Bradley of KU places second in pentathlon
Ico Lehtonen of Finland won the pentathlon at the Olympic Games with 14 points, Everett L. Bradley of Kansas second with 25. Brutus Hamilton of Missouri tied for third. Loomis of Chicago set a world record in the 400 meter hurdles with 54 seconds. Bradley’s performance hailed as America’s premier athlete.
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Chicago
Antwerp
Auz
Associated Press
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Finland
Everett L. Bradley
Unive
Kansas
Brutus K. Hamilton
University of Missouri
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Bradley
Chas. Paddock
Los Angeles Athletic Club
Jackson V. Shela
Greece
Olympic Stadium
Brutus Hamilton
Lehtonen
Everett I. Bradley
University of Kansas
A. V. Sholz
Loren Murchison
New York Athletic Club
M. M. Kirksey
Olympic Club
San Francisco
Chicago Athletic Association
Everett
L. Bradley
America
F. C. Allen
New York
Missouri
IRISH RESOLUTIONS AT MASS MEETING IN NEW YORK
A New York mass meeting of Irish sympathizers adopted resolutions declaring British coercion efforts and actions against the English navy and Archbishop Mannix as defying President Wilson's freedom of the seas proposals. Frank P. Walsh called the coercion act the dying act of the British Empire.
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New York
Eiglish
Mannix
Wilson
Frank P. Walsh
Kansas Weather Forecast Warm Night and Tuesday Rise
The Kansas forecast calls for fair weather tonight and Tuesday with slightly warmer temperatures in the west and north central areas. The report notes temperatures at 7 p.m. yesterday and 2 p.m. today, with a maximum for yesterday and a minimum for today recorded at 61 degrees.
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Kansas
Start Clay Work at Ceramic Laboratory
The University ceramic laboratory, closed three years, reopens as a state division of geological surveys with new equipment under Paul Teetor. He resumes control after three years in porcelain work and will handle structural materials and pottery tasks, examining county clay resources and advising on local ceramic development.
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Paul Teetor
Tector
Teeter
Campaign speakers named for Kansas rally season
Topeka August 1 United States Senators Hiram Johnson of California and William Borah of Idaho along with Elbert J. B. Marrow of Kentucky top the list of campaign speakers for Kansas as the state headquarters announce. Republican rallies will build in late September while Democrats plan to feature Governor Cox of Ohio and Franklin D Roosevelt in speaking dates after the August 31 state party council meeting.
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Topeka
United States
Hiram Johnson
California
William E.borah
Idaho
Elbert J. B. Marrow
Kentucky
Kansas
Harve Motter
Forrest Luther
Cimmaron
Governor Cox
Lloyd George warns Wrangel against new soviet attacks
London reports Premier Lloyd George told the Commons the government warned General Wrangel that any further anti soviet action would be at his own responsibility. Wrangel has since resumed operations in south Russia, with results described as his own.
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London
Lloyd George
Baron Wrankel
Cox to press attacks with three addresses this week
Governor Cox prepared to press his onslaughts against Republican opposition in three more addresses this week. He speaks tomorrow at the Democratic state convention in Columbus Ohio, Thursday at the state Democratic editorial negotiation in South Bend Indiana, and next Friday at a Cox day celebration in Canton Ohio. A Cincinnati club has matched Wild Burt Kenny the New York heavyweight and Harry Greb of Pittsburgh for a 10 round bout on August 14. Nearly $40 000 will be distributed in purses at the Grand Circuit meeting next month at Charter Oak Park Hartford. It is rumored Montreal may rejoin the International League next spring. Thomas H Ince famed film producer started as office boy to Daniel Frohman.
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Cincinnati
Wild Burt
Kenny
Harry Greb
Pittsburgh
Charter Oak Park
Hartford
Armored flotilla guards Vistula as Polish front fights for Warsaw
Russians are within a dozen miles of Warsaw as Polish forces withstand the push. An armored flotilla patrols the Vistula between Warsaw and Thorn to prevent Bolshevik crossing, with rail moved vessels and cavalry still pressing west of the capital. Depots remain crowded while panic ebbs.
