Derby Winner Old Rosebud Dies Touching Bluegrass
Louisville reports the death of Old Rosebud, legendary Derby winner in 1914, whose speed defined Kentucky horseracing. He was purchased for a trifling sum as a yearling in 1912. A superstition prevented a post Derby photo until the colt was later photographed during a breeze at Churchill Downs.
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Omar Khayyam
Regret
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Churchill Downs
Kentucky
Rosebud
John &. Madden
Hamilton C. Applegate
Frank Weir
Douglas Park
V. Sanders
Louisville ‘Times
Weir
the Times
Downs
W. E. Applegate
Mr. Weir
Colonel Applegate
Belmont Park
Liberal hosts aviation in town with twenty five planes
A small town welcomed a flock of twenty five aircraft carrying two men each flying from Fort Sill to Liberal. The stopover drew crowds with many motor cars on the sidelines and spectators traveling from distant areas to watch the aviation event.
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Fort Sill
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New Mains for Hutchinson Water System Upgrade
In Hutchinson the local water system owner will continue work soon laying five miles of new mains as part of ongoing improvements to service. The effort focuses on updating pipes and infrastructure to ensure better reliability and supply for residents.
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Hutchinson Hutchinson
Hutchinson
Banker Urges Bonus At Memorial Address In Eureka
Eureka bank president and livestock man Dr. John A. Edwards urged support for the soldier bonus during Memorial Day remarks to G A R and American Legion members. He argued veterans who enlisted and fought deserve pay equal to those who stayed home and worked, citing war wages and pensions as precedent.
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Kans
John A. Edwards
Kansas
National Associations of Bankers
Legion
Canton Erectors
France
City discusses housing high school growth at June 6 meeting
At a meeting of business leaders Principal H. E. K. Chandler stated the high school building, built for 175, now houses over 310 students. He urged planning a new building with capacity increased by 100 percent beyond current demand.
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Island Tale of Tristan da Cunha Intermarriage Tangle
A long description from Montevideo details Tristan da Cunha, a remote South Atlantic island with about 120 residents descended from Napoleon's St Helena guards. An English couple and a Japanese ship crew enable missionary contact after 18 months, describes intermarriage, poverty, and isolation, and notes two missionaries bringing supplies and a radio to reconnect the community with the outside world.
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Jane
Tristan da Cunha
South Atlantic
St. Helena
Rogers
Ihis
Cape Town
River Platte
Tristan de Cunha
W. Denis Myers
Mr. Myers
Napoleon
Tristan’ da, Cunha
Thither
Chinese wage hikes in Canton noted by mission report
A Presbyterian report from Canton details wage increases across trades for 15 percent to 50 percent. Fire cracker makers lead gains while tea-house workers, masons, and oil producers also see boosts. The note says higher living costs accompany wage rises as 59 missionaries report on 36 churches and several schools in Canton under Presbyterian oversight.
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Canton
China
Py the Presbyterian, Board of Foreign Missions
Econ
Cantos
Theology
Presbyterians
Republic
J. E. Weeks
Canton Union Middle School
Presbyterian Foreign Board
Building New Ships Boosts Great Lakes Yard Activity
Cleveland reports a surge in shipbuilding as contracts for four 600 foot ore steamers are awarded to American Ship Building Co. in Cleveland and parallel orders flow to Toledo Ship Building, Wilson Transit at Ecorse, and Great Lakes Engineering Works. Pittsburgh Steamship Co and Warner & Co place orders for additional 600 foot ore carriers for next season. In Junction City a local Masonic lodge accepts a gavel carved from King Solomon’s Stone quarries near Jeaclewell.
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Ohio
American Ship Building Con of
Great Lakes
Toledo Ship Building Company
Wilson Transit Company
Ecorses
American Building Company
Warner & Company
Pittsburgh’ Steamship’ Company
Masonic Lodge
King Solomon's
Jeaclewell
Liberty and faith at Missouri Synod jubilee in River Forest
Rev Paul Lindemann of St Paul Minn spoke at the diamond jubilee of the Missouri Synod Lutheran Church in River Forest on June 5. He urged doctrinal clarity with growth in activities and adapting methods to modern conditions. He praised the founders as true Americans who helped build the country through moral influence and religious effort and urged persistent soul-winning through preaching.
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America
Middle West
Northwest
Allen Booked for Year Ahead in Leavenworth
Allen Gav HJ Allen is booked at least a year ahead in Leavenworth after Recoration Day when he accepted an invitation to a return engagement.
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Allen
Leavenworth
Gav
Old Hickory suburb shifts to permanent industry and school
Nashville's Old Hickory, built rapidly during WWI and once a wartime shaft town, is becoming a steady industrial site with a new Vocational Training School proposed by the Veterans Bureau. It houses 30,009 people, has 1,112 factory buildings, 51 miles of rail and 44 miles of tram lines, and hosts multiple plants since 1920. In Sydney, Prime Minister Hughes urges Australia to welcome population growth to bear national debt, opposing migration only if it harms rural settlement and stressing land, transport, and enterprise investments.
