Fifty Years and Change in Lawrence Retail Trade
Fifty years ago Lawrence saw the end of the general store as shops specialized by product. Today a revived general store model thrives with compact footprints and broad stock, while the business district expands south of Sixth Street and rural trade grows with better roads and parking. Merchants are praised for fairness and long-standing customer ties.
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Lawrence
Chicago
Kansas City
Massachusetts Street
Eleventh
New Hampshire
Vermont
Sixth Street
South Park
South Lawrence
North Lawrence
Bridge Street
Obituary Notes Sudden Death of Charles Bahnmaier
An obituary notes the sudden death of Charles Bahnmaier on Sunday night from heart trouble. He was known for his husky appearance and strong goodwill, with friends remarking on his characteristic generosity and reliable presence.
Unclear memorial tone amid satire and wartime notes
The text reflects a mix of obituary style praise for Bahnmaier and humorous asides on a soap box derby and a WPA payroll jab. It juxtaposes personal sentiment with critical, sardonic wartime commentary on American headlines and propaganda. The passage blends tribute with social critique.
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Hitler
Berlin
Japan’s War Strain Pressures Gold Reserves in Far East
In dispatches from the Far East, Japan seeks a truce with Russia along the Korea Siberia border as China fights on. Tokyo faces heavy costs from China and rising armaments while gold flows to America threaten financial stability. Russia taunts Japan as a poor fighter without funds. The piece warns no nation can spend beyond its means, noting a race between gold reserves and military needs.
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Winfield Courier
Russia
Japan
China
Nippon
Tokyo
New York Times
America
Far East
Silent fog374 A perilous sea tale in Sundown Stories
On a fog bound night Willy Nilly Christopher and little Yellow Beak cling to a boat adrift at sea. They fear the water, the fog, and drifting away while debating shore and safety as they await relief and a brighter dawn.
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Christopher
Willy
Willy Nilly
Little Yellow Beak
Stamp Series Details Marks Various U S Presidents
The note lists upcoming first day sale dates for a set of stamps including Andrew Jackson on August 4 and additional issues in September featuring Presidents Tyler Polk Taylor Fillmore and Harding with values 10 to 2 dollars. It references Benjamin Harrison as part of the sequence.
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U. S
Chiang Kai-Shek
Martin van Buren
William Henry Harrison
van Buren
White House
Harrison
Andrew , Jackson
Washington
Tyler
Polk
Taylor
Fillmore
Harding
Benjamin Harrison
Stamps Honor Zeppelin Centenary in German Airmail Issue
Germany issues airmail stamps in July 1938 to mark Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin born July 8, 1838. A 25 pfennig blue depicts Zeppelin in a rigid airship gondola, a 50 pfennig green shows the dirigible underside, and a 3-mark stamp recalls a Zeppelin portrait.
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Ferdinand von Zeppelin
A. S. Dumont
Germany
Graf
Constance
Baden
Count von Zeppelin
Fort Wayne clockworker survives heat to return to work
J S McCracken fainted from heat while cleaning a courthouse clock dial but was carried down stairs by janitors and revived. He then insisted on climbing back to finish the job in the clock tower. In Kansas City Cecil Edwards, 35, was injured after his pony drawn chariot ran wild and a wheel passed over his head.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
J. S. McCracken
McCracken
Kansas City
Kan
Cecil Edwards
Edwards
Campaign expense note in Lincoln for Norfolk candidate
Foret Lear, an unsuccessful Democratic nominee for state railway commissioner, filed a campaign expense account from August 10 listing items at a drug store including a box of aspirin and a cup of coffee costing ten cents.
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Lincoln
Neb
Dancing Master Frederick W Kehl Dies at 76
Frederick W. Kehl of Madison Wisconsin who was famed as the nation’s oldest active dancing master died today from a heart ailment at age 76. He taught dance for 58 years and once ran schools in over 50 Wisconsin cities plus a Miami Florida location.
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Chicago
Frederick W. Kehl
Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
Miami
Fla
Arabs Kidnap Six in Haifa Labor Camp Raid
An Arab band seized six people including a Jewish police inspector and five family members at the Athlit labor camp near Haifa. A British police inspector and an Arab warden were wounded in the raid.
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Jerusalem
PIA
Athlit
Haifa
Fossil Crocodile With Horns Arrives at Field Museum
The Field Museum receives St Had Horns Chicago fossil crocodile from a Far East paleontological expedition. It is the only known specimen of its kind with horned features, enhancing the museum's paleontological collection.
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St. Had Horns
Chicago
The
Field Museum
Doctor to head KU student health service next year
Dr. Ralph Canuteson will lead the Kansas University student health service as the first full time physician in the role, coming from the University of Wisconsin. The county tax levy for 1929 stands at five mills, a slight rise over this year, while police officers plan to assist Topeka on Saturday during Charles Curtis's vice presidential notification events.
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Ralph Canuteson
Kansas University
Canuteson
Kansas
University of Wisconsin
Douglas County
Topeka
C. J. Posey
Ft. Smith
Ark
E. H. Balco
T. E. Griesa
New York
Vaughn
Chick” Pontinus
Country Club
A. B. Weaver
A. D. Weaver
Waterford
Conn
Maine
Counts-Bartlett Wedding Reported in Baldwin Twenty Five Years Ago
Twenty five years ago the marriage of Hugh Counts of Baldwin to Ada Bartlett of the same community was announced. The brief notice notes the couple's union and the local significance of the event.
