World News Agency Advert Page Fragment
Fragments from a periodical ad notice show addresses in Lawrence Kansas and New York with Associated Press republication note and post office registration details. It mentions delivery, contact numbers, and circulation within 150 miles and a late evening reissue option.
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Cby
Mara
Vance
Y Mall—Stricly
Advar
Iebec
A. R. Kent
Hartford
I York
Franklin
Marbridge
Power of the Word and the City in December News
The piece blends religious verse with a collage of regional concerns. It notes revenue cutters hindering liquor access, city fire equipment shortages, and half of ladder gear being red. It discusses voter authenticity, federal road-building progress, and evolving university construction, plus international disputes over Danish Greenland and Norwegian claims.
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Amporia
Pioneer aviation and railroad buy raise regional hopes
The article notes air travel reaching a new milestone while marking aviation's pioneer status. It reports Missouri Pacific's announced purchase of the Kansas City North Western terminal rights in Kansas City, a move towns north of Lawrence hope will revive service along the line after its December 4 closing in 1919 caused hardship.
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Lawrence
Missouri Pacific
Kansas City Northwestern Railroad
Kansas City
Dr Farrand Led Public Welfare Efforts and Cornell Presidency
Dr Farrand, a prominent American educator, championed public welfare causes, directed tuberculosis work in France for the International Health Board during WWI, led the American Red Cross in 1919, and has presided over Cornell University since 1921 after a term at the University of Colorado.
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Livingston ‘Farrand
National Association For the Study and Prevention
America
International Health Board
France
American Red Cross
Wilson
Farrand
Cornell University
University of Colorado
Local Curiosities and Odds and Ends From The Times
A jumble of anecdotes and quips from Fairbanks Alaska to Chicago Illinois. Notes include a 40 degree thermometer jump in a minute, beavers near Augusta Maine, and congressional chatter about watching them work. Also mentions a Pomona electrician injured falling five stories and Dempsey dodging taxes.
Archduke Ferdinand Birthday Mention Tied to 18th Amendment Protests
The article notes that if Archduke Franz Ferdinand were alive he would turn 60 today. It reports the Anti-Saloon League of America postponing its Birmingham, Alabama convention to next month and a Dallas mass meeting with Governor Neff of Texas opposing general lawlessness and flagrant disregard of the Eighteenth Amendment.
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Franz Ferdinand
Hose
Anti-Saloon League of America
Birmingham
Washingon
Neff
Texas
Dallas
European Authors Rally in New York Market Their Plays
New York script trade draws prominent authors from Europe. John Barrymore Walter Hampden and Sir John Martin Harvey headline a cosmopolitan bill featuring W Somers Maugham Galsworthy and Shaw works. Eleanora Duse leads an Italian company with Moscow Arts Theatre and Grand Guignol offerings plus Swedish Bailjet extravaganzas.
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Europe
New York
Associated Press
John Barrymore
Walter Hampden
Sir John Martin-Harvey
W. Somers
Maugham
John Galsworthy
Bernard Shaw
France
Casanova
Bingiveur
Sancho Panza
Don Quixote Fatie
Ferenc Molmar
Middle
South Seas
Eleanora Duse
Sarah Bernhardt
Moscow Arts Theatre
Paris
Scientists search for ancient city beneath Dead Sea
Rev. Melvin G. Kyle leads a Palestine expedition sailing December 29 to locate Sodom and Gomorrah Zoar Admah and Zephoim beneath the Dead Sea. The party includes F W Albright Day and others to study geology and archaeology with possible diving work.
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St. Louis
Associated Press
Dead Sea
Sodom and
Gomorrah
Melvin G. Kyle
Xenia Gecologica Seminary
Palestine
Zoar
Admah
Zehoiim
Sodom
Lot
Kyle
B. C
F. W. Albright
American School of Oriental Research
Jerusalem
Prof
Day
American University
Beirut
Herbert Tay
The German Exchange Rate Surges Beyond Imagination
Berlin reports that Germany’s postwar paper mark value has collapsed from prewar gold wealth. The piece notes Bertha Krupp and other fortunes pale beside current paper mark worth, with exchange figures multiplying weekly and reaching trillions.
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Germany
Plans for a National Feed Label Adopted in Washington
Topeka Dec 14 plans for a uniform official state label describing chemical contents of livestock and poultry feeds were adopted at a meeting of state feed central officials in Washington. J C Mohler secretary of the state feed department reported.
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Topeka
United States
Washington
J. C. Mohler
Health Service Plans Study of Colds and Flu
Washington December 13 The Public Health Service will study common colds and influenza in cooperation with major universities including Harvard Johns Hopkins Georgetown Tulane Ohio State Chicago and California. Dr Hugh S Cumming says these illnesses cause suffering lost time disability and deaths and little is known about their causes spread or epidemiology. The two to three year project aims to illuminate prevention and understanding of these ailments.
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Washington
Associated Press
Public Health Service
Hugh S. Cumming
Wio
Cum- Hiee
Stein
Nahas
Harvard University
Johns Hopkins Medical School
Georgetown
Horned Universities
Tulane University
New Orleans
Ohio State University
University of Chicago
University of California
Children in War Tides See Double Suicide in Linz
In Linz Austria a 17 year old boy hanged himself and the next day his 14 year old brother did the same at the same spot. A note left by the younger boy said he could not live without his playmate. Officials link the deaths to neurotic precocity from wartime conditions.
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Linz
Austria
Associated Press
Europe
Uniform label proposed for Kansas animal feeds
Kansas State Board of Agriculture officials discuss adopting a uniform nationwide label for cattle and poultry feeds. Secretary Mohler cites reduced confusion and shipments delays, with the label indicating nitrate, fibre, fat, nitrogen free extract, protein and carbohydrate content. No start date for use is set.
