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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1925
Page
2
Fragmented OCR text hints at track season start after holidays with unclear phrases. Mentions names and events in garbled form, requiring reconstruction to identify speakers, dates, or venues. No coherent facts beyond general track season timing and disrupted wording.
Fragmented OCR lists bowling scores and scattered sports references including names like Sevenback, Strone, Haglund, and Manhattan. The text hints at a school or university scene with references to Aggie, Terps, and Missouri, plus mentions of football practice and a coach or captain. Specific results are unreadable. overall item preserves a snapshot of a collage of scores and names.
The article outlines the 1926 basketball season opening tonight for the Cuts L. H. 5 squad with twelve players listed across first and second squads. It notes tentative standings, upcoming games, and practice schedules, including a plan to announce final mas names after New Year. Key figures include Hutson Hutton and several players such as Bart vis Thyrehette Myens Jones Lienarren Marshall Mettner Moore O Leary ers Hartafer Hef and Lawrence James Garfield High. The season opener is set against Ottawa with further games on the schedule and practice to resume after holidays.
A garbled Topeka News brief covers events from a renamed Soviet benefactor to an AM designation, notes a smallpox case isolated in Jackson and Wright draw in Omaha, and reports Rock Island rail opening a 22 mile double track between Herington and Fones. Also mentions Haskell concert chair, choir of fifty, and Christmas discounts at Progressive Gifts of the Lutheran Church.
An older OCR fragment promotes an ointment named Ease or Ease-T, claiming to ease swollen joints in knees ribs ankles neck and fingers. It mentions medical credibility and years of “por icess remedy” development, targeting rheumatic pain with urged use by those seeking relief.
Two more Denver banks Capitol Hill State Bank and Metropolitan State failed to open while three others Broadway National Tra National and North Denver Bank were closed. An examiners’ seizure placed charge on Metropolitan and Capitol Hill banks amid withdrawals and a run on deposits totaling about 2.5 million across the banks. Fort Riley related arrest James E Quinn turned over to county officers after being jailed for bad checks. police questioned his cavalry claim as the discrimination at Fort Riley failed to materialize in occupancy.
Lincoln school in North Lawrence presented a Christmas program with pupils and teachers performing readings songs and hymns. The event featured Joyce Statt Rose Newman Miriam Webster and Helen Tackeen among others with first second and fourth grade participants and an Angels We Have Heard on High closing hymn. Council No 46 UC announces no December meeting and a January 16 1926 gathering for anticipated business.
An 85 year old man George Morrison is held in Atoka Oklahoma on kidnapping charges involving 15 year old Lillian Klaus of Wichita. The excerpt references suicide attempts and cold river water as context. Additional criminal charges against Ralph oldfather, former bank cashier, were to be filed by county officials. Wrestling event headliners Judson and Davis are set for tonight. An ad promotes a scholarship rally before December at Moll's Butter Crust Bread.
Associated Press briefs report a $500000 claim tied to an oil and gas lease of 110 acres near El Dorado. The lease cancellation action is filed on behalf of Marie Ducile Robison, with details fragmented and the involved party identified as Geraldine in the record.
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