Plans Announced For President Harding Funeral In Marion
Marion Ohio Aug 7 The Associated Press reports only one funeral service will be held in Harding s home city Marion at the receiving vault of the cemetery conducted by Rev George M Landis and Rev Jesse Swank with no service at the Harding home. The body will lie in state at the Harding home Thursday afternoon and Friday morning. Washington D C Aug 7 The Capitol Rotunda service is set for 11 30 am with invocations hymns and benediction by church leaders. Marion Aug 7 President Harding will not be buried beside his mother and sister and his body will be placed in the Marion cemetery receiving vault pending a mausoleum. Mrs Harding approved simple arrangements including no military display and a possible honorary capsule escort for Troop B Ohio National Guard. The body will lie in state at the Harding home after arrival and again Friday morning. Willard Ohio Aug 7 The Harding funeral train arrived returning the President s body to Ohio as the nation prepares for the formal Capitol services tomorrow. The train lags the schedule as it reaches Ohio.
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Ohio
Associated Press
Warren G. Harding
Geo. M. ‘Landis
Trinity Baptist Church
Jesse Swank
Methodist Episcopal Church
Harding
Geo. T. Harding, Sr
Washington
A. Freeman Andersegn
Calvary Baptist Church
Montgomery
House of ‘Representatives
J. M. Landis
Marion County Court House
Willard
Capitol
San Francisco
Town
Ilinoig
Chicago
Iowa
Illinois
Youngtown
Pennsylvania
Youngstown
House of Representatives
Senate
Coolidge
Pittsburgh
Baltimore On Ohio
Glenwood
Pacific Coast
Connellsville
Funeral Train Passes Through States For President Harding
Crowds along the route salute the late president as the funeral train moves toward Washington. Rail officials work overnight to regain time, with many observers estimating over a million people witnessed the passing. Mrs. Harding travels calmly, preparing for formal services in Washington after arriving late.
Theatres to Close for Harding Funeral in Marion Ohio
Steps were taken to keep all motion picture vaudeville and legitimate theatres nationwide closed on Friday the day of the funeral in Marion Ohio for the late President Harding. The nationwide halt affects New York and other cities as communities honor the president.
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New York
Marion
Ohio
Harding
Resolutions of Condolence Adopted by Kansas Legislature
Resolutions of condolence to Mrs. Warren G. Harding, wife of the President, were adopted by both houses of the Kansas Legislature this afternoon. The action was taken in tribute to the late First Lady.
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Topeka
A.P
Warren G. Harding
The
Kansas Legislatus
Moros and Constables Killed in Battle Near Lake Lanao
Manila August seventh reports say fifty Moros were killed with many wounded and three constabulary members wounded in a clash near Lake Lanao on Mindanao. Governor general's office provided the tally with few details. Authorities had been probing alleged Moro plans to strike the constabulary in Lanao to avenge 1920 killings of rebellious Moros by police forces.
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Manila
Associated Press
Constabulary
Lake Lanao
Mindanao
Governor General
Lanao
Notable Friends to Attend Harding Funeral in Marion
Four distinguished private citizens and close Harding friends Edison Ford Firestone and Bishop Anderson plan to attend the Friday funeral services in Marion Ohio They will be accompanied by their wives Honorary pallbearers include Senators Lodge Curtis Watson Overman Fletcher Kendrick and others with Speaker Gillette and Representative Burton in attendance
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Marion
Ohio
Associated Press
Harding
Thomas A. Edison
Henry Ford
Harvey S. Firestone
William F. Anderson
Maryland
Edison
Ford
Fire-stone
Senators Lodge
Massachusetts
Curtis
Kansas
Watson
Indiana
Overman
North Carolina
Fletcher
Florida
Kendrick
Wyoming
Gillette
Aid
Burton
Butler
Pennsylvania
Cooper
Wisconsin
Garrett
Tennessee
Gardner
Texas
Haugen
Iowa
Five Dead in Car Wreck Near Griffith Indiana
A freight train of the Elgin Joliet and Eastern crashed into an automobile near Griffith Indiana killing five people and injuring four others, two of whom may die. The car carried members of the Kendall and Spalding families en route to Chicago, including Robert Kendall Dorothy and Leola Spalding, ages 9, 3, and 15.
