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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1925
Page
4
The Lawrence Journal-World reports mixed content from August 24 1925 including biblical verse, aviation expedition notes from the MacMillan polar push, and social commentary on prison life. It notes cautious driving to prevent fatal weekend accidents and discusses alienist skepticism toward murderers.
Kansas readers are urged to rethink how gasoline and other taxes fund roads. The piece argues current law lets counties spend tax money unevenly, hindering a cohesive state highway program. It calls for public pressure and state intervention to ensure funds cross county lines for better returns.
Duncan A. Fletcher, senior U S senator from Florida and ranking Democrat on the Commerce Committee, led the panel on shipping board scrapping policy. A Georgia native educated at Vanderbilt, he studied law in Nashville, then moved to Jacksonville and served as mayor before winning his Senate seat in 1908.
Stiezel and Ney hold agency for E Anheuser and Co s Bavarian Brewery Beer sold wholesale and retail. Ex Congressman Cobb had his corn bin cleaned out by burglars. Eight hundred three taxed dogs in Kansas cities. Wiedemann s store displays fruits Fulton Market. General Sherman wife son and General Slocum arrived at Fort Leavenworth. movements unknown. Col D R Anthony first time since being shot could move about. He was driven in a carriage. City pound languish fixe heifers. milkers reclaimed, non producers remain. Ex Governor Casey shipping cattle from Miami to St Louis. Twenty-Five Years Ago: Miss Lillian Soxman in register of deeds. Mrs A Young and Miss Robb visiting. Perry Randall best dressed in Lawrence. Cord Lindley also noted. Rails removed on old Carbondale track to be completed soon. Cant Adna Clarke at Topeka says frost gathering largest in years. Clifford Manter visiting. Singer front broken by wind.
The centennial of Rear Admiral Samuel R. Franklin is noted as he helped bring Boss Tweed back to Spain. English literary circles mark the 300th death anniversary of Fletcher the dramatist. The National Association of Letter Carriers meets in Cleveland, observing late October events. Bill Nye’s seventy fifth birth anniversary is celebrated with a memorial window dedication in Fletcher, New York. The Republic of Uruguay figure is referenced in brief context.
Layman GW Newby filled the pulpit in Rev Lady's absence at the Evangelical Church. His subject The Bible Book of Books based on 2 Timothy 2 15. He used charts to review all 66 books and shared personal notes from forty years of daily reading and memorization. A prayer meeting was set for Wednesday at 6 pm with Rev B F Ludy to lead. Friday night presiding elder C I L Sarg to preach and hold quarterly conference.
Robbers held up railroad payroll carriers near Danville Illinois aiming to steal thirteen thousand dollars. In Wichita Kansas a bank night watchman survived a suicide attempt after being shot twice, but lost an eye. Local clinics announce eye and well baby sessions at city hall and request infant attendance. Berlin courts rule singers may seek pay raises when broadcasting operas. Virginia Democrat nominee Harry Flood Byrd, a noted apple grower, gains attention.
In Crater City a gossip mill swirls around Bob Wilson a famed locomotive fireman and Jim Fowler as a late shift amidst romance and scandal. Caroline Dale ponders Bob past while townsfolk speculate on his parentage and the Limited engine drama unfolds with Miss Trisk chronicling every rumor until night.
In a story set at a zoo, Daddy Fox explains the historic meaning behind the term cunning, noting foxes’ cleverness and multiple den entrances as reasons for the nickname. He acknowledges human hunters and calls hunting for sport cruel, while Fox family members muse on pride and fear in captivity.
The scene shifts from whispered gossip to a busy market as Larvey's Grater City Branch records its biggest single day. Jim Fowler spends a quiet afternoon at home with his son Bobby while Mrs O'Leary runs the daily routine. the piece closes with a funeral notice for George R. Woolf, born 1897 near Perry, Kansas, who died August 19, 1928, after wartime illness, with Odd Fellows handling cemetery rites at Bonner Springs.
Miss Faye Gosper and Ed Mor anville were excused from speeding charges after a morning trial in police court. The report then notes experiments about cut flowers staying fresh with aspirin tablets and mentions a potential sparring match between Tiger Flowers and Jock Malone before a Boston venue. Read the Market Basket.
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