Drouth Relief Assessment and Chicago Gang Records
The Kansas drought relief outlook suggests the state can absorb losses and aid others, with Hoover era surveys guiding relief and stimulating business. Chicago gang records, from Zuta’s safekeeping, reveal police challenges and that gang influence touched city officials, prompting calls for municipal cleansing as aviation endurance trends emerge in flying and finance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Topeka
Drouth
Hoover
Bicentennial Celebration Planned for 1982 Across Nation
A long prepared effort seeks a nationwide observance marking the 200th birth of George Washington. A federal and state commission, active since 1924, coordinates plans with civic, religious, and media groups for a ten month program starting in 1982. The goal is to instill devotion to duty, courage, and constitutional government in future generations. Lola Register.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. Fess Chas
Geo Ee
Fess
Washington
George Washin
Lola Register
Robbery at Steinbergs Stirs Old Town Crowd
Two men robbed the Steinberg's dry goods cash drawer of 150 dollars during a busy hour yesterday. A clerk described the scene but the thief remains unnamed. police details are not provided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steinberg
John Anderson
Central Hotel
Solomon City
Calendonia House
Bismarck Grove
Geo.w. Blain
Kentucky
Neal Dow
Maine
Francea Williard
Illinois
J. Ellen Foster
Iowa
G. W. Arbuckle
Katzenstein
Eliza Conrs
Hesper
Nursery barn collapses near town on Monday
A. C. Greisa’s large nursery barn west of town blew down this morning. Ed Alexander of Lawrence will take Mrs. Carney’s position as a ticket agent for the Union Pacific.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. C. Greisa
Ed. Alexander
Lawrence
Aug 18 Years Ago Officers Visit Ozarks Plans
A clipping notes events from 1 ¢ years ago on Monday August 18 including Tom Carney heading to Kansas as train agent, families visiting relatives, Kilworths returning, Florence Berry and others off to Portland exposition, and a C P A annual picnic at Eudora drawing 2000 to 5000 attendees. Also mentions Miss Braig Run and Sam Berger to be married in Chicago with Rev Milton officiating, and various families planning Ozarks outings and gatherings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Carney
Kansas
Bis Maude
Appen
Gertrude
Barbe
Jacob Kilworth
Berths Kilworth
Michigan
Ben
W. Brownell
Berry
Florence Berry
Portland
Eudora
Lundreds
Fandrete Drs
She.xee
Henley
Lanedown
Grant
M. E. Pine
Long Beach
Eran
Nons
Chicago
Braig Run
Sam Berger
Rev. Milton
Ie Lawrence
Emmonde
F. Emmonds
Sina
Lawrence
Ozarks
H. Mitchell
Annie Mitchell
F. A. Bleck
Joyce
John Clevenger
Priday
Worning
Tver
Marie Woodruff
Opal Woodruff
Kansas History Highlights for August 17
Entries note a Leavenworth Topeka and Southwestern survey in 1881 and Ellsworth County settlers reunion in 1882 with a 1856 settler present. Also mentions a 1881 Roilder event with music directed by Prof. C E Leslie at Bismarck Grove.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leavenworth, Topeka and Southwestern
Ellsworth County
Roilder
C.E. Leslie
Bismarck Grove
Erysipelas Its Dangers and Skin Symptoms
A historical notice warns erysipelas as a serious skin inflammation caused by a germ. It highlights high fever, toxic symptoms, contagion, and risk to women after delivery and newborns, with facial cases causing dramatic swelling and disfigurement.
Kansas News Briefs from Dodge City and Copeland
Nathan Wood, oldest Sunday school pupil, marks birthday with church members gifts. an entire frame block burned yesterday morning due to fire, water shortages hampering crews. a 700 foot fall in an aircraft near Copeland injures George Baskett and Tandy Nichols, Minnesota regional year ends with Bears in focus.
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Nathan’ Wood
Rat
Mr. Wood
Ios
Dodge City
George Baskett
Tandy Nichols
Copeland
Dagger's India Journey Ends In Monastery Door
In Lahore's Gelugpa Monastery Dagger confronts mystic Ghulam Buk after a perilous voyage through Bombay and Alexandria. Her restraint, curiosity, and resolve drive a charged meeting as she seeks answers amid silence and ritual. The scene foreshadows further revelation in the next chapter.
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Ghulam Buk
Air Toy Shop Adventure in the Clouds
The Little Black Clock keeps his promise and guides Peggy and John to an air toy shop high above the earth. A magical dirigible landing platform hosts an extraordinary shop, opened for the children to explore while adults rest, with Peggy and John free to wander among innumerable toys and imagine what tomorrow may bring.