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Kansas State Board of Agriculture
Mohler
Kansas
State Board of Agriculture
Flues cause Kansas fire losses reach 378000 in month
March of fire causes and losses in Kansas tallies show chimneys and flues as leading causes in November with 204 total blazes and 378306 dollars in state damage. Dwelling houses suffer most property loss followed by barns and stables as fires peak in February winter period.
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Topeka
Kan
Associated Press
Kansas
FBBH
Scott
Kansas towns report school funding and building plans
Monthly report to the League of Kansas Municipalities details costs per pupil in Atchison Salina and other towns. It notes new high school buildings under construction or planned in Colby Pittsburg Hutchinson Kingman Lawrence Parsons Vinland and Cedarvale with beds for community use and milk programs for underweight students.
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Kansas
League of Kansas Municipalities
John Stutz
Atchison
Salina
Tiorado
Pittsburg
Aversta
Bennington
Cassaday
Santa Fe
Butler County
Cedarvale
Colby
ElPorads
Kingman
Horses to vanish from American continent says UC curator
Professor E L Furlong curator of UC vertebrate collection predicts horses will be extinct on the American continent within a century as motor vehicles replace equine labor He has started a collection of modern equines for posterity to rest beside ancient horse bones in the museum of paleontology Meanwhile Kansas leads all states in 1924 American Legion membership enrollment per national headquarters at Indianapolis
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Berkeley
Cal. Bee
Agso-ciated “Press
E. L. Furlong
University of California
Furlong
Museum of Paleontiioiy
Kansas Leads in Legion Members and Posts, McFarland Says
State Commander Frank M McFarland reports Kansas tops the sixteen leading states with about 31 000 members and 578 Legion Posts. He notes one dollar of every two collected supports national headquarters and the weekly magazine. Eight Kansas posts are all Negro, with three inactive, in cities including Wichita Topeka Pittsburg Leavenworth Atchison Lawrence Emporia Kansas City Kansas.
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Frank M. McFarland
Kansas
McFarland
State Department
Legion
United States
Wichita
Topeka
Pittsburg
Leavenworth
Atchinson
Lawrence
Emporiani
Kansas City
Tulsa Water System Nears Completion From Spaginaw Hills
Tulsa prepares to receive mountain water via a five foot diameter gravity pipe from 60 miles away in the Spaginaw hills. The line will serve over 100000 people at 25000000 gallons daily and cost about 7000000 dollars with completion aimed for spring 1924.
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Tulsa
Okla
Associated Press
Spaginaw Hills
Iway
United States
Locomotives Rejuvenated by Southern Pacific
The Southern Pacific Company announced engines can be revitalized and made to haul trains efficiently again. Superintendent George McCormick notes aging locomotives receive new appliances and parts, overhauled from tender to cowcatcher, with No 3025 now pulling the Daylight Limited 471 miles from San Francisco to Los Angeles.
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San Francisco
Associated Press
Southern Pacific Company
George McCormick
S.P
Los Angeles
Iphigenia in Esperanto to Open Vienna Congress
The Esperanto Congress in Vienna 1924 will feature a translation of Euripides tragedy Iphigenia by Dr. Zammenhof the founder of Esperanto. Austrian actors are studying the roles and the play was staged in Esperanto at Dresden fourteen years ago.
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Vienna
Associated Press
Zammenhof
Dresden
Baldwin News Highlights Social Events and Local Notices
Baldwin residents Roger Harmon and son Harold visited at the John Ruchty home en route to Kansas City for bank business. Queen Esther girls hosted a bazaar raising over 35 dollars for their pledge. program included Silent Night in Latin and The President's Dream. Mrs. Elizabeth Pleasant, nearly 94, suffered a stroke and faced serious illness. Dr. and Mrs. Oscar E. Allison plan a two week Evansville visit with family. Local gatherings included Epworth League events in Osawatomie and several Lawrence visits. Funeral services for Mrs. Fremont Gilges were held at First Methodist with interment at Sutton cemetery. The King's Heralds held a large meeting. five new members joined and a study book, The Honorable Fan, was distributed. Topeka Capital ran a photo of Supt Vicdor M. Liston, Baldwin native and Neodesha superintendent. An evening of one act plays by the YWCA Missionary Department entertained at Centenary Hall.
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Harmon Downs
Florence
Baldwin
Harold
John Ruchty
Kansas City
J. S. Daniels
Harriett
Ona
First Methodist Church
Orlock
Mildred Hunt
G. M. Listen
J. F. Haigh
Anna Lewis
Elizabeth Pleasant
Sarah Pleasant
Pleasant
Oscar E. Allison
Dorothy
Hugh Vincent
Evansville
Ind
Grace Smith
Lola Burton
Claude Short
Osawatomie
Epworth League
Fremont Gilges
O. E. Allison
Sutton
Gilges
Daisy Harrell
King’s Heralds Organization
Allegayle Parmenter
Dorothy Allison
Betty Ebright
Mary Katharine Harris
Merle Fischer
Esther Brockway
H. K. Ebright
Scottie Morgan
James Lucas
Allison Karlton
Adah May Marquardt
Neodesha
Centenary Hall
Missionary Department
The
Young Woman’s Christian Association
Katherine Walbert
Elizabeth Card
Louise Ringer
Mary Read
Isabel Elliott
Beulah Narrett
Laverne Vigour
Bernice Haskin
William Hubbard
Rawlins Starfacher
Clarai Staedt
Roselle Hoover
Cacil Bronsten
Paul Wolf
Victor Remington
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