Life of Judge Cornforth Sainted in Colorado Springs
Judge Arthur Cornforth aged 77 longtime Colorado Springs jurist died of heart trouble last Friday in Colorado Springs. A K U law graduate 1882 he served as district judge from 1919 and earlier as state senator elected 1902 1905 and 1910. He was active in Freemasonry Elks and bar associations. hobby rose growing. Funeral held Monday at First Baptist with Masonic service. survived by wife two sisters niece nephew and cousin.
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Arthur Cornforth
K. U. Law School
Colorado Springs
Colorado
Cornforth
Smethport
Pueblo
Durango
Salt Lake City
el Paso County
State Senate
J. E. Little
Masonic Lodge
Modern Woodmen of America
Woodmen of the World
Sons of the American Revolution
el Paso County Bar Association
Colorado Bar Association
Colorado Springs Lodge of Elks
Fennie Cornforth
Ois Cornforth
Albany
N. Y
Thornton
Houston
Tex
Clara Macy
Cripple Creek
Colo
Hugh Morris
Neb
al G. Cornforth
Elbert County
Flora Stevens dies at 79 in Kansas City
Flora E Stevens 79 died August 8 at his son E A Stevens home in Kansas City Mo after illness since October She was one of the first newspaper women west of the Mississippi and widow of William Stevens Born 1859 in Lecompton she reported for the Rocky Mountain News in Denver and knew Buffalo Bill Cody The couple moved to Kansas City in 1895 where Mr Stevens entered publishing
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Flora E. Stevens
E. A. Stevens
Kansas City
Stevens
Lecompton
Denver
Kansas
Rocky Mountain News
William
Buffalo Bill) Cody
Water’s freezing point changes with air conditions study shows
Federal scientist Dr. N Ernest Dorsey of the Bureau of Standards reports water can stay liquid far below its standard freezing point or freeze above it depending on air conditions. He notes varying freezing points in lake and stream water and cites experiments with ice that flows like water and extremely hard ice.
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Washington
N. Ernest Dorsey
Bureau of Standards
Dorsey
Princeton
Rupert Wildt
Jupiter
United States
University of Toronto
American Physical Society
P. W Bridgman
Harvard
B. J. Lager
St. Louis University
Ross Arrested Over Rubaiyat Display at City Store
A downtown department store arrest leads to a year sentence for Ross on the initial charge. Officer R. A. Sanford, who made the arrest, notes the suspect expressed a desire to read the Rubaiyat and a copy could be placed in the jail library.
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Khayyam
R. A. Sanford
Ross
Wages Credited Under 1937 Social Security Plan
Topeka August 8 The social security board completes crediting each employee's 1937 wages to individual accounts as part of the initial big bookkeeping phase. Kendall M Haas says wage statements will be available after July 1 of the following year and can be requested by workers. The Topeka field office serves 14 Kansas counties except Atchison Brown and Doniphan, which are covered by St Joseph Missouri.
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Topeka
Kendall M. Haas
Social Security Board
Haas
Federal Building
Kansas
Atchison, Brown and Doniphan
St. Joseph
Reading World Journal Enhances Summer Vacation
Vacation ers may enjoy World daily with a special mail rate of 25 cents per month. This offer invites readers to add the paper to their summer routine and stay informed while away.
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Journal World
Stevens Family Patriarch Dies in Real Estate Business
The obituary notes the death in 1910 of a real estate businessman. Mrs Stevens, once active in the Daughters of the Confederacy and historian of the Kansas City chapter, survived by three sons E A Stevens Burns Stevens and Arthur E Stevens and a brother William C Bishop. Funeral services were held at Stine McClure chapel in Kansas City with burial in Forest Hill cemetery.
Birds Held Under Bond for Robbery Charges
Baltimore August 10. Youthful Charles Bird a midwestern gang member was ordered held under 175000 bond on seven robbery counts. His wife Barbara an expectant mother faced 25000 bond on one robbery count. Magistrate Elmer H Miller held hearings after a spree of small robberies that netted 1161. The case includes a liquor truck driver Philip Parks who lost 36.
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Baltimore
Charles Bird
Barara
Elmer H. Miller
Wichita Woman Dies After 26 Month Coma
Mrs. Anna Kremel, 44, who had been unconscious for 26 months, died last night in a Wichita hospital. She was injured June 9 1986 after an accidental blow to the head and nine days later entered an encephalytic coma.
