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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1923
Page
2
A patchwork column from Journal World includes an company header for The World Company with a 722 Massachusetts Street address and subscription rates, followed by scattered quotes and commentary from 1923. The text covers ads, notices, a Bible verse Isaiah 54 10, and opinion on Victorian culture and labor wage movements.
A European crisis looms as Germany forms a new cabinet and reparations policy, with France and Britain recalibrating their stances. Domestic notes discuss Governor Davis’s health, a potential gubernatorial candidate, immigrant distribution, Wall Street, and upcoming county fairs amid a climate of uncertain international alliances.
John Dewey, Columbia University professor and leading American philosopher and educator, may be invited to reorganize Turkey's educational system after his prior Chinese reforms. A Vermonter by training at Vermont and Johns Hopkins, he began teaching at Michigan before Minnesota and Chicago, directing education there and collaborating with Mrs. Emmons Blaine on experimental schools. He joined Columbia in 1904 and became a prominent figure at the university.
Today marks the 175th anniversary of the first Lutheran synod in America organized in Philadelphia. Delegates from the United States and Canada attend the American Dairy, Food and Drug Officials annual convention in Duluth. Gen Henri Gouraud attends a farewell dinner in New York hosted by French-Americans after his Rainbow Division tour. Three hundred delegates from the U S Canada and Europe gather in Johnstown Pa for the quadrennial Sunday school conference of Christian Endeavor societies. Schonbrun Castle near Vienna, residence of the late Emperor Francis Joseph, is noted. The biennial congress of the International Federation of Working Women convenes with Mrs Raymond Robins of Chicago presiding and attendees from 300 countries.
Warsaw August 14 A P reports a special Sports Commission has been formed to handle all athletics and physical education matters in Poland. The first decision requires prior communication with the Polish Committee of the Olympiad and the Polish Amateur Sports Union before any legislative resolution is passed.
A mixed collection of quotes and rumors from Seattle to Chicago notes a man behind a banana joke made large money, a stabbing incident, hot weather, gymnasium tales, and various sensational snippets. It reads like a disjointed gossip page with no clear single event.
Anchorage Aug 13 AP Mount McKinley the North American continent’s highest point may be scaled this August by Carl B Hilelson former army aviator and C J Lincke Anchorage newspaper man to photograph the peak and Park In the plan they will fly from McKinley Station and land on the frozen plateau weather permitting The expedition will also photograph mountain sheep bears caribou and breed pass reindeer and reach an altitude near 25 000 feet before attempting a landing at the Roof of the Continent 20300 feet above sea level
Augusta reports Butler County wheat crop in 1923 largely threshed with a high percentage, based on the weekly agricultural bulletin issued by Charles E. Cassell, agent for the Butler County Farm Bureau.
New York heat boosts beer consumption causing saloonkeepers to cope with repealed enforcement laws and hi jackers. A motor truck hold up reportedly diverts 850 kegs. Also notes August Heckscher’s wealth and philanthropy, the Dyckman house as Revolutionary War museum, subway navigation woes, and a humorous London hit request at the McAlpin.
Saline County saved 621 by not accepting a single bid of 4398 for the Shipton area bridge over the Saline River. Commissioners ordered additional bids, citing the overruns that would have occurred with the lone bid and aiming to reduce overall expenses.
Stockholm Aug 14 The Swedish government proposes state ownership and supervision of radiophone sending stations while receiving sets may be privately installed after licensing. The plan envisions private concessionaires operating transmitters for a few years, with taxes on receivers funding expenses and part of revenues to the state. Amateurs may build their own sets. no strict wavelength limits and no immediate advertising. News bias in broadcasts to be politically neutral.
The report stresses that restricting unfair competition with the press is essential and will not be permitted, underscoring the need for fair reporting practices and safeguarding journalistic integrity.
Bert Guthrie and wife of Kansas City with their mother Mrs Julia Loher and niece Marjorie Sittington spent Sunday in Lawrence with Guthries sister Mrs L F Rose of 303 Elm Street Another Guthrie sister Miss Louise Gross finished a weeks visit and returned to Kansas City Bessie Bell came back Sunday from a week with her aunt Mrs Daisy Kaiser at Merriam Kan Also Mr and Mrs Clarence Meadows and son Ray and Mr and Mrs Ruchard Phillips with Mrs Tom House and son drove from Kansas City to the home of EK FE Philips and family at Bismarck for a day visit
The second division of the Christian church Ald society will hold a lawn social at G. B. Castle's 601 Walnut street Wednesday evening. Mrs Edward McKitrick leads the division with help from Mrs G B Castle and Mrs Earl Gordon. Fay Phillips visiting Mrs Meadows until September. Thelma and Fay Bell head to Rogers Arkansas to visit grandparents. Alfred Snapp is listed as ill.
Misses Katherine Beebe and Lilian Soderberg advised aspiring hikers to carry ample adhesive tape for treating misused pedal extremities and to wear wool hose. They arrived this week in Pittsburg on a hiking trip from Madison, Wisconsin.
In Glasco Kansas Will Adams killed a snake and found four eggs inside it. Four weeks later the eggs hatched into guineas after a local farmer placed them under a hen who cared for them.
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