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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1940
Page
7
Classified items include rental listings and a primary election notice for Lawrence Kansas in 1940 plus probate court notices for Clara J. Hibbard and related heirs. Also listed are farm equipment demonstrations and various sale offers with local contact details.
Chicago market wires show wheat trading within a narrow range with minor gains and declines as May contracts slide from session highs. Kansas City livestock totals reveal hogs uneven to 10 cents lower and cattle trade slow with mixed gains across beef steers and heifers, plus steady to higher sheep bids.
Treasury 3% in March traded at 104.5 while Treasury 38 55-51 moved to 110.3. AP reports closing prices for government bonds in New York.
The Day In Wall Street notes a quiet close with the market near yesterday’s level and about 650000 shares changing hands. Loftland Studebaker and Bigelow-Sanford led gains while American Smelting International Harvester Chrysler U S Steel and Great Northern preferred lagged. bonds mixed and cotton up modestly.
Topeka January 31 The state waterworks committee asks county authorities to open lakes and ponds built with public funds to all citizens in emergencies Farmers who own land with WPA or KERC lakes guaranteed others water in need The committee plans to decide in March on measures to ease water shortages during droughts
An Egyptian clerk admitted last night he is the father of twins and that his wife did not bear quintuplets. The tale began as villagers believed the magic of five wards off evil and crowds gathered outside the clerk’s home to see the babies.
The page presents a crossword style grid with a large long-billed bird as a clue. It lists numbered across and down hints including birds and related terms, with various word connections such as ibises and related themes.
The Haskell Institute held its president s ball in the gym Saturday night with Verona Justis, Sammy Brown, Freddie Pannan and the Oceola quartet providing entertainment. Funds raised for infantile paralysis totaled about 8 dollars.
Chicago Jan 31 The National Safety Council reports 1939 fatalities at 93 000 with 8 800 000 injuries and 3.8 billion dollars in losses. Motor vehicle accidents led with 82 600 deaths and 1 150 000 non fatal injuries.
Arthur Potts fifty four a county jail inmate slashed his throat in a cell block this noon. He was found by fellow prisoner Harry A Kratz who alerted jailer Cecil Georgie. Potts then was taken to Lawrence Memorial where doctors said his windpipe was cut but jugular vein spared and he is expected to recover. He told officers he wished to confess to robbing the Santa Fe lunchroom, entered the lunchroom several times last year. No charge filed yet.
Carl A. Preyer’s piano sonata will be performed by former pupil George Trovillo in Henry Hadley Hall New York City on February 11 under the American Association of Composers and Conductors. Preyer and his wife will travel to attend. the work won a first national prize from the National Federation of Music Clubs last year and has been performed with acclaim by Lucille Warner and Miss Wagner.
Lyons Kansas January 31 Chairman Paul Jones of the Coronado Duarto Centennial commission shows 1940 automobile tag marked 1541 the year Coronado visited Kansas The highway department promises 1941 tags will be red and yellow Spanish colors carry a sunflower and maybe the words Coronado 1541
Correct chronological arrangement asks events from Confucius birth in China to the start of the French Revolution. It includes assassination of Julius Caesar Joan of Arc burning Mary Queen of Scots execution Jamestown voyage Pilgrims landing Plymouth Rock French and Indian Wars first blood in American Revolution and the French Revolution beginning.
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