British Planes Repel Massive Nazi Coast Attack At Sea
A South Coast town journalist reports a huge air battle along the English coast. About 150 planes clashed amid machine gun fire and cannon blasts, with Junkers 88 bombers attacking a lightship and barrage balloons while British fighters fought to defend inland targets and the channel coast.
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Robert
Bunnelle
England
London
France
R.A.F
H. Taylor Henry
Palestine
Tex
Associated Press
Peasants Return Home as Nazi Claims Grow
Peasants moved from Alsace Lorraine to southern France last autumn are returning to their farms near Basel as Nazi authorities assert they are of German blood. Thousands have already reached their lands after long travel and hundreds more trainloads are expected next week.
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Alsace-Lorraine
France
Germany
Rhine
Basel
Small Out of Nation Vote Totals Reported From Topeka
The Kansas state canvassing board noted a minimal out of nation absentee primary vote. About 3 149 ballots were mailed, roughly 2 100 returned, with several not countable due to timing or missing affidavits. Official absentee count set for August 20.
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Topeka
Europe
Kansas
Mexico
Puerto Rico
Cuba
Frank J. Ryan
Ryan
New McLaughlin Gasser Comes in at McLouth
McLouth Kansas August 14 The McLaughlin gasser No 3 near McLouth came in at 1427 feet in Bartlesville sand The No 3 gasser is the fourth well in the area operated by Des Moines based McLaughlin It is part of a shift toward gas production with a potential field status and multiple wells in different stages of development
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Dan “McLaughlin
Des Moines
Bartlesville
Oil firms seek injunction against Kansas proration order
A three judge federal court in Kansas City Kansas heard a bid by Bay Petroleum of Denver and Morgan Flynn Cobb of Tulsa to block the Kansas Corporation Commission from enforcing proration in the Rush County Quits field. Attorneys argued production limits would trigger substantial losses. a special master may be appointed to gather more facts. Judges Bratton Hopkins and Huxman presided.
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Tulsa
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Sommers and Selzer host Sunday dinner in Eudora
Community notes list visits and hospital news. Gene Daugherty underwent eye surgery in Kansas City. Local residents travel to St Paul and Lawrence for family events. Card games at J L L club, with prizes awarded to Mrs Schehrer and Mrs Sommer. Eleanor Bartz plans Mich vacation with Copp family. A Topeka picnic fosters church groups and a Broers reception.
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Wilford Selzer
Gene Daugherty
Bell Memorial Hospital
Kansas City
George Born
Martha Lee
Mary Lou
St. Paul
Kan
Gottlieb Neider
Lawrence
Alta DeWitt
Anna Sommer
Mary Neustifter
Clara Grosdidier
Anita Stadler
George Schehrer
Paul Sommer
Eleanor Bartz
Dearborn
Mich
Clarence Copp
Henry Rausch
Denver
Colo
Paola
Ed Diedrich
Russel Dismang
Ottawa
Curtis Diedrich
Sam, Beadles
Walter Osborne
Broers
Virginia Shirk
Margaret Ogden
Glads Shirk
Ruth Bartz
Cleo Grimes
Dorothy Warmker
Dorothéa Bartz
Don Westheffer Jr
Ardon Ott
Local Families Gather for Visits and Church Events
A long list of local residents and relatives are noted in weekend competitions and visits. Trips to Kansas City and Colorado are mentioned, along with a large neighborhood gathering at the Baecker home and a crowded birthday dinner at Mrs. A. J. Smith’s.
Birthday cake and visits noted in community gathering
Smith and John honored with a white birthday cake baked by Mrs W R Smith of Kansas City. John received gifts from attendees. Several locals and out of town guests visited family, traveled to Colorado Springs, Lawrence, Oskaloosa, Everest, Modesto Calif., and Keystone.
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Freeman Hoover
Oskaloosa, Inc
Chester Baecker
Bert Daugherty
Raymond Stroude
Delbert Adams
E. F. Adam
Everest
Pearl Daugherty
Lawrence
Bert Daucherty
Devaux Kohler
Rodger Bischoff
Modesto
Calif
Hesper and
Keystone
Gus Bohnsack
Roseanna Schellack
Otis Zorn
Kansas cash balances rise in general and fee funds
State Treasurer Walter Wilson reported July 31 cash balances in Kansas show 1 768 045 60 dollars in the general fund and 11 236 651 91 in the fee fund including highway. A year earlier the balances were 1 511 426 94 in the general fund and 10 031 293 24 in the fee fund.
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Topeka
Kansas
Walter Wilson
Local Social Roundup From Valley Grove Area
Valley Grove and surrounding communities report gatherings and visits last Sunday and Friday. Families including the Florys Wilsons and Lambs hosted dinners and rides while guests traveled from Kansas City and Lawrence. Repairs at the school house continue as reopening nears and funeral attendance from Lawrence and Buck Creek are noted.
