Secret Race of Ancient People Sought on Yukon Banks
Dr Ales Hrdlicka of the National Museum seeks remains at an Alaskan riverbank to study a rumored lost race revealed by five to seven foot deep burials. The finds suggest Alaska's warmer past, with human and fossil bones in crude armor boxes and possible ties to ancient Asiatic migration.
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Yukon River
Ales Hrdlicka
The
National Imuseumy
Alaska
Yukon
Ject
Wonasila
Yukor Inteen
Lawrence Celebrates Fourth With Closings And Observances
Observance of the nation’s birthday prompts city offices libraries and post offices to close. some businesses operate normally while others quiet. Summer classes resume Saturday as campus activity winds down. In Jerusalem AP reports that Jewish immigration to Palestine balanced immigration and emigration last year, with 2,178 entering and 2,178 leaving, amid a longer postwar trend of greater immigration though not yet meeting nationalist goals.
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Lawrence
Vestores
Geveral
Vsity
Mt. Ay
Jerusalem
Palestine
British craftsman builds miniature world landmarks
Britisher Richard Old devoted 32 years to creating six hundred miniature replicas of famous buildings in a unique collection. His Milan cathedral model uses over 8,000 fretwork pieces in white holly, others in myrtle, sycamore, mahogany, orange wood and lime. He has never left England, learning foreign architecture from photographs and drawings.
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Blackpool
England
Richard Old
Old
Milan
Cathedral
Wurtemburg
St. Mair's
London
Chartreuse
Staithes
Yorkshire
Plane races with pigeons outpaced by fast airplane contest
A Chicago AP report records a novelty event where pigeons released at Detroit competed poorly against a fast Ford airplane. Distances were short and results final, with the plane winning each leg.
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sr “phredis _Chicago
Detroit
Flood Defies Waters at Virgin Mary Shrine Settlement
In Lake Verret Louisiana Cajun residents of Pierre Part endure yearly floods. Despite rising waters they refused to abandon homes, trusting a shrine built for the Virgin Mary. In 1927 floods covered the statue feet, prompting evacuations. this year waters stopped short of the statue, leaving the community mostly cut off yet staying.
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Napoleonville
Lake Verret
Acadia
Louisiana
Mississippi
Atchafalaya
Pierre
Verret
Hints for the Farm on wages and feeding practices
The article reviews farm wages vs industrial wages, noting average monthly perquisites and total wages, then discusses feeding cattle and horses, including self feeders, hand feeding, and seasonal routines. It covers poultry processing methods, feed quality, and notes on Milwaukee Knights of Columbus convention and Moscow voting disenfranchisement.
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USL Department of Agriculture
Department of Striculture
Milwaukee
Radio Schedule Fragments From A Busy Evening
A fragmentary radio program listing shows multiple acts and times including orchestras, quartets, and broadcasts. Entries include Bell's Amptio program, Helin and Fink Serenade, Stephen and Fosglee Life, Atwater Kent Orchestra, Gean Belaketto, and the McGrew Trio among others. Weather forecast and health talk are noted, with the schedule ending around 6:40 PM.
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Lbell
Ampito
Helin & Fink Serengada
Stephen & Fosglee
Redo
Bellerive String Quartet
Atwater Kent
Gean Belaketto
Biscuit
Squibb
McGpew
Jordine
Mildred
Hunt
Billy Jones
Ernie Mare
Philea
Local Social Notes Mention Ankles and Visits
Miss Louise Kyle works as a dental assistant in Topeka and cares for her mother in convalescence. Mr and Mrs Frank Black hosted Saturday with Mr and Mrs S P Burgoyne and others while Lee Loganana and Fred of Lawrence visited Clyde Ham Phries. Harold Barnes, three months, has two teeth which is unusual for such a young baby.
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Harold Barnes
Local Community Notes On Visitors And Illnesses
A string of social visits and health updates fills the Baldwin area notes. Rev. and Mrs. Platz visit Wulfkuhle and O A Bidinger. Winifred Lavin and Miss Alice McGuire are mentioned in Topeka death and illness contexts. Fern Kennedy suffers appendicitis. many neighbors attend church, harvest fields, or host relatives, including Kraft, Murphy, Kennedy, and Bidinger families during the week.
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Orville Platz
Brkby
Gene
Baldwin
Christ Kraft
Dym
Alice McGuire
Topeka
Watson
Platz
O. A. Bidinger
Ben Kelloge
Wm. Murphy
John Kraft
Bobby
Chris Ft
Miriam
Toneka
Pern Kennedy
Irvin Kraft
John Wils
Jank Bidinger
Jake Bidinger
Rachel
Frank Houk
Rearl
Felix Tucker
Burgert
Oklahoma
Platz and Jr
Nuffer Tome
Rachel Verné Swallow
Kennedy
Fern Kennedy
Marie Slugser
M Orville Platz
Vernon Roehringer
Lake Bidinger
Lin Tee
Hareold
Charlie Ise
Will Murphy
Frank Bidinger
Orvile Platz
Parrot Race Reopens in Columbus Discovery Tale
Washington AP reports a renewed search into Columbus era parrot traces used as proof he reached a new world. Historic accounts describe Cuban macaws as key evidence, with parrots said to have vanished from the West Indies era.
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Washington
Christopher Columbus
Barcelona
India
Ferdinand
Isabella
Columbus
Department of Agriculture
Miay
Deaths and Funerals From Lawrence Catholic Church Service
A obituary note records a funeral Saturday morning at 16 o'clock from a Catholic church with Rev Fitzger ald officiating and burial in the Catholic cemetery. Survived by husband Mathew Simon and two sons Robert and Alfred at the home.
