Legislature debates primary repeal and mansion debate
In Topeka on January 21 lawmakers push a bill to repeal the statewide primary and return to the old convention system. Noble of Labette argues the primary is costly and favors the rich or media-backed candidates, while others seek reform. The Governor’s Mansion, unoccupied for years, may be sold. A senate resolution seeks a committee to study repair options. A home rule bill for larger cities and judiciary chair appointment are also noted.
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Topeka
Noble
Labette County
Nobie
United States
F Allen
Senate
Morte
Crawford County
Freeman
Wyandotte County
House
State Public Utilities Commission
Benjamin F. Hegler
Wichita
Haw
Fred E. Stanley
Kansas
National Republican
Lambertson
Judiciary Committee
National Guard Units Prepare for Inspection
Federal inspectors from the War Department will visit the 4th Kansas National Guard in February to examine Lawrence’s machine gun and infantry companies. The review will verify complete membership and proper equipment including Enfield rifles, Lewis machine guns, and automatic pistols.
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Kansas National Guard
War Department
Kansas Adjutant General
Topeka
Lawrence
United States Forces
Honor Lawrence Man
Fourth Kansas National Guard officers sustain Kansas branch work of the National Guard association. At a Topeka meeting, old organization members elected: President Col. Perry M Hoisington Newton, Vice President Major J H Dunkel Lawrence, Secretary-Treasurer R Neill Rahn Topeka. Lawrence members named include Dunkel and others: Wilder S Metcalf Paul A Dinsmoor Frank B Dodds August Wahl John St Clair C C Stewart B D Keilmann.
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Kansas National Guard
Kansas
National Guard Association
France
National Guard
Topeka
Perry M. Hoisington
Newton
J. H. Dunkel
Lawrence
R. Neill Rahn
Major Dunkel
Wilder S. Metcalf
Paul A. Dinsmoor
Frank B. Dodds
August Wahl
John St. Clair
C. C. Stewart
B.D. Keilmann
Forty-two Men Nominated for Lawrence Chamber Board
The Lawrence Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual meeting and election on Tuesday evening January 28 after supper. A nominating committee has chosen forty-two nominees for the 21 director seats, from which ballots will select the board. A ticket copy has been mailed to members to study the roster and prepare ballots for election inspectors.
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Lawrence
Chamber of Commerce
Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
Co. Wilbur Baker
Frank FE. Banks
Perry Barber
H. W. Boltz
D. Bowersock
W. J. Rusch
Dean H. L. Butler
A. W. Clark
J. H. Cohn
Harry Dick
G. J. Dodds
C. J. Eviksen
W. R. Evans
Geo. W. Hackman
Thos
Harley
A. A. Hicks
S. J. Hunter
Rev
Frank Jennings
X. J. Kennedy
Thos, Kennedy
R. A. Kent
Geo. Kirchoff, Jr
Geo. L. Kreeck
H. T. Metton
W. S. Metcalf
Win New
H. 8
W. H. Pendleton, Jr
O._E. Perkins
Wm. H. Quakenbush
R. C. Rankin
Wm. F. Reinisch
Frank H_.Roberts
J. M
Five Officers Discharged from S A T C at University
The S A T C at the university reduced to six officers and a few enlisted men after discharges on Saturday and Sunday. Discharged officers include Lieut Frank J Cramer Lieut Robert L Uher Lieut Henry P Constant Lieut John N Covington and Lieut George G Umlanid. One Navy officer, Ensign Finnegan, remains to wind up Navy work.
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Frank J.cramer
Robert L. Uher
Henry P. Constant
John N. Covington
George G. Umlanid
Finnegan
Navy
Esthenians Win Victory Near Lake Teipus
Esthenian troops northeast of Lake Teipus defeat Bolsheviks and seize the town of Nara on the Neval Petrograd railway line. A Stockholm official statement notes many prisoners captured in the action reported today.
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London
Lake Teipus
Stockholm
Nara
Neval-Petrograd
Sinn Fein Assembly Declares Irish Republic Demands British Evacuation
In Dublin on January 21 the Sinn Fein assembly at the Mansion House read a declaration of independence announcing an Irish republic and demanding the evacuation of Ireland by British forces The report also notes a London life insurer established in 1706 insuring at uniform rates for children between 12 and 4 years old.
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Dublin
Sinn Fein
Mansion House
Ireland
Life Insurance Company
London
Czar's Premier to Lead Drive on Reds
Gen M Trepoff, former Russian premier, arrives in Stockholm and reveals plans to organize a military movement using Finland as a base to attack Russia from the north. The operation aims to capture Petrograd as its initial objective.
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REDS
M. Trepoff
Romanoff
Stockholm
Trepoff
Finland
Ihs
Russia
Petrograd
Irish Parliament in shadow of Dublin Castle assembles
Dublin January 21. The Dail Eireann, Gaelic for Irish Parliament, to meet in Dublin's Mansion House amid paradoxical scenes. About half the Sinn Fein electees will participate in British Parliament while others are jailed or under Defense of the Realm acts. Session presided by Viscount French under Dublin Castle, with home rule and independence aims clashing with British authority. The lord mayor hosts Mansion House with knighthood expectations from Britain.
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Dublin
Associated Press
Ireland
Dail Eireann
Tishman
George Bernard Shaw
Sinn
Quarter of quota not bazed ten days gone
Funds totaling 389.16 were reported by Treasurer J J Mearle for the Jewish Armenian relief drive in Douglas county raising the total to 1 not counting school children. Numerous town captains filed new reports, with many adding money from those who delayed giving. Lists include H H Ulrich St Martha Prim J J Bleakley FE E Pardee R P B Pardee D O Rinehart and many others with varied small contributions.
