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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1927
Page
3
Eighteen Kansas in Lawrence will resume workouts tomorrow after holiday recess to prepare for the January 6 home game with Washington. Coach Allen plans shakeups, continuing a 7-man change era to forge a stronger scoring unit with lettermen and rising talent, aiming for improved defense and offense.
The Tiger basketball squad of Hays Leachers' college will return to practice tomorrow under coach Harold Schmidt who will lead a sit drill before returning to Lawrence. A two week training period includes fifteen players and a tour to play two independent teams. Schmidt plans to finish the semester in Lawrence and may participate in Valley games with Coach Allen's Jayhawker squad.
Lou W Browning Lecompton high school's athletic coach arranges the 1928 football schedule and prepares the basketball team for its first home game against Hoyt on January 20 The school will open its new gymnasium soon Browning, a 1926 graduate of Sp in, leads the prep squads as the season starts with a basehor tilt.
In New Mexico a Holstein cow from the Tinley herd set a state record by yielding 20 478 pounds of milk and 870 pounds of fat in a single lactation. The cow is a sister to Beth a Kol Segis and is part of the Texas Holstein camp. Hays wrestlers prepare for a match with the Aransas Aggies in Hays on December 26 AP report.
United Press notes DECEMBER 27 radio schedule across many cities. WEAF and NBC programs present Gershwin pieces with George Gershwin as guest artist. Seiberling Singers and Metropolitan tenor George Mender figure in a cross network lineup. Stations from Atlanta to Toronto list orchestras, dinner music, dance bands, and NBC and WEAF feeds with varied timing and heavy late-night blocs.
Stillwater Oklahoma December 26 Christmas means extra work for Oklahoma A and M basketball. Coach Maulibetseh orders all candidates to report December 26 for two practices daily. Classes resume January 3 with tough workouts and a fast paced offense led by Ab Weight and Delbert King. The Aggies begin a long northern trip January 5 at Grinnell Drake and Iowa State on successive nights. After returning they face Kansas University and Kansas State January 13 and 14.
United Press recounts how a whiskey tale helped Neillsville Wisconsin become county seat in 1754. O Neill and Weston factions clashed over location, voting took place at O Neill settlement, Weston supporters crossed Black River on a log bridge or whiskey keg at the polls, and the outcome favored Neillsville as county seat with 23 votes.
For the first time in six years the animal husbandry department at Kansas State Agricultural College will show cattle at the National Western Livestock Exhibition in Denver. A carload of fifteen shorthorns and Herefords from the college herd will be exhibited, January 1.
German watchmaker Hu ro Klose describes a tiny electromotor about two thirds the size of a centimeter, weighing just over a tenth of an ounce. The device uses sixty two parts, runs on a three volt battery, and a glass globe keeps dust out. Federal testers in Charlottenburg found it functioning perfectly.
Moscow reports that the scientific department of the commissariat of education is reviewing a project to simplify Russian. The plan follows revolutions era changes reducing the alphabet and grammar, proposing to adopt English grammar as a model, abolish adjective declension, standardize noun declensions, and overhaul verb conjugations.
Arkansas City announces Mrs. George Norris will be placed in nomination for the presidency of the Woman's Kansas Day Club at the Topeka meeting on January 30. The nomination was announced by Mrs. Mary M. Tyler and Mrs. E. A. Tufts. Mrs. Norris has served as club vice-president previously with Mrs. Hill McCarter currently president of the organization.
A quirky 1920s style item describes Lindbergh themed novelties for Christmas shoppers in Paris. Toys include a smiling aviator candy box and a cigarette case with a relief of the young flyer, appealing to youthful buyers and families in St. Louis markets.
Thomas Conley, head of the Wood county courthouse law library in Bowling Green, Ohio, gives his full $500 yearly salary to the library to fund new law books. His generosity aims to expand resources for students and researchers.
Baltimore scientist Dr. George Walker reports two hopeful cancer research results from his rat studies. He demonstrates an immune rat strain that resists cancer after tissue grafts and an approach using heat to kill cancer cells, suggesting potential preventive and therapeutic avenues. He notes non contagious exposure risks and seeks methods to keep treated rats alive for further testing.
Mary K. Bogan of St Xavier parochial school Junction City won second place in a national essay contest by the National Safety Council and received a gold watch. George A. Allen Jr state superintendent announced the award as the best entry in the contest.
The 1925-26 annual contest awards prizes to school children to teach traffic safety. Bethel Pugh of Pueblo, Cal., won first prize, a gold watch and a trip to Washington, with winners eligible to compete in the national contest, according to Mr. Allen.
The United States has shifted from a macaroni importer to a key global exporter. Commerce figures show imports fell from 107 million pounds in 1913 while exports rose to 5.5 million pounds in the first eight months of 1927. Italy, though still the top producer, now buys about 14 percent of its macaroni from American mills as Canada and other nations become major buyers.
The passage notes heavy exports from Kingdom, Mexico, the Domini Republic, Australia, and Cuba to China, Java, New Zealand, Honduras, and Panama. It also mentions British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin near fifty before his first political office, highlighting a mix of trade routes and aging leaders.
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