KU Campus Says Most Students Belong To Churches
Enrollment cards show 83 percent of University of Kansas students are affiliated with churches. Of 4 613 students 3 484 are church members while 1 129 are non members or have no preference. The Westminster a cappella choir of 70 voices directs at First Presbyterian Church.
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University of Kansas
Lawrence
Westminster
D. M. Swarthout
School of Fine Arts
First Presbyterian Church
Christmas visits and local notes from Lawrence area
Lawrence residents report holiday activities including Joseph Candreia moving to a budget manager post at Pawhuska Goodrich, a Salvation Army worker receiving a Christmas gift in the rain, and acts of Christmas generosity. Other items note Bob Stewart's long tenure as a barber, a Rhode Island Red egg find, KU offices closed for holidays, a jail menu, a Christmas baby, rainfall totals, and a vast prairie dog town near the Smoky Hill river.
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Joseph Candreia
Goodrich Tire
Pawhuska, Okla
Goodrich
Candreia
Lawrence
Salvation Army
Cranium Crackers Guess City Names in State Clues
A playful puzzle page links city names to hints about New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Washington and Wisconsin. Each paragraph hints at a city name derived from the clue and the state mentioned.
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New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Washington
United States
White House
Wisconsin
Blaze at Patee Theater Ends Quickly
Firefighters battled a small blaze in the basement of the Patee Theater early this morning. A couch caught fire and smoke filled the building before crews extinguished it. A second small fire was reported in a Model A Ford in west Lawrence involving Clifford Snavely.
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Patee
West Lawrence
Clifford
Roosevelt faces first 1940 defense bill collision with Congress
Washington sources anticipate President Roosevelt will push a large defense expansion in his January 4 state of the nation message. Defense outlays could rise about 500 million beyond this year’s 1.8 billion, while he may seek cuts elsewhere. Critics warn of a protracted fight as some lawmakers question urgent need amid defense doubts.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
White House
United States
House
Baroda
American Federation of Labor
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Labor Relations Board
Treasury
Wagner
D.-N.y
Four Die in Wichita Grade Crossing Crash
A Wichita holiday weekend crash at a grade crossing killed a mother and three of her four children. Mrs Opal Curtis of Hutchinson died with daughters Patricia 11 and Donna 10 and an infant son. The father Jack Curtis was seriously injured and another son Jackie 9 was hurt.
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Wichita
Kan
Kansas
Opal Curtis
Hutchinson
Patricia
Donna
Jack Curtis
Jackie
German High Command Reports Flight by British Planes
Berlin reports that British warplanes flew over German territory yesterday. The communique says the western front was quiet while British aircraft traversed Helgoland airspace in the afternoon on December 24.
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Berlin
Helgoland
Bight
Mary Still and the Kansas Missionary Family Saga
The article reviews Edward Bumgardner’s edition of Mary Still Adams’s out of print autobiography, detailing Mary Still’s life from her father Abram Still the pioneering Methodist missionary, through her own work as a pioneering Kansas woman preacher, educator, and activist, to her later years in Los Angeles and the 1898 publication of the life story. The narrative highlights her role in anti saloon action, her family’s movements across Kansas and Missouri, and the family’s influence on early Midwest Methodism.
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Edward
Bumgardner
Mary Still
Adams
Buckingham Bros
Los Angeles
Calif
Journal-World
Reen Abram Still
Kansas
Missouri River
South Kansas
Kansas-Nebraska
Methodist Church
Clinton
Abram Still
Buncombe County
North Carolina
Martha Moore
Tennessee
Missouri
Macon County
Mary
Andrew T. Still
Douglas County
St. Louis
Charles
Pascal Fish
Lebanon
Ill
McKendre College
Blue Mound
John T
Free State
Lawrence
Mound
Kansas Territory
Kaw
Missouri Conference
Mr. Still
Still
Centropolis
Carry Nation
Parsons
Delano
Abram
Bloomington
Creek
Elk Creek
Ridgway
Big Springs
Kanwaka
Lecompton
Isesiehe
T. M. Dams
Ottawa
Topeka
Leavenworth
Burlingame
California
Cassie
Clark
Family Christmas Dinner Entertained by Perkins Family
Mr and Mrs C C Perkins host a Christmas dinner with relatives and friends from Plattsmouth Kansas City and Colorado Springs among attendees. Also noted are plans for a Wednesday contract club luncheon and a J S Woodruff home Christmas gathering with guests from Los Angeles Urbana and Kansas City.
