Boulder Dam Bill Faces House Vote Amid White House Talks
Washington reports continued Senate efforts to pass the Boulder Dam bill with leaders seeking a swift path to the White House. President Coolidge’s stance looms as Congress weighs whether to accept Senate changes or send the measure to conference, amid hopes for rapid action in a short session.
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Johnson Boulder
Congress
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White House
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House
Coolidge
Johnson
California
Swing
Coolridge
Boulder Dam
Colorado River
Imperia
American
I Territory
Itesater
United States
Republic
Black Canyon
Boulder“Canyon
Colorada River
Farra la
National Legion officers to attend Kansas meeting
Four national American Legion leaders led by Commander Paul V. McNutt will join Kansas Legionnaires at the state convention in Wichita Monday evening. The program will feature speakers including Oklahoma's George A. Davis and Ted Petit, with the public welcome to attend in the high school auditorium.
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Wichita
Kans
the American Legion
Paul V. McNutt
Ecommander
Dan ‘Sowers
Iand Frank
Samuel
National Adjutant
Kansas
Ernest A. Ryan
Ryan
George A. Davis
Ted +Petit
Oklahoma Department
B. M
Cagteel
Jerry Duggan
Mahder
Mis
St the
A. High
Commander McNutt
Seize arms on Danube reports stir Vienna harbor
Vienna reports Iress notes seven cases of machine guns and munitions found on a Danube river steamer in Vienna harbor. Police investigations continue and at least five men tied to shippers or forwarding agents face arms charges. Hutchinson officers hold a suspect awaiting transfer.
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Vienna
Sele
Danube
Illinois Executes Three In First Electric Chair Use
Toliet Illinois becomes first state to use electric chair for a triple execution at dawn. Dominic Bressetti Chippewa John Brown and Claude He negroes were put to death for the May murder of Will Beck, a Lake county farmer slain during a home invasion robbery. The conspirators planned Beck’s murder to rob his money, with two hired men later convicted of manslaughter.
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Brown
Bresetti
Beck
Chicago
Town and Clark
Theodore Roberts Dies in Los Angeles Stage and Screen Icon
Theodore Roberts, renowned actor known as the grand old man of the stage and screen, died in Los Angeles after a two week illness following his final film Noisy Neighbors. Born in 1861 in San Francisco, he rose from elocution teacher to Broadway star, performing in Trilby and Uncle Tom's Cabin roles and later appearing in Grumpy and The Ten Commandments on screen. He had begun a U.S. vaudeville tour last year, interrupted by illness, and was famed for his long black cigar on screen.
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Los Angeles
Theodore Roberts
Roberts
San Francisco
Bay City
James O'Neill
New York
Fanny Davenport
Mav Robson
William H. Crane
Svenali
Trilby
Simon Legree
Finele
Tabywana
United States
Deaths and Funerals in Lawrence area
Miss Lillian F Turner dies at home 1137 Kentucky Street with services at Rumsey funeral home at 2 30 Sunday conducted by Rev J F Watts burial in Oak Hill Cemetery She survived by brother Joener of Lawrence and sister Mrs George Rush of Index Wash She had lived in Lawrence most of her life Funeral services for Mrs Josephine Baker 82 who died at 169 North Ninth Street will be held at Ninth Street Baptist Church at 2 39 Monday Rev G N Jackson will preside Burial in Maple Grove Grace Michel of Overbrook 26 died this morning funeral arrangements to be announced later She is survived by husband Louis E Maichel two sons Willard Leroy and Merle Louis her parents Claude and Mrs Williams of High Prairie and brother Frank Williams of Baldwin
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Lillian F. ‘Turner
Kentucky Street
Rumsey
J. F. Watts
Oak Hill Cemetery
Joener
Lawrence
George Rush
Index
Wash
Turner
Josephine: Baker
Josephine Baker
North Ninth Street
Ninth Street Baptist Church
G. N. Jackson
Maple Grove
Grace. Maichel
Grace Michel
Overbrook
Louis E. Maichel
Willard Leroy
Merle Louis
Claude Williams
High Prairie
Frank Williams
Baldwin
United
Opal Lee Ashwell
Farm buyers held after dramatic arrest in Kansas City
George Pullman of LaCygne Kansas sought 60 000 for his 400 acre farm and 150 spent entertaining buyers. He arrived with four Tulsa men as City detectives arrested five men on disturbing the peace over loud whoops and yells. The four others admitted prior Oklahoma gambling arrests.
