Grain Marketing Company aims to unite large private grain firms
A historical draft report analyzes the Grain Marketing Company plan to form a nationwide farmer cooperative. It praises scope and backing but cites failure causes including poor farm organization understanding, misaligned local groups, and flawed appraisals. It suggests the effort may seed a better future.
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Puntry
Armour Grainpany
Rosenbaum
Aducers
Eee
I¢Lais
Farm Bureau Federation
Ool
Temi
James
Co-Opérative
Aracter
Agriculture Review
Sixtieth birthday of Governor Gifford Pinchot marked
The sixtieth birthday anniversary of Gifford Pinchot, former chief forester and influential Pennsylvania governor, is noted. A Connecticut native, Yale graduate, and pioneer in American forestry, he studied in Europe, directed early U S forest work at Biltmore, and later entered political reform before his politics.
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Gifford Pinchot
Pennsylvania
Pinchot
Connecticut
Yale
France
Germany
America
United States
Vanderbilt
Biltmore
N.C
Mr. Pinchot
Kansas Crop Estimates Show Poor Winter Wheat Yield
The Kansas State Board of Agriculture places this year’s winter wheat at 68,000,000 bushels with about 8.6 bushels per acre on 7,901,000 acres. Last year yielded 153,644,000 bushels. the five year average is 126,298,000. Quality remains high for protein and No.2 or better grades are forecast at 62 percent. Douglas County yields are estimated at 273,000 bushels this season.
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Kansas State Board ~of Agriculture
Kansas
Douglas County
Douglas
Kaw Valley
Fires and travel notes amid Lawrence items and a desertion of reporters
An eclectic Lawrence column touches on church disturbances and stampedes, Mrs Weaver and family trip plans, shipper updates on livestock, an apple dryer’s fall operation, and a fire at Pat Magan’s house. It also notes university certificate exams, baseball reporting issues, biblical discussion on God’s love, and a book review of The Sleeper of the Moonlit Ranges set in Alaska with themes of environment, heritage, and identity.
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East
Weaver
Ryan, Keeney
Robinson
K. O
Central School
Pat’ Magan
Henry Street
Marvin
Lawrence Baseball Cu
Journal
Lawrence
Edison Marshall
Alaska
Modern Author Defends Jonah and the Bible in Modernist Debate
Basil King argues the conflict between Modernists and Fundamentalists centers on the Bible. He praises the Book of Jonah as tender and noble when spiritually read, viewing it as Midrash that uses imaginative truth to illuminate divine sovereignty and human resistance.
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Basil King
King
Mr. King
Darton
Jonah
Professor Driver
Eros
Notable births and events across states and regions today
Today marks centenary obit events in Chicago and Lincoln era ties. Primaries are set in Ohio for autumn elections. Dorothy Ellingson’s murder trial nears in San Francisco. International Apple Shippers Association convenes in Cleveland. Roman Catholic ceremonies install Cincinnati archbishop John McNicholas. Corn field reports near Forest Perry-Arthur Bates say tall stalks confuse harvesters. Leavenworth railroad retirements see M J Phelan leave after 48 years. Ella McDougal touted as top local wheat grower with 200 acres yielding 38 1/2 bushels per acre.
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Leonard Swett
Chicago
Abraham Lincoln
Ohio
Can‘ ‘Didates
Dorothy Ellingson
San Francisco
International Apple Shippers’Association
Cleveland
Denver as a Self-Satisfied City Sparks Denver critique
C S Finch travels from Salt Lake City to Denver and beyond, railing at what he calls a self satisfied city. He contrasts Denver unfavorably with Laramie Cheyenne and Lawrence praising western views and the slow change toward civility while denouncing Denver climate and roads. He notes Mile High City’s selfishness poor roads and lack of hospitality for travelers. Encore reflections include praise for Frank Webster John Steele and the Barteldes Seed company and mentions of the Kansas Colorado border and Linco Kaw Valley agriculture.
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Cheyenne
Laramie
Long's
Pike’s Peaks
Bill Nye
The
State University
Northwest
Savage
Salt Lake City
Denver
Omaha
Wyoming
Idaho
Texas
Arizona
Frank
Webster
John Steele
Barteldes Seed Company
Lawrence Products
Denver Post
Senator Ingalls
John
Fred
Funston
Philippines
Kansas Line
U. P
Kansas
Colorado
Linco
Salinas
Kaw
Florida
Washington
Philadelphia
New York
New England States
Canada
Tramps Save Train On Damaged Granite Gorge Trestle
A rain swept rescue unfolds as three tramps scramble the Granite Gorge trestle to flag a fast Limited. One young man, Bob Fowler, signals with his coat while the train halts just short of a fallen boulder. Jim Fowler, a mail clerk, persuades Bob to ride to Crater City, and the crew offers passage amid wary thanks and shifting judgments from passengers.
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Granite Gorge
Young Mat
Bob
Jim Fowler
Crater City
Jim
Fowler
Grater City
Mokse
Trish
Grater City, and I'm All Alone Except For the Marine Guard
Faiwler
Bob—Wilson
Spike
Potts
Morse
Limitedd
Veteran Conductor Retires After Forty-One Years Service
J. C. Ramsey, 68, retires as conductor on the Santa Fe railway after forty-one years on a Kansas City Newton run. He previously spent five years with the Erie before joining Santa Fe, marking a total forty-six years in railroad service.
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Chanute
J. C. Ramsey
Santa Fe Railway
Kansas City-Newton
Erie
Santa Fe
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Book Review
Book OF
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John T. McNicholas
Forest Perry
Arthur Bates
Leavenworth
Rock
Ella McDougal
C. S. Finch
Pittsburg
Public Health Nursing Association
Ran- Vins Drag
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Bonte Bice
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Leason
Ted
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Fairyland
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Fairmount Parks
Weaving
Mondex
Lyland
Union Pacific
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