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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1926
Page
4
The piece ponders moving the capital to a climate more conducive to steady government work, evaluates Washington as the current site, and cautions about the costs of heightened legislative output. It notes Mussolini's odd balance of trade theory and analyzes France facing war debts and franc stabilization through heavier taxation.
Foreign Minister Caillaux of France launches an experimental political course, despite confidence in his financial ideas. The move signals a calculated shift in policy direction as he seeks to test new approaches.
Old newspaper item notes the Custer massacre as a national calamity. It mentions Mr Steinberg's trip, others proceeding to Topeka for the insane asylum work, Major Gunn east for Union Depot matters, Abbie Noyes traveling to Massachusetts, and managerial changes at the Journal. Burglary reports include thefts on New Hampshire Street. Advices from Boseman describe a battle near Little Horn where Custer and 15 officers perished. Reno retreated. total killed about 315. Gibbon joined Reno and Indians left. ground described as a slaughter pen with desecrated corpses.
Manhattan July 7 AP The average Kansas wheat yield could rise two bushels an acre using better seed Dean L H Call Kansas State Agricultural College says The gain would add about 20 1 million bushels annually Four years of seed comparisons show 3 to 12 bushels per acre gains with an average 3 8 The agronomist warns that diversification and better farm practices are essential for the wheat industry and Kansas farmers incomes exceed 100 9 million yearly The state’s soil climate and machinery advances support continued wheat leadership in the world market
Four 25 prize awards for superior journalism and advertising work at Kansas State Agricultural College were announced by Prof. C J Rogers and department colleagues. Prizes funded by journalism staff and two public service firms include a team prize for best creditable journalism work. Additional local notes report varied community activities and summer plans in Lawrence and nearby areas.
Today Charles G Dawes Vice President of the United States will be chief speaker at the 300th anniversary celebration in Salem Massachusetts Enthusiastic religious workers from the United States and Canada will gather in Los Angeles for the Baptist Young People’s Union of America annual convention A London mass meeting will launch a campaign by British women to abolish the suffrage law denying votes before age thirty Poultry and egg producers from across the United States will attend a national conference at University Farm Minnesota linked to the American Institute of Cooperation The first Pan American chess championship opens at Lake Hopatcong New Jersey with world champion Jose Capablanca and other top players among the field.
IN THE DAY NEWS George W Withersham a top American legal figure and former attorney general under Taft is profiled. The piece notes his role in anti trust litigation, Pittsburgh origins, Lehigh education, service on public commissions, and stance on constitutional mandates. A second item reports Morris county’s corn prize sponsored by the farm bureau offering a prize pig with a fraud pedigree for the best corn winner.
Welsh Louisiana July 7 Farmer Moor, a veteran in the suit business, plans a visit to the east between now and autumn. He is an uncle of President Coolidge and would enjoy a White House stay, though he jokes about walking up to the president to slap him on the back. Moor, born in Vermont in 1848, is described as tall and lean, living in a four room frame house where he does all chores. He advocates physical culture, labors long hours daily, attends Bible class, and reads love stories, while remaining a Democrat and strict prohibitionist.
Thomas A. Edison era reference notes farmer Moor owning a farm spanning more than a thousand acres. Clyde Moor, his son, is linked with the operation. Moor has eight children in total, four of whom reside in Welch.
In Lugansk Northern Russia villagers resist a state timber trust plan to seize land for its work. The offer of new homes nearby is rejected unless exact duplicates of the old dwellings, with small windows and dark interiors, are built. An old peasant woman protested when the ceiling would be higher than in the old house, forcing engineers to raise the floor at cost.
Berlin reports that over two hundred former German officers and soldiers held in Siberia by the Russians prefer exile to home. The German committee denies forced detention and says since 1923 the Soviet government offered free transport back, but only fifty returned while two hundred sixteen refused, with some becoming Russian citizens and others farming successfully.
J H Holke transfers forty acres in the southwest quarter of section 34 and over thirty five more in the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 34 to George F Hannan et al for cash and other consideration F C Noll and wife deed north twelve acres of the southeast quarter of section 12 to W E Erwin for one dollar and exchange of properties Charles K Beeks executor of Mary E Foster estate sells lot 104 Dearborn street Baldwin City for 1600 to Alvis G J Hunt Mexican inventor Manuel Carlos Reyes develops a gyrocopter named heliocoplane to land vertically and will demonstrate in San Antonio Charles Belleville Eugene Charles to be journalism professor at Kansas State Agricultural College succeeding Morse Salisbury and taking leave for Wisconsin rally planned July 9 with Homer Hoch and Governor Paulen as speakers
Japan's tea crop for the year is estimated at 30,000 tons, with the bulk destined for the United States. Movement across the Pacific has begun, though delayed by backward weather conditions.
Stockholm. Carl Gustav Ekman, once a stone cutter, has become prime minister. The democratization of Sweden over the last century is shown by the fact that until 189 noblemen never held a cabinet seat, while today none of the ministers are nobles.
In Colorado's early seventies, Robert Gilson and Hayden witness a stagecoach holdup and become involved with Mrs Deane and her associate. Gilson and Marcus Handy start the Coco nwood Courier, pursue a cleaner camp, and a dangerous conspiracy unfolds as bandits strike and journalistic ambitions collide with violence.
A chase through Forty Red land turns tense as Shorty and Charlie Meek lead a posse toward Ludlow Pass. Amid mounting danger Charlie fires into the woods and violence erupts, shadowed by memories of Constance Beane and a treacherous kiss.
In a tense scene Shorty fires and lunges from his saddle as Charlie Meek is grabbed by a cowhand. The struggle spills into the road with bystanders, horsemen, and a crowd in the shadows. Charlie is bound and gagged as Shorty threatens with his quick gag.
Berlin's cabarets have collapsed from about 2,000 venues after wartime inflation to three large and nine small hotels and shows, with Paris reportedly hosting around 38 cabarets and 11 dance halls. Meanwhile a Southern California Employers conference promotes the open shop American plan to sustain industry.
A vintage advertisement urges readers to purify the body with Calotabs as a path to health. It claims daily purification improves vitality and longevity and offers a family package with directions for 35 cents at druggists.
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