State to start Kansas fire rating bureau with $17500
The Kansas State Insurance Rating Bureau, organized under State Superintendent Frank L. Travis, will independently investigate fire ratings and hazards. The 1919 legislature appropriated $17,500 to sustain the bureau, aimed at assessing fire risks, efficiency, and equipment of local departments, while avoiding disruption to existing private rating firms. Kellogg's Ant Paste advertised as a remedy accompanies the page.
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Topeka
Kans
Frank L. Travis
Department Ofhia
Kansas
State Health Dept backs nursing tax plan for cities
Topeka Kansas July 11 the state health department reports many Kansas cities are using a new law allowing first and second class towns to levy taxes for public health nursing associations. The department backs organizing such nursing groups and notes the law allows a tax up to one fifth of one mill per dollar, effective with the 1919 statutes. Swim caps priced 25 to 75 cents at McCollochs Drug Store.
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State Health Department
Topeka
Kans
Kansas
Kansas grain dealers pay first time state license fee
Topeka July 11 Kansas grain dealers must pay a new annual state license of ten dollars for the first time this year a U S Supreme Court supported ruling ends a three year legal fight in state and federal courts. About one third more dealers will be licensed this year including hay and produce sellers under the new law which requires a two thousand dollar bond.
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Kansas
Topeka
Kan
U S.susport
Fed
Mr Fred Kahn Moves Geo Phenicie to Lawrence on Wednesday
Mr Fred Kahn moved Geo Phenicie to Lawrence on Wednesday as the Dwyer Bross. began threshing on the same day. The report notes gate hours and improvements at the intest.
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Fred Kahn
Geo
Phenicie
Lawrence
Dwyer Bross
Lawrence News Roundup Of Local Errands And Visits
Lawrence residents and visitors share a busy week with travel between Lawrence Reno and Leavenworth. Local families host guests, attend social events, and conduct a mix of business, farming, and leisure activities across Thursday to Tuesday.
German Embassy Ready for Tenant Tee
A jumble of names and travels notes from Darien recounts visits and departures. Susan Nelirbass and her daughter Esther, Art Kimball of Tenvenworth, Miss Lewallen, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Quisenbert, Mrs. Row and daughter, and others are listed with short movements to Kansas City, Lawrence, Colorado Springs, and local towns. Details show social visits, hospital stays, and return trips across several days.
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Susan Nelirbass
Beane
Esther Ore
XNI Vattite
Art Kimball
Tenvenworth
John Finn
CY A. Farl Farrell
Kansas City
Jennie Vion Eppl
Darien
FE. A. Rowas
Elizabeth
Rowand
Miss Lewallen
Walter Quisenbert
Lawrence Week of Visits Highlights Local Family Ties
A week of visits interwove families from Lawrence, Kansas City, and Linwood. Mr and Mrs P Rossell hosted relatives including Walter Ratliff, Borg and Theora Uskaleom, Mrs R K South and her son, and Edmund Cheesman. They traveled to Lawrence to visit the Dretsbach home and the Wilber Meone and George Cline households before Linwood. Florence and Gladys joined the extended stay, and Hubert W Seclrest returned from an extended visit to Iowa City with Mrs J S She and her sons Flint and Lloyd.
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W.C. Phenicie
Lawrence
Thomas
Goluf
F. M. ‘Ridrow
Thames Tanner
Eva Graham
Ph Dehoff
Uorry Skett
Mutual Oil
Margaret Sanders
Dorothy May Bleakler
J. F. Nottensmyer
Sandir
Eng
Myers
Bertha Woofford
Kansas City
W. OM
Agnes Keating
Ellar O'Den
Kansas
Okla‘homa
Y Dwrer
J. E. Dwyer
Norman F. Strachan
Kudlora
Lut
F. A. Dickinson
H. C. Ballard
WC. Nance
Williamstown
Johnson
Mike
Cox
of Star
Tonga‘moxie
Eva Tistfield
Minnie
Marie Thomag
Tiolto
Sam Kelsall
Boyd McPherson
Burroughs Adding Machine Company
Topeka
Tor McPherson
John Bartlett
Drew
Bagcor
Ruth Simison
Hawley
Minn
Berry
W. E. Simson
Simison
Clinton
Missouri
Molwe Newsome
J. B. Ratliff
Oxford
Fitt Driscoll
Lensenworth
Driscoll
Warren Marks
Edna Miller
A. M. Miller
Harvey Goodjohn
Leavenworth
Witter Zoellner
Frankfort
Cobb
Bonnie Delk
Paul Sanders
Reno
Wes
Seeley
St. Joseph's Hospital
Athert Conley
Evita Greene Dever
Colorado Springs
James Furreld
Ivy Earl
Adnanl Zinmernan
Vna Lawrence
J. W. Milter
Weeley Mill
Heockenworth
P. Rossel
Walter Ratliff
Borg
Theora Uskaleom
Mra
Ratlif
James Evans
Edmund Cheesman
Nsas City
Dretsbach
Abeir
Jnsna City
Fluynt
Lloyd
Temperature of Leaves Reveals Rapid Desert Plant Fluctuations
A study of leaves in Arizona deserts and Santa Lucia mountains California shows swift temperature shifts. Changes range from 1 to 1 degrees centigrade in 20 to 60 seconds. with moderate wind the rate can reach 5 degrees in 30 seconds.
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Arizona
Santa Lucia
California
Chance for Inventors Prize Offered by Walnut Growers
A Walnut Growers association prize of 10000 dollars invites inventors to create a satisfactory bending device for the shell of every English yearly crop. The offer promises a yearly 10000.44 dollar dividend upon success, aiming to energize innovation in agricultural packaging.
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The
Walnut Growers Association
Number 40 For The Blood Patent Remedy Recalled
Record of the famous old prescription known as Number 40 For The Blood. Said to treat blood diseases, mercury and lead poisoning, rheumatism, stomach troubles, malaria, and skin sores. Originated by J C Mendenhall, druggist of Evansville Indiana, now advertised by Round Corner Drug Co. Years active 40.
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J. C.mendenhall
Evansville
Ind
Round Corner Drug Co
Ady
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