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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1929
Page
4
The Kansas City Kansan weighs origins of Topeka name amid competing theories. One camp credits Topage Pawnee subdivision, another suggests three Indian words meaning a good place to dig potatoes. Debate mirrors Topeka's political buzz and hometown pride as campaigns intensify.
After multiple highway accidents, investigators note that parking a vehicle on a public road is not a violation of state law if warning lights are used properly. Authorities emphasize proper signaling and stay alert for oncoming traffic.
The Topeka Capital urges careful consideration of a taxation revision at tomorrow's meeting of legislative tax committees in Topeka. It warns against using the session to fuel factional lines, stressing that politics can contribute nothing to a better tax plan.
The Old Home Town notes retail pricing for rabbits at ten cents each. It reports wear on hubs reducing wheeling quality, a small roof fire at Adam Oliver’s Kentucky street residence, with two square yards burned until detected, and plans for new shingles to repair. It also lists various local notices including a firm dissolution for Snook & Weeks, a band leader’s engagement with Haverley’s Minstrels, and visits from Rev Ira Emery and Mrs S G Howe while others plan moves and lectures.
Miss Lucene Barker will entertain the Wednesday afternoon Whist club on December 27 in honor of Miss Mary Speaker. Mr. and Mrs. Robert McFarland have returned from California.
Mrs L J Sperry hosted family and friends to honor Robert McFarland and his bride who wed December 7 in Berkeley California They will establish their home in Lawrence Miss Margaret Perkins hosts a large gathering tonight at her West Lawrence home H S Foster will chair the Camera club meeting at 504 Ohio street next Monday with Impressions of Photography at the St Louis Exposition Biss A I Wight adds talk on Arty at the World's Fair and members will supply fair pictures
Chicago dispatch notes bituminous coal production back to normal with restrictions relaxed. Seven passenger trains yielded to coal car traffic by 6 am while express schedules adjusted. Items mention Miss Rebecca Newby sick at 1645 Massacre Street and social trips to Pittsburg Kansas. Museum receives bear hide donated by Dr John Outland from Alaska for Dyche Museum at the University of Kansas.
The Santa Fe railroad opened employee reading rooms on December 135 1884 and Emporia normal board land sales censured with a buyer H C Cross paying 350 per acre. Dudley C Haskell of Lawrence dies in Washington December 16 1883 at age 41 after a noted career in House debate leadership.
A crowded wire of brief items reports overseas naval conference talks in London about auxiliary craft ratios among major navies, U S diplomatic status moves, world court reservations, and a Vatican beatification. It also covers crimes, science finds, and cultural auctions from cities including Laredo, Washington, New York, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and Paris with assorted political and social developments.
Sundown, a scar skinned camper at Mohawk Pond, earns distrust from Pessy and Chadiah. Aquila Tinga meets him in the woods. Peggy needs a paper he claims to have. A bog accident nearly swallows Peggy and JuHa. Jim rescues them. Romance blooms at the lodge as Peggy says yes.
Peggy and Julia confront Julia’s revelations about Lieutenant Stanton and a long hidden romance with Mrs Beale. Julia explains the spy glasses used to glimpse across windows, notes a veteran navy past, and hints at a warning about inheritance. Peggy contemplates the coded Bible passage and future steps.
The giant laments shrinking numbers and reflects on his kind’s history. John and Peggy converse with the gentle giant who wields time magic to travel and alter moments. He longs for old stories and explains his cave life while pondering how giants were once feared and admired.
The Associated Press reports West Point cadets must save seven dollars and fifty cents daily to qualify for a Christmas home visit, part of a seven hundred twenty dollar yearly allowance. The 1923 US national income totaled eighty billion four hundred nineteen million, with fifty one billion one hundred twenty three million earned by workers. London notes war debt payments totaling ninety three million seven hundred ninety five thousand. The Teason, says Ania Loos, is brunettes with long skirts replacing blondes.
A fragmentary press fusion reports Jacques Worth doubting American women’s heightened emotions, a Brussels farewell gift of 50,000 francs to city poor by Princess Marie Jose, plans for a towering New York office skyscraper, Shaw on women workers, radio Christmas services to Byrd and Wilkins, DeWolf Hopper backing Verdi, and a volunteer-led statue cleanup near a hotel amid park fund shortages.
Oakridge Farm Bureau groups and visitors met in the Chamber of Commerce rooms for the annual meeting. A substantial dinner followed, with officers reelected and reports from Mirza Beth Randle and A T Gilkison outlining past work and bright plans for the coming year. Several speeches, sales events, and club activities were noted, along with obituaries and community announcements.
A local Grange meeting re-elected Charles Spray as Master. The column lists Christmas charity basket plans, church activities, hospital news, and social calls including Mrs Perry Ewing and son Kenneth, Mrs Murtuler of Lawrns, and others. Readers learn of theater by Wesley Foundation, hospital progress for W H Moore, and upcoming school Christmas tree event December 20.
A Taylor county grand jury indicted Ray Pennebaker for first degree murder in the death of his first wife Thelma Davis of Lenox at Sharpsburg Iowa two years ago The case involves poisoned candy given to a second wife and a niece who died after tasting it Also noted is a Mayfield Kansas connection and prior investigations another brief item reports Vice President Curtis returning to Washington with a husky voice after illness
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