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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1930
Page
5
A jumble of notes from Lawrence to Topeka covers subscription rates, classifieds, and press notices. The paper discusses butter prices, taxation talk, Byrd’s Antarctic base, Russia’s diplomacy, and regional opinions on state government costs. It also lists social notices and local weddings from January 25, 1920s era features.
A historical note suggests Mexico seemed the likeliest Western Hemisphere base for starting the Soviet program of world revolution. Brief experience showed Mexico that while Russia favored such an arrangement, it offered little for Mexico which already faced substantial upheaval, and red agitators found little support south of the border.
A village report notes engineers mule teams and svorkmen shaping grounds around the lake east of the tabernacle for the Great Western National Fair. Target completion aims for improvements outside permanent buildings before April first, as the project moves forward.
A Miss Robb Young prepares to spend the rest of winter in Texas. Innes Store young women host a taffey pull at Miss Anna McGrath’s home. Miss Minnie Reitz plans a musical at 819 Kentucky Street for the Pipe Organ Association of the Methodist church. The Junction City Union reports on Lawrence figures and gas franchise intrigue involving Peguss, Wright and ce Gar Co, G Johnston, Lawrence Gas & Electric, F A Sharpe of Chicago, and a struggle over natural gas pricing and franchise sales rights.
A reader recalls a family moment about a mother’s spending habit. The child notes she won’t fund items from her allowance, highlighting parental budgeting dynamics and expectations.
Kansas history timeline notes the 1688 annual G A R encampment at Wyan dotte. T J Anderson of Token Co elected department commander. Also mentions flash life notes from Associated Press covering Muriel Vanderbilt Church calls, and a Panama insurance bet tale with long-shot returns.
Anne Wilmot is swept into a web of menace and romance as a plot to destroy an irrigation dam unfolds. Leon Morse presses for a marriage while Sheb and Rineer thwart danger at the site, and Delphine returns to aid. Anne discovers she has wed Glenn and faces pressure from Aunt Emily as moral stakes rise. Delphine’s reunion and a looming divorce clash with vows already made.
A digest of stacked notes on a new Sand Readers book about Sandy, Blaise Dorin, and the lost robe in India. Rival外 players including Starke, a priest with sapphires, and bandits pursue the treasure amid fatal mishaps. Dorin and Sandy are engaged and bound for England after perilous travels with Mrs Beebe.
Mary Graham and John join the Little Black Clock for a high flying coast ride aboard a coaster. They glide through air pockets, coast up and down hills, and land at air ship bases as curious children watch the popular pastime. A funny moment unfolds when John and Percy notice a peculiar sight on a Monday hitching scene.
The text recounts historic disease spread by insects, naming malaria yellow fever and bubonic plague. It notes Mosquito vectors like Anopheles and Aedes as carriers and highlights General Gorgas’s work in eradicating yellow fever as a landmark in public health alongside Jenner’s smallpox triumph.
The text outlines bubonic plague origins and transmission by rats, typhus spread by body lice, and other insect borne illnesses such as French fever, Texas fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and African sleeping sickness. It explains how germ and insect interactions create new diseases when infected blood transfers between animals or people.
Overnight AP item notes Walter J Hill son of late James J Hill as defendant in an alienation of affections suit in St Paul. Other items include a Los Angeles cancer suit, Hoover letter on strike settlements, Bolivian military moves, stalled train crashes in North Dakota, and various international notes from Washington to Geneva.
A report notes no marriage licenses issued from January 13 to yesterday except January 18 release to Donald Brady and Ruth Leonard, followed by LeRoy Johnson and Emma Scott Ewing obtaining licenses. Judge L H Menger presided, indicating unusual delays in marriage licensing due to cold weather.
The Rev. Fred Rufle rector of St. Matthews Episcopal church for 14 years resigns to become rector of a Clarkdale Arizona church. He starts February 1. Budapest report notes police streamlining records with wax discs or rolls to be used as court evidence after a U.S. visit by a superior officer.
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