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Rungdyinin
Warsaw
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Seda
Ukra
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Associated Press
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Red
Tennessee Street Prowler Active Again
A prowler disturbed D R Athey at 1315 Tennessee Street early Sunday. The intruder entered through a window, fought a match, fled as Mr. Athey ordered him out, and knocked a board from the porch. Police could not locate the intruder, suspected to be the same man harassing the neighborhood since Thursday night. The description: short and stocky, race undetermined.
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Tennessee Streets
D. R. Athey
Tennessee Street
Mr. Athey
Emancipation Day Picnic For Lawrence Colorful Crowd
Nearly a thousand colored residents of Lawrence and Douglas County attended the Emancipation Day celebration at Woolland Park last Saturday. Public speakers and music accompanied a huge watermelon feast. The event drew about 300 strangers and was praised as orderly and enjoyable.
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Lawrence and
Woolland Park
N.T. Allen
Journal-World
Lawrence
Douglas County
Fate of suffrage known tomorrow
Tennessee awaits a decision on the federal suffrage amendment with the Tennessee House seen voting on ratification after a Senate move. North Carolina leaders predict Senate action in the next two days, while both sides press for pledges. Local alliances and strategic moves surface as opposition ponders Tennessee results.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee
House
Senate
Raleigh
N. C
North Carolina
W. W. Neal
A G Terrill resigns from state survey post in Baxter Springs
A G Terrill resigns from the lead and zinc division of the state geological survey after a year’s service at Baxter Springs Kansas. He came from a university professorship and will join a government university at Tien Tsin China as professor of mining, planning to sail in about six weeks.
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A.C. Terrill
State Geological Survey
Baxter Springs
Kansas
Court session held without judge or attorneys
Chief James Monroe presided as eight infractors were disposed of with no defense, no police judge, and no attorney present. He claims to secure universal guilty pleas by diplomacy, starting with one felon who pled and prompting others to follow.
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C. Stewart
Fort Riley
Kansas National Guard
Water Thiele
Monroe
Chargten
Ohio Suffers Loss From Rain Storms
Toledo, Ohio reports damages near one million dollars from two severe rain storms that flooded streets and cellars, toppled a building, and endangered pedestrians. Cars were swept from curbs and many areas faced flooding as distress calls poured in with no casualties reported yet.
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Toledo
Damere
Damase
Annual Guard Camp Opens at Fort Riley Kansas
Junction City reports the annual encampment of the Kansas National Guard opened at Fort Riley with the Fourth Infantry on the Republican River flats and the Signal Corps at Camp Funston. Major James M. Lockett serves as chief instructor with two regular army officers from Fort Fun. Governor Henry J. Allen accepted an invitation to review the Kansas National Guard at Fort Riley on Sunday August 20 as the two week encampment for the guardsmen begins.
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Junction City
Kans
Kk National Greed
Fort Tiley
Fourth Infantry
Republican River Flats
Signal Corps
Camp Funston
James M. Lockett
Funton
Yopeka
Henry J. Allen Tolay
Kansas, National Guard
Fort Riley
Farmer Admits Hiring Arkanasas Youths to Burn Wheat Field
Salina August 16 confession by A N Wilson a Kansas farmer who said he hired Wilson Keeter and Omar Gray two Arkansas youths for 108 dollars each to set fire to his Kiowa County wheat field in July. Wilson now jailed in Greensboro after insuring the crop with two policies of two thousand dollars each. Keeter and Gray arrested and to be questioned later.
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Salina
Lloyd George denounces labor ultimatum in Commons
Premier Lloyd George labeled labor's demand an attack on democracy and pledged to oppose any effort to dictate government policy by industrial action. He warned that the government would use all forces at its disposal to resist such pressure amid the war on Russia.
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London
Lloyd George
House of Commons
Russia
War Vessels to Baltic
The armored cruiser Pittsburg and a destroyer were ordered to the Baltic Sea to protect American interests. They are currently at Cherbourg, France, and will immediately proceed to Russian waters, as announced by the navy department.
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Washington
Pittsburg
Baltic Sea
Cherbourg
France
Navy Department
Potatoes Shipped From Kaw Valley Reach 1741 Cars
The Kansas City bureau of markets reports 1741 cars of potatoes shipped from Kaw Valley this season. Demand was moderate Saturday and the market remained steady.
