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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1929
Page
4
A 1929 front page note highlights trains, horses, and a humor column. It recalls a horse that ran away and a sheriff seizure over a $2,000 debt, then shifts to Rhineland troop withdrawals and reparations talks. The column mixes local items, weathered jokes, and global headlines with period observations on transport and politics.
In Washington the Senate, officially in session, moved to adjourn until Thursday as optimism from last spring about a tariff bill’s completion persists. The process will repeat every three days until the tariff bill moves forward or the House reconvenes, with the House already adjourned to September awaiting action.
A juvenile reading notes class will begin September 22 at 4 pm at the Lawrence Conservatory, four lessons per week for nine months, tuition five dollars in advance. A ladies and gentlemen class opens September 25 and runs Thursdays for 24 weeks, two dollars in advance. Organ and piano lessons begin September 1, terms eight to twenty dollars. For details see Mrs. Raw 30n. Hon A S Riggs leaves for Leadville for a month on business and pleasure. Street ponies being broken provoke concern as some drivers experience disruption on the roads.
The article recalls Rev. Coffman stepping aside as acting pastor since November and praises his service to the church. It also notes Mrs Chadwick’s return from California, Emma DeVan and Edith LeVan’s Texas trip, Prentiss and others visiting in Geple Creek, and Mrs Petttry hosting a luncheon at Tennessee Street with praise from guests.
Reported 0 years ago on a Tuesday in August a collision occurred at 8th and Ohio involving Everett's car and another vehicle. Everett sustained no serious injuries. bystander attention noted a quick nurse or aid. The text also mentions a social event with ten girls receiving dainty refreshments in honor of Matthday Misa.
Fragmentary notes mention Miss Clack and Alta Serf, names Lawrence and Sheets, and travel mentions to Washington Oregon California. It references a father in Los Angeles and a plan to visit Independence Kansas, with various people including Marion Hanley and Godman Gibson.
Judge and Mrs James Owens of Denver describe Russia from a Europ ean tour. In Leningrad they praise the Hermitage and czarist palaces now Soviet owned, note decay and sour mood, and flag Moscow sights like the Kremlin with jeweled imperial treasures looted after the Revolution. They describe government stores, travel limits, and divorce laws, then tour Potsdam and Berlin with plans for further excursions.
Kansas history notes recount the 1878 Third District Greenback convention held in Florence with Frank Doster and S N Wood as congressional candidates. Below, a Boyce Thompson Institute plant research blue chamber creates pink daylight illusion. a theft report lists Orville Stone’s Chrysler coupe missing from 1417 West Seventh Street.
Boston reports a device shown at Harvard to image nerve impulses traveling along a nerve. The instrument, a cathode oscillograph, magnifies nerve currents to reveal the impulse as a light path, aiding study of nerve actions. Also described are cyclopropane as a rapid anaesthetic with minimal aftereffects and a new pneumonia treatment using air with five to seven percent carbon dioxide to open collapsed lung areas. Research notes on inter-renalin and other active principles from adrenal sources are mentioned.
Desoto and nearby towns were alive with visiting relatives and neighbors. A Topeka family arrived for a week long stay, Kansas City guests toured and returned home, and many local residents attended birthdays, clubs, and church gatherings while De Soto edged Eudora 9 1 in a baseball game.
A scrambled list of crossword clues and partial answers appears, mixing numbers and odd spellings. It includes references to a Speeders clue, a Silkworm or Columbus port hint, animal names, directions, and various odd phrases. The entry resembles a puzzle page fragment with many unreadable portions.
A compendium of names and weekend visits across Prairie Center includes Mrs George Vitt assisting Mrs Milo Votan with can peaches, Walter Apal visiting Ernie White, hospital renovations for Mrs Kiamm, Leonard White injuring but not breaking bones near Detroit, numerous local calls at Harold White and Ty A Broadhurst homes, and family movements among Klamm, Kniffin, Reed, Wotan, and Moore households plus church outing at Friends in Lawrence and visitors from Illinois.
In a locked room at Newplace Alvey seven men grapple with who fired the fatal shot at Roger Pell. Inspector Wayne tests them all for movement, suspicions rise, and Marling the clergyman becomes the key suspect as a knock at the door brings a new mystery for tomorrow.
Art Hardaugh 30 of Russell Kansas was struck by a falling timber at an oil rig near Brookville Kansas. He was hospitalized in Salina with a crushed head multiple internal injuries and fractures to his right shoulder and arm.
Doctors prescribe a new treatment to relieve colds by restoring alkalinity. Take Phillips Milk of Magnesia in water morning noon and night the first two days then nights only. Milk of Magnesia is a safe antacid used for sour stomach indigestion and over acidity. Available 25¢ and 56c bottles with directions. U S Registered Trademark since 1875.
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