in Pontotoc field
In Pontotoc county Oklahoma Ada August 1 The John Fitts field reports a new Burgen sand oil horizon. Estimates of ultimate recovery rise to as high as 100000 barrels per acre as E H Moore drills No 3 Atkins SW NW NW 32 2 7 on the field edge. He secured commission permission to deepen through the McLish formation. The Burgen sand is the ninth producing horizon in the Fitts area.
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Ada
Okla
John Fitts
Pontotoc County
E. H. Moore
Atkins
Corporation Commission
Burgen
Fitts
Gerald Thompson Faces Electric Chair in Hallmark Killing
In Peoria Illinois on August 1 6h Gerald Thompson aged 26 faced the electric chair for the June 16 killing of Mildred Hallmark a 19 year old convent graduate. A circuit court jury delivered the death sentence after a brief trial with only seven weeks passing since the battered body was found. The judge acted quickly when Thompson’s attorney could not be located.
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Peoria
Ill
Gerald Thompson
Mildred Hallmark
Thompson
Cir
Daily
Motion for New Trial Placed by Defendant
A motion for a new trial on behalf of the defendant was entered and scheduled for August 12 to hear the plea. The text promotes classified ads as a way to fund a summer vacation and suggests selling odds and ends for cash via Ad-Taker phone number 22.
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New University of Kansas Law
PW Viesselman
Dr. Cf. Brockelbank
Dr. B. Smith
K. U. School of Law
P. W. Viesselman
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W. J. Brockelbank
University of Paris
France
J. B.smith
University of Louisiana
T. E. Atkinson
E. R. Latty
University of Missouri
M. A. Kallis
K. U
Senate
Tennessee
Kentucky
Patie He
EAD
Copeland
New York
Senator Capper
Persia
Balearm
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Mara
Kellogg
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