Local residents and visitors share weekend visits and travels
Howard Longanecker and family return home with relatives from Lawrence and California. Dorothy Clendenen visits Lansing and Iola with Elizabeth Dunn and Crystal MacNally. Mrs. Willis Dunn and Lena Jones visit Topeka. Leroy Puckett family hosts and companions attend a Valley Chapel rally in Lawrence. California guests Nickols visit en route to West Virginia for marine training. Nichols' mother slips from the same local birthplace.
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Mr. Longanecker
Howard Halmark
Lawrence
Ray Lamb
California
Charles Lamb
Merle
Lamb
Harry Bouten
Dorothy Clendenen
Lansing
Elizabeth Dunn
Iola
Crystal MacNally
Willis Dunn
Lena Jones
Topeka
Danny Lee Halmark
Clyde Puckett
Cecil
Gerald
Orvil Puckett
Florence
High Prairie
Leroy Puckett
Valley Chapel Endeavor Society
Clinton Park
Ray Badsky
Los Angeles
Calif
Mary Lamb
Bob Badsky
Myrtle Johnson
Albert Rooks
Stormont Hospital
Alfred Nickols
Pasadena
Will Curtis
West Virginia
Nickols
Nichols
Rachel Watts Flory
Local Social Roundup Notes From High Prairie Area
Mrs Boland returned from California to visit daughter Mrs Reece Swimley. Eddie Gates visited Robert Heaston in Baldwin. Heaston and Gene Swimler travel to western Kansas to visit George Boland in Phillipsburg and Stanley Snyder at Prairie View. George Summers visited Frank Johnson. Claude joined and stayed through Wednesday. Will Wood and Keith Ulrich's family dined at Herschel Ulrich’s with others visiting Mrs Annie Newman. Noreen Morgan visited her sister Mrs Paul Ulrich. Neighbors helped host a charivari for Mr and Mrs Max Moore at Will Winter’s. Mrs Moore was Doris Winters before marriage. Several attended a lunch and country club meeting with Mrs Will Vaughn. June Williams visited Loren and Virginia Williams in Lawrence. Frank Gleason and Paul Ulrich served on Willow Springs township election board. Mr and Mrs Claude Williams and grandsons Willard and Merle Mich plan to move to the W P D Lye farm. Clara Johanning has just returned from a two week Minnesota vacation. Leland Ulrich visited H H Ulrich after dinner with Mrs Philip Fleshman in Baldwin.
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California
Misa Frances Heaston
Reece Swimley
Eddie Gates
Baldwin
Robert Heaston
Gene Swimler
Western Kansas
George Boland
Phillipsburg
Stanley Snyder
Prairie View
George Summers
Frank Johnson
Claude
Will Wood
Ioa
Keith Ulrich
Herschel U1rich
Annie Newman
Noreen Morgan
Paul Ulrich
Max. Moore
Will Winter
Moore
Doris Winters
Charles Johnson
Herschel Ulrich
Loren Williams
June
Will Vaughn
June Williams
Loren
Virginia Williams
Lawrence
Frank Gleason
Willow Springs Township
Claude Williams
Willard
Merle Mich
Obituary of Orpha Davis Harding
Orpha Davis Harding daughter of George W and Laura Davis born November 24 1885 on the Nickels place died at the hospital in Lawrence August 8 1940 at age 54 Her school life as well.
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George W. and
Laura Davis
Nickels Place
Lawrence
Remembered for Christian service and family love
The text reflects on a woman who devoted her life to family and community. Married in 1908 to Oscar H. Harding, she lived in Larned and MeLouth, guiding her husband, children, and many relatives. She belonged to the United Brethren church and left five grandchildren, brothers, sisters, nieces, and nephews among her many friends.
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Agnes Shoemaker
Ellis and Allen Harding
Lucille Mosser
Larned
Me Louth
United Brethren Church
Mrs Anna Parks Formerly Anna Boyd Dies at 36
Mrs Anna A Parks born near Winchester Kansas October 6 1908 died at Franklin Pennsylvania August 9 1940 aged 36 She lived in McLouth and Leavenworth Kansas a member of McLouth Baptist Church Survived by husband George Parks daughter Helen Uhlrich four brothers Neal Stanley Elva Moffit all of Franklin PA Funeral August 12 at Baptist Church Rev Oscar Gibson officiating Musicians and pallbearers were Lee Gibson first cousins of Mrs Parks
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Anna Boyd
Winchester
Kan
Franklin
Parks
McLouth High School
Leavenworth
McLouth Baptist Church
George Parks
Helen Uhlrich
Oll
Neal Stanley
Elva
Moffit
Franklin, Pa
The
Baptist Church
Oscar Gibson
Lee Gibson
Oskaloosa
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