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Griffith
Ind
Tive
Elgin, Joliet
Kendall and Spalding
Chicago
Bullene returns from New York with market optimism
H. B. Bullene returned yesterday from New York City where he has spent three weeks buying goods for the Bullene store. He reports a general spirit of optimism in the city about market conditions and believes money will be plentiful this year. Merchants expect the Midwest wheat crop to offset low wheat prices.
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H. B. Bullene
New York City
Bullene
Police Mistook Delivery Truck Rally For Bootleggers
Police at Woodland Park chased a delivery truck after misreading a group of four teenagers as bootleggers. The youths, two boys and two girls about 17, later explained they would have stopped if they had known it was police. The chief warned them to heed police signals.
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Woodland Park
Carman
Smith
Martin
Ewing
Kansas Weather Forecast Sees Unsettled Tonight Into Wednesday
Unsettled weather expected across Kansas with local thunderstorms possible tonight and into Wednesday. Temperatures show cooling in the south portion after yesterday’s highs and today’s lower readings. readers are advised to monitor for changing conditions as the day progresses.
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Kansas
South Portion
ASK POSTPONEMENT OF LAWRENCE SCHOOL OPENING
The Lawrence Chamber of Commerce endorsed delaying the Lawrence school opening by one week from the planned September 3 start to ease travel and attendance conflicts. Other items included closing afternoon business for the Douglas County Fair and sending a Lawrence delegation to the Old Settlers picnic in Oskaloosa.
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Board of Directors
The
Chamber of Commerce Today
Board of Education of
Lawrence
Douglas County
Farmer's Union
Oskaloosa
Close Vinland school building election awaiting legal ruling
The Vinland school board met with county officials to review a razor close rural high school building election. Action was shifted to acting county attorney H Hobart to verify legality before the results can be announced.
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Vinland School Board
C. J. Lane
H. Hobart
A. B. Mitchell
Mrs Kennedy Re-Elected County Poor Commissioner
Mrs Emma J Kennedy was unanimously re elected for a two year term by county commissioners in their first session of the month. Reports from the county farm and health officer were approved along with the coroner Carl Phillips on Walter Collins death. Bills for July were allowed. Twenty five inmates lived at the county farm in July. Total farm expense was 201.55 with 204.88 in credits.
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Emma J. Kennedy
Carl Phillips
Walter Collins
Chief Carman Holds Three Gallons Of Captured Alcohol
A city hall liquor vault holds about three gallons captured during Chief Carman’s term. Some is homemade corn and rye, some appears bottled in bond. The note hints the liquor will be disposed of soon, reflecting ongoing enforcement activity. In other items, Wander Olson, 23, was found ill on Eudora road and hospitalized before resuming travel to Clay Center. Baldwin City plans a new grain elevator after a recent fire, with preliminary sketches ordered. The Misses Greene bought a new Chevrolet Sedan.
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Carman
Chief Carman
Wandell Olson
Eudora Road
Lawrence
McConnell Hospital
Clay Center
Kans
Will Byuild
New Grain
Douglas County Cooperative Association
Baldwin City
Legislature Lets Snyder Down Headlines in Topeka
The Kansas House, with two dissenting votes, agreed to postpone indefinitely any consideration of Representative O. F. E. Snyder of Atchison. He had sought an investigation into charges that he capitalized political influence and that Gov. Davis and administration took 2 percent of state employee salaries for Democratic state fund contributions.
