Camp Whitesides Strenuous, Mud and Heat Challenge Soldiers
Camp Whitesides Ft. Riley reports 3 inches of mud upon arrival, then a 110 degree heat wave. Thirteen men detailed for guard duty near the horse picket line. Dr. Gill tended a sick horse during duty hours. Third Battalion parade Thursday. Private Russell Smith of Company M won his first wrestling match in 1 minute 40 seconds. Regiment plans an athletic field meet Saturday afternoon. Soldiers drill 7 to 11 am, with close order and extended order drills. Community support boosts meals with Lawrence merchants funds and good cooks aiding the camp. Machine gun companies from Lawrence consolidated for cart drill. officers mounted, some casualties reported. Most men bunking at taps, some venturing to Junction City for evening entertainment. The unit features notable skinners Vernon Street and Anthony from Missouri.
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Gill
Lawrence
Guilty Bootlegging in Lawrence Court Case
Ray McMillan of Kansas City was arrested in the 800 block on Pennsylvania street for bootlegging. He pled guilty in police court to a dry charge, receiving sixty days in city jail and a $200 fine. Officers found three gallons of liquor on him. they believe he had just sold two more. He claimed he came from Kansas City to Lawrence to sell the three gallons and said he acted out of money shortage and a crippled hand. The defendant, a young man, appeared unlike typical liquor arrestees.
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Ray
McMilan
Kansas City
Pennsylvania Street
McMillan
Lawrence
McMillam
Deaths and Funerals Synthesizes Local Obituaries
Funeral changes for Mrs Louise Pilcher of Tempe Ariz and services for Jesse Dillard of 520 Louisiana Street are announced. Pilcher's service moved from Sunday to Saturday at 8 o clock at Oak Hill. Dillard, 68, early city settler and former 57 year president, will be buried at Oak Hill after services by Rev T W Green Jr. The notice mentions labor conditions and U S employment service director Crawford discussing district movement and lighter demand for unskilled labor in Kansas.
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Louise
Pilcher
Tempe
Ariz
Pill
Ojathe
Stu
Dent
Jesse Dillard
Jesse
Topeka
Tabor
Fi-Crawford
United Statesmployment Service i
Kansas
Addi
Wild Crarks and Kaw Valley Creamery Ady Vied
Fragmentary OCR note mentions Kaw Valley Creamery and a phone number with disjoint text. No coherent event or person details to establish a clear news item.
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Wild
Crarks
Kaw
Valley Creamery
Sher
Ady
Uncover Ring of Thieves in Eastern Kansas Missouri
Kansas City reports operatives believe Ollie Linville 35 farmer of Drexel Missouri arrested for questioning uncovers a motor car theft ring across eastern Kansas and western Missouri. Linville admitted selling five or six cars to farmers near Drexel. three stolen cars recovered. Two other suspects held in Mound City Kansas.
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Kansas City
Ollie Linville
Pear Drexel, Mo
Kansas
Missouri
Linvillé
Drexel
B.H
Thurman
Linville
Sto
Harry Betts
Glias
Doc” Smith
Mound City
Kan
Meadowlarks Eat Their Weight in Insect Food Each Day
Miss Madeline Aaron of the Audubon Society of Kansas notes meadowlarks rear their young by eating their own weight in insects daily. The western and eastern species mix in Kansas with similar appearances but distinct songs, as meadowlarks feed on grasshoppers and beetles while their nests lie on the ground. Eastern and western meadowlarks inhabit Kansas fields and can be heard singing in the same area.
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Wichita
Kani
Madeline
Aaron
Audubon “Society of
Kansas
Miss Aaron
Fu S.fuller
North America
Texas
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Iowa
Dakotas
Dodge City Voters Reject Memorial Ground Purchase
In a special election voters rejected a proposal to buy a block of ground on Bout Hill for a soldiers memorial to be built later. The same district approved a $15,000 bond for a new grade school building, with less than 25 percent turnout.
