Postal Salaries Debate On Rate Increase Plan
President Coolidge pressed a revenue plan to fund postal employees raises at a White House conference with Republican senators. He urged linking pay with higher postage rates while warning against delaying action. Senate leaders considered postponing a vote but faced opposition from several members. News publishers and others voiced concern that higher mail charges would meet strong resistance. The plan hinges on raising rates across most mail classes to cover costs.
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Senate
Coolidge
Republicaneering Committee
Post Office Department
Congress
Ston
Sterling
Senate Post Office
Department
Renatar Couzens
Reynaldiean
Michigan
Pers and
Mage
Wichita Liquor Crackdown Targets Illicit Resorts
Wichita authorities announce plans to prosecute all violators under city, state, and federal laws as the police drag net cleans up liquor cases. Chief Thompson says he will seek injunctions against offending establishments and has seen arrests and confiscations since the campaign began last week.
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Wichita
Kam
Thompson
Kansas Forecast Summary for Weekend Weather
Regional forecast notes colder conditions arriving by Saturday with expected overnight lows and a brief change in wind. The text mentions today’s high around four degrees and variable temperatures from yesterday’s lows, highlighting a mixed, unsettled pattern through the weekend.
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Kansas
Earthquake Rips Southern German States Causing Heavy Damage
Reports from Swabian regions say a strong quake damaged numerous houses in Pliezhausen Etsingen and Mittelstadt. Seismic activity extended toward Stuttgart Heidelberg and the Black Forest with shocks lasting up to twenty seconds. An earlier tremor near Tolmezzo Italy damaged several houses but caused no casualties.
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Frankfort
Germany
Associated Press
Kestlinglen
Pliezhausen
Etsingen
Mitdelstadt
Lake Constance
Hiedelberg
Éberg
Bader
Black Forest
Stuttgart
Udine
Haly
Tolezzo
Here
Carnic Alps
Hart and Dundee Fight Ends In Draw After Mind Blanks
Philadelphia fighter Alex Hart and Dundee from Baltimore battled eleven rounds Monday night. Dundee’s chin was struck hard in round four, sparking a frightening episode of apparent fainting. Seconds used lighted matches to jolt him awake as doctors failed to revive him, yet Dundee recovered enough to finish and earn a draw. The manager claimed Dundee did not throw a right until gate receipts were divided.
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Dundee
Baltimore
Alex Art
Philadelphia
Hart
Dunde
Talk on Insect Pests by Rural High School Cadets
At the Iljeh Prairie Grange meeting high school agricultural students discussed insect pests. Edward Hies Genguel Cox Burton Brown and boys from the Agricultural department will speak at Glenn school house with speakers Russel Hays Cyrus Anderson Ar thr Jenson and Lawrence Learn ant.
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Iljeh Prairie Grange
Ast Jnishtat High Praire
Edward Hies Genguel Cox
Burton Brown
Oydeht
Agricultural Department of the’ High School
Glenn School
Russel Hays
Cyrus Anderson
Arthr Jenson
Lawrence Learnant
Dinner for old folks at Volks home by local women
A group of women led by Mrs TL C blah Abs M 3 AL Lutz and Edith Wolga hosted a dinner for residents of the Old Volks home yesterday. A 2 o clock program delighted the inmates with songs and readings from Miss Davis Sunday school class of the Methodist church.
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C. Blah
AL Lutz
Edith Wolgaanott
Wm. McAlearney
Ciarled Hale
Perry Ewing
Volks
Hime
State Hospital Patients Take to Cross Word Puzzles
Warren Pennsylvania December 12 patients at the state hospital for the insane at North Warren are said to spend hours over cross word puzzles as a new diversion. Officers report little effect on mental welfare. The article notes a mix of other items from a parliamentary committee on oil concessions to journalism class talks by J E Blanchard of New York.
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State Hospital
Warren, Penn
Den 12
State Hospital For the
North Warren
Hunter's Dog Accident Hospitalizes Man in Maine
Wiscasset Me Dec 12 Theodore Sherman of Edgecomb was shot in the leg yesterday while gunning near here. He laid a loaded gun on the ground as he crawled under an automobile to adjust it. The dog stepped on the trigger and discharged the charge. The injury is to the leg between the knee and ankle.
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Wiscasset
Theodore Sherman
Edgecomb
Sherman
Gompers Improves Amid San Antonio Hospital Hope
Samuel Gompers American Federation of Labor president showed improvement after rail journey to San Antonio Texas doctors at bedside. Reports say he sat up lightly ate milk tea and gained strength while train from Laredo Encinal Neared San Antonio with physicians Henzl and Aur back en route to aid him.