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Kansas City
George Pullman
LaCygne
Kans
Bob Smith
Cecil Huff
Carl Stanley
Floyd ‘Woodward
Tulsa
Pullman
Pollman
Pollice
Oklahoma
Union rehearsal off Choral Union practice cancelled
University of fine arts announces the Lawrence Choral Union meeting for Tuesday evening December 18 is cancelled due to influenza and many members leaving town for holidays. Next meeting set for January 8. Professor Olin Templin to speak at Unitarian Forum on A National University tomorrow at 10 AM. Chancellor E H Lindley returns from Dodge City after dedicating the new high school. For sale cheap southern Smilax on spruce roping by Dennison Party Shop.
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University of Fine: Arts
The
Lawrence
Wee
T Unitarian Forum
Olin. Templin
University Department ‘of Philosophy
Unitarian Forum
Lindley
Dodge City
E. H. Lindley
Red Cross Roll Call Incomplete Across City County
The annual Red Cross roll call remains unfinished due to bad weather and sickness. Roll call chairman W B Dalton appeals for volunteers to canvass and for members to mail in contributions, noting generous response in surveyed areas and full support from Pinckney school teachers at 100 percent.
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Red Cross
W. B. Dalton
Roll Call
Floyd Rankin
Bert Nat Harold Co
Alpha Omae
Memorial Services for Colored Elks Tomorrow Afternoon
The colored Elks will hold memorial services tomorrow at 2:30 PM in the club rooms on New Hampshire Street. Elders and officers from the Elks Lodge will participate with Rev. Jones and Mrs. Bivens on the program and eulogies led by Lee Fishback and Arthur Pitches. Oil Journalist Is Dead in Tulsa: Robert W. Egan, president and GM of Oil and Gas Journal and VP and associate editor of Oil City Derrick, dies after brief illness due to influenza.
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The
Colored Elks
New Hampshire Street
Elks Lodge
Jones
Bivens
Lee Fishback
Arthur Pitches
Tulsa
Okla
Robert W. Egan
Thel Oil ‘and Gas Journal
Oil City
Harvard play Fiesta ruled unfit for presentation
Two police sergeants and a policewoman attended last night’s Harvard dramatic club performance of Fiesta in Cambridge. They labeled the overall play unfit for presentation, though they found the acting not objectionable. They cited dialogue as extremely objectionable in parts.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard Dramatic Club
System to Loot Chicago Schools in Building Contracts
Chicago reporting reveals a far reaching conspiracy to buy and sell contracts for board of education building work. State’s attorney Swanson and school board president Caldwell began questioning several individuals named in stenographic notes from the Herald and Examiner’s whispering wires. Roy Ammel, a stone contractor broker, is central, with alleged irregularities showing a drive to intrude contractors and monopolize school projects once run by terra cotta suppliers.
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Chicago
Herald and Examiner
Board of Education
John A. Swanson
H. Wallace Caldwell
Roy W.ammel
Wvho
Ammel
Congress of gastronomy proposed for world peace
Paris reports that the Paris Gourmets Club proposes a world congress of gastronomy as an aid to disarmament and lasting peace. Auguste Escoffier supports a universal Geneva congress alongside the League of Nations assembly with top chefs invited to compete. League delegates would judge, diverting minds from conflicts toward gastronomic progress.
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Paris
Paris Gourmets Club
Briand
Auguste Escoffier
Geneva
Assembly of the
League of Nations
League
M. Escoffier
Engree Sean
Real estate transfers and ownership changes listed
Victor P. Johnson and wife transfer lots 11 and 12 in block 16 Lane Place addition to Floyd V. Rankin in Lawrence. Josephine Fisher and others of Overbrook transfer property to Harold C. Fisher and Lora Fisher. Harold and Lora Fisher then transfer north portion to Josephine Fisher. Pittsburg High School earns Southeast Kansas league football championship per official standings announced by W. W. Bass.
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Victor P. Johnson
Floyd V. Rankin
Lane Place
Ithe
Lawrence
Josephine Fisher
Overbrook
Harold C. Fisher
Lora Fisher
Harold C.y Fisher
Pittsburg High
Coffeyville
Kan
Pittsburg High School
W.W. Bass
Coffeyville High School
Liquor blamed for highway crash near Lawrence
Four miles west of Lawrence on U S Highway 40 a Buick coach left the road after noon hurtling into a ditch. Lodged in the county jail, Charles Cook faced charges of driving intoxicated with three other Kansas City men injured. Dudley and Ma honey among them. Cook pleaded guilty and fined $100 plus costs. he remained jailed for lack of funds.
