Trade barriers across states draw critique from KU economist
Prof L L Waters of Kansas University economics argues to the League of Women Voters that about 3 000 state measures and various interpretations act as trade barriers between states. He cites taxes on liquor and margarine and onerous bonds for itinerant workers as obstructive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. L. Waters
K. U. Department of Economics
League of Women Voters
Waters
Watera
Altho
Pancake Party at Sam Morris Store With Aunt Jemima
Sam Morris hosts an all day pancake party at his store with a lifelike Aunt Jemima in person. She will serve cakes sausages and coffee starting 9 AM until closing Saturday. The event features a large six foot two inch, 250 pound figure in costume inviting all ages to sample the cooking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Morris
Jemima
Ewill
Jemimas
Chicago
Higbee
Hicbee
Mississippi ‘River
Morris
Christmas buying lifts nationwide to multi year high
Dun and Bradstreet reports this week the nation shows stronger Christmas gift demand with sales across all merchandise up 7 to 40 percent from a year ago. Department stores and consumers push toward a potential historic peak in holiday shopping activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Dun & Bradstreet
Specially Baked Loaves Make Ideal Holiday Gifts
A fragment describes fragrant loaves suitable as Christmas gifts. It outlines a pecan bread recipe using pie flour, whole wheat flour, brown sugar, baking powder, salt, milk, melted shortening, and chopped pecans, with simple assembly and a festive presentation.
Bread and batter recipe and local community notes
A long column mixes a baking recipe for Fontany Bron Bread with frequent local notices. It lists ingredients including sour milk and molasses, mentions names like R. E. Mangold, Topeka visitors, and local church activities, school programs, and a Kansas City council meeting. Several community updates cover births, illnesses, church rallies, and a mineral test well near Perry with progress reports. The piece blends culinary directions with neighborhood news and upcoming events in Jefferson County.
Monday Menu Highlights for Breakfast Lunch and Dinner
The menu lists breakfast with tomato juice hot cereal whole wheat pecan bread coffee and milk. Luncheon features baked beans Boston brown bread raw cabbage and apple salad tea and milk. Dinner offers cold slice pot roast mashed potatoes green beans lettuce salad and canned custard with spiced cranberry jelly and coffee with milk.
Honey Date Nut Bread Recipe Note
A recipe describes making Honey Date Nut Bread using white and all purpose flour nuts dates and honey. The method includes boiling a tin covered in water for three hours and baking at 375 degrees for 1 to 1 1/2 hours with a honey glaze brushed on near the end.
Man Injured on Virgil Green Farm Well During Night Shift
George Brown, night shift tool dresser, was injured Friday night while fitting piping in a test well on the Virgil Green farm. The pipe slipped, breaking Brown’s leg in two places above the foot. He was taken to Lawrence Memorial hospital, where the bone was set and the limb placed in a cast. Eugene O'Trimble will replace Brown on night shift.
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George Brown
Virgil ‘Green
Mr. Brown
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Eugene O'Trimble
W H. Allen
Heater Brown
Lawrence
Harland Brown
Fort Scott
W. H. Allen
Charles Johnson
S. V. Allen
Wanda Ma
Harold
Meriden
Hester Brown
Oskaloosa
Joan Allen
Roland. O'Thimble
Nortonville
Samuel Allen, Jr
Fort Knox
W. H
Aerie
R. W. Amerine
Oklahoma
R. W
Amerine
Baldwin
Albert Ghesmann
Silesia
Ge ‘Mongold
Theodore
Moulson
Granville. Jones
Diana Warren
David
Lawrence Moulson
Robert
Richard
Merriar
Kanj
Valley Grove club notes and community updates
Weekly community items from Valley Grove include a Bible study night at the Christian Endeavor with future leadership by Loona Zook, and a Junior Endeavor session planned for December 29. Neighbors announce Mr. and Mrs. George Welliver are moving to Kansas City for work, while Barbara Zook visits Emporia. A memorial marks the death of Amanda Lansdown in Portland. The Champion family reunion gathers, and local schools host a musical and basketball openers at McLouth. New members join the Sunny Valley Horn Bureau club.
