Dust Bowl Faces a Critical Period
Washington July 15 The nation reports a reduced dust bowl due to rains and conservation but officials warn a critical year ahead testing whether soil can be kept in place. Contour farming strip farming and closed terraces are urged on demonstration land. government funds soil districts after 1940.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
Dust Bowl
Northwest
Dalhart
Tex
Boise City
Oklo
Texas Panhandle
Baca
Colo
Cimarron
Texas
Nellie Bly's Historic Around the World Sprint Recap
Washington reports Nellie Bly, at age 23, circled the globe in 72 days 6 hours 11 minutes aboard ships and trains. The York World reporter departed November 14 1889 from Manhattan and met Jules Verne and toured Europe before crossing the Pacific to San Francisco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Alost
Howard Hughes
Nellie Bly
Ond York World
James G. Blaine
Nellie
Manhattan
North River
England
Atlantic
Hughes
Jules Verne
Phineas Fogg
Verne
Amiens
France
Italy
Adriatic Sea
Mediterranean
Suez Canal
Red Sea
Indian Ocean
Strait of Malacca
China Sea
Hong Kong
San Francisco
What the Doctor Ordered for a Heat Wave
A column offers cheerful coping tips for heat waves and highlights a vivid reminiscence of Nellie Bly. It notes Bly born Elizabeth Cochrane in Cochrane Mills Pennsylvania, her early pay as a Pittsburgh writer, and later earnings. The piece then shifts to local social news including visits, picnics, library work, nurse Miriam Deel’s return to Lawrence, and families visiting Baldwin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Upper Manhattan
Nellie
Nellie Bly
Elizabeth Cochrane
Cochrane’s Mills
Pittsburgh
Three Short Plays Summer Session at Fraser University
Summer Session Players present three short plays at Fraser theater next Tuesday evening as part of university recreational activities. Twenty cast members are summer session students from Lawrence and Wichita authors. Admission is free to students and public. includes plays Let Slip the War Dogs A Foothills Jezebel and Stephen Speaks the Truth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fraser
Lawrence
Martin Maloney
Robert E. Barr
Stephen Speaks the Truth
Ruth Lockwood Yeoman
Wichita
Baldwin News Social Notes and School Staffing Chatter
Miss Ermine Barkley leaves for Springfield to visit the Sturdivants. Ada Mae Marquardt to teach home economics at Stanley High next year with a stay at the Girl Reserve camp Elmdale. Frank Scott recovering after surgery at St Luke's Kansas City. Philamathian club plans an ice cream social at Fast Park for families. Earl Hobson hosts a dinner for Gander Kapelle families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ermine Barkley
Springfield
Karl Sturdivant
Elsie Schnebly
Eldon Mellor
Ada Mae Marquardt
Stanley High School
Elmdale
Frank Scott
Baldwin
St. Luke’s Hospital
Kansas City
Philamathean Club
Fast Park
Earl Hobson
Gilbert M. Gander
Edward Kapelle
Edward, Jr
Gilbert Kapelle
Baldwin Residents Attend Visits and Trips Across Kansas and Wisconsin
Local residents traveled to Kansas City to visit a relative in St Luke's hospital. Others spent a weekend in Joplin and Lawrence. A Baldwin couple visited Baldwin friends with trips planned to Terre Haute and Lake in the Wisconsin north. The University Community Choral club staged a cantata The Man Without a Country at Centenary hall with Miltons directing and Grace Huey Jeanne Fischer and Wendell Grove as soloists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Graham
Torrance Graham
Chicago
Baldwin
Jean
Martha Lou
Mildred
William Griffin
Moline
Kan
A. D. Butell
T. A. Evans
Tommy
Terre Haute
Ind
Baker
Lake In
Wis
Akes
E. B. Enyart
Lester Daugherty
Ted Hornecker
Billy
Duane Enyart
Ottawa
Gilbert M. Gander
Camp Wood
Elmdale
University Community Choral Club
Centenary Hall
Robert M. Milton
Grace Huey
Jeanne Fischer
Wendell Grove
Herbert Stotts
Irving D. Bartley
Dinner Guests From St Louis and Joplin Visit Eckerts
Mrs. R. C. Wilkerson and daughter Mary Ann of St. Louis along with Stewart Tite of Joplin were Monday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Eckert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. C. Wilkerson
Mary Ann
St. Louis
Stewart Tite
Joplin
Charles S. Eckert
Mrs A E Leach Visits Sister in Cottonwood Falls
Mrs A E Leach is spending a week at Cottonwood Falls visiting her sister.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. E. Leach
Cottonwood Falls
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George Depp
Wild Rose
Edward J. Cragoe
Lester
Bill Horn
Ames
Baldwin Lake
C. C. Clarridge
Mothers’ Club
Paul Kochan
Dorothy Scott
Ill
Public Library
University of Illinois
Miriam Deel
Memorial Hospital
Miss Deel
A. Deel
Michigan
Samuel A. Deel
Grace Irwin
Clara Beach
A. M. Hanks
Margaret Dickinson
PWA
Public Works Administration
Columbus
Baldwin News
Jayhawk
C. L. Ramsey
Nortonville
A. L. Tainter
Ted Frazee
Louisburg
Mr. Frazee
Pearle Frazee
Lloyd :Dunn
Dorothy
eGee In
Winter Chevrolet Co
Bob Burns
Martha Raye
Dickinson
Joe’s
Joe E. Brown
Paris
DANIELLE DOUGLAS DARRIEUX + FAIRBANKS, JR
Mischa Auer
Louis Hayward
Helen Broderick
Henry Koster
EB. G. de Sylva
Bruce Manning
Felix Jackson
Tmohay
Ra. Buetel
Dorothy Lamour
Treasure Island
Charles Quigley
Jack Randall
Popeye Club
Morris
Bogart
Erainn
Iantsiena
Johnnnie Davis
Penny Singleton
Edgar Kennedy
Floyd Gibbons
National Picture
Evelyn Daw
20Th Century-Fox Picture
June Lang
Dick Baldwin
Lyle Talbot
Edward Bromberg
N. H. St
Porky
Coast Guard
John Roles
Jack Oakie
Ida Lupino
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