Lawrence City Streets and WPA Projects Highlight 1939 Improvements
The 1939 Lawrence year saw major street renovations and new city projects funded in part by the WPA. Key tasks included reopening Tenth Street to Indiana and Eleventh Street to Louisiana, with excavation costs around 22 000 dollars and WPA covering most of the 1 900 dollar city cost. The mud jack, resurfacing, and brick pavement repairs expanded city utilities and public works, while several fatal accidents on highways 10 40 and 24 59 marked the year’s safety concerns.
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Lawrence
Ben Babb
Tenth Street
Ohio
Indiana Street
Eleventh Street
Louisiana Street
Babb
Telford
WPA
Indiana
Ninth Street
Twelfth Street
Foud
Oak Hill Cemetery
Southpark
Massachusetts Street
Kentucky Street
Fourteenth Street
North Park Street
New York Street
Clinton Park
Eleventh
Traffic Toll in Douglas County 1939 Rises to Thirteen
The 1939 Douglas County death toll reached 13 from nine crashes with four in Lawrence. Causes included a car train collision, a pedestrian hit by a car, and a stationary car struck by a moving vehicle. Notable incidents occurred on highway 10 east of Lawrence and at Sixth and Massachusetts Street involving KU students.
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Faulconer
Arkansas City
Henry G. Lewis
Salina
Virginia Books
Manhattan
Memorial Hospital
Donald E. Michael
Perry
Wayne’. Johnson
Topeka
Santa Fe
Indiana Street
Elsie M. Kirby
Highway 40
Lawrence
John Battenfeld
K.U
Kansas City
Highway 10
Town
Douglas County
Baldwin Junction
Bernard ‘Brown
Iola
Raymond Phelps
Toneka
University of Kansas
Carleton Dickinson
Sixth
Massachusetts Street
Dickinson
Robert
Campus redecorations and improvements completed during vacation
University buildings and grounds crews spent vacations repainting Fraser Hall Watkins Hospital and other rooms. repaired paving and walls. planted hundreds of shrubs around campus. completed Corbin hall and Mississippi street landscaping under a WPA project costing 29000 dollars. Two new rooms in the Union building were added including a 100-person Kansas room and a phonograph library room funded by Carnegie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Shyder
George O. Foster
Fraser Hall
Watkins Hospital
Dyche Museum
Dyche
Mississippi Street
Watkins Nurse’s
Corbin Hall
Old North College Hill
North College Hill
Union
Department of Buildings and Grounds
Kansas
Buildine
University
Lawrence Fire Department Hosts New Year Dinner
Lawrence fire department members and city officials were to attend a New Year dinner at 12:30 with wives and families invited to a second meal. Firemen and their wives prepared roast turkey and trimmings for the meals.
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Lawrence Fire Department
City Council
Collision Injures H R Fuller in Street Crash
H R Fuller of 822 Alabama Street sustained slight injuries Saturday evening when his car collided at Eyehth and Illinois streets with a vehicle driven by Nellie Wright of 613 Michigan Street. Both cars were damaged.
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H. R. Fuller
Alabama Street
Nellie Wright
Michigan Street
Eyehth
Illinois Street
Babson Warns of 1940 Boom With Heavy Industry Lift
Babson predicts a busy first half of 1940 driven by heavy industries, rising wages, more payrolls, and higher farm incomes. He cites defense outlays, wage pressures, and a modest rise in living costs, with better profits and dividends but cautious stock sentiment.
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Defense
Treasury
Roosevelt
Heavy Industries
Furniture
Drouth
Allied Industries
Adlerika Adverts Relief for Gas Pressure on Heart
An old ad promotes Adlerika as a remedy for stomach gas causing heart pressure. It claims one dose relieves the discomfort and that Adlerika cleans out both bowels, attributed to H. W. Stowits, a local druggist.
New City School Head Appointed in 1939
Clifford D. Dean was named superintendent of Lawrence schools following the retirement of C. I. Birch. The district faced rising high school enrollment and added five courses including third year Latin and plane trigonometry. Mathematics emphasis grew with new instruments and four hundred seventeen students in math courses. Renovations touched Cordley McAllaster Manual and other buildings.
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Lawrence
Clifford ‘D. Dean
Russell
Kan
Birch
University of Kansas
Uct
Liberty Memorial High School
Cordley School
McAllaster
New York
Lincoln
Pinckney
Fewer Marriage Licenses in 1988 than 1939
Fewer licenses were issued in 1939 than in 1988 at the office of probate judge Frank R. Gray. Last year 356 licenses were issued, while 362 licenses were issued in 1938.
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Frank R. Gray
Classifieds tease to rent buy sell or trade
Local classification page invites buyers sellers and traders to reach thousands of Journal World readers. It highlights broad demand and ongoing listings across categories.
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Journal-World
Douglas County Debt Reduced in 1939 Bond Issuance
Park County debt figures show 1939 reductions by 47300 bringing total debt to 174700 with 37000 in special improvement bonds. New bonds 37200 partly refunded 3800 year end interest 5999.44 and anticipated saving 688.89.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas County
Mildred LeSner
Barker Avenue
Oldest Fraternity Rivalry: NC vs Virginia Since 1892
The oldest rivalry below the Mason-Dixon line is between North Carolina and Virginia. It began in 1892 and remains a noted historic contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chapel Hill
N. C
North Carolina
Virginia
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Babson
Good
Publishers Financial Bureau
Babson Park, Mass
Entral Pleg CO
New City
Clifford Dean
Poe
Phone
Chen
U. S. Pat
Belle Isle
U. S
Anmcot
Park County
Jayblawk Taxi & Storage
Ross James
Eldridge
Read
Starling Furn. CO
Radio-Electric Hospital
Ared
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