Pageant for Indian Tribes Draws 40 000 Crowd
Margaret Speelman, girls’ adviser at Haskell Institute, directed the Peace on the Prairies pageant for the tenth annual American Indian Exposition in Anadarko Oklahoma. The four day show featured 400 performers from 50 tribes, parades, dances, and a closing Star Spangled Banner. Speelman was made a Comanche member and given the title The Woman Who Comes Back Smiling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Speelman
Oklahoma
Lawrence
Colorado
California
New York
Haskell Institute
Anadarko, Okla
Peace On the Prairies
United States
Mexico
South America
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Ralph S. Bristol
Washington, D.C
Leon C. Phillips
Supreme Court
Secretary of the Interior
Wesley Rose
Wichita
Newton Rose
Haskell
Wesley Gallaher
Kiowa Hospital
Fort Sill
Maggie Tahome
Libby Botoné
Anadarko Jurisdictions
Prairie
Steelman
Albert Atocknie
Speelman
Quantrill
South Park
New York State
Esther Leigh Leaves for Leaders Council Meeting
Miss Esther Leigh president of the Business and Professional Women's Club of Lawrence travels to Kansas City Kansas to attend the Leaders Council of the Kansas Federation of BPWCs. The gathering opens at 11 a.m. Sunday at Hotel Gould with a luncheon, Minnie Bonnell presiding. The federation adopts the theme Watch for the Dawn and aims to strengthen democracy with national defense plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Esther Leigh
Business and Professional ‘Women’s Club
Lawrence
Kansas City
Kansas Federation of B.P.W.C
Gould
Kan
Minnie Bonnell
Atchison
Kansas Federation
Ite
The
Nations Federation
Nefenca
McPherson
National Defense
Daisy Herriott
Garden City
Dollie Benfield
Kingman
Ann Clark
Norrs B. Schultz
Liberal
Miss Herriott
Hazel Anderson
Fort Scott
Thrifty Habit of Daily Classified Page Reading
A daily reader forms a thrifty habit by scanning the classifieds each day to catch bargains and notices. The practice highlights careful budgeting and awareness of local market offers.
Nation's Great Cosmetic Industry Faces Defense Demands
Washington report notes national defense shifts scarce resources from cosmetics to military needs. Essential oils, alcohols, and chemical bases become restricted while the Toilet Goods Association forms an Exchange Bureau to reallocate materials. Wood containers and substitutes rise as plastics and metals are diverted to defense uses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
National Defense
America
Asia
Oriental
Switzerland
Bulgaria
Algeria
Bourbon Islands
France
United States
U. S
Toilet Goods Association
TGA
Exchange Bureau
Inc Oxide
Office of Emergency Management
Cosmetic Solv ents Shortages Loom In War Production
The piece notes limited ethyl alcohol for toilet goods and scarce coal-tar dyes, with some cosmetics facing supply strain. OPACS plans expert input to avoid price gouging, while pine and Latin American substitutes may help replace cut-off oils. It also includes home recipe teasers and baking directions amid wartime austerity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
Canada
Office of Price Administration
OPACS
Department of Commerce
Labor Day Menus and the Forgotten Origins of the Holiday
The piece traces Labor Day’s name to a whimsy of lawmakers and links the date to a harvest festival. It notes Knights of Labor origins in 1869 and the 1882 New York parade establishing the holiday, while lamenting the faded original meaning and the upcoming long weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knights of Labor
New York City
Cold Dishes For Buffets And Family Meals
Plan a cold buffet or family meal with crisp salads molded foods and frozen desserts. Many dishes can be prepared in advance, giving you more time for outdoor enjoyment.
Molded Chicken Jelly Mold from Stews
A recipe for preparing stew chicken by cooking in minimal water, seasoning, deboning, and returning meat to the broth to heat. The mixture is pressed in a square dish to form a jelly like mold that can be sliced. Water control is crucial to success, with separate dark and light meat layering possible.
Potato salad dressing and boil jacketed potatoes
Recipe fragment lists ingredients for a boiled potato salad with onions and a celery seed and sugar flavored dressing. Includes Russian dressing, chili sauce, mayonnaise, salt, pepper, and sugar.
Potato Salad with Russian Mayo Dressing
A recipe fragment describes peeling potatoes and mixing them warm with seasonings, Russian and mayonnaise dressings, vinegar or lemon juice. Chill, then add diced radishes and celery before serving in a lettuce lined dish. More dressing may be added before serving.
French Salad with Roquefort Crumbles
A vegetable salad mixes green beans peas asparagus cucumbers tomatoes celery peppers beets and carrots cut into strips. A French dressing blends sugar paprika salt dry mustard vinegar oil and a garlic clove steeped then removed. Top with crumbled Roquefort cheese.
Chocolate tapioca frozen dessert from old recipe
Heat two squares chocolate with two cups milk in a double boiler. Beat in egg whites and fold into a sugared vanilla base with whipped cream. Chill and freeze in a tray for serving.
Eudora Social Roundup Sees Reunions Birthdays and Visits
A busy week in Eudora features Mrs. M H Cox hosting an ice cream supper for her husband's birthday with guests Ellen Hill Charles Hill Eunice Hill Harold Lowe and Patricia Cox. The 13th Deay reunion at Clinton Park Lawrence drew 90 attendees. Various family visits and hospital notes follow including tonsil removal for Carolyn Ann Zimmerman and travel updates from families in Topeka San Benito Texas and Ponca City Oklahoma.