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W. L. Gilmore
Chica Fey
James Gowan
Jon Bob
Margaret
Hutchinan
Paul Newt
Paul “Gilmore
Kansas City
Malcolm MacLaren
St. Joseph
Shelly McMillin
Colorado Springs
Colo
Isabel Gilmore Chares Gilmore
Kirchhoff
Ada K. Kirchhoff
McLOUTH Social Notes Visit and Family Gatherings
McLouth residents record a 625 mile day trip to Medicine Lodge and several family visits. The Osborn home hosted a birthday gathering with many town and nearby guests from Leavenworth Osceola Topeka and McLouth.
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Frank Haines
Gensler Edrhonds
Medicine Lodge
Ms. C. A. Emerson
Charles Fowler
Wilma Fowler
Orville Osborn Homie
Fred Cox
Lesca Mai Melvin
Winchester
Eldon Cox
Leavenworth
Woodrow Baker
Dorothy Gilbert
Topeka
Ernest Gilbert
Ruth
Oskaloosa
Nathan Osborn
Davis
Luther
Guilford Ridgway
Local Brights Spend Holidays Across Cities
Miss Sybil Woodruff teaches at the University of Illinois Urbana and stays in Lawrence for the holidays. Miss Louise Bell works for the Civil Aeronautics Authority in Washington visits home here and will attend a Kansas City air officials conference next week. Helen Titsworth vacationing in Florida. W H Ferris of Wichita visits sister Mrs Forney for Christmas. Mrs W E Tenney Harriett MacDonald and Miss Carrie Watson travel to Topeka for Thomas F Doran funeral. Opal Woodruff of Kansas City weekends in Lawrence. Darwin Gerard Bartlesville Oklahoma and family spend Christmas with C C Perkins A H Gerard and the Docking families and Homer Neville in Kansas City.
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Sybil Woodruff
University of Illinois At Urbana
Lawcre
Louise Bell
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Washington, D. C
Kansas City
Helen Titsworth
Florida
W. H. Ferris
Wichita
H. A. Forney
W. E. Tenney
Harriett MacDonald
Carrie Watson
Topeka
Thomas F. Doran
Opal Woodruff
Kansas
City
Lawrence
Darwin Gerard
Bartlesville
Okla
C. C. Perkins
A. H. Gerard
William Docking
George Docking
Bill and
Bob
Homer Neville
Christmas Gift Steals Alarm Lindstrom Family
Six month old Jimmy Lindstrom of 1708 Mississippi Street nearly lost a Christmas present when a delivery driver left his truck unattended at a local store. The shopper stole the “Teter Babe” jumping chair after it was placed in the vehicle, but the driver replaced it with a new toy and delivered it to the Lindstrom home.
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Noble Lindstrom
Mississippi Street
R. Jennings
Lindstrom
Jennings
Jimmy
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Wrence
Bob Stewart
Bob Zillcox
Ohio
The
Rhode Island
Memorial Hospital
Cecil Bullock
Delaware Street
C. J. Posey
Trego County
Smoky Hill River
Colorado
Surace
iFour
Society
George J., Kirchhoff, Jr
Esther Wilson
Evans
J. S. Woodruff
Regina Woodruff
Urbana
Laurence Woodruff
Susan Miss
Marie Woodruff J
Woodruff
Raymond F. Edwards
Rozanne Edwards
Oberlin College
Leland McPherson
Jerry Lee
Claud Kimmel
McLouth
Andrew Dick
Sam Hummer
John Saylor
R. C. Hesse
Rachel Knox
Teachers Club
Amon .Ashworth
U. S
United Brethren Church
Uearance
Coats
Group
Group Iit
Orley M. Smith Coal Co
Krum Koal Kompany
Harry Turner Coal Co
Jayhawk
Harry Turner
Quality Coal and Service
N. B. St
First Mortgage
S. C. Hinshaw
Eldridge Hotel
Yesii
Jimmy Lindstrom
Funk’s Mortuary
Merry Christmas
Carol
Victor McLaglen
Jackie Cooper
Nickinso
Henie
Ray Mill
Robert Cummings
Life of
Seabiscuit
Graf Spee
Fox Movietone News
Agency At Mass
McGrew-Peck Inv. Co
Granada
Riscilla Lane
Breenity Lane
Lola Lane
Gale Page
Warner Bros
Claude Rains
John Garfield
Jeffrey Lynn
Eddie Albert May
Rebecc
Frank McHags
Dick Foran
Henry O'Neill Added
Russ Morgan
Haskell Orchestra
Rachel Twinn
Fred Goodwin
Orin Newwagon
Ted Folsom
Phil Cato, Jr
Finn Burnett
Arthur Penn Joe Caleb
Nelson Eddy Ilona Massey
Frank Morgan
MR. Williams
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