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Kansas City
Federal Bureau of Markets
Kaw Valley
Insane Patient Kills Fellow Inmate at State Hospital
Carl Smith, inmate at the state hospital for the insane in Tupska, was found dead from strangulation in a locked room shared with Josiah Bacheller, a former soldier and fellow patient. Dr. H L Clark, acting coroner, says Bacheller, driven by delusion that Smith was a German spy, killed him last night by choking with a sheet after striking him. Bacheller claimed self defense and was taken to the hospital for the criminally insane.
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Tupska
Carl Smith
State Hospital For the Insane
Josiah Fracheller
Racheller
Smith
Sun
H. L. Clark
Bacheller
Leavenworth
Bueheller
Argentine
Lansing
Clark
Funeral of Gen Gorgas in Washington
Washington Aug 16 Final rites paid to the late Major General Wm C Gorgas former surgeon General of the army at Epiphany Church Officials of the army and navy government officers and foreign representatives attended Honorary pallbearers included Secretary Baker Maj Gen Payton C March chief of staff and members of the Supreme Court Military pallbearers included Gen Pershing Rear Admirals and other senior officers Four hundred died in recent floods in the Sarablin islands Topeka Aug 16 a Topeka dispatch said floods demolished 200 houses and killed 37 persons
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Fnod Grover
George Squires
Anson Mills
Willis Sibbert
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Cary Grayson
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Walter D. McCaw
Cummings
Public Health Service
Topeka
Sakehlin Islands
Tokin
Sarablin Islands
Polish and Russian armistice talks at Minsk announced
Aug 16 Fort Curzon in the House of Lords said Polish and Russian armistice and peace delegates met at Minsk and negotiations were likely to follow. Separately, seventeen Kansas coal mines remained idle due to a protest strike against fines for refusing to work on Saturday.
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London
Minsk
Fort Curzon
House of Lords
Kansas
Pittsburg
Trinity Lutheran gains twenty eight new church members
At yesterday's communion service Trinity Lutheran church received twenty eight new members. Names include Mr and Mrs Henry Jost Agnes Jost Lorena Jost Edgar Jost and others with addresses on Rhode Island Connecticut New Hampshire Ohio and Kentucky streets Rest Haven Route No. 3 and more. No reception will be held Tuesday evening from 8 to 9 30 as Progressive Circle club serves refreshments.
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Trinity Lutheran Church
Henry Jost
Agnes Jost
Lorena Jost
Edgar Jost
Rhode Island Street
Erwin Netzer
Frank Jost
Connecticut Street
A. C. Reuter
New Hampshire Street
D. K. Rice
Anita Rice
Ruth Rice
Rest Haven
John Shirk
Gertrude Shirek
Eudora
Route No. 3
Albert Sabol
Ohio Street
Anton Sabel
Otto Sabol
George Sabol
Alma Sabol
A. Eliot
Fast Twelfth Street
James Shirek
Kentucky Street
Progressive Circle Club
Man Sues Gas Firm Over Home Explosion Damages
Fred N. Martin filed in district court against Citizens Light Heat and Power for 7100 dollars after an explosion at his home on 13811 Delaware street. He alleges gas escaped from a defective pipe under the house, causing destruction, with the blast lifting the structure eight inches. The suit seeks damages for lost furniture personal injury and property damage.
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Fred N. Martin
Citizens Light, Heat and Power! Company
Mr. Martin
Delaware Street
Martin House
Martin
Urge New System at City Meeting in Lawrence
City commission faces pressure from Kiwanis backed advocates for a two platoon fire system costing about 6500. Backers argue benefits justify reallocating last year’s fire truck budget. Chief Reinisch calls for 7200 more. Unclear legal framework for a second class city to install the plan.
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Reinisch
Lawrence’s
Repair Lecompton Bridge After County Meeting
Douglas and Jefferson counties held a joint conference at Lecompton to approve repairs on the Lecompton bridge. Planned work includes new sills, plank replacements, and guard rails over railroad tracks. The two townships pay $200 each, with the remainder split equally between counties. expected cost is 1200 to 1500 dollars, with Jefferson to contract and supervise the work.
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Douglas County
Jefferson County
Lecompton
City Library Reopens After Interior Redecoration
The city library, closed for interior redecorating, will reopen on Wednesday with hours 10 to 12:30 and 6 to 9 p m until September 1. No fines will be collected for this period.
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