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Texas
Gompers Brain
San Antonio
Samuel Gompers
Cotziia
Tex
Associated, Press
Savel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Neur At
Encinal
Anl
Laredo
Us Ated
Gompers
New York
Samuel * Coimpers
Henz
Aurback
Harry Moness
Christmas Lighted Trees Go Up In Massachusetts Street
Workmen raise Christmas trees to trolley pole tops from Sixth to Eleventh streets in Topeka. Lights will illuminate intersections when Santa arrives tomorrow around 4 pm after visiting De Soto and Tinwoods. A dummy Santa will drop from a plane with cash reward for return to the Chamber of Commerce.
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Lawrente
Massachusetts
Sixth
Eleventh
Tenth
Massachusetts Street
DeSoto
Tinwoods
Massachusetts’ Street
Chamber ‘of? Commerce
iNunimn
Frugal Meats Revealed for Golden Rule Sunday Relief
Frugal meals to be served Sunday as churches plan Golden Rule observance with funds sent to Near East orphans. Lawrence groups promote simple dinners and donations to Near East orphanages, with special envelopes in schools and churches. The event urges shared prosperity and goodwill across twenty three countries, extending the spirit of frugality to aid child life abroad.
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Near East
Lawrence
Alli Lawrence
George UK
Tabiaisraait
Seho
Near East Orphans
Harvard Medical Student Invents Blood Agar Apparatus
Everett Kiefer a Harvard Medical School junior spoke at the Interurban Clinical Club in Boston about his blood agar apparatus for consultants and general practitioners. He demonstrated the device and plans another demonstration in New York City with the Academy of Medicine. Kiefer heads a chemistry laboratory at the New England Deadness hospital and is son of W L Kiefer of Lawrence.
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Harvard Medical School
Interurben Clinical Club
Boston
Toni
Academy of Medicine
Ir. Kidfer
New England
Deadness’ Hospital
W. L. Kiefer
Lawence
Odd Fellows Urge Christmas Fund For Eureka Lake Home
Grand Master 4 B Wilson reports lodges responded to a Christmas fund call for inmates at Eureka Lake home near Manhattan. Secretary Gertie Johnston of the Rekah State Assembly will assist in arranging the celebration with Wilson.
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Odd Fellows
B. Wilson
Jodge
Eureka Lake
Manhattan
Lodge
Wilson
Gertie Johnston
Rekah
Teachers to Hear Vocational Guidance Talk at County Meeting
W H Johnsons, education professor at the University, will address district teachers at 10 tomorrow morning on rural school vocational guidance. The district teachers’ monthly meeting will be at O J Lane’s office with a short program and an informal round table on educational problems after the talk. Truman Crowley, parolee in grand larceny case, has been paroled to his grandmother in Alva Oklahoma. he must work and report monthly. Fifty four of ninety four university clubs have agreed to place Jayhawkers in county high schools.
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W. H. Johinsott
University
O. J Lane
Johnson
Truman Crowley
Truman Craw
Tthe State Penitentiary
Crowley
H.W. Streetur
Alva! Okla” Stannes Sgne
University of Kansas
Inventory of liquor seized by Sheriff Connor opened
Wichita Kansas December 12 a complete inventory of all liquor confiscated by Sheriff Chester A Connor since he was elected two years ago will be demanded by Ed Grove sheriff elect who assumes office January 12 following a conference with county authorities More than 4000 gallons of liquor valued at 50000 and several scores of stills have been captured since Connor took office Grove declared
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Wichita
Kan
Chester A. Connor
Grove
Conner
U S Made Reply to British Question on War Claims
Ambassador Kellogg reports delivering the American reply to London, asserting the United States has full right to collect war claims from Germany under the Dawes plan. Secretary Hughes drafted the reply in support of allied powers and U S collections, while Britain recalls its own note awaiting Chamberlain’s Rome arrival.
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Kellogg
State’ Department
Foreign Office
London
United States
Germany
Hughes
Associated
Dere
Associated Press
Chamberlain
Rome
Paris
Jenkins General Store Robbed at Perry in Morning Theft
Two men entered the Jenkins general store in Perry around 2 am and stole clothing and merchandise valued between 74 and 100 dollars before fleeing in a large touring car. Nightwatchman Kunkle was held at gunpoint, then shots were fired when a car returned to the scene an hour later, and the thieves disappeared toward Topeka. One assailant was white, of medium age. the other man’s description was not recovered.
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Perry
Kunkle
Jenkins
Jenkins Re
Topeka
Miss Pratt Claims Eligibility For Kansas Wheat Girl Contest
Miss Inez Pratt asserts eligibility for the Kansas Wheat Girl contest citing birth on a Kansas farm eight miles south of Lawrence and long residence on the farm. She has lived at 1904 Vermont Street during the school year and summers with her father on the farm, meeting the two year Kansas farm residence requirement.