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Lawrence
U. S. Highway 40
A.w
Kansas City
Dudley
Lawrencel
Ed Mahoney
Topeka
W. J. Gummings
Cook
Kanwaka
Will Johns
James Weed
A. M. Fortney
Cummings
George K. Melvin
J. H. Mitchell
New Hall for Fish at American Museum Has Variety of Specimens
New York AP reports the American Museum of Natural History opened a hall of fishes. Visitors can see lung fish from Australia and Africa with paddle limbs, illustrating evolution from sea to land. Exhibits include tarpon and trout, plus models of swimming and breathing mechanisms.
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New Hall
American Museum
New York
American Museum of Natural History
Fur Manufacture Becomes Great Industry, Survey Says
Washington reports a Department of Commerce survey showing fur goods as a $250 million business. Establishments rose from 1,300 in 1914 to 2,000 in 1925, workers from 9,000 to 17,000, and wholesale value from 44 million to 70 million. The Mississippi Valley leads production though imports meet demand. exports total 31 million with muskrat, opossum, skunk, and raccoon as top furs. Domestic fur farming now supplies almost all fox pelts.
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Washington
Department of Commerce
Mississippi Valley
Russia
Canada
Alaska
United Kingdom
Germany
France
Plan Camp for Farmers Asheville NC AP
A farmers assembly camp to house 500 farmers and wives will be built at the North Carolina State test farm in Swannanoa. John W. Goodman says completion is expected in six months with a combined dining hall kitchen and assembly hall. Barracks will provide lodging for 36 per unit and the camp will host short course study gatherings. The site aims to boost practical farming instruction through farm-based demonstrations modeled on large church camps in western North Carolina.
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Asheville
N. C
Farmers’ Assembly
North Carolina
Swannanoa
John W. Goodman
State Agricultural Extension Service
Emperor's House becomes museum on Aix Island
The former Napoleon residence on Aix Island now houses a national museum labeled the Emperor's House by locals. The site preserves Napoleon's surrender letter table and the bed from his final night on French soil. The surrounding region notes four islands tied to his fate Corsica Elba Aix and Saint Helena.
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France
Napoleon the Great
la Rochelle
Corsica
Elba
Saint-Helena
Napoleon
Christmas and Community Notes From Lecompton Area
Glenn family visits in Star district. Lecompton, Greenwood Valley and nearby neighbors attend school events and a pie supper at Glenn school. Mrs McCall’s funeral observed at Lecompton church. Local residents ill with flu cared for at home. Teachers and residents visit relatives over weekend. Christmas gift exchange planned by Greenwood Valley students with a pre ceremony program. I Myers of Topeka visited Lecompton relatives.
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Sam Dark
Clayton
Mary
Elizabeth
Star District
Ben Kellogg
United Brethren Church
Lecompton
Greenwood Valley School
I. Myers
Topeka
Lecompton News Reports influenza cases and school events
The community notes influenza cases rising with several illnesses. E E Myers and Mrs George L Glenn taught Lecompton elementary grades for Miss Esther Bertechinger who is ill. Mrs George Morris visited as a business guest. Mrs W B Stauffer injured her arm but recovering. Warren McCall and family returned to Gary Indiana after two weeks visiting Glenn and Lawrence Topeka Lecompton. they faced snow on arrival. Mrs Clarence Welcher remains ill and bedbound. Pie supper at Glenn school raised 10.10 with low turnout due to flu. Program featured songs readings duets and several skits with students and townspeople participating. E J Hill auctioned pies and boxes. H F Fulton and family visited. Modern Woodmen activity noted with election of officers on Dec 17 as school closes until January 1.
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George L. Glenn
Lecompton
Esther Bertechinger
George Morris
Lecompton Saturay
W. B. Stauffer
Warren McCall
Gary
Ind
Mr. McCall
D. T. McCall
Glenn
Lawrence
Topeka
Clarence Welcher
Glenn School
Phyllis Sandford
Golden Slippera
John
Juanita
Chiles
Cora
Cora Barnes
Dorothy Samford
Marie
Eileen Glenn
Cornelia
Rosemary
George Harry
Tom
Ernest Brown
Cecil Welcher
Harold Chiles
Wilford Chiles
Charles Boydston
Ivan Glenn
Charles Scott
Rosemary Glenn
Kitty
Viola Welcher
Reading
Dorothy Sanford
Mary Sanford
Maxine
W+mer
E. J. Hill
H. F. Fulton
Arlette
Church of God Moves Services to Old Folks Home
The Church of God Chapel plans to hold services at the Old Folks Home until spring to reduce heating costs and curb debts. Reverend W. L. Post invites attendance and notes an evening service titled The Ascent of Man plus Bible school, with hopes of a permanent home later.
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Old Folka
Turber Hall
Nat Grains
W. L. Post
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