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M. H. Cox
Ellen Hill
Pasadena
Calif
Charles Hill
Chicago
Eunice, Hill
Wichita
Harold Lowe
Patricia
Lenexa
Cox
Deay
Clinton Park
Lawrence
Will Deay
Eudora
Audrey Jean Musick
Topeka
Allie Milburn
Jake Milburn
Fred Gottstein
Freddie Hays
Maude George
Mahlon Cox
Hesper School
Alma Knott
Marion Freeman
Josephine Davis
Harold Behnsack
Ponca City
Okla
Will Behnsack
Harold Daugherty
Carolyn Ann Zimmerman
Memorial Hospital
Sherman Roach
Kansas City
Frances Greiner
Louise
Teresita
Atchison
George Warmker
Esther Finnley
Ray Warmker
San Benito
Tex
Fred Walker
George Lothholz
Edward Diekman
Alfred Knox
Gottlieb Nieder
Emma Hisele
Roger Stanley
Florida
Wolfe
Lawrence Flower Club
J. D. Adams
Black Hills
Yellowstone Park
Mary Wiedensaul
J. O. Scott
Bobby Wilson
Valley Chapel
David Nieder
Barbara Zook
McLouth
Chester
Jefferson County
Colonial Tea Room
Y. M. P. Club
Tonganoxie
Ralph Wotan
Dorothy
Chester Baecker
Phylliss
Shirley
Osceola
Osklooska
Iowa
Gottlieb Nieder David
Roger
Nie
Local Social Roundup and School Prep Notices
Curtis and Flory families host and visit relatives from Lawrence Elsa Salina and Lincoln Neb with multiple dinner guests. Sunflower club meets for a covered dish luncheon at Mrs Dietz with several attendees. School opening prep noted. June Davidson of Miltonvale named new teacher. repairs at the school house underway. Various visits to and from Overbrook Quenemo and Grandview participants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spen
Ralph Weybright
Olive Flory
Howard Snider
Lawrence
Charlie Banning
Joe Flory
Rolland
D. W. Anderson
Alvis Allison
Ralph Eybright
Joleen Giles
Lincoln, Neb
J. W. Garbutt
Dorothy
Lloyd Bachelor
Overbrook
Will Bachelor
Roscoe Jeffries
Jimmy
Salina
Leo Percival
Jeffries
Mr. Flory
Morris Ewing
Edith
Donald Anderson
Anderson
Sunflower Club
Rudolf Diets
Merritt Woodward
Mattie Lindell
Ruby
Martha
Magdalene Dietz
Mary Lamb
Lone Star Community News Highlights August Events
Attendance at Sunday school on August 24 reached 57 and Rev L H Griffith delivered a missionary sermon at 11. A Washington Creek Valley Chapel Toone Star churches picnic at Lone Star lake drew good crowds. A rainstorm Monday brought heavy rain and lightning. Local residents Fred Flory McKinney and Joe Flory joined a Watkinstown excursion to Minnesota and Wisconsin. Guests from New York City and South Dakota joined Ralph Weybright for dinner Saturday. Sunday afternoon visitors included L M Flory of Lawrence and the Nieder family. A birthday dinner at the Austin Flory home honored Mrs Flory with relatives from Lawrence and nearby communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. H. Griffith
Washington Creek
Valley Chapel
Toone Star
Lone Star Lake
Fred Flory
Fred McKinney
Joe Flory
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Watkins
Scenora Metesker
New York City
Edith Smith
South Dakota
Victor Metesker
Donerth Metesker
Munsey
Kan
Ralph Weybright
Tila Childs
L. M. Flory
Lawrence
Carl Nieder
Max and
Henry
Emma Nieder
Austin Flory
Flory
Jack Riley
Billie Marie
Florene
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Miss
B.P.W.C. Leaders Council
U.S
MR. and
Mrs. Skinner
Eleanor Ragsdale
NEA Service
Carol Landis
Der
Elizabeth Dunn
Miss Dunn
Bucklin
Irvin Wotaw
Hesper
Wanda Baecker
Linwood
Ovid Snider
Henry Blechel
Allie Hadle
Leonard Hadle
Bellview
Retta Daugherty
Gates Nieder
David and
Oskaloosa
Kermit Broers
John Baker
Clay Center
Linus Dietz
Fred Mc.Kinney
Orris Wells
Olin Harrell
Charlie Weybrigh
Washington ‘Creek
Mildred Hack
Murray -Hand
Marjorie Annand
Theda
John Flory
Bert Flory
Eldorado Springs
Cal Ward
Lincoln
Neb
Fred Windhorst
Winderst
Lester McAllister
W. E. Johnson
Tom. Wright
Grandview
onTes
J. D
Bright
Martha Jane
Merrit
John Daggett
June Davidson
Miltonvale
Cyrus Anderson
Lottie Anderson
Alvin McKinney
Swope Park
Wilford Kaufmann
Pec Wees
Mohammed Shayesteh
Sumner Welles
Lone Star
Jayhawk
Vermont
IT ‘Service Says
Odd Fellows
American Service Co
E. W. Young
Ed Young
Case Farm Machinery
N. H
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