Kansas Tops Nation in Number of Fairs
Topeka July 4 AP Kansas leads states in fairs with 120 fairs expositions and shows across 105 counties, surpassing Ohio 95 and Minnesota 94. Secretary Mohler notes four statewide fairs and many county events open free to the public, highlighting fairs as part of Kansas education and agricultural progress.
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Topeka
Kansas
Union
J.C. Mohler
Board of Agriculture
Ohio
Minnesota
Town
Nebraska
Illinois
New York
Wansaé
United States
Kanas
Auto license registrations rise in Kansas in 1928 six months
Topeka AP reports Kansas motor vehicle registrations for the first six months of 1928 exceed 1927 by 16,190. Total licenses reached 474,124 versus 457,? last year. Passenger car licenses up 12,241 to 418,?. truck licenses up 3,820 to 51,900. Motor car dealers and motorcycle licenses up modestly, while motorcycle dealer licenses drop.
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Tncrease
Topeka
Kansas
Secretary of State’s Office
Deaths and Funerals Miss Rosalie Sicking
Mrs Rogalie Sicking wife of Walter and daughter of Mr and Mrs Edmonds died at St Marys Hospital in Kansas City Mo at 2 this morning The Rumsey funeral home will handle arrangements and funeral services will be announced later Theft of watch reported by John Fite after waking in his car in North Lawrence a thief took a gold watch from him while he slept.
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Rosalie Sicking
Rogalie Sicking
Walter
the Edmonds
St. Mary's
H Spite
Kansas City
Rumsey Funeral Home
John Fite
North Tawrence
Drowned athlete remembered in Crete river tragedy
Jalian Ralston and Best were named as pallbearers at a funeral for the athlete who drowned yesterday in the Blue River near Crete. The event followed the sports figure’s farmed chase and is noted by local authorities.
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Jalian Ralston
Vesterday
Harry
Blie
Crete
Ralston
Osaka police weigh ban on tattooing by morals inspectors
Officials in Osaka, Japan, consider enforcing a law to curb tattooing among young women. Dancing girls led the trend, but office workers, waitresses, and high school students now bear tattoos. A dancing girl showed extensive designs on back, chest, and arms. waitresses had dragon and peony motifs. stenographers wore heart marks on ears. High school girls reportedly inked names of actors and secret society symbols on their arms.
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Osaka
Japan
Osaka ‘Police Department
Fadt
Miss Virginia Arnold Hosts Musicale Tea Honor
Miss Virginia Arnold and Miss Lorane Carder entertained with a musical tea at Arnold home honoring Miss Anna Dorothy Lester and bride elect Thomas Wylie of Chicago. Notables Mrs Arch Mac Candless Ottawa and Vernon Noah performed with Wylie singing. decorations featured yellow and blue, guests served iced refreshments.
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Virginia’ Arnold
Lorane Carder
Anna
Dorothy Lester
Thomas
Wylie
Chicago
Arch Mac| Candless
Ottawa
Vernon Noah
Schumann-Heink
Kansas City
Woite
McDermid
Baker
Ace Because
d'Hartelot
Vertton Noah
Piao
Debussy
Flower
Campbell
Salter
Cadwan
Arch MacCaddless
Barcardlle
McMillan
Schon Rosmarin
I Kreislér
Conrad McGrew
Voise
Q’hara
Mandalay
Thoms Wylie
Etta ‘Atle
Dorothy Luston
Neva ,Luxton
Grace Winsor
Wealthy English magnate Sir David Yule dies
Sir David Yule, reputed richest Briton worth about 11 million pounds or 55 million dollars, died in St Albans. head of a major Indian mercantile house and bank director, he led a quiet life mostly in India. He rose to prominence in 1926 as part of the group buying Lloyd George's Daily Chronicle. He owned stakes in the Statesman and the Englishman in Calcutta. His heiress is his daughter Gladys, who previously joined her mother on a voyage to Alaska.
