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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1922
Page
3
Haskell juniors shut out the South Park Athletic Club 3 0 to clinch the championship. Bennie Kahdot pitched for Haskell, while Sparks held South Park to two hits but lost support from his offense. An exhibition game between Haskell Indians and South Park is set for Friday night at Haskell.
Amid a day of rail turmoil nationwide, strike actions continued with blockades and train stoppages on Santa Fe Union Pacific Western Pacific and Southern Pacific lines. Trains resumed as crews returned to work. In California and Montana violence occurred with bombs targeting trains and a brakeman killed by a guard in Havre.
President Harding in Washington postponed his plan to report to Congress on the industrial situation and rail strike settlements. He plans to let settlement efforts run their course, with a New York conference including railroad executives and service employees chiefs cited as a key step.
Chicago reports an unprecedented building boom centered on the Union loop with three key plans driving growth. South Water street traffic reconfiguration, Union Station, and Grant Park schemes aim to ease congestion and spur gleaming new structures including terminals, a U S Mail ring, Winds Central Station, and a forthcoming Stevens hotel.
In Lawrence, Mayor George L Kreeck and wife plan to leave their Los Angeles stay next Sunday en route to Colorado. The trip follows hopes to end hay fever season as residents complain of congestion on Reno fort to fort road due to a dance pavilion.
Lieutenant Walter Hinton and a five man crew aboard the Sampaio Curriea took off from Jamaica Bay at 7 20 am for the 600 mile leg to Charleston as the first hop of an 8500 mile flight from New York to Rio de Janeiro. They rose at 4 am to ready for the journey and expected Charleston in about seven hours.
Chicago and Kansas City cattle and hog markets show varied activity with beef steers strong in Chicago and feeders steady, hog market active for lighter weights but slower for heavier lots. Golds note mixed futures and cash grain levels with wheat and corn shifts and regional price differences. Miss Frances Kruse visited relatives in Topeka today.
A Topeka dispatch details how Billy Morgan and Jonathan Davis will lead Republican and Democratic council talks on the state platform. Endorsements of the industrial court law loom, with both parties weighing tactics and candidate influence ahead of November. The piece recalls past councils and platform writing amid shifting party dynamics.
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