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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1925
Page
4
The Lawrence World-Journal notes George Marble’s plan to boost farm income by building silos and exchanging labor with Wisconsin example. He urges Bourbon County farmers to diversify beyond corn to sustain homes and schools, noting silos can cut cash outlay and support dairying growth.
Edmund C Tatchell, commissioned to paint two portraits of President Coolidge for the Boston State House and the National Capitol, has built a Boston Washington career as director of the Corcoran Art Gallery. He began teaching in 1889 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and later earned National Institute honors and led the Boston Guild of Artists.
Kansas City July 28 AP Murphy brought from Hutchinson Kan for questioning in the jungle murder of Patrolman Burt Lovejoy and ex policeman George Peters. Inspector Toyne said Murphy boasted of bank robberies to impress a woman companion and was not believed connected to the killings. Hutchinson July 29 Mrs Harvare Harmon confessed tipping police to Jack Murphy alias Gilbert Bellamy plan to rob a Great Bend bank. Murphy taken to Kansas City as a suspect in February murder of five officers. Murphy is said to be linked with the rum running gang pursued by the officers.
Milwaukee reports a plan for a special autumn primary and election to select Robert M. LaFollette Jr. as his father’s successor. Governor Blaine suggests the move aims to maximize voter turnout, with Emmett noting LaFollette Jr. as Progressive candidate amid potential 1926 general contest against Irvine Lenroot. College to stay open year round Pittsburg Kansas State Teachers College will run an August term following a nine week summer session. About seven hundred students attended last August and enrollment is expected to rise.
A scrambled excerpt lists a birthday anniversary for Henry Ford, a reference to Gen George Pickett and Pickett’s charge at Gettysburg, and a planned lecture by an August county figure near Richmond. It mentions President Dawes and a farmers unit at an August academy grounds, but many fragments remain unclear.
The note cites signs for fair weather, such as a crimson sunset foretelling warmth, a bow in the evening as a good omen, mist ready to clear by sunrise, and dew-heavy nights indicating clear, sunny days ahead. It links low-lying fog and gray skies clearing with the sun to improving weather.
South Dakota highway commission announces a finish war against unjustly high fuel prices. Star Oil filling stations in Pierre will sell gasoline at one cent a gallon lower, aligning with Standard and local inde stores. Rankin's drug stores also feature lower prices as part of the statewide action.
The audience cheered as the four wanderers Hittle Challenger Summerlee and Lord John Boxtor returned from a perilous expedition. Professor Summerlee outlined their journey with scientific notes on new species and fossils while praising the expedition's safety and scientific significance. John Montgomery has returned to Lawrence visiting his parents, Mr and Mrs Frank Montgomery.
Topeka July 28 Frank J Ryan announces entry into advertising Kansas planning a 200000 to 250000 dollar corporation to push Kansas on Eastern markets He says Western Kansas prairies have a climate comparable to Miami Fla and aims to promote the state widely through this venture.
Fragmentary notice recalls a man once managing editor and sports page leader in Miami Arizona and at Rankin’s drug store. It mentions a Lawrence Gazette flash lights and a sports writer role at The Journal World and World paper.
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