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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1925
Page
4
A 1923 Salina Journal page includes ads and notices, remarks on sportswear, a biblical quote, and editorials about local road safety and August toll-free sentiment. It notes golfers in short shorts, Saline county’s low weekend auto deaths, and cautions about misreading military training camps as a mobilized force.
The Journal World cites 1914 wheat quotations and bowersock mill freight rates to show a 100 percent rise in wheat prices this year and 250 percent jump in freight. Fort Scott Tribune accuses the Journal World of relying on railroad sources and lacking open-mindedness. The piece also notes postwar French prosperity claims and German distress figures.
City officials press for economy in the coming year's budget. Each commissioner endorses department cuts to hold the levy at the lowest possible level. They argue postwar dollars offer opportunity to retrench and require public bodies to act.
Reter Norbeck, of South Dakota, declares plan to seek another U S Senate term. Born in Vermillion, he has served since 1922 as a U S senator and earlier held three terms in the state supreme house, one term lieutenant governor, and two terms as governor. He led the state during the war era with a vigorous patriotic policy.
Fifty years ago Poehler and Co and Adams and Co shipped large butter consignments to St Louis and Texas. Hoadley shows a ten pound Mangel Wurzel beet raised in Wakarusa. Advertisements for Barnum’s Hippodrome in Kansas City and a camp meeting with eleven tents. A lightning strike damaged a Rhode Island and Adams streets frame dwelling. Petit jurors listed for October District Court. Rewards offered for lost money by F J Boyles. B Melvin spoke in Russell for the Republican committee. Nellie Benjamin heads to Chicago and the national convention of Ladies Aid to the Sons of Veterans. Mrs Bromersick’s father dies in Trenton IH. Elwell greeted Lawrence crowd, now a Cuba lumber merchant and annexationist. Mrs Shawn and Mrs Anderson return from Chicago trip. Lawrence Creamery milks 100000 pounds monthly. Howe Starkweather Shoe Co. opens. Coffeyville cotton crop May reach 1000 bales. Coffeyville gin foresees tripling crop. Old landmark building razed in McLouth for H H Kimmel. Green Brothers Athletic Club plans Sunday game at Woodland Park. McLouth defeats local nine earlier season.
In a Nostalgic tale, Bob Wilson, now an engineer, falls for Caroline Dale while Jim Fowler secretly nurses the same feeling. Both men juggle ethics and friendship as railroad schedules keep them apart, with Caroline chosen as the shared object of affection and a picnic plan stirring plans for a quiet, hopeful future.
A birthday greeting to Charles G. Dawes marks his sixtieth. memorials honor Edgar A. Bancroft in Chicago with burial in Galesburg. General Pershing’s family mourns a decade after a fatal Presidio fire. A new design for the Stone Mountains Confederate Memorial is shown in Atlanta. A Maine boulder dedication honors aviators at Mere Point Casco Bay. American and Mexican labor officials meet in Washington to discuss immigration and expansion of labor influence in Latin America.
A telegraph message from the French authorities reports the garrison near the breach of the Peeve River in Syria remains held. Details are sparse amid the fighting and confusion as forces maneuver along the strategic river line.
Mrs Edwin Ott hosts the Methodist Women Foreign Missionary Society in a regular meeting with devotion led by Mrs Clarence Copp and Miss Josephine Gilmore. Twenty members attended and plans were laid for the September gathering in the church Community Room.
Henry Crowder and James Morris area residents hosted a flood of guests over recent Sundays and weekdays. Among those visiting were Shields of Lawrence, the Collins family, the Crowder household, and relatives from Winter Lecompton and Kansas City. A note recalls George Woolf a local musician who died at Leavenworth and left condolences from neighbors.
Residents of Barber and nearby areas attended the P A picnic at Holcomns Grove on Thursday. Attendees include Mr and Mrs John Unger Mr and Mrs Red QO3 born and family Mr and Mrs W Shusser and family Mr and Mrs Elmer Stanwix and family Mr and Mrs Clyde Talley and family Mr and Mrs George Dornan and daughter Avis Ruth Mac Dornon Margaret Coffman and Mr and Mrs Frank Slusser Ruby Slusser.
Report of a Ford theft with suspects at large and an update on the Fogarty car recovery north of Stuil. The remainder details visits and family gatherings across Os kaloosa, Kanwaka, and surrounding towns, listing multiple households and weekend appearances including Slusser, Workman, Martin, Siler, Stanwit, Dews, Coffman, Unger, Hutchinson, Osborn, Sturdy, and related relatives and friends.
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