Journal World News Section Deepened with Traffic and Politics
Lawrence Kansas newspaper items discuss Dawes revision of Senate rules and political forecasts, with editorials on automobile speed and safety. Readers are urged to file the Journal World by 7 p.m. and a note on circulation, pricing, and Associated Press rights appears. The page includes literary references and local commentary on Kansas football and population shifts, plus notes on radio broadcasting station cuts and public policy.
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Associated Press
Audit Bureau OF
Noted Author's Viewpoints on Soviet Censorship and Soap Advertisers
The piece discusses Sinclair Lewis in Soviet Russia and how his novel Main Street might be withheld from the public until he adapts. It suggests Russians with peculiar tastes could reward the author differently than by making his work a bestseller while criticizing the promotion of white shirts.
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Sinclair Lewis
Russia
Change in ownership at St Nicholas Restaurant in town
The St Nicholas restaurant passes into the hands of J W Amos who plans to improve the business. Other notices report Riggs and Nevison moving to the Saving Bank building, Riggs and Sinclair taking first floor spaces, Stevens and Porter leasing over Simpson's bank, and Judge Devereux’s former office being occupied. Thanksgiving skating drew many to the Kansas River ice. a fire destroyed Dr Dickson’s home near Lawrence. a marriage notice follows Charley Anderson and Lottie Sinfield.
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St. Nicholas
J. W. Amos
Messrs
Kansas
Joseph Savage
Dickson
Wakarush Township
Lawrence
Charley Anderson
Charley
Anderson
Anderson-Sin
Stillwell
Kimball
Hadley
Close
Stilwell
Barnett
Wm. Simpson
Terry
Townsend
Butler
Stillwell Edward
Thomas Finner
Wilmoth
Johns Hopkins Alumni Elect New President In Kansas City
Twenty five years ago Prof Haworth was elected president of the Johns Hopkins alumni association at a Kansas City election. Dr Chas Simmons departed for Philadelphia and New York and other eastern points. Miss Emma Wyler and Mrs F Wyler travel to San Antonio for the winter. Mrs A T Walker hosted twelve guests at dinner. Rev E E Stauffer of Wellington Kans has accepted a call to the English Lutheran church and will assume charge January 1 1903. J A Benson builds a new residence on Kentucky Street. M Newmark adds a glass case to his store. Wm Zimmerman, badly injured, improves and expects to be up soon. The paper notes there is no view of the perpetrator of the dastardly crime.
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Prof. Haworth
Johns Hopkins University
Kansas City
Chas. Simmons
Philadelphia
New York
Emma .Wyler
F. Wyler
San Antonio
Texas
A. T. Walker
C. W. Reed
M. Newmark
Wm. Zimmerman
War League Plan Presented By Dean Olin Templin
Ten years ago Dean Olin Templin of the University of Kansas College of Liberal Arts and Sciences presented a plan for a War League of American Colleges to the government. The plan was adopted and the league will begin organizing at once. Templin reported from Washington that he is on the job under George Creel’s direction.
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Olin Templin
War League
War League of American Colleges
College of Liberal Arts and ‘Sciences
University of Kansas
Dean Templin
Washington
Frank Strong
George Creel
Elks Memorial
B.P. C. E. Lodge
Paul R. Brooks
C. H. Tucker
W. Y. Morgan
Local readers note greetings and weekend visits in Iola and Odessa
A fragment from a society page lists attendees and visitors. Chaplain A M Parker and Dr Mae attendances are noted along with eleven year old Mise utler and Rev E E Stauffer. The Windmill Hill event features a Mary Roberts led cast with Helen White Leone Hilkey Xenia Tuttle Roberta Gorsuch Norine Powell of Odessa Mo. Nell Buchanan returns to Iola after Lawrence weekend visit. Beth Parker and Mrs E J Parker visit Atchison then Lawrence over the weekend.
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A.M. Parker
Ont
Te Hults
Mise Utler
William Dal
Anna Sweene
E._E. Stauffer
Rls
Mary Roberts
Windmill Hill
Helen White
Leone Hilkey
Xenia Tuttle
Roberta Gorsuch
Norine Powrell
Odessa
Nell Buchanan
Iola
Lawrence
Beth Parker
Parker
Atchison
First woman elected president of Austrian Senate
Vienna reports Frau Olga Rudel Zeynek was installed as president of Austria’s upper house, a historic milestone given women’s political rights there only ten years prior. coverage notes a notable advance for Austrian politics amid ongoing social change.
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Associated Press
Vienna
Austria
Assenate
Frau Olga
Rudel-Zeynek
Welsh miner leader Cooke fights long union battle
Ayd. Cook, who led Welsh miners to London to present a petition for government action in the coal industry, has long fought for miners. Born in barracks to a British army private, he left home at twelve, worked on a farm, preached in a Baptist chapel at sixteen, then twenty-one years in Rhondda Valley mines. In 1918 he rose in Welsh miners' affairs and in 1924 was elected secretary of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain. He is said to be forty-two and never found time for recreation.
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Ayd
Cook
London
Cooke
Rhondds
Welsh Miners’ Union
Miners’ Federation of Great Britain
Jack
Ranger sails from Portsmouth. Gould dies in New York
Today marks 150 years since the Ranger under Captain John Paul Jones sailed from Portsmouth NH for her famed cruise against Britain. Also recalling 35 years since Jay Gould’s death, New York hosts the American Association of Textile Chemists meeting. Ford announces a new car display in Detroit as colder weather increases jail sleepers. Police report a theft of a moment meter from a car near the Varsity Theater.