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Journal-World
Inez Pratt
Pratt
Lawrence
Vinland Rural High School
University of Kansas
Vermont Street
Kansas
Western Poultry Embargo Hits Midwest Markets
New York barred shipments of western poultry after reports of a suspected avian diphtheria outbreak in Kansas and neighboring states. Authorities expect heavy losses for producers as the embargo disrupts thousands of carloads weekly and sparks concern over dressed fowl from the region. Kansas officials seek explanations while industry leaders warn of statewide economic impact.
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New York
United Press
Indiana
Iowa
Dakota
Nebraska
Kanas
Missouri
Chicago
Middle West
Toneka
J. H. Mercer
New York City
Kansas
Mercer
Baer
Manhattan
Concordia
Poultry Market Quiet as New York Embargo Stirs Trade
George R. Frazier of Lawrence Levy says New York embargo affects only live shipments. Dressed poultry remains steady locally while Kansas City live poultry prices fell due to the embargo. Frazier notes disease after long live-car transit, likely unsanitary conditions. Shippers blamed for poor grading, disease not transmittable to humans per Frazier. Fifty-one patients attend weekly free Baby clinic at city hall with six new cases and nine from out of town.
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George R. Frazier
Lawrence Levy Company
New York
Kansas City
Five men begin sentences for $2 million mail robbery
Five convicted men in the Rend intent case are arriving at Leavenworth Kansas to start their prison terms. Herbert Holliday of Kansas City reportedly withholds details on about $100,000, while Willie Newton, shot during the June 12 robbery, is brought in on a stretcher and is hospitalized in Chicago.
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Leavenworth
Kat
Herbert Holliday
Kansas City
Chicago
Willie Newton
Jis
Snowball arrested again in liquor raid near Lawso n farm
City officers seized a small copper still buried under ground and mash hidden in a chicken house on the Long farm east of Lawson. A pint of whiskey was found and three people were jailed to be sent to Leavenworth for prosecution. Snowball, a known liquor suspect, claimed innocence as officials connected him to the operation.
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Snowhall
Leavenworth
Moore
Henderson
Corel
Capes of Lin‘wood
Long Farm
Leavenworth County
Snowall
Snowheall
Thelma McGee
John“Brown
Longe Place
Cora Gillispie
Longe
Lawrence
Kansas City
Ballots Out Tonight for Lawrence Chamber Directors
Ballots for the election of seven Lawrence Chamber of Commerce directors will go out in the mail tonight to members. Ballots must be returned to the Chamber building by 6 o clock next Tuesday night. Retiring directors are not eligible for re election under Chamber rules.
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Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commercce
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Commerlee
Quarterly CG PLA meeting to be held next Thursday
The CG PLA will hold a quarterly meeting at the Chamber of Commerce building next Thursday night. D F Smith, president, announced the session was postponed from last week due to bad weather and muddy roads. A business meeting opens, followed by a basketball game and refreshments.
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CG. PL
Chamber of Commerce
D. F. Smith
Governor and guests attend Wednesday dinner at the Davis home
The article notes Walter L. Conk waived preliminary hearing on a wife desertion charge in justice court and will appear before Judge Hugh Means. Deputy Ralph Lawrence returned to Lawrence from Hill City Kansas. Governor and Mrs. Davis hosted a dinner Wednesday evening with guests Mrs. Roger St. Williams, Mrs. W. J. Williams, Mrs. Jacob Badsky, and Mrs. Carrie B. Murphy.
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Waives
Ralph Lawrence
Isheriff
Lawrence
Hill City
Kans
Walter L- Conk
Conk
Justice Court
Hugh Means
Roger St. Wiliams
W. J. Williams
Jacob Badsky
Carrie B. Murphy
Oit
Davis
Kansas Engineers Elected Officers At Seventeenth Convention
J E Gorrad of Manhattan was elected president of the Kansas Engineering Society for 1925 at the Seventeenth Annual Convention at the University of Kansas. W E Baldry of Topeka became vice president, and Prof Ernest Boyce of the KU engineering faculty was named secretary and treasurer. L E Curfman was added to the board of directors. A banquet speaker, L W Wallace, warned engineers to watch industrial competition and discussed future roles in distribution, finance, and the nation’s human elements. An irrigation report cited nearly 100000 acres under drainage with about 1216000 investment. About 190 delegates attended.
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J. E. Gorrad
Manhattan
Kansas Engineering Society
University of Kansas
W. E. Baldry
Kansas
Wallace
Rhodes
Polac Ir Wales
Ford Coupe Stolen From Massachusetts Street
A Ford coupe owned by P. H. Wagner of 1045 New York Street was taken yesterday from the 1000 block on Massachusetts street. Wagner offers a 25 dollar reward for the car's recovery. A note mentions a Toy in the American Legion today.
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P. H. Wagner
New York Street
Massachusetts Street
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