Small business seeks new capital and longer loans
Eight hundred small business representatives plan an open Commerce Department meeting to urge President Roosevelt for a steady source of capital. They identify employment and wage laws as key issues while discussing long term financing and possible new banks to aid small firms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Ernest G. Draper
Morgenthau
Commerce Department
White House
United Automobile Workers
Plana
Homer Martin
Auto Union
Richard T. Frankensteen
William Munger
Draper
Commerce Deartment
Jesse Hones
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC
Federal Reserve
New York Stock Exchange
Roosevelt High Orchestra Strike Ends With Swing
Students at Roosevelt High School filled a dance floor as the faculty led with stately waltzes. after 15 minutes chaperons yielded and a lively swing tune ended the impromptu music strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt High School
Rebates for Safety Plan Expands Across States
The safe driving program by the national bureau of casualty and surety underwriters takes effect today in 25 states and the District of Columbia. Motorists receive about 15 percent premium rebates if they have no accidents, while premium rates adjust nationally by about five percent with leading charges for those not earning rewards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
National Bureau of Casualty and Surety Underwriters
William Leslie
Bureau
Leslie
Walter Bennett
National Association of Insurance Agents
Bennett
Midwest
Chicago
St. Louis
Omaha
Kansas City
National Bureau
District of Columbia
Exhibition of Lawrence School Art Shipped to Atchison
An exhibition of artwork by Lawrence elementary students is shipped to Atchison for a two week display. The show, arranged for Atchison teachers, will be open to the public and features paintings designs and drawings. Katherine Stevens, University School of Fine Arts graduate 1934, oversees Atchison art. A similar Lawrence exhibit recently returned from Ellendale South Dakota.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Atchison
Katherine Stevens
The
University School of Fine Arts
Ellendale
S. D
Ray Engle
Carl Hess
Lee Gibson
Jimmy
Sabetha
Paul Hannum
Soldiers
Charles Hannah
Dorothy
Esther Gilbert
Topeka
Marie Stevens
Nortonville
Delos Stevens
J. D. Everett
Ralph Hawk
Marlin McCreight
Presbyterian Missionary Society
August Simon
Nellie Pennington
Burnett
Grayson
Young Edison renounces science for evangelism at 25
Wilber Huston once seen as Edison’s probable successor in engineering has left MIT and a career as a consulting engineer to join the Oxford Group. He says the world needs spiritual values and plans a life devoted to personal evangelism, believing Edison would have approved. He notes wars and depressions influenced his choice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chusetts Institute of Technology
Oxford Group
Huston
Edison
Secrecy Unnecessary Companions Named in Death
Elisabeth Connor Buchanan publicly identified herself as Russell Hardy's companion. Hardy, a 44 year old government attorney, was shot in Alexandria Virginia after an afternoon of work in the Justice Department. He told police a beggar fired in anger over alms, his wound described as not serious. His wife visited him in the hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Elisabeth Connor Buchanan
Russell Hardy
Alexandria
Buchanan
Hardy
Justice Department
It’s Odd But It’s Science
A column highlights rapid advances in chemistry and industry with rayon production and other innovations. Dr E R Weidlein notes mills could supply a global rayon garment in three years, while examples from soap from coal fat to shark oil for aircraft engines illustrate broad applied science.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Rayon Mills
E. R. Weidlein
Mellon Institute
Japan
Hungary
Dr. Weidlein
Green Brothers Host John Deere Day for Farmers
Farmers in the territory are invited to be guests of Green Brothers hardware for John Deere Day at the National Guard Armory. The event on Thursday February 3 starts at 10 AM with four talking pictures and farm tool demonstrations. A free lunch is served at noon. admission is by ticket only available at the Green Brothers store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green Brothers Hardware Company
John Deere
Implement Department of the
Store
National Guard Armory
Green Brothers
Time Set Back To Permit Members to Attend Game
Lawrence lodge 595 postpones Exalted Rulers night to 8:30 pm Wednesday so members may attend the Kansas Nebraska basketball game. The meeting will be at the lodge hall with entertainment and a Dutch lunch. A separate item reports Mrs Charles Houdek of Bennington, Kansas dead after a two car collision near Brookville. her husband injured.
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Baptist Quarterly Meeting
The
First Baptist Church
Lawrence Lodge 595
B. P.O. Ellis
Kansas-Nebraska
Salina
Kan
Charles Houdek
Bennington
Brookville
Oskaloosa Notes Include Death in Potwin and Local Visits
Mrs. Goldie Noble and daughter Mary Lou returned from Potwin Kan after the death of Noble's nephew Leland Gibson in a fog related crash. The issue also covers community events, church activities, school directories, and travels of local families including the Nowlin and Roberts connections.
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Goldie Noble
Mary Lou
Potwin
Kan
F.H. Roberts
Eugene
John Roberts
Kansas City
Mabel Ruth Howlin
China
Miss Nowlin
K. A
Shanghai
Capt
Frank Roberts
Roberts
K. U
Foreign Service
John R. Mott
Hiawatha
Garrett Institute
Chicago
Northwestern
Columbia
Yale
Local Society News Highlights From Topeka Visit and Birthdays
Friends and neighbors report Katherine Dissinger won a Kansas Authors Club short story contest with a $50 prize and life membership. They note her teaching career at Kilgore and Pittsburg State College distinctions. Also mentioned are Virginia Davis Voorhees in New York, visits by Kiam Leech, Helen Campbell recitals in Phillipsburg, and social events in Topeka and Kansas City.
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Katherine Dissinger
Topeka
Kansas Authors’. Club
Katherine
Kilgore
Pittsburg State Teachers College
Kansas Authors’ Club
Virginia “Davis Voorhees
K. A
New York
Fred Thompson
Mae Nincehelser
Nell Nincehelser
Kansas Day Club
Thompson
Kiam Leech
Perry High School
Lawrence Campbell
Phillipsburg
Helen Campbell
KFKU
Helen
Emory, Cox
Kansas City
Helen Hagge
Simon Webber Company
J. W. Roberts
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Win
New York City
Associated Press
Imma Tn
Reksleer
Howe
Headeen Sargent
Phyllis Welch
Harold Lloyd
Ellendale Teacher’s College
San Francisco
Thomas A. Edison
Wilber Huston
Seattle
Massa
Princeton University
the College of New Jersey
Attorney Hardy
By Howard W. Blakeslee
AP Science
Saturn
Oskaloosa
Captain Roberts
Alice Cary Smith
Eudora
East High
Donald Allen
James Lester
Lawrence Gabel
Kansas Woman’s Republican Club
Methodist Church
Paul Cashatt
Doris King
Homemakers Club
Fred Wills
Junction City
van Bliss
Fam
James True
Osage City
Lewis True
Ned Rice
Max Engle
Morrill
Michigan City
Ironwood
Mich
Farmville
North Carolina
Branch Bobbitt
Bobbitt
Luckies
Round Corner Drug Co
Miller Furniture Co
Roy Lawrence Market
Brookfield
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