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Wichita
Anna Kremel
Deaf mute instructor slain in Olathe shooting
In Olathe Kansas last night Oh Laughlin a nine year instructor at the state school for the deaf was killed when he returned to his room at the home of Mrs G L Jones His divorced wife Mrs Laugelin was critically wounded after firing two shots at him then turning the gun on herself Sheriff Emmett Pitt labeled the act murder and attempted death by own action William Koopman who witnessed the event described the shooting and escape.
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Olathe
Kan
Emmett Pitt
Oh Laughlin
Kansas School For the Deaf
G. L. Jones
Laugelin
Kansas City
William Koopman
Jones
Salesman Accused of Second Rubaiyat Theft in Los Angeles
William Ross a 39 year old Los Angeles salesman faced a second charge of stealing a copy of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. The case cites his prior theft involving the same book. Police report timeline places the alleged act on August 10 in Los Angeles, with prosecutors pursuing the matter.
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Los Angeles
William Ross
Ross
Omar
Corn kernel removed from infant's lung at Temple Hospital
A 21 month old child from Halstead Kansas was admitted to Temple University Hospital's bronchoscopic clinic to have a corn kernel extracted from her right lung. The procedure occurred today and involved Lynn Borgnn as parent.
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Philadelphia
Lynn Borgnn
Halstead
Kan
Temple University Hospital
Child Arrives by Air After All Night Ride
Hospital surgeons report the child was placed under observation and that nothing will be done for several days. The arrival followed an all night journey by air.
Kansas corn prospects dip in western areas amid heat and grasshoppers
Topeka reports corn began suffering from hot drying winds and grasshopper injury, but overall Kansas corn prospects remain hopeful. A heavy general rain is needed as moisture shortages bite western regions while eastern Kansas shows larger acreage and earlier development.
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Topeka
Kansas
Federal
State Departments of Agriculture
Unseasonably Dry Period Tests Soils in North
A spell of unusually sunny weather dried soils rapidly with little rain across most regions. Only minor precipitation occurred in coal areas of the extreme northern counties, offering limited relief to dryness.
Carlson urges credit extension to help farmers in wheat slump
In Concordia Kansas on August 10, P Red Frank Carlson Republican from the sixth district urged farm implement companies to grant reasonable credit extensions. He telegraphed the firms that many farmers cannot meet ripening obligations due to low wheat prices and warned drastic collection actions would ruin farmers and hurt manufacturers.
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Concordia
Kan
P. Red
Frank Carlson
Checks Ready Tomorrow for Election Board Members
County clerk T. R. Gerhart announces payments for all who served on primary election boards. Eligible individuals may collect at the county courthouse tomorrow morning.
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T. R. Gerhart
County Clerk Distributes Checks to Eligible Recipients
Checks will be distributed from the county clerk's office and persons entitled to receive the money are asked to call as soon as possible.
Indian land fight spurs Dewey Sampson to run
Dewey Sampson a Pluto Indian has announced his candidacy for the Nevada legislature on the Democratic ticket. He opposes a congressional proposal he says would grant white settlers title to thousands of acres of Indian land in Nevada.
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Nevada
Reno, Nev
Dewey Sampson
Sampson
Frightened thief abandons shoes after shotgun wakeup
In Duquoin Illinois a would be chicken thief fled James Millers home after Miller fired a single shot into the night. The next morning Miller found one shoe in the chicken yard and the other in the alley, the thief leaving footwear behind.
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Flora Stevens
Pioneer Newspaper
Chrysler
Douglas Corrigan
California
W. M. Marston
Boston
Doug
Victor McLaglen
Anne Nagle
Paris
Tim McCoy
Treasure Island
Flowersone
Mass
J. Underwood & Son
Professor Beware
Harold Lloyd
Dickinson Theatre
Wirt Parr
Pryor
Okla
Alma Manning
Louisa May Alcott
Katharine Hepburn
Joan Bennett
Jean Parker
Rua
Eteleid
Donald Grayson
Iris Meredith and the
Sons OF the Pioneers
Columbia Picture
Ralph Forbes
Alice Moore
Saari Ei
Corrigan
Edw. G. Robinson
Amazing DR. Clitterhouse
Carlson
Illinois
Dickinson
Abilene
Paramount
the Texans
Randolph Scott
Kelvinator
America
Raas
Green Bros. 5
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