Local Social Notes From Topeka And Area
Reynolds of Topeka and surrounding towns share Sunday visits and family gatherings. Kathleen Lewis L Pitts Louise Kyle and Hen Slatten of Topeka joined relatives including J. Kyle Mrs. Will Allen and children Joan and Billie Lea. Numerous friends and neighbors like Charles Steimnetz Steve Steinmer and Clyde Humphries stopped by. The report notes trips, garden work, and a pepper excursion by Albert Gieseman along with several family visits to Topeka Berryton and Kansas City during the period.
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Kathleen Lewis L Pitts
Topeka
J.B. Kyle
Henry Holladay
Frank Marigold
Kenneth Barnes
John Mulvihill
Nancy Kyle
Kenna
J. B. Kyle
Arthur ‘Mayhew
Kathleen
Charles
Ivan Tevis
Neil Vansbinder
Albert Gieseman
Berryton
John Lewis
M.S. Kyle
Sidney x
Berrryton
John’ Shultz
Ted
Doris Finch
al M. Roderith
Lucille
Kyle le
R.G. Kyle
Frank Black
Doh, Black
Bonnie
C. F. Thompson
Penniston
A. P. Marcum
Iowa
Wisconsin
Kenneth Long
Neighborhood Notes From Pony Creek Area Social Roundup
Local residents attended Pony Creek community club Friday night and a family gathering with a large Sunday dinner at Earl Janeway’s. Miss Ruth Johns Mrs. W ce and Frank Rowland family from Lawrence visited relatives while infant Mazie Price died in Kansas City. Several neighbors including the Wells Lalit May Thiry and Reed families were mentioned along with sick lists and old home visits by Beech and East visitors.
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Ruth Johns
Bishnarck
W. Ce
C. H. Rowland
Fred Stanton
Frank Rowlands
Lawranee
Lula May Thiry
Earl Janeway
Edivia
Grant Gox
Gladys
Frank Wells
Simes
Solon Reed
Mark Reed
Pony Creek Community Club
Wil Holes
William
Edith
Clovis Haley
John Lalit May
Frances Thiry
Luc Logan
Claude Logan
Glen Trer
Mathis Simons
John Canary
Roy
Canary
Frank Rowland
Lawrence Jeaqme
C. H. Thiry
Will Rice
Billy Gene
Frank Johng
Bismarck
John Thiry
Lyle May
Kansas City
Sue Logan
Claudel Logan
J. W. Rice
Charles Rews
Lawrence
Glen Tyer
Will Tyer
Midland
Myrtle Jones
John
Crossword Puzzle Teaser and Community Notes
The page combines a dense crossword clue list with a long social column detailing a remodeling of names and faces across towns. It records numerous residents from Lawrence and nearby areas, weekend visits, and farm activity such as wheat and oats cutting, plus travel to Kansas City and St. Louis.
Federal Prisoners Kept in Old Jail in Seventies
A Journal World report reveals a receipted bill showing federal prisoners in the old Douglas County jail on Sixth Street near the bridge in the 1870s. The county charged eighty five cents daily for food plus twenty five cents jail fee, with payments by U S marshal D W Houston. The era’s prisoners included larceny suspects and two copper thefts, and the paper notes the jail’s careful accounts and the jailer John Barber. Col Sam Walker and John Barber are named as local pioneers connected to the jail era.
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Douglas County
Monnday
Journal World
Will Olustead
Col
Sam Walker
John Barber
Angnele
Perry Barber
Barber Drug Store
D. W. Houston
United States
Kansas District
United States Indian Territory
Lawrence
O. P. Barber
Quantrill
Walker Farm
Kanwaka
Arkansas
Rmy
Pelletts Long Life Remembered In Kansas Obituary
Richard Franklin Pellett born Tafton Pennsylvania October 15 1852 died June 30 aged 76 years 8 months 15 days wife Cora R Steel preceded him Ada Stainbrook Chas W Pellet son born Beil California daughter Ada Stainbrook LaCygne Kansas. He lived on a Pleasant Grove farm later in Lawrence then government service 1905 two years on Pettawatomie Reservation and twelve years at Haskell injured August 1911. He joined church young and read the Bible a member of IC C F. He leaves wife son daughter two half sisters eight grandchildren two great granddaughters and many friends. a a TUS Man Killed on Oils Test Salina Kansas July 4 AP Leonard Young Russell aged 22 killed while working on oil test on Weiland farm northwest of Gorham. Death occurred day after invitations for wedding to Ruth Moore Stockton. A solve wheel broke crushing Youngs skull and shoulder. Held on Driving Charge Wichita Kansas July 3 AP G H Davidson 47 motor company employee held for Omaha police in manslaughter case. Davidson denied charges.
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Richard Franklin Pellett
Tafton
Pike County
Cora R. Steel
Chas. W. Pellet
Beil
Calif
Kansas
Carrie T. Heller
Ada Stainbrook
LaCygne
Pleasant Grove
Lawrence
Pettawatomie Indian Reservation
Haskell
Church
Salina
Kan
Leonard Young
Russell
Weiland Farm
Gorham
Ruth Moore
Stockton
Young
Wichita
G. H. Davidson
Motor Company
Omaha
Davidson
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St. Crica
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Rocky Pinnacle
Will-Thiry
Cecil Thirty
Olathe
Hubert Thiry
Vavarly
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Will! Collins
Wifie Hunsinger
Altha Guthrie
Vernon King
Wi. D. Janeway
James Gully
Jess Osborne
Paulene
Joy
Mound
Winford Thiry
Arlo
C. H. Thirty
Luin May
Frances
Mirs
Farl Janeway
Edwin
Mrautta
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Mrautte
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