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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1930
Page
5
AP reports a simple ant trap developed by two agriculture entomologists for the White House infestation. A round pill box with poisoned syrup is placed along ants' travel paths. the tiny box is moist and dust resistant. The mixture uses thallium sulphate, and care is urged to avoid inhaling vapors.
Plans are set for the Epreeth League Institute August 18 to 25 with twenty professors listed including R E Gordon Bible F H Ebright and J Chubb. A new road north and west of Vinland is nearing completion as committees push for the August 1 Road Celebration with prizes for local travel relics and an address by Governor Clyde Reed.
Lady Owen a French-born widow of Sir Theodore Owen is held in Versailles prison on charges of shooting and wounding Mme Gastaud wife of Paris radiologist Dr Paul Gastaud. The attempted attack followed a romance with Gastaud after a reported plan to divorce his wife. Four bullets hit Mme Gastaud. her condition is grave but may improve.
Ben Libbin of Chicago Harry Pta smond of Chicago and San Sipple of Winchester Ky were detained by two officers who followed a suspicious Dodge sedan and an Oldsmobile with a stolen cardboard license tag. Emporia police notified Lawrence authorities who took the trio into custody for thefts in Emporia.
A fragmented notice recalls a dealer in Winchester selling a car and references people connected to Libbin and Diamond. The text notes suspects and accomplices spent the previous night in city jail as sleepers, with vague locations in Los Angeles and St. Louis.
Fairview reports a community effort with Mrs Ed Howard Miss Peters Mrs E Leary Miss Mabel Petera and Miss Edna Koehler assisting in cooking for threshers at the Nisely home. Local families including the Edmondsons Howards and Wells joined neighbors for meals and socializing as a group threshed oats for Chester Howard who is ill. Ernest Leary visited P E Schulmeyer in Memorial hospital recently. A large group helped with oats using wagons pitchforks and shovels amid a day of shared labor and neighborly help.
The item notes a sea going rooster with unclear naming details and lists local attendees who visited Mr. and Mrs. E Leary including Dr. and Mrs. Fred Rumsey Mrs. Eli Leary Chas Coleman and others from Kansas Cuy Lloyd Shanks and Chas Henderson with Dorothy Jean of Lawrence Also named are Ruth Schafstall and Scott W gar at a Lawrence wedding with several community residents attending Sophia Hunsinger Mrs Terry Call and sons Frances and Darrell had dinner with C E Ralston’s family Emma Wells Gertrude Clark visited Wichita Saturday through Monday Six Dodge City blacksmith shops now shoe horses at only two equipped.
Associated Press reports John Henry Meara will attempt a world flight piloted by World Flight Pilot Heny 5. Brown. Officers Ralph Hubbell and Lil burn Dowers found the door at White Eagle filling station 647 Michigan street open last night but nothing was missing and the door was closed. Police received a prowler call on 1945 Ohio street but found no prowler. Dublin parliament extended censorship to talkies and silent films and purchased sound equipment for the censor’s office. In Vilarandelo Portugal swine breeders face fever epidemic. government educates peasantry on vaccines. Havana shark fishermen report good catches.
A fragment notes the presence of several fifteen foot specimens discovered within a stone's throw of the business district, suggesting a remarkable find in a densely developed area.
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