Kansas Year in Review Highlights Big 1939 Events
Gordon Brown surveys Kansas highlights from 1939 including the National Cornhusking Contest in Lawrence won by Lawrence Pitzer Attica Ind and the August oil price drop prompting a 15 day production shutdown. Other items include sales tax tokens abolished and a Chanute bank robbery tale. Governor Ratner’s inauguration marked GOP return to power.
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Anyon
Kansas
Dodge City
Ratner
G.O.P
Lawrence
Lawrence Pitzer
Attica
Ind
Payne H. Ratner
Corporation Commission
First National Bank
Chanute
John Thornburg
Joe Balch
Balch
Nevada
Errol Flynn
Ann Sheridan
Lane Sisters
Jean Parker
State Penitentiary
Memorial Day
Payne Ratner
Walter A. Haxman
Hutchinson Farm Conference
Senator Capper
Farm Forum
Hanksgiving
Kansas State
Deaths and Funerals Everet E Douglas
Everet E Douglas aged 39 died yesterday morning in Parsons. Funeral services will be held at Rumsey funeral home Tuesday at 10 30 with Rev Robert A Hunt officiating. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery. He is survived by his mother Mrs B F Douglas of Lawrence a brother Clarence Douglas of Lawrence and a sister Mrs William Hartman of Wichita.
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Everet E.douglas
Parsons
Rumsey Funeral
Robert A. Hunt
Oak Hill Cemetery
Douglas
B. F. Douglas
Lawrence
Clarence Douglas
William Hartman
Wichita
Death Notice of Herbert J. Cleary 67
Herbert J. Cleary died yesterday at his home 304 West Fourteenth Street. Funeral Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. Rev. Robert Hunt will officiate and burial will be in Memorial Park cemetery. He is survived by his wife Nellie F. Cleary a daughter Mrs Allan Weaver of Council Grove and a son Herbert J. Cleary of Greeley.
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Herbert
J. Cleary
West Fourteenth Street
Rumsey Funeral Home
Robert Hunt
Memorial Park Cemetery
Mr. Cleary
Nellie F. Cleary
Allan Weaver
Council Grove
Herbert J. Cleary
Greeley, Olo
Infant Robert William Barnes Dies at Five Months
Five month old Robert William Barnes died yesterday at the home of his parents Mr and Mrs Jesse Q Barnes 749 Locust Street. Graveside services are set for Maple Grove cemetery at 2 30 Tuesday afternoon.
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Robert William, Barnes
Jesse QO. Barnes
Locust Street
Maple Grove Cemetery
Bachelors Worry as Leap Year Moves and Club Reorganizes
Probate Judge Frank R. Gray’s Bachelors Club meets on Leap Day under a cloud of wedding chatter. Charles Constant Rankin becomes president as a bearded defense led by oncoming bachelors debates possible Sadie Hawkins style rules and renewing membership.
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Frank R. Gray
Bachelors Club
Washington
Sadie Hawkins
P. N. Stevens
Duke D’ambra
Charles Constant
Rankin
Dick Barber
Barber
Adonis
Willard Priestly
Priestly
Bachelor Club
County crews complete bridge and road work in 1939
County Engineer E. E. Trueblood reports seven major bridges finished and 12 concrete culverts built in 1939. crews reconstructed 11 miles of roads and resurfaced about 33 miles with WPA help. major projects included Gilliland bridge near Baldwin Junction and multiple concrete spans near Pleasant Grove and Lecompton.
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E. E. ‘Trueblood
WPA
Lecompton
Lecompton Township
Pleasant Grove
Willow Springs Township
Lone Star Lake
Beattie Collins
Grant Township
Charles Young
Sim Dolan
Dolan Place
John Hyre
George Markley
Gilliland
Baldwin Junction
Eudora
Kaw River
Leavenworth County
Lecompton- Bie Springs
Franklin
Enterprise
Lone Star Road
Sibleyville
Stony Point
Worden
Baldwin-Ottawa
Baldwin
Tenth Street
Ohio
Indiana
Lawrence
Grain mills in Kansas city grind vast wheat totals
Grain mills in Kansas City process between 80 million and 90 million bushels of Kansas wheat annually. The article notes an estimated 4 million tennis players nationally in the United States.
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Kansas
City
United States
Weather Records Set in 1939 At Lawrence
Prof. C. J. Posey reports 1939 in Lawrence had above average mean temperature 58.51 degrees 4.26 above normal with below normal rainfall and several new records. The year saw 108-degree days July 15 and 21, a 2 degree below zero low on February 21, and 23 days at or above 100 degrees. April was below normal and most months above. Rainfall above normal overall. (continued on page 7)
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C. J. Posey
Voluntee
Lawrence
Local 1939 Happenings Highlight Douglas County
A dense chronicle of Douglas County and Lawrence events from January to July 1939. Includes bond decreases, court actions, university milestones, civil defense, notable deaths, expulsions, politics, and community happenings. Key figures: Chancellor Lindley, Deane Malott, James Dempsey, Glenn Cunningham, Karl Krueger, and Jayhawks.
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Jack Dempsey
Lawrence
Intercollegiate Association of Women Students
J. E. Bowers
Trinity Episcopal Church
Carter Harrison
C. B. Russell
James Owens
Securities Investment Company
Quincy School
Owens
Douglas County
Deane W. Malott
E. H. Lindley
Dean Moorhead
Hugoton
Donald Voorhees
Leavenworth
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