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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1925
Page
7
The USS Leviathan, the pride of United States Lines, lies in a Boston dry dock for annual spring cleaning. The giant liner, the largest in the American merchant fleet, once carried 13,558 people on a wartime voyage. Salt works workers are said to be immune from colds and influenza.
London report says Parliament will be asked to approve 21,319,300 pounds for air terms in the 1925 26 fiscal year. Air Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare notes an increase of 1,927,300 pounds over last year, plans to raise enlisted personnel from 35,000 to 36,000, and add seven more home defense squadrons for a total of 25.
Douglas county taxpayers receive assistance from a deputy revenue collector to prepare returns. H H Motter Kansas internal revenue collector schedules deputies at Baldwin February 26 post office Eudora March 5 bank Lawrence February 27 to March 4 courthouse. Washington bill would raise retired officers pay to 1922 schedule costing over 850000 first year.
Paris reports the exodus of French antiquities to the United States endangers national heritage. Duke of Trevise warned that despite understandable buyer kindness, sales must be harder to ban, or towns will lose priceless art and architectural fragments. He cited laws, failed protections, and recent purchases to illustrate the risk to monuments like Roman arches at Saint Martory.
The Daily Sketch reports Foreign Secretary Chamberlain could have said in Parliament that American Ambassador Kellogg conveyed a message to President Coolidge Britain would welcome American initiative for a new armament conference. It suggests the Geneva protocol and the league led conference are effectively dead. A separate dispatch notes a massive landslide near Sebastopol on the Black Sea, reshaping the coast into a peninsula and several islands. In Lewisham, residents cut lighting bills as radio listening at night rises, lowering utility revenues.
Local American Legion post hosted a smoker at its headquarters last night with Prof Dinsmore Alter speaking on astronomy. Several guests attended as part of the Legion event. A related ad mentions Myals H. & Ho Cough Syrup at Rabkin's Drug Store, 1101 Mass.
Topeka Kan Jan 15 One of Kansas county fair groups neglects livestock divisions eroding agricultural progress says F W Bell in charge of advanced livestock judging at Kansas State Agricultural College He urges more liberal county fair funding and a state based approach to premium money to boost livestock exhibits and education efforts across circuits and counties.
An order from the State Manager for pianos to serve in state schools was awarded to P H Peirce of Peirce Music Co after a meeting with Dean Swarthout. The order covers nine pianos for the State University and six for the State Teachers College at Emporia. The Kingsbury pianos will replace aging instruments in the fine arts departments.
Advise Bly's Cream Balm for quick head relief from colds and catarrh. Spray in nostrils, breathe fumes, antiseptic action fights germs, clears inflammation, stops misery quickly. End cold misery by asking druggist for Ely's Cream Balm.
Jeff Guy of Winton Oklahoma was arrested Tuesday night near Enudora on a charge of driving a Chevrolet coupe with no license. He is held for Kansas City officers who will take him back to face charges of stealing the car at Ninth and Grand Tuesday noon. Guy claimed to have obtained the car in Oklahoma and Sheriff Cummings sent the description to Kansas City police, who later confirmed a theft match.
Charles H. Drum suffered dangerous burns when kerosene oil ignited from a two gallon can explosion. He was attempting something when the flames swept over his body this morning in Ottawa Kansas.
In a Yukon incident, a man attempting to kindle a kitchen stove caused a fatal fire that burned him and seriously injured his daughter Bessie. The blaze consumed their home, leaving none intact. Mount Logan, the Yukon’s highest peak, remains unclimbed.
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