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Percy
John
Peggy
Air
Ttair
Flashes of Life reeled from New York stage notes
The Associated Press notes Ethel Barrymore may make a stage debut in October with a role involving a mother figure and a negro character. Seay's Scarlet Sister Mary will be portrayed by Misa Bar. Weekend diversions at the Presidential mountain resort include indoor puzzles as Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh enjoy leisure activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Ethel Barrymore
Seay
Mary
Misa Bar- 7
Dreage
Presidential Mountain Puch
Jazz doom foreseen and odd, chic notes amid chaos
In New York a claim by Thomas M. Sheehy, president of the Dancing of America, warns that classic and conservative tastes will dominate at a convention. Washington notes rising chand le crop discussions and agriculture talks. Ella B. Wendel, a 78 year old heiress, hosts a small white poodle dining in state at her Fifth Avenue mansion, with the dog sleeping in a high backed bed beside her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Thomas M. Sheehy
The
Dancing of America
Washington
Dr. Bel
Department of Agriculture
Fifth Avenue
Ella B. Wendel
Overnight News Digest Highlights and World Events
Domestic dispatches report record endurance flight metrics in St Louis system wide 647 hours 28 minutes 305 seconds. Three Jacksonville men jailed on conspiracy to procure Governor Carlton assassination. A Sanitarism related self inflicted pistol death in New York puzzles police. Hoover Hyde and Logge discuss relief in Orange Virginia. Curran predicts 29 new wet votes in Congress. Gladys O Donnell sends derby flight from San Diego to Long Beach to Chicago. Two killed as unlicensed plane crashes in Annapolis. Wood accuses Sheuser of maligning Hoover in Washington. Oil well wild in Oklahoma City residential area. Foreign notes include Coronation of Carol deferred in Bucharest and Atlantic hop postponed at Le Bourget. Tribesmen in India flee bombs from British planes. Four men executed in Moscow for hoarding silver coins. Two Americans Lewis and Brown to stand trial in Stalingrad for attack on an American negro worker.
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Tle Associated Press
St. Louis
Endurance Fliers
Jacksonville
Fla
Carlton
New York
William E. Swift
Orange
Hoover
Hyde
Washington
Curran
Congress
San Diego
Gladys O'Donnell
Derby
Long Beach-to
Peshawar
India
Moscow
Stalingrad
Russia
Lewis and Brown
Spanish Recipe for Old Masters Uses Shot Smoke Water
Veterans of the Spanish American War gathered in Philadelphia for the 32nd annual United Spanish War Veterans convention. Major General William G. Price Jr. led the opening session attended by Francisco De Paula Valien and Cuban independence veterans. The U.S. and Cuban governments officially recognized the convention with battleships sent as a tribute to the boys of ’98.
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Philadelphia
United Spanish War Veterans
William G. Price, Jr
Francisco de Paula Valien
Machado
Cuba
United States
Prohibition Agent Suspended for Drawing Gun in Milwaukee
Prohibition Agent Robert Myrtle of Milwaukee received a five day, no pay suspension after drawing a gun on motorist William A. French during a July 29 Milwaukee altercation over traffic rules. Director Amos W. W. Woodcock cited precedent with Basil Quinn of Washington, D. C., and said penalties aim to build public respect for agents while punishing misbehavior.
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Washington
Prohibition
Robert F. Myrtle
Milwaukee
Amos W. W. Woodcock
Basil Quinn
Washington, D. C
Myrtle
Woodcock
William A. French
French
Plane Crash At Wichita Falls Kills Instructor
Burton L. Walker, 28, instructor, is killed when a biplane crashes at the municipal airport during flight instruction for Leo Vose, 18, the student, who is slightly injured. The craft spun and nosed into the ground after the vertical fin on the rudder failed at about 1,000 feet, according to witnesses.
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Wichita Falls
Tex
Burton L. Walker
Leo Vose
Vose
ABA Opens Annual Convention in Chicago
Law bodies gather for the Bird annual convention with over 3,000 attorneys expected. The press and bar cooperation committee plans to present a report arguing most editor errors stem from a news want for sensation rather than wilful misrepresentation.