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St. Albans
England
David Yule
Aitho
India
Calcutta
Tie
Lloyd George
Daily Chronicle of London
The
Statesman
Sir David
Gladys
Alaska
Wheels rule Dutch streets as bikes outpace US autos
AP report notes Leyden students all own bicycles in flat Holland where bikes outnumber cars, aided by level terrain and bike roads. Pedestrians face greater risk from bicycles than cars, while blacksmiths shy of mobile work in France, and Grand Island Nebraska reports an odd motorcycle patrol remedy involving a pistol with blank cartridges.
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Leyden, Holland
Holland
United States
Leyden
Jewish Farm Colonization Promises Shift in Soviet Russia
Forty five thousand Russian Jewish tradesmen displaced by the Soviet cooperative monopoly lead a back to the land movement. Over 19,000 families have been settled on farms since 1924, with stronger colonies forming in Crimea and Krivoy Rog. Wealthy American Jews back the project, and government circles discuss a potential Jewish republic in the Amur region while religious liberty appears smoothed over and private homes host synagogues.
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Moscow
Russia
Amur
Antar
Crimea
Krivoy
Felix Warburg
Louis Marshall
Julius Rosenwald
Novaia- Kut
Khergon
State wheat crop of high grade topeka kansas
Topeka Kansas AP The state wheat crop is high grade and should fetch top prices when dry. J C Mohler of the state board of agriculture notes that moisture content in harvested wheat lowers value. Boerne Morris and US Department of Agriculture tests show damp wheat from early combines lowers quality and market price. Delay combining until wheat is thoroughly dry. harvest and handle to avoid losses.
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Topekk
Italy
Kansas
J.C. Mohler
State Board of Agriculture
E. J. Mortis
United States
Department of Agriculture
Mohler
Grains Inspection Department
Sorane
Boerner ‘and
Morris
Oklahoma
asys"Boerney
Sane Morris
Bosrner
Morrin
Thursday Program at MPH Company and Cooking School
Fragmentary schedule listing a Thursday program from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. including a cooking school and a studio program, with mentions of Michelin Tire Corporation and MPH Company activities. Limited readable details indicate a community event calendar with multiple program slots.
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MPH
Personal notes on travels and visitors from Albuquerque to Ottawa
Mr. and Mrs. Walter A. Dunbar left Saturday for a Colorado vacation. Mrs Vere Lana and daughter Judy of Albuquerque arrived to visit Mr and Mrs Stout and Mr and Mrs Parris. Mr Stout drove to Ottawa to meet his daughter Charles Holmes and Galen Gorril returned after a month motor trip to the Pacific coast.
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Walter A. Dunbar
Colorado
Vere
Lana
Judy
Albuquerque
N. M
and Stout
Parris
Big Springs Social Roundup across Topeka and area
Big Springs residents hosted and visited includes Mr and Mrs Charles Durow and son Lloyd of Topeka with Wise family. J F Slusser and son Will near Stull. Will Wymer with Kanwaka Literary Club. Several families from Topeka Lecompton and Lawrence visited Big Springs households. Children’s club staged music readings and a two act comedy raising 7.45 for a school curtain. Market Basket prize offers 2 for best cauliflower recipe.
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Charles Durow
Lloyd
Topeka
Wise
J. F. Slusser
William Bahnmaier
Kate
Grant
Ida Maé
Josephine
Lecompton
Jon Graut
Howe
Rice
St. Joseph
C. W. Bonisaw
Shelton Clark
John Price
J. C
Webver
Children’s Club
Biz Springs
S Schoolhouse
Clarence Engleke
H. Ebergele
Ray Creel
Harvey Stone € Lawrence
Neilmith
Onaga
John D. Henry
Robert Oldham
Watson and Sheltom Clark
I -C. P. Henry
Jake .Swadley
Lawrence
H. G. Swadley
Carl Rake
iMrs
Earl Evans
Charles Wilson
Charles Custard
Howard Heniy
Jack
T. J. Cusstard
James_ Reese
Peir
Will Smith
Texas Democrats Rally to Bolting Controversy in Nomination Fight
Dallas July 4 AP A factional drive within Texas Democrats threatens a November bolt over Governor Alfred E. Smith's nomination. Jed C. Adams says state executive committee will reorganize to align county officials with the platform. District leaders and candidates including Edith Wilmans Hawkins and Thomas Love oppose Smith. Moody supports the nominees but faces criticism for past dry platform tensions. Cone Johnson announces he will not vote for Smith, calling his telegram to the convention a clear break from the Democratic platform.
