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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1919
Page
8
In Lawrence Kansas July 31 1919 notices discuss newspaper publication terms five day rate and post office matter. Items cover University athletics control issues and lack of athletic manager amid season opener. Reports note Nebraska admission refusal for Russian Soviet students and Leavenworth Disciplinary Barracks strike aftermath with disciplinary impact on staff and prisoners.
The Kansas City Star adapts a reader inquiry format to highlight grim city issues such as murder theft and crime along the state border. The effort aims to raise awareness of dangerous urban conditions and educate readers.
The article notes long held Northern self image as civil rights defenders and describes Chicago riots with reports that Negroes are leaving the area amid tensions and political suppression below the Mason Dixon line.
A garbled quotation-rich piece cites Chicago workers abandoning indulgent prejudices and returning to homes, while urging safety and equal treatment to avoid racial strife. It argues the problem lies in the presence of two irreconcilable races and condemns the Chicago approach as harmful to both blacks and whites. It references German military terms and ends with a local ad for Cut-Rate Tire Shop in Hutchinson.
A Kansas press item reports Miss Lizzie Wooster state superintendent will purge tobacco users from two major state institutions. She plans to question teacher applicants about smoking and will remove offenders, citing bad example and social harm. The move affects KU and Kansas State Agricultural College, with potential vacancies for male and female teachers across Missouri and Kansas.
Wamba comments on a tangle of laws that push citizens toward vagrancy and inaction. He cites Franklin K. Lane discussing the League of Nations, reports Joe Burns of Concordia's death as a Bushwhacker, a Missouri man's cow and catfish power issue, Henry Doherty's gas rate demand, and Army Navy Journal noting West Paint's wartime officer leadership as a draw of creamed success.
Today marks anniversaries for several figures: Senor Don Ignacio Calderon, Bolivian minister to the US, born in La Pax 71 years ago. Edward N. Hurley, ex-chairman of the Federal Shipping Board, born in Galesburg 55 years ago. Sidney J. Catts, Florida governor and Senate aspirant, born in Pleasant Hill 56 years ago. David Ross Boyd, ex-president of the University of New Mexico, born in Cashocton 66 years ago. Waddie McGoorty, middleweight boxer, born in EUREKA 30 years ago.
A collage of historical notes lists anniversaries and events from 1844 to 1916. It mentions the Freemont expedition's return to Kansas, Vienna talks between European powers over Russia and Turkey, Columbus's 400th anniversary, British Parliament funding for Lord Roberts, the Saghalin island capture, Osaka fire disruption, stock exchanges closing due to war, Russian evacuation and Austro German advances, Henry Duke succeeding Birrell in Ireland, the Montana torpedoing, and a note on Arabian mourning customs and Indigo staining for eight days.
Fragmentary text recalls The War One year ago with Gnondaga Indians of New York declaring war on Germany and a German commander named Picker allegedly assassinated. telecommunications and post offices are referenced in a war era dispatch.
The report records a 43 to 25 victory by an unnamed team with players Whitman Lane Horton Kergh Whitman Haskell Mason Saunders and Guest. It notes county official D J Worden H T Ross and B B Gem Col vote tally for sheriff Walker. Also mentions old prices for lace and fabric, flood damage fifty years ago, Whitcomb greenhouses, New York World machine ad, and a Seguin Texas butter price of ten cents a pound and eggs at five cents a dozen.
The article notes Wrightsville Beach North Carolina institutions announcing two professorships in languages at the university. It mentions the North Carolina press association and an annual convention scheduled for Friday, with details pending clarification.
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