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J. J. Mearle
Douglas County
Baldwin
Lecompton
Fadora
H. H. Ulrich
St. Martha Prim
J. J. Bleakley
E. Pardee
R. PB. Pardee
D.O. Rineha le
Ee . Heaston
D. M. Shotwell
Churchbaugh
C. PL
Morran
Susie Olson
BR. S. Gebhart
C.J. Dory
F. J. Moore
A. W. Armstrong
W. Wells
Roener Bros
Logan Moore Abr. Co
Norbert Thompson
J. Underwood & Son
Green 'Bs
Lawrence: Grocery Co
F. H.bules
G. W
Sigma Nu Wartime Service Flag Records At KU
Sigma Nu at the University lists 134 men in service with four gold stars on the service flag. Notable names include William Murphy Harry Slaymaker Merle Martin and Thatcher Benson who sacrificed their lives. The roster appears in a pamphlet edited by Grant Harrington, KU alumnus from the early 1880s, acknowledging a literary anniversary tied to De Robinson Crusoe.
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Sigma Nu
University
Kangas
Samuel Murphy
Harry Blean Slaymaker
Merle Vandeveer Martin
Grant Harrington
K. U
Peace delegates study Russia amid economic planning
Delegates at the peace conference examine the Russian situation as plans for a league of nations take shape. The American stance favors relaxing the blockade to allow food and fuel into enemy lands while keeping the blockade as a lever to secure peace terms. Some relief is already visible in parts of the former Austro-Hungarian empire with Vienna receiving supplies. Mrs Annabella Crawford Dodds to teach folk and esthetic dancing at the Y M C A with classes for children and adults meeting twice weekly.
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Taris
Dan
Associated Press
League of Nations
Loral
Supreme Council
Upsburg
Vienna
Germany
Treves
Babbitt
Annabella Crawford Dodds
Lone Star Farmers Demand Good Roads
Lone Star farmers petition Lawrence for a permanent hard surfaced road from Lawrence to Lone Star, a distance over ten miles. They offer to organize a district and secure signatures if Lawrence residents guarantee acre-age or the road district share for the first miles. Lawrence business men indicate willingness to sponsor the initial road district expense. A chamber of commerce road committee, led by H. B. Ober and C. B. Hos, met the farmers to plan the district formation and start work immediately.
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Lawrences
Chamber of Commercce
Lone Star Road
Lawrence
Lone Star
Ober
Chamber of Commrece
H. B. Ober
Sergeant Lear of Leavenworth Returns From War
Sergeant Lear, once with the Fifteenth U S infantry at Chateau Thierry, recalled a battle where 3,900 men started and only 276 answered roll. He wears two wound stripes, declined a commission, and now works as a barber in Leavenworth. Lear is linked to Lawrence residents Mrs. Jane Godfrey and Mrs. Arthur Gulley. A line about Virginia's early vanadium mention is included.
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Zorn
Bellou
Sam Fear
Lear
Jane Godfrey
Arthur Gulley
Lawrence
Leavenworth
Chateau Thierry
Fifteenth
United States
Marne
German Election Sets Non Bolshevik Tone In Germany
Early returns indicate Eichhorn and Haase elected to the national assembly while Bolshevik opponents trail two to one in provinces. Berlin reports hint at arrests and charges against Eichhorn as Bourgeois and socialist blocs win key delegates, with Ebert Scheidemann Fehrenbach allied in shaping a peace capable German government. Partial Berlin results show strong independent socialist voting alongside bourgeois gains.
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Paris
Farly
Radical Party
Friedrich von Payer
Democrats
Ebert
Scheidemann
Toggether
Eichhorn
Berlin
Eichhron
Hugo Haase
National Assembly
Kingdom
Wurttemburg
Hohenzollern
Prussia
Mecklenburg
Lubeck
Call Convention Resolutions in Kansas Legislature
Governor Allen announced plans to introduce bills in both Kansas houses calling a state constitutional convention with a referendum at the 1920 election. If approved by voters, the convention would likely meet in 1921 and a new constitution submitted for ratification in 1922. More than one thousand divorce suits were filed last year in Portland, Oregon.
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Kansas
Topeka
Allen
Portland
Oregon
Prof Hodder Bired Lawrence Old Sold
A terse report notes Hodder and Lawrence involved in a sale or transfer, details obscured by OCR. The fragment references pressure or omout, with limited readable names and actions.
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Lawrence Old
Sunites
Resolutions Adopted At Post Meeting On Hodder Fire Demand
A Lawrence G A R post adopted resolutions Saturday urging the Kansas State Board of Administration to demand the resignation of Prof F H Hodder of the history department for remarks in a November 21 Women’s Forum address claiming Germany has Prussians and Roosevelt is a militarist. Hodder declined comment. The resolution urges action and forwarding to Governor Henry J Allen and the state board. In related items Portugal’s monarchist movement forms a government in Oporto and more than 6,000 U.S. troops return from France aboard the Conia Susquehanna and the cruiser Frederick.
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State Board of Administration
F.hodder
Women’s Forum
Germany
United States
Theodore
Roosevelt
Hodder
University of Kansas
F. H. Hodder
Dep
Theodore Roosevelt
Washington Post
Ag Re
State University of Kansas
Kansas
State Board of Administration of Educational Institutions
Ania Ett
Henry J. Allen
Frank ‘Strong
Topeka
Sasi
Kansan
Saia
Portugal
Madrid
Pores
Paiva Concejro
Oporto
Pontevedra
Spain
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