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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1929
Page
3
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Secretary Hyde of the Agriculture Department opened a daily national farm and home broadcast via the National Broadcasting Company at 12 35 p m CST to inform urban and rural listeners about the new federal farm board. He described the act as unprecedented and urged public understanding of farming problems and rapid dissemination of economic and scientific facts to six million farmers. The broadcasts will cover land policy farm credit roads waterways development cooperative marketing and agricultural surpluses.
The weather forecast notes unsettled conditions with possible thundershowers this afternoon and tonight in eastern Kansas while western areas expect generally fair weather tomorrow. Rain was reported in Dodge City this morning. Heaviest 48 hour rainfall: Parsons 3.05 inches. others include Hutchinson 1.98, Liberal 2.60, Dodge City 1.25 inches.
The Lawrence Planning Commission announced that its regular meeting will be held July 16 at 7 20 a m in the new city hall because several members are out of town. The meeting was originally set for tonight as the second Monday of the month.
Kansas City Southern Railway workers were asked to search nine locked box cars for two missing Baxter Springs boys Edward Jackson ten and Raymond Davis nine who reportedly ran away Saturday night. A bee report initially placed them away from Baxter Springs but later indicated they boarded a freight car near Pittsburgh Kansas. Nine such cars were on the freight train from the Bax Springs line.
Dr Samuel W Stratton president of MIT is named chairman of the Edison scholarship contest advisory board. The board will name the winner of the Edison scholarship, with one boy from each state competing. A Chrysler sedan stolen from Bruce Cameron of 1640 Hillnois street was recovered in Kansas City. C Branic, 41, Topeka, died from injuries after a highway collision on July 6.
The steamship Prince George with 249 passengers bound for Boston collided with the coast guard patrol boat Agassiz about 65 miles east of Boston in fog. All passengers were transferred to the Agassiz. Miss Seretha Nickerson of Greenwich Conn. was lightly injured. Two crewmen on the Agassiz were severely hurt, Orlo D Howsker and Alfred Rohnson. The Prince George sprang a six foot hole. the Agassiz sustained minor water entry. The Mohave later transferred passengers to return to East Boston for inspection and repairs.
A 2194 ton vessel, long active between Boston and Yarmouth, called at the Eastern Steamship company dock. Emergency crews then moved it to a dry dock to resume service within a week, with efforts focused on swift repairs.
Col and Mrs Charles A Lindbergh completed a cross country aerial jaunt from Kingman Arizona arriving at Grand Central Air Terminal Glendale. Mrs Lindbergh praised Arizona's painted desert from the air and smiled for cameras as they left their plane. Also noted Hoover's return to the White House after a fishing trip and a Kansas girl who fell from a tree with minor injuries.
Community notes show a Baptist choir rehearsal before Sunday service under P B Sperry, with plans for the next morning sermon on peace, transportation, and international cooperation. Mentions League of Nations, Permanent Court, and US Britain leadership toward safer peace, plus youth training in Maine for peace education.
The text presents a fragmented meditation arguing that real religion requires active force within established order, honoring a living God rather than formal ritual or priestly authority. It references Jesus and critiques ritual excess and church authority.
The body of Forrest Greathouse of Seattle was recovered from Ingraham Glacier Rainier National Park Washington yesterday. He had fallen into an ice crevasse last Tuesday with five others. Eleven guides rangers and mountaineers aided the effort.
A ledger of ice 100 feet below the pit opening led Brown to conclude Greathouse froze to death unconscious. Junius Underwood, improved after a sudden illness, rests at home. A sleeper remained in the city jail after Saturday night.
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