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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1919
Page
8
Teachers in Manhattan and Ras public schools will restore pay for the period when schools were closed. The action was scheduled for Christmas vacation following a spring board decision. Journal mentions Hess Drog Stere-Aus and Niel Gaumer amid city coverage.
Fragmentary text reports rising corn acreage in the state and a contrived column about agricultural conditions. It includes garbled names and a lost letter, plus a dramatic anecdote of a man attempting to cross a pond and sinking with discovery of a recovery years later.
University plans to conserve fuel by shutting off campus lighting at 6 o clock Friday after four days of Christmas holidays. No campus lights until January. Mount Oread area and Green Hall affected. Also notes local ads and market reports on wheat prices and a chimney incident with honey stored during summer. United Farmers of Ontario hold sixth annual convention in Toronto.
Dairymen from two county neighborhoods meet at the Chamber of Commerce tonight to elect delegates for the Missouri Dairy Cooperative Federation in Kansas City. The group discusses future supply, price directions, and a fair price for dairy products as part of broader state cooperatives efforts. A U.S. marine selector note and a Kingston Ontario court ruling are also mentioned in the report.
In Ashtabula a local figure Andy organizes a Knights of Mat group linked to the Knights of Malta. Tombes opposes the move arguing the organization could be used for members to drink.
Federal elections set for December 13 in Australia with Nationalists led by Prime Minister William Hughes vs Labor. News notes Thomas Ryan entering Sydney election and Queensland meat schemes. Washington reports 1938 wheat area sown at 38,770,000 acres with revised 1947 area at 50,489,600. Tokyo notes 3000 workers urge cabinet resignation over living costs and welfare neglect.
The Rhineland issue remains largely quiet on the surface but Pan-Germans say agitation for separation from Prussia and then Germany persists undercover. The Democratic Frankfurt Gazette notes Centrist efforts toward a republic tied to Catholic heritage while denying any plan to sever from Germany, yet admitting aims toward separation from Russia.
The text describes Howard E. Fie born in Kentucky 35 years ago, educated in Indiana where he practiced medicine before entering the oil business at Ardmore Oklahoma in 1911.
In Hutchinson Kansas a Santa Fe passenger train No. 9 arrived with eighteen coaches, highlighting a new problem of managing trains of unprecedented length under the beartangent of trains miles. The issue arises as the railroad seeks to eliminate delays caused by lengthier consist and improve handling of the longer consist arriving at the station.
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