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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1928
Page
4
A Kansas newspaper fragment notes a Klan representative testifying to a senate campaign funds committee that the organization paid Senator Heflin. It suggests the senator admitted being paid for speeches but questions source origins. The piece discusses political manipulation and broader aims of labor and soil improvement efforts in Douglas County.
A youth pleads guilty and is sentenced as lawyers seek to reopen a case. The piece argues dictatorship breeds obstacles to litigation and questions the strengths of democracy versus autocracy, noting Chang’s looming abdication as northern China teeters near Peking. It contemplates lessons from Italy, Spain, and the Peking crisis for leaders and governance.
Miss Hannah Oliver Miss Edith Griffin sail for New York with stops in Boston and New York before onward travel to Europe. Eudora bridge failure disrupts traffic and a water safety alert urges boiling water as the summer begins. Dolly Graeber earns praise for his rescue launches across the river, aiding daily transit and relief. Mrs. Brooks gifts carnations to Dolly, while Grant Wiedmann helps thirty families remain secure. A few houses survive amid ongoing damage near Bridge Street and local business moves.
Ten years ago Germany escalated submarine warfare reaching the American shoreline. News confirms at least three vessels sunk off the Atlantic, including the schooner Edward H. Cole, sent Sunday off the New Jersey coast. Two U boats are active in the campaign targeting American transport.
Paris newspapers LaMatin and Petit Parisien predict a grand Allied offensive led by Generals Koch and Petain. They claim the French have countered with success and held the Germans at every point last night, with heavy enemy losses reported. Miss Anna Sweeney travels to Denver for several weeks. Camping trip departs with chaperone Mrs. James Blitcher and several girls.
The clipping lists individuals including Doris Sutton and Miss Katherine Jackman with recent telegrams or travel. It notes Miss Constant's report for Washington government service and examination for clerkship, Miss Mildred Olmstead departing to Topeka for nursing training, and Katherine Jackman returning from Dana Hall. A note marks no edition printed on June 2, 1873.
On 1836 Free State forces led by John Brown won the Battle of Black Jack. In 1862 Kansas Senate met as impeachment court for state officers. In 1872 the Kansas Central Railroad opened from Leavenworth to Grasshopper Falls. In 1873 Leavenworth Argus was started by W S Burke.
Fred B. Smith of New York will be the principal speaker at the Kansas Christian Endeavor convention closing session in Wichita on Sunday night. Carlton Sherwood of the International Society of Christian Endeavor also features on the program. The event gathers ministers and youth groups from cooperating denominations.
A Cosmopolitan Books review feature highlights Edison Marshall’s The Far Call as a strong new outdoor adventure with Pal Loring and Hilda Larsen amid a Shanghai vice plot led by London Nick, ending with a decisive finish and Pal’s American citizenship. Anita Loos’s But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes is praised for its witty, risqué tone featuring Loreli and her mother figure, as well as a sharp social satire.
The piece surveys Dorothy Canfield Fisher’s career from carnival beginnings to high society circles in New York, noting influences from Mr. Shaw of Lover’s Leap, a deputy sheriff mentor, and mentor figures like Mr. Morgan, Charlie Breen, and Mr. Ziegfeld. It also covers Fisher’s literary prominence through lectures, receptions, and ongoing public interest in her work.
A federal Commerce Department summary shows Kansas United Brethren Church membership fell by 2,106 and churches by 91 from 1916 to 1926. Kansas had 17,818 members in 162 churches in 1926, down from 19,924 in 253 in 1916, with total 1926 expenditures of 307,996 across 157 churches and church edifices valued at 1,083,900.
FortY Douglass-H club representatives including three elected leaders will depart Monday afternoon for Manhattan to attend the sixth annual state 4-H club round-up June 4 to 9. County agent A. S. Gilkison and home demonstration agent Miss Elizabeth Randlé will accompany the group, leaving the Farm Bureau office about 1 o'clock in two large trucks. Regular tuberculosiss clinics will be held Monday at 9 a.m. in the city hall health rooms, led by Dr. F. L. Loveland of Topeka. Twelve patients reported to the nerve and mental clinic Thursday morning under Dr. G. Leonard Hertington of Johannag City, Mo.
Miss Cora May Showalter returns home for summer in Baldwin while Dr. Walter French arrives to attend Baker Commencement. Mrs. Parsons visits from Tucson for June and the Republican convention. Local residents attend Decoration Day events and funerals. Baker University ties, graduation prep, and society club meetings fill the week with calls to Atchison and Topeka for family matters and travel plans.
A 1928 syndicated comic strip item features Claude Callan in a light humorous piece. The brief shows a nostalgic newspaper cartoon style and suggests a single-panel gag about family or parental roles typical of the era.
Grace Wiley and relatives attended a Delta Tau Delta Decoration Day service at Oakwood Cemetery honoring Bishop William A. Quayle. The event featured a grave circle, a delta ze emblem, prayers, and a quartet performance. Missionary Dr Fulkerson spoke at First Methodist on The New World Crisis, aided by Dr Chen Su Lan and local church leaders.
The case recounts a woman protesting alleged oppression by her husband and his agents. She transferred his goods to warehouses after a separation agreement and allowed warehouse managers to gather belongings without payment. Litigation ensued, the court ordered restoration of the goods, but she refused to pay charges, prompting sequestration.
Prof H F Holtzclaw and his wife and two children Henry and Macy depart for a motor trip through Arkansas to visit his mother at Star City and then to Tennessee and Urbana Illinois. He will teach at Perth College during summer and George University of Illinois in fall before returning to Lawrence.
A person was arrested on a street violation charge by local officers and cited to appear at a distant address. The incident also involves vandalism reports on Eleventh and Neva Hampshire streets. A fountain was damaged in South Park amid other scattered notes from the same report.
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