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Tenn
Old Hickory
Veterans Bureau
Nashville Industrial Corporation
Sydney
Australia
Hughes
Government of
Real estate transfers and re elected Emporia trustee board
A list of real estate transfers in Lawrence and surrounding areas shows Marvin Riley and others selling parcels to Fred M Wilkins, George Crispin, Fred C Richardson, B M Gregory, A T Stanton, Edmund C Wolgamott, Earl W Armstrong, Solon Thacher Emery group, Byron P Eaton, Augusta L Selig, Charles W Wisenant and others with nominal or stated sums. Also noted is the re election of Charles F Scott as president of the College of Emporia board of trustees for the coming year and a federation scholarship—one such aid to be provided per the Kansas Federation of Women’s Clubs guidance.
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Marvin ©. Riley
Fred M. Wilkins
Lotty Brock
Babcock
W. Lawrence
B. M. Gregory
W. R. Williams
A. T. Stanton
Jas. S. Barrow
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Edmund C. Wolgamott
Ing E. Wolgamott
Ohio Street
Lawrence
Earl W. Armstrong
Tor Raymond C. Moore
Haskell Place
Kans
Solon Thacher Emery
Kappa Kappa Gamma House
Fort Thacher Place
Babcock Add
Byron P. Eaton
Geo. G. Goleman
N. B
Douglas County
Augusta L. Selig
Dora K. Borth
N. H. St. Lawrence
Charles W. Wisenant
N. E. Burrus
Baldwin City
Res
C.F. Scott
Emporia
Charles F. Scott
Iola Register
College of Emporia
Kansas Federation of Women's Clubs
Gift of farm to Kansas State Normal School announced
Emporia on Commencement Day witnessed the donation of a farm valued at $10,000 to Kansas State Normal School. Proceeds will fund sale of the farm and the installation of a pipe organ. Donor Richard Bullimore, a KSN graduate.
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City Attny Thiele cites weak cigarette case dismissals
Seven men charged with violating state cigarette sales laws appeared in police court this morning and pleaded not guilty. Walter G Thiele, city attorney, said evidence was not strong. Two men arrested Saturday afternoon in the east part of town were dismissed. One man was taken into custody near Pliney Strode’s home and released with a warning to avoid that area. Old mirrors made new. Stary: Bros, Phone 1172.
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Jata
Pliney Strode
New Jersey
Golf to supplant baseball as national sport says Bertie Way
Cleveland on June 6. W H Way a pro at Marfield Golf Club declares golf the infant sport in the United States will become the national pastime. He notes baseball cannot be best for masses but golf offers personal achievement. Way blames Cleveland players for lacking practice and urges more fundamentals and constant practice.
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Cleveland
Ohio
W. H
Bertie
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Marfield
Profiteering ruling extends to professionals in Hungary
Budapest June 3. The Supreme Court of Hungary held physicians and other learned professions liable for profiteering. In a case a country doctor charged a patient 6000 kronen for a night call, far above the 500 kronen standard. The ruling extends the profiteering law to artists and other professions, allowing fines for extravagant remuneration.
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Supreme Court of
Hungary
Supreme Court
Local note on gatherings and attendees around Children's Day
Neighborhood residents attended a Union Children’s Day program with about thirty people from nearby areas. Mentions of visits by Mrs Roy Thurber and daughter, Miss Pearlie Harding, Mr and Mrs Elmer Thurber, and others fill a recap of Sunday calls and weekend activities. Several names and homes across Richland and nearby towns appear in social notes.
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Philip Heyl
Dita Earl
Charles Farding
Walter Platt
Bill Coffie
Topeka
Elmen Harding
Elmer Thurber
Richland
Guy Weimer
Rusoll Hayse_Monray
Jea Sinclair
Georgia Sinclair
Pearl Pugsley Defies School Ban in Arkansas
Miss Pearl Pugsley, 18, barred from Pearl Still school for using cosmetics, enrolls in the normal course at Jonesboro Agricultural College. She plans to finish, earn a teacher's certificate, and lead a school in the state, insisting it is no one’s business if a girl powders her face moderately. The local board had barred her for violating a cosmetics ban.
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Em Knobel
Ark
Pearl Pugsley
The
Agricultural College
Jonesboro
Arkansas
Miss Pugsley
Obituary of Fubar Bond, Kansas pioneer and leader
Fubar Underwood Bond, born July 26, 1849 in Chicago, died June 4, 1822 in McLouth Kansas at age 72 10. He came to Kansas in 1861 with his father and built a life as merchant, postmaster, county commissioner and mayor of Lawrence. He married Jane Whaley in 1874 and had two children Rose and Jay. Survived by sister Elizabeth Darker and many relatives. He was a trusted community figure and member of the Methodist church.
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Jemima’ Bond
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Jay Bond
Jane Whaley
Jefferson County
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Jay
Salina
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Chirch
Elizabeth Darker
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