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Topeka
A. P
House
O. F E. Snyder
Atchison
Davis
Democratic State Fund
Governor Davis Ill With Typhoid Fever Report
Aug 7 Topeka reports Governor Davis showing typhoid fever after blood tests. Dr LM Powell said fever remains high between 102 and 104 with pneumonia still a suspicion but the governor is being treated and fighting the illness. Governor had restless night and limited sleep but head feeling clearer this morning.
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New Topeka
Topeka
Davis
Pr. LM. Powell
Marion's Own Day Proclaimed for Mrs Harding Funeral
Washington Aug. 71 President Goolidge authorized a statement noting that Mrs. Harding's funeral journey to Marion will be on a guest basis. The president and representatives from the legislative and judicial departments will attend as guests of the town of Marion and will not participate officially in the funeral.
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Washington
Goolidge
Harding
Marion
Plans A Reading Club Emporia Kansas November Convocation
The Kansas Friends of Reading will hold its first annual convocation in Emporia on November 16. W. H. Kerr, librarian at the Kansas State Teachers College, reports about 400 charter members, with hopes to add hundreds more. The group aims to promote reading, meet two or more times yearly, and discuss books and civic affairs.
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Kert
Friends of Reading
New York Evening” Telegram
Iowa
Kansas
Nebraska
Crop Production Forecast From August 1 Survey
The Department of Agriculture released its August 1 crop production forecast. Wheat is projected at 793 million bushels and corn at 2.982 billion bushels.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Rabies Test Positive Unlikely For Biting Dog
The dog that bit John Glidden recently has shown no rabies signs so far, according to Dr. J A Bogue a veterinarian. The dog a small terrier was bitten near Ninth and Mississippi streets during a walk.
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John Glidden
J. A. Bogue
Ninth
Mississippi
Police Force Change in City Unit
Fred Logan, colored, is no longer a member of the city police force. Adolph Ewing, also colored, is a new member of the force.
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Fred Logan
Adolph Ewing
Harding Burial Prompts Friday Services in Lawrence
Marion Ohio and Lawrence prepare for the burial of President Warren G. Harding with Friday memorial services across churches and Masonic lodges. K U suspends classes and offices. American Legion posts plan ceremonies at 3 PM, banners to be crepe draped for 30 days. post office may close briefly.
Kansas bonus bill advances after early action
Topeka August 7 Associated Press The first real action on voting additional bonus to care for the short age in bonus funds was expected late this afternoon as both houses reconvened to review printed copies of the bill authorizing additional issues Rep L R Gates Wyandotte county chairman of the lower house bonus committee carried the bill No amount is set to be appropriated pending data from the bonus commission The senate military affairs committee was to report later this afternoon both houses adopted a concurrent resolution demanding the bonus commission immediately furnish a detailed 2 cent count of expenses incurred and to be incurred in administration of the bonus
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Topeka
Associated Press
L. R. Gates
Wyandotte County
Bonus Commission
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Cleland Vacation Trip to Black Hills South Dakota
City commissioner W. O. Cleland and his family begun a two week vacation leaving Lawrence Sunday. They will visit Cleland’s son in the Black Hills area of South Dakota.
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Cleland
W. OW. Cleland
Lawrence
Black Hills
South Dakota
Mr. Cléland
Father Henry Fitzgerald Recovery After Appendicitis
Father Henry Fitzgerald, who recently had an appendicitis operation at a Kansas City hospital, is reported to be slowly recovering.
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Fitzgerald
Henry Fitzgerald
Kansas City
Curtis as Senate President Prospect For 1920 Race
Charles Curtis of Kansas, a Republican senator and senate whip, is mentioned as a potential administration candidate for president of the senate. If selected he would hold the post previously occupied by Coolidge but without vice president rank.
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Charles Curtis
Kansas
Senate
Coolidge
Fired at Howling Cats Hit a Residence in Kentucky
Two stray Cats on Kentucky Street nearly faced death after a shot shattered a window at Mrs. Mary L. Rickard home around 10 30. Police linked the incident to a fight near the house, suggesting someone tried to quiet the cats by forceful means.
