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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1923
Page
2
The Journal-World page includes subscription details for the World Company Lawrence office and AP news notes. It carries editorial snippets on the Ku Klux Klan tensions in Kansas, with comments from the Neodesha Sun and Independence Daily Reporter about local reactions and the broader climate of fear and mob influence.
Journal-World critiques Klan methods and warns of harm as communities like Independence and Fredonia face division. Reports describe distrust, bickering, and a chilling shift from civic pride to factional conflict under Klan influence. The piece highlights editorial caution and the broader danger of hate-driven social rifts.
George Marble of the Port Scout Tribune notes that about half a million dollars arriving in Bourbon County will prompt varied spending. Most recipients may spend quickly with little lasting benefit, though some real estate investments can bring broader community gains. Banks report some cases of prudent use as soldiers adapt to civilian life and seek lasting value from their bonuses.
Jay FE of the Philadelphia Ledger recalls Kansas hard times and compares them to present hardships as a pale imitation. He notes rural readers recognize such fiction from New York city writers as untrue. Editor Satterthwaite of the Douglas Tribune adds that some papers act as professional mourners for farmers, bidding for the grief job.
M Louis Loucheur, famed engineer and Roubaix native, may be asked to form the RCW government if Premier Poincare falls. He served in an artillery regiment, then the Nord company, later directing major public works. He built railways in the Turkish Empire Balkans and Serbia and linked Petrograd to Kola for Archangel winter relief.
Topeka aug 1 As a matter of justice the agriculture department should revise its wheat grading system The farmer is victim of two grading methods says J C Mohler secretary of the State Board of Agriculture He urges that Kansas State Agricultural College Manhattan determine protein content in neighborhoods and that the USDA adjust grades to reflect composition as the real basis of value He notes prices vary under government grades and that protein content drives bread yield while current weights mislead value The present system is antiquated and should be revised to pay growers by true value plus ensure producer rewards
Portsmouth hosts a naval demonstration for New Hampshire’s settlement celebration. Copenhagen opens sessions of the World League Against Alcoholism. Toronto gathers engineers for the 128th meeting of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. A conference on International Justice and Good Will explores Christian perspectives in international relations.
Those granted licenses include Marvin C. Percival of Topeka and Rachael R. Hennessey of Tecumseh, Charles Stewart and Roga C. Williams of Topeka, Frederick G. Erney of Cleburne Texas and Nellie Shuford of Washington, Kansas. Robert Wade Walters and Ruth Dent of Topeka and Lucy C. Watts of Kansas City Missouri and Esther Sheehey of Enid Oklahoma were married by Judge Lindley.
Chicago reports the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railway adopts a policy of friendliness to boost efficiency. President J E Gorman says every employee should make a friend of the public, aiming to dissolve railroad prejudice through courteous service and good humor. London notes jazz popularity rising as London embraces dance tunes.
Paderewski, the Polish pianist and composer, received a warm Paris welcome as he appeared for a benefit concert. He bought nearly a hundred seats for friends and asked for a dressing room to soak his hands in hot water before the show to keep them supple.
An urban vignette describes East Fifth Street in Los Angeles bustling with peculiar characters and unusual daily rituals. A chiropodist reads the Police Gazette aloud to a sidewalk patient while coins are scraped, and a Scottish dentist with a red mustache pumps bagpipes for customers, both adding color to the city’s street life.
Visitors at the Monroe Centennial and Motion Picture Revue wander among Aztec replica buildings and a Montmartre Cafe scene as costumed performers entertain. Madelon the barber guards a public reading area while onlookers react to the spectacle and banter. A reported discovery of Corot’s painting by Boris Deutsch sparks excitement about potential value up to 200 dollars.
Professor D D Luckenbill of the University of Chicago heads a ten year effort with eight assistants to compile a dictionary of Babylonian Assyrian. The project aims for about 266000 word forms and 30000 roots to illuminate ancient civilization through clay tablets.
A garbled OCR snippet mentions a Flint Michigan wife alleging her husband tried to drown her by pushing her off a bridge. It references revenúe agents in Tennessee, a 106 year old man, two New Orleans women with eighteen kids, tornadoes in Kansas, an Alabama off duty robber, Swiss life team, and various political and crime notes. The text is fragmented and lacks coherent reporting.
British newspapers may soon publish only the petitioner's and defense's statements and the judge's summary in divorce cases. Names of witnesses may be given, but not their evidence, with a broader bill proposed to bar indecent reporting in all judicial proceedings.
Preparations are complete for the annual convention of the National Association of Retail Druggists to be held in Boston the week of September 24. An American peel firm received an order for 100 ice making machines of various capacities from Japan.
City library announces recent arrivals including Becker Carl The Ded aration of Independen Brown Transforma tion Chats van Japanese Hayden Chats on Off Phints Magson I Can Remember Ri L Stevenson BMosre The New Big World Cornelius Furniture Master pieces Ahead Chats on Costume tipey Oriental Rug Book refer Barnum Women of 1923 Papani Life of Christ Electrical claim: welding metal and glass by Brooklyn expert.
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