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Hugh Counts
Baldwin
Ada Bartlett
Murder inquiry opens as Eve Monet case unfolds
In Cannes Hugo Stern and Archie Lumsden face police questioning over Eve Monet and O'Donnell killings. The magistrate questions Lumsden about prior meetings and weapon details while Geiss implies possible connections. A dramatic revelation follows from Jean-Francois and a looming arrest rumor swirls through the press.
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Geiss
Pat
France
Jean-Francois
Hugo
Varrot
Monsieur
Grandmamma
Windsor Castle
Monsieur Geiss
d’Antibes
Eve Monet
Max Saltmarsh
Circus relatives visit in Lawrence from Oskaloosa
Vera Clark and sons Mrs Tena Clark and Miss Thelda Grage plus Miss Noami Gragg Ruth Gilbert attended the Russell Brothers circus in Lawrence Tuesday. Clifford Brooks and family with the circus are relatives. Brooks is Tena Clark's nephew and once lived here as a boy. he has directed the circus band. Rev Roy Fairchild and family of West Plains Mo visited relatives here and dined with aunt Mrs Burnett. Mrs Fisher of Topeka returned home after visiting sister Mrs Lillie Trapp. Mr and Mrs Frank Insley of Jacksonville Ill are visiting relatives here this week.
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Harry Woods
Manhattan
Joe Wendel
J. W. Roberts
H. T. Phinney
Roger Simon
Phinney
Presbyterian Sunday School
Oscar Bowen
Ohio
Sam Bowen
Lloyd Rogers
Willard Rogers
Turner Rogers
North Dakota
Ray Rogers
Carl Stebbens
Mac Forbes
Medicine Lodge
Stebben
Eplha McIntosh
J. H. Johnson
Earl Markwell
Tulsa Okla
Harry Johnson
Old Homestead
Alice Shewmaker
Lawrence
Will Decker
Topeka
J. A. Dacker
Eleanor Hannah
Nutwood Farm
Charles Metzger
Grayson Happy Hour Club
Inze Lacy
Mary Frances
Formosa
A. A. Webber
Nettie Stevens
Ellen Allen
Glenn Wilder
Margaret Prunty
WHA
Lobb
Meriden
Valley Falls
Presbyterian Aid
Gay’s Store
Newman
Electrolux
Vera Clark
Tena Clark
Thelda Grage
Noami Gragg
Ruth Gilbert
Russell Brothers
Clifford Brooks
Brooks
Roy Fairchild
West Plaines
Burnett
Fisher
Lillie Trapp
Frank Insley
Jacksonville
Ill
Ma Lets Early Love Affair Shape Life Story
A short reminiscence notes that Ma’s life felt clouded by an early romance which led to her marriage. The piece frames the affair as the defining force in her life and in the narrator’s own path.
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Publishers Syndicate
Radio Schedule Highlights for August 17 18
Radio guide lists programs across WREN KMBC WDAF and WDAF from 5:30 p.m. to midnight with names like Ashburn Bratton McGee Dorsey Whiteman Lopez and Penthouse shows. Key orchestras and hosts include Paul Whiteman Teddy, Tommy Dorsey, Amos n Andy, Kay Kyser, Nat King Cole, Larry Clinton and Harry James.
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Wren—Ashburn
Orch
WDAF
Tommy Dorsey
KMBC
Boake Carter
Town Hall
Wren
Nat
Mark Warnen
Kay Kyser
Wren—Ambers-Armstrong
Ben Cutler
Vincent Lopez
Amos
N’ Andy
Nwwcomer
Buettner
Carlos Molina
Nighthawks
Wren—Clayde McCoy
Henri Gendron
Bobby Meeker
Jimmie Noone
Ashburn
Bratton
KMPC
America
Kansas City Dines
Rudy Vallee
Goldman Colvert
Major Bowes
Toronto Symphony
Bob Burns
Mal Hallett
Andy
Hollywood
Elza Schallett
Larry Clinton
Eddie Duchin
Essex House
Johnny Long
Horace Heldt
Freddie Martin
Ted Weem
Muehlebach Or
Archie Loveland
Nighthawk
Irma Glenn
Henry Gendron
Webster Hall
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Graham Bonner
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Dorothy Bell
Pueblo
Colo
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C. C. Brown
Colorado
J. Frank Jones
Rochester
N. Y
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Louisville Springs Park
Manilla
United States
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Malate’ Fort
Merritt
Ralph
Siegmund & Little
Tennessee Street
Ohio Street
Sadie Schneck
Garnett
Burke
Jean Bowersock
Eva Brown
Emma Hoag
Vermont Street
Mollie
Brooklyn
Charles A. Ratherman
Howard
Ernest Orr
Simmons
Hughes & Pine
Orie Cooper
Hugo Stern
French Riviera
Archie Lumsden
Rene Geiss
Carlton
le Touquet
Monsieur Lumsden
Monsieur le Juge
O'Donnell
O’donnell
Monsieur Stahl
Monsieur Venner
Monsieur Rakovsky
Monsieur le Commissaire
Monsieur Stern
Cannes
Baron
Hotel de Ville
Goss
Edmonds
Albery Wray
Grace May
Marie
Stevens
Atchison High
Oskaloosa
Billy
National City Bank
American Express
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Peoples State Bank
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