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Tex
Texas
Alfred E. Smith
New York
Jed. C. Adams
Brownsville
Judea
Smith
Regula
Galvernor
Diam Moody
Dry Democrats
Asheville
N. C
Moody
Houston
Cone Johnson
State Highway Commission
Johnson
Smits
War Bell Replaced In Halberstadt Cathedral By Ten Ton Bell
AP report describes Halberstadt Cathedral consecrating a new eight ton bell to replace the Domina melted for war material. The bell features St George with a dragon modeled on President von Hindenburg. The prior Domine cracked in 1840 during King Frederick William III’s death knell, after which Donina was cast from its metal for armaments. Also notes Dominican candy influx as American imports rise.
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Halberstadt
Prussia
von Hindenburg
Gardonf
Frederick
Willia III of
Donina
Court scandals fuel French chateaux tourism profits
Paris AP reports court scandals fuel chateau tourism in France as humble concierges earn small salaries while admission fees, sometimes up to four francs per visit, fund the houses. These tales of royal love and court intrigue attract many tourists, making chateaux assets to the country.
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Paris
France
Conciergesjare
Concierge
Hickarden
Duc Guise
Diant de Poiitiers
Louis “Xt
Food Fat Less Live Long Exhibit Shows War Hunger Effects
Berlin exhibit charts link famine to health trends from 1911 to 1926. Appendicitis cases peak in 1926 at 2,796 after lows in 1919, diabetes rises during blockade with Berlin diabetics dropping then rising. male excess deaths noted in Denmark and Germany, while underweight people show longer lifespans.
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Berlin
Prussia
Germany
New York
Watt
New Yorks
Denmark
Women win open inheritance rights in Aleppo court ruling
In Aleppo the French mandate court applied open succession law, allowing daughters to share the family estate with sons. The decision, praised by Henry Lemery in Parliament, could affect about 3 million dollars in claims, though local men challenge it at the Syrian supreme court in Beyrouth.
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Aleppo
Syria
Henry Lemery
Martinique
Pariament
Stepalageyseienistes
Supreme Court
Beyreuth
Liberia Plans Vast Crop Farm in Monrovia Region
An AP report details President King of Liberia backing a 1000 acre experimental farm near Monrovia to test tropical crops. It showcases pineapple plots, ginger, beans, yams, cabbage, cotton, and native dye production, aiming to prove Liberia’s soil and climate can yield rubber, coffee, bananas, cacao and more.
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Liberia
King
Negro Republic
Jas
Hawaiian
Chi Band
Siberia
United States
Manchester
Orleans
Fashionable ensembles for tennis court outfits noted
A fashion feature describes how players chose simple, elegant outfits. Mrs Molla Malan showcases a beige and brown dress with a matching coat in checker silk. Nancy Ann Miller and others wear coordinated ensembles with diagonal stitching, silk, and beige tones.
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Molla Malan
Olsinie
Norway
Oaths to Establish Scandinavian Youth Contacts Spark Summer Trip
Minneapolis news reports on a July to September Scandinavian vacation plan for 400 American boys, mostly Rotarian sons, to visit Norway Sweden and Denmark. Organizer Sven Knudsen notes long effort since 1926 creating thousands of pen pals across the ocean, with 3500 names listed and more selections due.
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Minneapolis
Minn
U.P
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
Sven V. Knudsen
Jaa
United States
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