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Dodge City
Kan
Bout
Lighter Than Air Craft Best North Says MacMillan
Commander Donald MacMillan favors lighter than air craft for Arctic travel to beat ice hazards. He notes drifting ice floes threaten landings for heavier craft, while a fjord can alternate between open water and ice. A separate item records a probate judge ceremony, and a visit to Carrollton, Missouri.
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North
MacMillan
Washington
A. P
Shenandoah
Los An Fae
Donald MacMillan
National Geographic Society
Giant prehistoric skeletons unearthed by Washington rail workers
Hoquiam Washington August 11 two railroad laborers uncovered enormous skeletons over 80 feet long in a limestone-cut near town. Rev John Geoghegan calls the remains vertebrate sea or river dwelling ichosaurs or maritime reptiles, possibly 40 feet tall with long necks. No skulls found. a large tooth suggests carnivory.
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Hoquiam, iWash
Rev. J. Herert
Geoghey
Day
Mr. Geoghegan
Cascade Range
Legion seeks 1926 Kansas convention site vote
Active campaigns to bring home the 1926 convention of the Kansas department of the American Legion are under way. State adjutant Ernest A. Ryan said Wellington Junction City and Fort Scott are active candidates, with the final choice to be made at the annual conclave in Chanute on September 7 8 and 9.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas Department
American Legion
Ernest A. Ryan
Wellington
Junction City
Ft. Scott
Chanute
Georgia Boxer Stribling Nears Half Million Earnings
W L Young Stribling the Georgia boxer reportedly earned close to 500000 from his brief but spectacular career. The bulletin notes his rapid rise and high-value purses, reflecting the star status he has achieved in boxing circles.
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San Francisco
Freas
The
Bulletin
W. L. (Young) Stribling
Georgia
Varying career funds invested in Florida and Georgia
The record notes money has been invested largely in Florida and Georgia properties and that Stribling and his parents, on tour, travel in a motor van converted into a home. A treasury tabulation shows internal revenue collections for a duty period at $125,866,689 versus $110,814,068 in the same period of 1924, despite lower tax schedules this year.
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Florida
Georgia
Federa
Washington
A. P
Treasury
Internal Revenue
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Company M
Russell Smith
Company M S
Sheets
Vernon Street
Anthony
Awho
New York
Paul Berlenbach
State Athletic Commission
Jack Delaney
Sta
Ottawa
League of Kansas Municipalities
Ottawa City Commission
Marais Des Cygnes
Main Street
John Stutz
Municipalities League
Zeigler
Ill
Minz ‘Ers
Bell and
Zoller
Coney Island Stadium
McTigue-Marullo
Slattery-Rosenblum
Arkansas
New Orleans
Mississippi River
Interstate Commerce Commission
Tulsa
Okla
U.S. Baris
French Debt Commission
Paris
United States
Caillaux
B. Lucas
Ste
Amer
Ége
Columbia
Tych
Polar Cub
Jug
Lever Corbin
Eveready
National Flyer
Red Bird
Massachusetts
Grayson
Reinisch - Lawrence
Kans
Haskell-Phans
Haskell
Pengl
Athletic
R. E. Hanley
H. B. Peaks
Frank P. Menown
Charlotte A. Rosa
Louis Menger
E L. Garrett
Carrollton,Mo
Young Stribbling
Lom
Dallas Dallas
Tex
Ia. P
Russell Darold
Iola
H. W. Smith
Rodehouse
Florence’ Dugan
Smith
Canada
Sydney
Melbourne
Perth
Australia
Land Pretoria
South Africa
Fairyland
75Th Street and
Prospect Ave
Lawrence Day
Fairyland Park
Kansas City-Kaw Valley
Middlewest
Free
Acta
Plenie
Groves
75Th Street
Prospect Avenue
76Th Street
Prospect
1 Avenue
Woodland
Treost
Rockhill
48Th St
Prospect Street
Park One
K C., Kaw Valley and Western Railway
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