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Lawrence Journal World

Location

Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

Date

Jan 15, 1936

Page

3

Grain on hand in state is doubled

Topeka January 15 Farmers in Kansas have about twice as much grain on hand January 1 this year vs last year. Wheat stocks are the smallest in 10 years, while corn and oats show large increases. United States totals show farm stocks overall down. Expert notes much wheat is feed quality in Minnesota and the Dakotas, and predicts fair to good prices if wheat crops meet expectations and export demand rises.

Topeka Kansas Federal State Departments of Agriculture United States E. J. Smiley Kansas Grain Dealers’ Association Minnesota Dakotas The Bulletin Smiley

Shadow thrower lights runway at Kansas City airport

John Smith Jr operates a 7,000 900 candle power searchlight at the municipal airport in Kansas City. He stages a shadow act for incoming planes, projecting his silhouette over the nose to shield pilots eyes. He says the routine has lasted eight years and claims to be the only professional shadow thrower.

John Smith, Jr Smith Kansas City

Crossword Puzzle Clues From Historic Illinois Page

A fragmented cross word puzzle list from an Illinois newspaper page includes clues for across and down entries such as worm, simpleton, seaweed, and various definitions. The readable items mix numbers, partial phrases, and scattered definitions, implying a full puzzle grid with many entries across several categories and themes.

Amarillo to Have New Rural Office

The Resettlement Administration creates a new regional office based in Amarillo Texas overseeing portions of Kansas Oklahoma Texas Colorado and New Mexico. R A Hunter will head the region directing rehabilitation resettlement land use debt adjustment and cooperative work as the transfer occurs gradually. The region integrates programs to address dust bowl problems with 95 counties impacted and Kansas land erosion prompting calls for permanent federal state and local cooperation. Kansas counties affected include Clark Finney Ford Grant Gray Greeley Gove Hamilton Haskell Hodgeman Kearney Lane Logan Meade Morton Ness Scott Sheridan Seward Stanton Stevens Thomas Wallace Wichita. Farm leaders from 11 counties meet at Emporia January 27 to discuss production control. A separate note reports John W Keogh 72 shot and killed attorney Christopher G Kinney 54 in Chicago.

Lincoln Neb Kansas Oklahoma Texas Colorado New Mexico Amarillo Tex R. A. Hunter Berkeley Calif Dancelee Dallas Denver R. I. Kimmel R. G. Tugwell Conservation Association Liberal Kan Secretary of Agriculture Clark Finney Ford Grant Gray Greeley Gove Hamilton Haskell Hodgeman Kearney Lane Logan Meade Morton Ness Scott Sheridan Sherman Seward Stanton Stevens Thomas Wallace Wichita

Tucker-Isms At Chicago Furniture Mart

While in Chicago at the Furniture Mart I will place orders for period furniture from leading manufacturers. The pieces will soon be on display in our Lawrence store for your approval.

Chicago Furniture Mart Lawrence

Ford Company to Install New Type Glass Furnace

Ford Motor Company invites tenders for a continuous glass melting furnace to be set up at the Rouge plant Dearborn Michigan. The furnace cost about half a million dollars and will lift capacity of rough plate glass from 73000 to 200000 square feet daily. Foundations are in place and the project is the last major equipment order in the plant enlargement begun last March at a total cost of 3000900.

Ford Motor Company Safety Rouge Dearborn Mich Highland Park

Ford and Lincoln plants to add safety glass production

A new equipment line will enable safety glass for most vehicles produced at Ford and Lincoln plants. The upgrade signals broader adoption of laminated glass across the maker’s lineup, potentially impacting vehicle safety features and production efficiency.

Ford Lincoln

Chevrolet Sales Keep on at Record Breaking Rate

Chevrolet Motor Company reports December sales strong with 91,797 new units in the second ten days, up nearly 200 percent from last year and 31 percent above the prior ten days. First twenty days total reach 55,915, while used car sales rise to 42,854 in the second ten days.

Chevrolet Chevrolet Motor Company

Auto Sales Rise With Year End Demand And January Schedules

December and November figures show strong vehicle demand with 77,889 used cars sold in the first 20 days and a 54 percent jump from a year earlier. January new car schedules total 110,000 units, signaling peak production through January and continued high output through February and into spring as dealer orders stay heavy.

Auto Glass and Wrecking Service Ad

Auto Glass Complete line of glass including safety glass installation for autos and houses. Repaired new radiators used installed. Phone 954. Auto Wrecking & Junk Co, 72 E. 9th.

Auto Glass Auto Wrecking & Junk CO

Dodge Auto Factory Buys Diamonds for Tooling

A Dodge Division of Chrysler Corporation houses nearly a thousand diamonds valued as production equipment. Each stone, about five carats, is embedded in grinding wheels that trim engine parts to fractional thousandths of an inch. Sourced mainly from Kimberley mines in South Africa, they differ from jewelry only in color.

Dodge Chrysler Corporation Kimberley South Africa Milady

The Tool and Its Diamonds Workmen Requisition It

The text notes the tool houses diamonds of great value and workmen seize it from the keeper in a leather pouch. Even diamonds wear down with use, so a stone is removed, recut, and re-set for further use.

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