Wilson vetoes daylight saving repeal and ag bill
President Wilson vetoed the daylight saving repeal and the sundry civil bill while urging Congress to retain the current regime. He defended daylight saving as economically beneficial and warned the repeal would bring serious disruption and losses. He criticized the vocational training cut as harmful to disabled veterans and questioned shifting oversight to a single agency. He noted burgary attempts at 1707 Massachusetts Street.
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Washington
Wilson
House of Representatives
Li. S
Congress
Insurance Bureau
Federal Board For Vocational Education
Alan
Seven Firemen Die In Fierce City Blaze
July 12 reports seven firemen killed and at least a dozen injured as a five story wine warehouse owned by Stash & Bros burned near noon. Fire officials say the blaze fully engulfed the building and crews battled the flames for hours.
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Zighilddolph
Stash & Bros
Swim Near the Kaw River Warned By Health Officer Clarke
Lawrence residents face heat and river swimming with Dr A W Clark warning swimmers risk typhoid from sewage pollution. He cites raw sewage from Topeka mixing downstream between Topeka and Lawrence and notes most swimmers ingest some river water.
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Lawrence
A. W. Clark
Kaw
Dr. Clark
Topeka
Wheat yield picks up may go twenty first
Wheat yield shows a rise with expectations for May, with a forecast of twenty bushels per acre. The report notes gains from the lowlands and mentions some fields graded number 3.
Upland Wheat Yields Show Wide Variance Across Douglas County
Douglas county farmers report upland wheat yielding from eight to thirty bushels per acre as threshing begins with Bowersock Milling and Derby Grain and Coal citing twenty to twenty eight bushels per acre. Most grain grades Number Two, some Number One, some Number Three, with bottom land wheat lighter and damp and earlier threshed. The Upland north of the river dominates early receipts while two loads of Number One and a single Number Five load appear among arrivals. An army dirigible A-4 completed a night flight from Akron and landed at Bowling Field before heading to Langley Field.
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Uplands
Bowersock -Millings Company
Derby Grain and Coal Company
C. T. Royston
Another Side of Belgium Today Digging Up Mines
A fragmentary report notes ongoing efforts to uncover mines washed ashore in Belgium as crews survey affected areas. Authorities coordinate with engineers to assess danger and clear sites for public safety and reconstruction.
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Belgium
Bids Reopened for Fort to Fort Highway Grading in Douglas County
Douglas county commissioners schedule August 16 at 11 am to open bids for grading sections of the Fort to Fort highway through Douglas county. Advertisement covers excavations embankments bridges culverts and walls as the county seeks to finish surfacing all sections in near synchrony. Also notes the seventy ninth birthday of Jas H Hook a longtime Douglas county resident born in 1840 in Timsbury England who arrived in America in 1862 and helped operate the cannon on Mount Oread at Civil War end.
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Fort-to-Fort
Douglas County
Jas. H. Hook
West Ninth Street
Mr. Hook
Timsbury
Bristol
England
America
Great Eastern
Kansas
Mount Orenad
GIANT 4'R LINER IS TO LAND ON SUNDAY
London reports adverse weather off Scotland forces the R4 airship to divert landing to Pulham Norfolk from the coast of Ireland. The dirigible is expected there before Sunday as strong winds threaten safe maneuvering near East Fortune. Divides at Pulham indicate a split in current flight status. Greenwich time places the position about 260 miles west of the Irish coast at 4 o'clock this morning.
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London
Scotland
Ireland
Air Ministry
Pulham
Norfolk
Medals to Families For Douglas County War Dead
The Service Committee begun sending medals to families of 61 Douglas County men who died in military service. The Chamber of Commerce group chairs the medal project and lists 61 fallen Douglas County boys. The medals differ from living soldiers’ by a gold star affixed to the red white and blue ribbon.
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Douglas County
Sweeney
Chamber of Commerce Committee
Baby Week Promotes Infant Health In Lawrence Kansas
Lawrence Public Health Nursing association launches Baby Week July 21 to 25 to cut the local infant death rate. A daily baby clinic under Miss Elizabeth Bullock will assess well babies to track development using state health score cards with no prizes. Out of town mothers may attend on Saturday with Scouts distributing notices about the event.
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Lawrence Public Health Nursing Association
Lawrence
Kansas
Elizabeth Bullock
I Bullock
Ethel Peacock
Eugene Siss Pogram
Lawrence Things
State Board of Health
Boy Scouts
Fight Officials Disagree On Fourth Round Victory
A dispute over the Willard Dempsey bout on July 1 pits Oliver Pecard against referee W. Warren Barbour. Pecard says Barbour states the fight ended in the fourth, while Pecard maintains it ended in the third after the towel was thrown. Barbour letter claims the bell rang for the fourth. Barbour’s account prompts Pecard to stand by his third round ruling, as no bell signal was heard by either boxer or handlers. Farley updates indicate promoters’ profits were small and Tex Rickard offered Pecord $590 for refereeing. Pecord claims $1,009 while Nathan Weinstein earned $110. total purses split accordingly.
