Furnace Doors Switched Cause Fatal Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Ronald and Carol Potter rented a Kansas City home where two furnace doors were swapped. Carbon monoxide from starved jets circulated the house, killing Carol Mae, 20, and leaving Ronald, 22, hospitalized in serious condition.
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Kansas City
Kan
Ronald
Carol Mae Potter
Carol Mae
Robert Thompson
Gas Service Co
Thompson
Herbert H. White
Death follows student couple’s illness near Wartensburg
Principal Harry W Thompson and three officers found Carol Mae Potter dead at the house after reports of a four day illness thought to be influenza. Ronald Potter was so dazed he could not answer the knock. Coroner Ralph J Rettenmayer noted Ronald appeared alive only because he slept near a window. Carol Mae hailed from Independence Missouri. both were Central Missouri State College alumni.
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Harry W. Thompson
Ronald
Thompson
Carol Mae
Ralph J. Rettenmayer
Potters
Central Missouri State College
Wartensburg
Independence, Mo
Frances Perkins First Woman Cabinet Member
Frances Perkins served as secretary of labor from 1933 to 1945 and became the first woman to hold a United States cabinet position.
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Frances Perkins
Labor
Capper Executive Charles E. Sweet Dies After Illness
Charles E. Sweet veteran Capper Publications executive died Tuesday after an extended illness. A Burlington, Kansas native, he lived in Topeka since 1919 and served in World War I. He worked at the Burlington Republican and Iola Daily Register before the Kansas City Star. He joined Capper Publications in 1919 and later became advertising manager and, before 1958 retirement, manager of Kansas Farmer Missouri Ruralist and Capper's Weekly.
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Topeka
Charles E. Sweet
Capper Publications, Inc
Sweet
Burlington, Kan
Burlington Republican
Iola Daily Register
Kansas City Star
Capper Publications
Kansas Farmer, Missouri Ruralist
Capper’s Weekly
Last Surviving Signer Charles Carroll of Maryland Dies
Charles Carroll of Carrolton Maryland the final surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence lived to age 95 and died in 1832 leaving a legacy as a founding era statesman and planter with deep ties to the early republic.
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Charles Carrol
Carrolton, Md
Leading Banker in Kansas City Dies of Cancer
David T. Beals Jr., a prominent Kansas City banker, died of cancer at 73. He defied his father’s advice to enter banking, led Inter-State National Bank as president from 1943 and later chaired the First National Bank after a 1955 merger. In 1891 he was kidnapped as a toddler and returned after a $5,000 ransom.
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Kansas City
David T. Beals, Jr
Young Beals
Inter-State National Bank
First National Bank
Beals
McMahon Line Defined as India Tibet Border in 1914
The line designating the northeast border between India and Tibet was drawn in 1914 by Sir Henry McMahon, then foreign secretary of India.
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India
Tibet
Henry McMahon
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AMILY
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