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Chicago
American Bar Association
Seasion
United States
Forerista
Tegular
Committee On
Press and Bar
Avidea
Defence
States Daily
Mic
State Supreme Court hearing on Billings pardon enters fourth week
In San Francisco on August 18 AP reports the state supreme court's pardon hearing for Warren K. Billings moves into its fourth week. State witnesses are set for cross examination while former district attorney Charles M. Fickert plans to bolster the case against Billings and Tom Mooney in the 1916 Preparedness Day bombing. Fickert will focus on interviews with Billings at Folsom prison.
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San Francisco
State Supreme Court
Warren K. Billings
Charles M. Fickert
Baner
Billings
Tom Mooney
Folsom Prison
Baldwin News Covers Local Society and Council Notes
Baldwin readers learn of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union meeting at First M. E. Church with officer elections and notes on an all day institute delay. Community updates include visits by the Kochen and Dorsey families, garden club activity, a large Arnett reunion, and a serious injury progress report on Roy Hobbs. The L and I club gathering, a Jordan farm water extension update, and Baldwin City Council tax levy and drainage plans are also summarized.
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Women's Christian Temperance Union
M. E
C. P. Dorsey
Dinnis
Florence Margaret
Claude
Graye
Mary Ruth
Baldwin
Cameron
Wichita
Martha Sue Hockensmith
Hockensmith
Jean
Buena Vista
Noreen Morgan
Arnett
East Park
Dan Griffith
Garnett
C. W. Arnett
Robert Jenkins
Tonganoxie
Florence Milburn
Lienna Milburn
Charles McPheeters
Kansas City
Corwin H. Gander
Earl MecPheeters
Herbert McCone
Lawrence
William McPheeter
James H. Gander
G. M. Gander
C. A. Kalb
Bert Repelle
Emma Caroline Kalb
George Micheal
Archie Micheal
Wellsville
Jack Pullman
Roy Hobbs
Lone Star
Kan
Ty de We
W. 0. Nelson
Hobbs
Memorial Hospital
L. and I. Club
Martin Cook
Ernest Butell
I. H. Shultz
Black and Veatch Engineering Company
Jordan Farm
High Street
Sixth Street
Will Stark
Perry
Abilene
Perry Stover
Local Notables Attend Social and Visit Baldwin Area
Malta Bend residents and neighbors filled the First M. E. Church for the southwest Ladies section meeting with a fall bazaar planning, a light program, and refreshments. Dozens visited Ottawa and Kansas City, with multiple trips cited among Martin, McFerren, Hindman, and Reeder families and local business and travel to nearby towns.
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Walter Schooler
Malta Bend
Mra
Zey Martin
M. E
Mary Martin
Misa Mildred Martin
Ottawa
Ruth McHenry
Columbia
R Mueller
Flora Strunk
Wichita
H. L. O'Neill
C. B. Rumsey
Rumsey
Berneile Strunk
Mercedes
Tex
Roberta Green
Mita Lalu la Brant
Lawrence
George McFerren
Chapman
Kaw
Baldwin
B. G. van
Tries
Fopeka
Grace
Mary
H. L. O'Neil
C. E. Stephens
L. B. Snyder
Geneva
C. F Holtom
Neff City
Kan
Louise Hindman
Kansas City
A. F. Baker
Shenandoah
Iowa
Hiawatha
Alta Vista
A. L. Tainter
Frank McRoberts
Muskogee
Ohls
C. F. Holtom
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Paare Natin A. R. Kaatereae
Balcorm
Spe
Bureau OF Cir
Europe
America
Jack Zuta
Wang
Conpright
Publishers Bruticare
Jagureki
Minnsecta
Wil Perens Bears
Mary Dahlberg
de Sarager Mariey
Pontoise
Africa
Riddl
Afri
Beet ‘Minrut
Aral Sheikh
Howard
Sidi Marut
Alexandria
Into
Cairo
Red Sea
Ghulam
Rukanid
Lahore
Dagers
Bombay
Gateway of India
Suceen
Dagger
Secur
Lugos Lamassa
Universitee
M. A. Calcutta
Ram Das
Ram
Das
Bisine
Indesa
Monk
Int
Jon
Blaine
Alexandria Vaneering
Valry
Dagield and Company
AIR Toy Shop Sm
Baldwin News
Corn Showalter
Russell Reeder
Plattsmouth
Neb
Wisconsin
Avis Johnson
Santa Fe
N. M
Washington University
Ruth McFerren
Burlington
A. Johnson
Russell] Reeder
Holton
McFerren
Verle Wagner
T. A. Custer
Maxine
Bonnie Jean
Marion Louise Williams
Niu
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Lawrence National Bank
Shimmons Bros. Plumbern and Electricians
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