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Yobode
Oliver Pecord
W. Warren Barbour
Willard-Dempsey
Pecard
Barbour
Lie Ittes
Pevard Cain
Peemsl
Yank Th. Flourney
Tex Rickard
South Tollay
Promnuters
Nathan Weinstein
Interurban Setback Near Khaw Bridge Case Appeal
Interurban lines face another setback as the Raw Valley Interurban company appeals to the Supreme Court over ownership of track south of the Khaw Bridge. A district court ordered conveyance, with $4,770 purchase money deposited and later to be returned pending the appeal.
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Interurban
Supreme Court
Yrack
Khaw Bridge
North
Lasyrence
Raw Valley Laterurban
Ssupreme
Douglas County
Yatreet Rabba Vonynany
State Supreme Cert
District Court
Smart
Interurhan Kuwyers
Nazarene Camp Meeting Promoted with Evangelist Roberts
A Nazarene camp meeting report notes strong services yesterday including Evangelist John Roberts speaking on The Second Coming of Christ. Plans are set for Sunday activities with Sunday school at 9 46 a m preaching at 11 00 a m and 3 00 p m plus an evangelistic service at 7 45 p m led by the 12 year old in charge. The event continues with renewed invitation for attendance and shared outreach.
Allies to Fight Reds at Vienna Decide Action Time
Vienna reports Allied representatives have resolved to act against Belakun's communist Hungarian government. A special courier was sent to Paris to secure powers from the Allied Supreme Council, per Neus Tageblatt quoted dispatch from Vienna.
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Vienna
Hungarien Netsheviki
TWO FLEERS KILLED IN MIDAIR PLANE COLLISION
At Eberts field near Little Rock Arkansas two planes collided in midair at 10 this morning. Libut P J Lenihan of San Francisco California flier from Ebertsfield and Chaplain R H O Dowd of Brooklyn New York assistant camp morale officer at Camp Nike were instantly killed. The other machine piloted by Lieut Lenihan was struck by another plane. Occupants of the second plane were not ejected.
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Little Rock
Ark
Libut
P.J. Lenihan
San Francisco
Calif
Ebertsfeid
R. Hf. O'Dowd
Brooklyn
N. Y
Camp Nike
Lieut
Lenihan
Eberts Field
Weather highs tease as heat nears 100 in Kansas
University of Kansas weather observer U W Hazen reports week so far has peaked with temperatures near 95 to 100 but warns hotter days may follow. The record shows Monday through Friday values around the mid to high 90s with lingering belief that truly extreme heat remains to come.
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U. W. Hazen
Jai
Toy
Kansas
First County Oil Road Near Baldwin
The article notes the first county oil road near Baldwin with plans for treatment at nearby Cipy well area and mentions work on a northern segment near Dol ty.
County to oil Baldwin area road over the big hill
County commissioners visited the southern part of the county and decided to oil the road over the big hill two miles north of Baldwin. The project aims to create an all year highway by grading and oiling the impassable winter route. Officials, Bruné and Duffee, toured Lawrence to Marion townships, noting generally good bridges and culverts with minor repairs needed.
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Baldwin
Big Hill
George C. Bruné
Lloyd Duffee
Bydges
Lawrence
Willow Springs
Marion
Clinton
Lost pocketbook in North Lawrence man seeks return
W. Maxwell, 57 years old, of 534 North Street, reports losing a black billfold containing about 46 dollars Thursday afternoon on a market wagon on the south side of the river. Two young riders were in the wagon. one may have taken it, then returned it, but it was not found at home.
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North Lawrence
Bill Buck
W. OS. Maxwell
North Street
Mr. Maxwell
Fixed Prices on Standard Goods Urged by FTC Report
Washington July 12 The Federal Trade Commission urged Congress to legalize fixed and maintained resale prices by manufacturers with oversight by a disinterested agency. The plan would require filings of articles contracts and price lists, review of terms on complaint, and aims to protect trademarks while preventing unrestrained price cutting that harms production and distribution.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Congress
Supreme Court
Colgate & Co
Commission
Supreme Cut
Tax revenue rises with no police court action
City collects 2649 dollars in taxes this year, close to last year’s total, without police court enforcement. Officials note many drivers have yet to license, with 900 motor owners remaining. most are expected to apply by next week. Also reported, Enver Pasha Talant Bey and Djemal Pasha condemned to death by a Turkish court for wartime conduct.
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Constantinople
Enver Pasha
Talant Bey
Djemal Pasha
Tut
Postpone Joint Meeting on Kaw River Bridge
Leavenworth and Douglas counties postponed their joint meeting on measures for the Kaw river bridge at Eudora to Monday. Leavenworth officials requested the delay as they were tied up with a Fort-to-Fort highway hearing in Leavenworth today and could not attend.
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Leavenworth
Douglas
Eudora
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