Flashes of Life From Distant Lands and Odd Incidents
A series of brief curiosities and incidents from around the world. Accounts include torture by ordeal in Beit Rima Palestine where suspects were forced to lick a red hot dragon. sweepers in London fearing extinction due to gas and electricity. convicts escaping by vanishing through a wall in Pottsville Pennsylvania. a 12 cent tax dispute won in Balmain Australia. revived bullfights in Cebu Philippines featuring water buffalo. a Fraserburg woman finding a diamond in a chicken five months after losing it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cairo
Beit Rima
Palestine
London
London City
Pottsville
House of Detention
Chester Chernowsky
Balmain
Australia
H. E. Sheehan
Cebu
P. I
Fraserburg
Cape Province
Baldwin area social notes and wedding at Oakley
This Baldwin brief lists Sunday dinners for multiple families including Lynch Haas Ford Sink Unger and Gilliland clans, with neighborhood attendance at Children's Day events. It covers local graduates, concerts, visits by Hope Waldron and others, a June 7 Oakley Hall wedding of Lucille Flickinger and Don Sol Hall, and assorted community updates from Baldwin and nearby Oakley, Kansas.
Board Holds A Meeting In Abilene Kansas
Abilene Kansas June 10 AP Members of the state board of agriculture met in a quarterly session seeking to cut appropriations by 25 percent for the coming fiscal year. General policies were discussed and Secretary J C Mohler gave the principal address at a noon luncheon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abilene
Kan
State Board of Agriculture
J.C. Mohler
Excelsior Residents Attend Graduates Event and Visits
Mrs John Knoche and daughter Marie Misses Clara Johanning Esther and Ruth Knoche of Paola visited Monday at the Mrs Anna Johanning home. Henry Johanning of Paola visiting relatives this week. Mrs Homer Gibson Silas Jesse Eva and Mabel Haas spent Tuesday evening at the Harry Flory home. Walter Dyer and daughters entertained Excelsior graduates and teachers. Guests included Raymond Wismer Hazel Gilliland Lucille Dyer and many others. Dainty refreshments of ice cream strawberries and cake. Graduation attendees from Excelsior and Lawrence noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Knoche
Marie
Clara’ Johanning
Esther
Ruth Knoche
Paola
Anna Johanning
Grace Hurrelbring
Leroy Stonekine
Hurrelbrink
Henry Johanning
Homer Gibson
Silas Jesse
Eva
Mabel Haas
Harry Flory
Charley Osher
Roy Hobbs
Henry Pohl
Esther Johanning
L. W.haas
Will Johanning
Adolph
Charley Gilliland
Glen and
Dudley
Raymond Wismer
Jim ‘Lederer
Hillis Bechtel
Marie’ Flory
Mabel Maranville
Marie Osher
Rose
Agnes White
Aurelia Gibson
Ida Gish
Marie Kirchner
Faye Montgomery
Walter Dyer
Thelma
Maxine
Douglas County
Lawrence
Edith Tipton
Ottawa
Glen Flora
Will
Lynch
Irene
Hazel
L. W. Haas
Also Mentioned on This Page
The
Associated Press
Will Lynch
Mabel
George Ford
Lloyd Sink
Elda
Edward
George Unger
Lester Sink
Violet
Glen
Baldwin News
Hope Waldron
Washington University
St. Louis
Baldwin
J. E. Waldron
J. W. LaBrant
Roberta Green
Patty! Lou
Green
Mt. Oread
Mary Larkin
Kansas City
E. W. Davis
Sikeston
J.E. Waldron
Howard Sanders
Eudora
Gayle Chubb
Baldwin High School
University of Kansas
Donald Lidikay
Bronson High School
Alpha Chi Omega House
Lidikay
Mary Lee Breyfogle
Chanute
Carl Butell
Angeline Wilson
J. E. Wilson
Rachel
Wilson
Horner Institute
Paul Lukan
Eulope
Tuesay
Wallace B. Fleming
Franklin" Dezendorf
Plainfield
New Jersey
Frank Lane
W. M. Clark
G. A. Lane
Wichita
Lane
Harry Gordon
Pittsburg
Lucille Flickinger
Don Solon Hall of
Oakley
F. H. Flickinger
Methodist Episcopal Church
Harold Flickinger
University of Southern California
Baker University
Zeta Tau Alpha
Baker
Consolidated School
Hall
State College
Manhattan
Alpha Tau Omega
Williams School of Mortuary
Pi Sigma Eta
Anna Hall
Mary Dick
Keith Hall
Donald Pacey
Kansas City, Mo
Patricia Ann
Harold, Jr
Waverly
Robert A. Hunt
Margaret Ann
Gwendolyn Hunt
Robert
Alpha L. Owens
Morris Harvey College
Barboursville
W. Va
Edward Huey
W. H. Webster
Benton Lewis’ Breckett
Atchison
Ellen Louise
John Sheldon Spencer
Spenceri
Delta Tau Delta Fraternity
Omicron
Alpha Chi Omega
W. Spencer
Leavenworth
J. C. Penney
Salina
Riley Bible Class
Elia Wise
Spencer
A. O. Lockwood
Raggedy Man
A. E. Burgtorf
Mammy
G. W. Ackerman
Lone
Cyrus Brown
Mary Nelle le Master
J. M. Robinson
A. Lockwood
Jacob Schoepflin
May Torrey
Mary Lockwood
Karlton Marquardt
Karlton
Epworth
Marian Williams
BOARD
Excelsior
Viene
Bio Mass
Morrell
Thompson’s Grocery
Mass. St
Ise
Chase & Sanborns
Anna Dale
Adc
Phillips
19Th
Mase
FEOG
Gurtler & Sons
Monarch
Weiners
New Hampshire St
Lic
Belic
Ld. Lavery
Mass
Beal Bros
Crosse & Blackwell
Nancy Hank
Swift
Armour
California
Sunkist
Swift’s
Wade
Ou Pen Sen
Kaw Valley
Lawrence, Kansas
Kellogg
Bill Brown
Kellogg’s
Kellogg In
Battle Creek
Corr
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American Service Co
Bermuda
Per
Box Wilson
Mane IE
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