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Kentucky Street
Mary L. Rickard
Carman
Woodland Park County Fair to Raise Admittance Prices
The Douglas County Fair Association votes higher prices to offset losses from last year. Adult single admission rises to fifty cents for the four days August 28 to 31, with season tickets at one dollar. Despite early delays for exhibits, demand for premium lists is high and officials aim to make this year’s fair among the largest and best in the state.
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Woodland Park
County Fair Board
Fair Board
Douglas County Fair Association
Chamber of Commerce
Air
May Klein Offered Dickinson State Coach Position
May Klein, three year coach at Lawrence High School, received an offer to coach and lead the physical training department at Dickinson State Normal School in North Dakota. He has not yet accepted and left for a western Kansas and Colorado trip. Also noted is a Legion Auxiliary drive assembling pajamas for ex service men in a southwest army hospital, with a meeting tonight for pajama collection.
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May Klein
Lawrence
State Normal School
Dickinson
North Dakota
Klein
Kansas
Colorado
The
Legion Auxiliary
Army
Southwest
Ladies Auxiliary of the
American Legion
Mystery of Mimbres pottery origin puzzles scientists
Washington reports Dr J Walter Fewkes studied Mimbres Valley ceramics from New Mexico and found no trace of the lost race that created the celebrated figures of humans animals birds and insects. The valuable artifacts are being damaged by looting as researchers race to collect pieces for the National Museum before they disappear.
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Washington
A. PI
Mimbres Valley
New Mexico
J. Walter Fewkes
Bureau of American Ethnology
Smithsonian Institution
North America
Fewkes
Hife
National Museum
City approves four paving projects and passes tax ordinance
Final taxing ordinances were passed for paving New Hampshire and Nineteenth to Massachusetts streets, Twenty Second to New Hampshire, and Fourteenth to New Jersey, with a note that McCook avenue paving does not apply as platted. Contracts were granted for Ohio Street paving and a street south of the UP freight depot to Locust Avenue. A street light request at Seventh and Ash was filed. Fire chief notes July alarms and losses, and building permits totaled sixty four hundred dollars. Police judge reports July fines and collections. two inmates remain in jail. Monthly bills approved by county commissioners.
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City Commission
New Hampshire Street
Seventeenth
Twenty-Third Street
Barker
Massachusetts Street
Twenty-Second Street
Massachusetts
Fourteenth Street
New York
New Jersey Street
Commission
McCook Avenue
Uiversity
Eleventh’ Street
Mississippi Street
Ohio Street
Eleventh
Twelfth Street
Union Pacific
Locust Avenue
A. R. Young
Seventh
Ash Streets
Sio Tel
Rport
Plan Camp Meeting Rotarians Camp at Rock Creek
The Rotary club plans a camp meeting at the Rotary club boys camp on Rock Creek nine miles southeast of Lawrence tomorrow evening at 7 30. Rotarians and Rotary Anns will be served by the camp boys and given a program later by the camp attendees. The public is invited to attend the program and should bring a mess kit for supper.
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Phe
Rotary Club
Rotary ¢Lub
Rock Creek
Lawrence
Éelock
Rotarians
Rotary Anns
Chamber of Commerce Lunc hons Off For August
The Tuesday luncheon meetings of the Chamber of Commerce are discontinued for August and will not resume until September. The Know Your City committee had successfully organized plant tours of Lawrence industries but suspended meetings due to hot weather and attendance lapses. The Chamber held its regular monthly meeting today.
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Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Comerce Unifer
Lawrence Industries
Entertains a Guest at 937 Pennsylvania Street
Mrs Myrlyn Hamilton Brown entertained Mrs Lil lian Hamilton Jones at 937 Pennsylvania street with about forty guests enjoying cards and music after refreshments. The item notes monarchies, a Welsh prince's discovery claim, a Chicago church tower, and Lambeth Palace architectural styles.
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Myrlyn Hamilton Brown
Lillian Hamilton Jones
Pennsylvania Street
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