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Kansas City
Willard Barnes
O. KK. Barnes
Gene Grandstaff
Fort Morgan
Colo
Donald Ray
George May
C. J. Bilas
Virgil Green Farm
Jalahe
Fred Crockett
Wallace
Walter Wilbur
Betty Yager
Claude Gordon
Frances Trusty
Will Burnham
Ethel Graham
Sarah O'Connor
Lawrence
Ferne Graham
forKenneth Zachariah
McLouth
Harold Graham
Assembly, of God
Kansas State Breeders’ Association
Topeka
Perry
George J. Hope
John Nevin
Jayhawk Club
James Bowen
Valley Falla
Jefferson County
Irvin “Graham
Farm: Bureau
Oxzankle High School
Davin 1. Farlane
Emporia State College
Oskaloosa
Ruth Payne
Ruth Lindsay
Wilma Metzger
Dorothy Norman
Bessie Davis
Emma
Lov Icks
Ray Rosa
Kenneth. Edwards
LaVerne Garren
Jim ‘Morrow
Hannah
Larga
Werther
L. J. Lamar
McFarland
Kan
Mr. Lamar
Nlace
Walter Love
Valley Grove Christian Endeavor
Misa Ronnie Gare
Loona Zook
George Welliver
Russell Shaw
Stewart
Walter Lowa
Elmo White
G.R. Shultz
Barbara Zook
Emporia Teacher's College
Harry Zook
Emporia
Russell Stewart
Edmwrence Ward
Suniside
Ida Ward
Valley Grove
Amanda Lansdown
Portland
Ore
Erry
I. S. Champion
Frank Champion
Herbert
Wil! Srmurr
Community Notes Include Dinners Visits And School Reports
Residents celebrate with Neighborhood Circle dinner and prize winners. Local families entertain guests from Lawrence Valley Grove and Kansas City. Everett Hberhard, now an instructor in radio engineering in Belleville, Ill, visited home. School reports mark the third month as weather delays test well work on the Ragin farm in McPherson sponsor Mrs Caufield.
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W. EH. Smurd
Maggie Davison
Virgil Groves
Ray Moorman
Lawrence
Evans
Kansas City
W. Ward
Merle
Valley Grove
William Hberhard
Everett Hberhard
Belleville, Ill
Aid Corps Technical Schools
Scottfield
Val Hehn
Merry Makers Club
Fred Hughes
Bryan Swain
Earl Haighes
McLouth
Robert Alexander
Effie Denny Tuesay
Ragin
Gerald Caufield
McPherson
Kan
Social Visits and Family Gatherings in Stony Point Area
Sunday and Saturday gatherings extended across Stony Point Vinland Overbrook and Willow Springs with multiple families present including the Holcom Wray Flory and Markley clans. A large group helped cut and save wood for Rev Daniel Flory while Mrs Oscar Markley and others prepared dinner for the men.
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Martin Holcom
Woody Sturdy
David William
Vinland
Ernest Wray
Abe
Flory
Misa Mabel
Wingert
Charles Brohammer
Dan Beeghley
Johnnie
Shuck Brothers
Columbia
Otis Bond
Near Overbrook
Donald Churchbaugh
Willow Springs
Emma Winters
Baldwin
Walker Randell
Daniel Flory
Cashie Flory
John Kinsley
Dave Wray
Floyd Barton
Amos’. Flory
Amon Crist
Chester Barton
George Edgecomb
Arthur Flory
Winford Flory
Bob Markley
Richard Postma
Oscar Shuck
Frank Deay
Tom Kirtus
Marlin Markley
Harve Hibner
Roy Shuler
Charles Wrightsman
Albert Crumpacker
Riley Barnhart
Elmer Church
Residents and visitors gather for holiday events in Lawrence
A large group from Vinland Willow Springs Worden and Independence spent Thursday at the Martin Holcom home and shared meals with families. Rev Arthur Flory and relatives joined a Sunday dinner at the Wrays and Deays. A Santa Claus parade in Lawrence drew many attendees Friday evening.
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Ter
Ula Bell
Margera May
Doreetha
Near Worden
Ara “Postman
Aiva Rockhold
Fred Rockhold
Lawrence
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Fontany Bre Bron
R. EB. Mangold
E. B. Baker
Phyllis Jean
Anita Mae Robinson
Rae. Shull
Shull
Oskaoosa
U.S
Army
Fort Belvoir
Amoke
Williamstown
California
Dreft
McClures Peck
N.B.C. Excella
Meat Department
Morrell
Calif
Iestb
Ise
Enda Ib
Woodstock
Albert Pippert
Mrs. Sutton
Emma Black
Caufield
Dolly Glenn
Pat
Mass
Klock
Texas
Jayhawk
Eglish
Diamond
Stony Point
Misa Flora’ Markley
Maurine Markley
Vera May Flory
Donald Flory
Yvonna Markley
John Dailey
Clarena Griffis
D. A. Wray
Byron
Daugh
Elliott’s
Vermont
Aldoz
Justin
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