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Ranger
John Paul Jones
Portsmouth
Wall Street
Jay Gould
New York
New York City
American Association of Textile Chemists
Ford Motor Company
Detroit
Poor Pa by Claude Callan
Newspaper comic feature by Claude Callan titled Poor Pa appears in syndication with copyright notes indicating Publishers Syndicate.
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Poor PA
Claude Callan
Publishers Syndicate
Sunspots and Their Earthly Effects From Professor Baker
Professor Robert H. Baker notes sunspots are unusually numerous and linked to magnetic disturbances and auroras on Earth. He explains spot formation, visibility, and the sun’s cycles, including an eleven year pattern, with impacts on temperature and potential rainfall variation.
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Robert H. Baker
University of Illinois
Urbana
Ill
Reedie
History highlights from Kansas this date
Kansas notes for this date recall 1857 tree state convention at Lawrence and 1859 John Brown's execution in Charlestown Virginia alongside Abraham Lincoln's speech in Atchison. The text reflects brief historical markers and a stray fragment about a building.
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Lawrence
John Brown
Charlestown
Abraham Lincein
Atchison
Army methods succeed reclaiming prisoners for service
Washington reports that 6,927 military prisoners have been restored to duty since the reclamation program began at three disciplinary barracks. About 90 percent of those restored have proven effective in returning to service, with one fifth of the reformed earning promotions to noncommissioned ranks. The program selects individuals with clean records for intensive military drill in special battalions. A psychiatry and sociology division now supports reclamation at Fort Leavenworth, Fort Jay, and Alcatraz Island.
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Washington
War Department
Fort Leavenworth
Kansas
Fort Jay
New York
Alcatraz Island
California
Coldest weather of the season hits Topeka and KC
Early this morning northeastern Kansas woke to record cold with Topeka at 15 degrees and Kansas City at 16. Metrologist S D Flora forecast moving eastward and generally fair, slightly warmer weather today and Saturday. Concordia logged 14, Dodge City 20, Wichita 23, and Goodland 0.
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Topeka
Kansas
Mercury
Kansas City
S.D. Flora
Concordia
Dodge Igaty
Wichita
Goodland
Vinland Social Notes Reflect Birthday Attended Events
Mrs W A McPheeters hosted relatives and friends for her husband’s birthday with a guessing game, harp and piano music by Arthur McPheeters and Mr Jenkins, plus refreshments of chicken sandwiches cake and coffee. Guests included the Wilson Counts Macey Stevens Sturdy McPheeters and Jenkins families from Lawrence Tonganoxie and Topeka.
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W. A. McPheeters
Lowor
Arthur McPheeters
Mr. Jenkins
McPheeters
Afr
Wilson Counts
Tittle
Macey
B. A. Stevens
Lem Sturdy
Woodrow
Walter
Corwin McPheeters
Emily
Alld
Robert Jenkins
Lawrence
Lem Sturdy Cand
Herman Smith
Leonard Stanwix
Alice. Stanwix
Daisy McClayry
Tonganoxie
Cummings
Margaret Cummings
Bruce Cummings
Katherine Cummings
Topeka
Ed McClintock
Vinland Rural High School
S. K. Funk
Funk
Pennsylvania
Neway
Monand
Vinland
Charles Hemmi
Prosperity Seen In 1927 Hoover Report
Washington December 2 AP economic progress in 1927 raised Americans to the highest material living standard the nation has ever known says Secretary Hoover in his annual report to the President. He notes six years of prosperity with agriculture and some personal life lagging while industry and railroads run strongly and exports hit a high. He cites 7.006 billion dollars in new construction and a 16 percent share of world trade, with per capita output up about 55 percent since 1899. Farmers Union notes discuss markets tariffs and the upcoming Douglas County meeting December 17 and the Lonestar local get-together in January.
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Washington
Hoover
Mr. Hoover
Durand
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Julius Wigin
Farmers Union
James W. Anderson
Doukins County
Silal
Lawrence
Kansas City
Topeka
Donglas
Obituary for John A Miller of Dark County Ohio 1862 1927
John A Miller born in Dark County Ohio on March 9 1862 died at his home near Washington Creek November 24 1927 aged 65 years 8 months 16 days. He married Laura G Hill March 22 1883. They had eleven children George Cassie Jesse Willis Orpha Fred Ollie Christopher Carrie Pearl Migs Ina Miller and many grandchildren. Survived by two brothers C P Miller Samuel Miller two sisters Lizzie Mowder Emma Gerrez and numerous relatives.
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John A. Miller
Dark County
Ohio
Washington Creek
Laura G. Hill
George
Lone Star
Cassie Bosserman
Gulph
Ontario
Canada
Jesse
Willis
Lawrence
Orpha Nelson
Fred
Bonner Springs
Ollie
Independence
Divorce plans end 50 year marriage for Lehmanns in Chicago
Dee and Fred Lehmann told Judge Sabath they cannot continue married life and plan to live in old age homes. They described nearly 50 years of marriage and said they would be happier apart. The case centered on a potential divorce and division of assets as they seek separate futures. In another case, Carl John Young was fined and deprived of car use for 30 days after pleading guilty to speeding in police court.
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Chicago
Dee
Fred
Berta Lehmann
Sabath
Superior Court
Fred Lehmann
Financial Sages
Holmes
Carl John Young
West Fourth Street
H Daugherty
Free demonstration brushes and lacquer at Tecord Corner Drug
Practical brushing lacquer offered with a free demonstration this Saturday at Tecord Round Corner Drug Co. No 2 715 Mass Ave. Advertises pillows at a special price of 2.95 and a promotional page.
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Round ‘Corner Drug Co
Metzers
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