New Year's Parties Mark Kanwaka Social Scene
Kanwaka clubs and families held numerous New Year events last evening. The Waka Literary Club celebrated its 25th anniversary at Kanwaka church with a supper for about one hundred, featuring musical numbers, readings, and a mock orchestra. Proceeds support charities and the Lawrence Knot Hole Gang. Other gatherings included a Christmas dinner at the Unger home with a gift tree, a New Year watch party for couples, and multiple church and civic group events with prizes, games, and refreshments.
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Waka Laterary Club
Kanwaka
Harley Armstrong Jin
Fanny Brown
Carl Williams
Raymond Williams
Risdon Godlove
Dorothy ‘ Elliott
Réna Elliott
Rose Dews
Luella Shaw
Ralph Colman
Will Elkins
George Dews
Della May Dews
Opal Shaw
A. R. “Colman
Lloyd Duffee
F. M. Holliday
W. H. Mc. Kane
Clarence Hunter
Ed Alexander
F. W. McDonald
Lawrence Knot Hole Gang
Eula
Penwell
S Plorente Edmonds
Evelyn Burton
Edith’ Evans
Emily Preyer
Juucille Evans
Josephine Edmonds
Tudiile M
Evans
Pla Pengell
Jack Casey
Harlowe
Hansen
Tryin
Hutchinson
Ben Underwood
Delo Selig
Clement Evans
Lester Lyons
Robert Carey
Robert McKihinny
Caris Nutt
New Year Dinner Reservations Mention Crowley Guest List
Mrs. Marshall Barber of Crowley Louisiana was an out of town guest at a New Year dinner where eleven place settings were laid. Mr. and Mrs. George White of Eudora announce the birth of a son on December 30.
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M. T. Sadler
Marshall A- Barber
Crowley, la
Nadine Nowlin
May Gardner
Chester L. Shaw
Kansas City
Research Hospital
Richard Price
Shaw
Ina Price
Lawrence and
Baldwin
University of Kansas
Kansas City Journal-Post
Marshall Barber
Crowley
George White
Eudora
Personal greetings mark scattered New Year visits across region
A string of notices lists Mr and Mrs F C Weed and others traveling to Kansas City and nearby towns to join relatives for New Year gatherings. Several couples visit family in Lecompton Baldwin Eudora Osage City and Tulsa as well as Tarkio College students. The item notes teaching staff visiting home and engineers and executives traveling for holidays and regional events.
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F. C. Weed
Kansas City
Kans
Mahlon Weed
E. T. Olson
Mr. Weed
C. B. Adams
Frank
Clarke
de. Soto
Q.M. Staats
Staats
John Sugare
Baldwin
Dorothy Jennings
Eudora
Charles McCarty
Tulsa
Okla
H. B. Ober
H. L. Ziebenbein
Osage City
C. A. Hunter
Vance ‘Day
Pontiac
Mich
General’ Motors’ Truck Co
Dick Williams
Thelma Ellington
Arkansas City
Allené Ellington
Agricultural College
Manhattan
W. F. Ellington
Grace Ellington
Wichita
Alymee
Applegate
Parsons
Leo Applegate
Britain eyes postwar trade revival as unemployment lingers
London reports 1924 ended with high unemployment over 1.2 million and rising living costs. Yet stability grows as Conservative victory strengthens empire unity, Dawes Plan effects spread, and imperial preference plus Wembley exhibition plans hint at a broader revival in industry and trade across Britain and its empire.
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London
United Press
Great Britain
Wembley
Empire
Britain looks to stricter imperial policies in 1925
An overview notes 1924 saw solidified imperial reach under a new administration despite unrest in India and Ireland. It cites the League of Nations easing Anglo Turkish tensions, Egypt’s political shift after a Cairo assassination, and a Mexico diplomatic rift. The piece forecasts clearer British foreign policy in 1925.
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Whitehall
India
Ireland
League of Nations
Britain
Mosal
Cairo
Egypt
Sudan
Mexico
Mexico City
United Kingdom
Great ‘Britain
Expedition to study whales sails for South Atlantic fields
Liverpool dispatch reports a four member government expedition bound for South Georgia and South Shetland whaling fields to study whale breeding and halt extinction risks. The team will establish a scientific staff at a marine station and will later be joined by additional members next year. Research will also cover oceanography meteorology and magnetism.
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Liverpool
Associated Press
South Pacific
South Georgia
South Shetland
Thousands Have Kid Ney Trouble and Never Suspect It
Advertorial claims Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root cures kidney trouble and aids insurance applicants. It notes many declines due to undetected kidney issues. Promo states product available at drug stores in two bottle sizes and offers samples by mail from Dr Kilmer Co.
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Kilmer
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton
Traces Indian tribe treasure hunt nears Colorado border
Captain Allen LeBaron, British archaeologist, travels through Tonopah Nevada on a quest to identify early inhabitants of the American continent. He plans to reopen turquoise mines and excavate to trace races from Boulder Canyon to eastern Nevada, noting evidence linking early Nevadan people to the Mayas of Yucatan. A notable find is a sacrificial grotto mask from Aztec Canyon, 45 miles south of Las Vegas. Separately a Mountain View cattle buyer misidentifies a porcupine as a bear, provoking a local hunt.
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Tonopah
Nev
Associated Press
Allen LeBaron
Nevada
Colorado River
Boulder Canyon
le Baron
Yucatan
Mexico
Aztec Canyon
Las Vegas
Saranae Laka
N. Y
Deedsi
United “Press
Mountain View
Daniel Boones
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