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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1915
Page
8
Fragmented ad page lists items for sale including seven shnafs a sew and six pies and a private sale price of 910. A loan request reads WANTED TO BORROW with a local contact SAMI and property value. Office hours note and a few stray references to local names and dates appear amid weather and cattle quotes.
AP Market Report notes steady markets in Kanily Missouri and Australia with prime red steers, dressed beef cows, and steer stock. Reports show light receipts, No. 2 red and white corn prices around one dollar, hay market weak, and prairie wheat mix. close figures not fully clear.
After a speech by Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia, over 300 New York importers urged President Wilson to take prompt action against Britain’s blockade, calling it a flagrant violation of neutral rights. Smith demanded repeal of the blockade or risk losing neutral trade with the United States. Also reports a cloudburst in Clinton causing flooding and disruption. ten blocks drenched, streetcar service halted, tents damaged as tents burned.
Trial testimony recounts Maxfield explaining a personal check found in a pistol magazine tied to the Henry Starr gang robbery at Stroud. He claims the gun and wagon ownership predate the crime and places Starr and Estes in prior actions including a eight months earlier trip to New Mexico.
The Treasury Department announced that on October 7 Secretary McAdoo will publish the names of travelers who can pay but have failed to settle advances given to them to return home from Europe at the war’s start. The action targets those owing thousands of dollars and seeks steps to collect the amounts due from deemed able to pay.
Samuel D. Howe, vice president of the National Tax Association, urged a nationwide movement to reform taxation. He argued current platforms mislead voters, and called for rational changes, better tax classifications, and centralized power with qualified officials to improve equity and efficiency. Howe, Kansas Tax Cabinet secretary, spoke at the ninth annual conference.
Port au Prince August 12 The revolutionary committee issues a decree dissolving the senate chamber of deputies and constituent convention. Deputies vow to meet to elect a president as the Parisian theater meeting notes that American forces occupying the national supply room will protect property and curb disorder amid the upheaval.
Fragmentary OCR describes a wartime shipment to Haiti including armored munitions, cars with ammunition, long telegraph wires, field instruments, heliographs, field telegraphs, and weapons. It mentions Colonel Waller and American land forces in Haiti, but many words are garbled.
Right handed pitcher Prele Brenton of the Cleveland American League club advances with the team on their present eastern road trip. Brenton is added to the pitching staff as Cleveland continues its travel schedule.
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