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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1929
Page
3
Post Office notice from Lawrence Kansas instructs readers to call if not received by 7 pm with 7 to 7 20 window for replacements. Also reports on the Tacna Arica dispute, correcting an earlier report that an agreement had been reached. Officials say settlement efforts have continued for about fifty years.
Governor Reed signed highway bills signaling rapid progress toward a state road network reaching every Kansas county by the end of 1930. The extra cent gasoline tax begins April 1, with the state highway commission taking over roads to fill gaps. Kansas pursues pay-as-you-go while pledging all-weather highways as a chief Republican platform vow.
The Dutch senate accuses the former German Kaiser of meddling in German politics from exile and instructs the government to tell him to quit. No German complaint is heard, suggesting either lack of awareness or indifference to his influence, a situation likely repugnant to Wilhelm.
Complexities of the traffic problem in New York's Broadway show that limiting stopping opportunities to speed flow frustrates merchants and customers alike. Officials test regulations for a month, traffic improves but business suffers as labor moves and shops lose time to stop. Street restoration to pedestrian use becomes central to the clash.
The Daughters of the American Revolution in Washington listened to an address by Sir Esmé Howard, the British ambassador, on Washingtons birthday. Optimists see this as a sign that DAR may lift Bill White from its black list.
After a week's tracing of clues Chicago police found a motor car the Moran gang slayers may have used and begun arrests. The underworld affair may turn into another perfect crime that failed.
At a Nebraska gathering of women the discussion focused on the wild habits of girls today. The hostess then revealed an article read aloud, and the critique turned to the misdeeds of the previous generation, of which the attendees themselves were once part.
J. W. Deal traveled from Kansas City yesterday while locals report a seventeen inch thick coal vein on Oliver Barber and Mr. Hook’s land. University speaker Edward H. Allen from Kansas City is set for next Tuesday. Citizens complain of pig pens and roaming cows and urge enforcement of cattle rules. The second issue of Our Schools arrives, a robust eight-page issue with education news. Lawrence residents, including Hon. Riggs Richards and Haskell, visited Topeka for the weekend. Violinist Camilla Urso is slated to perform March 16 in the city.
Twenty five years ago today February 23 Mrs I C Baker is reported to be quite ill at her home on Kentucky street. Miss Editha Washburn of Law-
Mrs W A Guenther hosted a Washington birthday event at 641 Ohio Street with Martha Washington costumes, whist at eleven tables, and prizes of Washington pinecones. Guests included Miss Nannie Mackey and Mrs. Geo Shaw winning top prizes, while Mrs Herbert Bullene took the booby prize. Rory Moore, brother of Sam Moore, is seriously ill in Los Angeles. he was longtime Kansas assistant treasurer and noted as a top accountant.
A librarian who had been confined to her home with the grip returned to work this morning and resumed her duties at the library. She thanked colleagues for support during her illness and urged patrons to continue following library safety policies.
A recap from a Lawrence paper dated February 23 highlights a big musical comedy under the Social Service League with local cast members. Items include ill health of Mrs. Kane, Mrs. Cowgill's Chicago trip, the Fox family moving to Lawrence, dinner parties for Adeline Bricken and Mary Virginia Johns, a surprise farewell party for Mr. and Mrs. Teter as they move to the countryside.
Jefferson Ohio resident James Brown seeks any Journal-World record of John Brown a stone cutter and his brother in law Alexander Hamilton a farmer two Scotchmen who visited around 1857 from Trumbull County Ohio. He asks for any information the paper might have.
In 1877 B. W. Woodward was appointed a regent of the state university to succeed J. C. Horton who declined the office after appointment and R. N. Hershfield was named to succeed William Fairchild.
In the Library of Congress an anthropologist, Dr. Arthur MacDonald, measures 89 congress members to study legislative ability through head size and other traits. He reports senators averaging 52 ounces brain weight and 921 legislative credits versus representatives at 50 ounces and 258 credits.
Turkey plans a world notable monument a marble shaft bearing the 28 Latin letters in gold will stand at Seraglio Point near the Golden Horn site of Ghazi’s 1929 midnight speech marking the shift from Arabic to Western letters Alphabet Day will be a national holiday observed across the country.
A review roundup describes The Berkeley Street Mystery by M.R.P. Hatch as a lurid tale of smugglers and a jewel, set mainly in Boston and Canada with a murder and a smuggled orange diamond driving the plot. Also covered are John McIntyre’s sea adventure The Stains and Shoots, Marie Cher’s Corday biography notes, and Vera Hutchinson’s Thy Dark Freight praised as her best work after illness.
A review of Crowther's Doubleday Doran book praising Herbert Hoover as capable leader. It outlines Part 1 on presidency, examining industry, agriculture, science, government, and costs, plus Hoover’s war relief leadership and career.
Pitts Sanborn, NYC opera critic turned novelist, offers a controversial work hailed as intense but horrid by critics who read the entire novel. The Book League of America selects it for February and March, noting its two volumes fit two issues. Prominent figures like John Ma John Ervine and Llewellyn id Mark Van Toren provide favorable notices.
Baron Ehrenfried Guenther von Huenefeld, famed German aviator and author of Three Musketeers of the Air, died after a noted career. In 1915 he wrote Little Songs while wounded in Berlin, composing poems during six months of hospital stay before resuming service. He treasured that early book above all others.
Noted author America Sir Gilbert Parker is touring the country. He endorses his latest work The Used Land as the best of all his writings. He hints at the story involving Ryul and other themes.
Readers are offered a spring list from the Crime Club of Doubleday Doran Co featuring thirty two mystery titles. Edgar Wallace contributes seven works, noted for prolific output, resembling mass production in satire.
Martin Johnson, famed for photographing lions in Africa and shooting only when necessary, has written a companion volume to Safari. The book titled Lion will be published this spring by G P Putnam's Sons.
The Bermudian Government has allotted one of the Bermuda Islands near St George to William Beebe and his wife Elswyth Thane for their private use. Beebe likely gains waters around the island through eminent domain for ongoing scientific work. Thane will travel to England this summer to work on a new historical novel. Her book Cloth of Gold, published by Frederick A Stokes Company, will be reviewed on this page soon.
Joanna Cannan, daughter of Gilbert Cannan, is set to publish Sheila Both-Ways in March by Frederick A. Stokes Company. She is married to Captain H. J. Pullein-Thompson of the Queen's Royal Regiment, known for his war record and as inventor of plot golf, an indoor game gaining attention.
In a tense county house dispute, Miss Selenos battles eviction by Appleton over buried leads coffins and a changed lawn. Doctor Byers explains her past misfortunes and dogs poisoned, while Hanby resists taking the emerald bribe as negotiations end with a resolved, uneasy peace.
Adolf Smucker faces job loss and social decline as neighbors misjudge his rank in the Hilton Hanby woolen firm. He discovers his wife held the deed to their property, prompting a fall from domestic prominence and scorn from kin.
In a crowded Glasgow-influenced tale a manipulating Smucker descends into wildness and colludes with discontented circles. He enlists deniable allies and dreams of a future upheaval while clinging to cheap cigarettes and staged honesty as power edges closer. He seeks letters of recommendation to secure clerical work, facing taunting family opposition and the looming Commune. The office boy and manager clash with Smucker as plans press forward toward an unsettled, dangerous future.
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