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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1929
Page
6
AP reports that students at a Mexican university protested autonomy measures after a delayed presidential decree. Demonstrators braced around the campus while police held back. officials cited orders to avoid force amid ongoing unrest.
A new Jayhawkt Club was organized at a University Club banquet in Kansas City Missouri to aid the university alumni association and athletics. Judge A Burney was elected president. T J Madden was named vice president. Maclay Lyon secretary. DS G Hamilton treasurer. Fred Johnson sergeant at arms. Fred Ellsworth attended from Lawrence as Kansas general alumni secretary.
In Miami a gold rush tale unfolds on a vacant lot where evacuation equipment operates amid claims of 170,900,000 dollars in buried nuggets. Mobley, guiding the dig, cites a Spaniard’s chart from a Mexico visit. Iron flakes and chests of gold are reportedly found as diggers seek the long buried fortune. Meanwhile ice patrols report record iceberg sightings in the North Atlantic near Newfoundland.
Las Vegas reports that Leonard Rhinelander, living incognito as Lou Russell since January, prepared a divorce complaint against Alice Jones Rhinelander. Attorney Harley Harmon said cruelty will be the basis, with filing set in Las Vegas district court within two weeks after masking identity to establish residency for action.
A long Baldwin list of visitors attends Baker University commencement. Residents include Mrs. R F Hazzard, Miss Florence Snow, Rev Wiley Keve, Dr J G Johnston, Mr J Edward Hedges, Mrs Homer Hopper, and families from Topeka Lawrence and Ottawa. Attendees join ceremonies, dine with locals, and travel after events as Baker awards degrees.
Eleven tank cars filled with oil were destroyed by fire after derailment of north bound Katy freight No 76 a mile south of St Paul Kansas. Cars overturned on a trestle crossing a small stream. No injuries reported. Traffic rerouted and expected to resume late today via Frisco route through Fort Scott Pittsburg and Parsons.
Count totals show 6 513 automobile licenses issued by J F Metsker county treasurer through this year up from 6 003 at the same point last year. Truck licenses 953 applied for vs 878 last year. Atchison Kansas and Forest City Missouri deaths in an alloy mobile crash prompt coroner to schedule an inquest. Includes coroner and sheriff notes on depositions and decision.
Personal notices list Miss Laura Pendleton and Mrs W H Pendleton traveling from New York to visit their mother in Lawrence. Mrs W H Pendleton and other relatives expected Monday, with plans to stay about two weeks. other items mention Mrs Edwin Stugard leaving for New York, Dr J W Q Bryon and party touring Europe, and local notes on a Beatrice Neb teaching Math, Kansas City visit, and a Beatrice hatchery sale advertisement.
Practical farm guidance on cabbage salting limits, fruit pest control, sorghum silage for lambs, butter quality, herd improvement, chick disease prevention, ensilage crops, soil protection, and eggs for hatching. Advises on temperatures, quantities, and management to reduce losses and improve yields across crops and livestock.
Gas Tablets by Baalmann claimed to end gas pressure effects. They promised relief from bloating anxious feelings and heart palpitations, plus improved breathing and energy. The ad urged purchasing the yellow package at drugstores, noting availability at Round Corner Drug Co.
Dr H G Willard from Gorgas Memorial Institute discusses fatigue as a normal condition in aging, stressing that sedentary life, poor sleep, irrational diet, and constipation drain energy and poison the system. He urges periodic health exams after 40, exercise to improve lung and heart function, smoking and overeating reduction, and caution against dangerous assumptions about blood pressure and exercise. A note adds that postwar explosives industry presses now produce vast amounts of macaroni in Milwaukee.
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