Gas rate dispute heads to federal courts
Judge Pollock blocked the Kansas Public Utilities Commission and Kansas Natural Gas Co from further action on a proposed five cent per thousand feet increase to gas prices. If upheld, distributors may raise rates beyond five cents to cover losses and leakage, affecting city gas consumers statewide as courts decide the matter. Monarchist demonstrations mark Versailles anniversary in Germany, while British politics and unrest persist. In Illinois, soldiers guard a coal mine as the strike sharpens, signaling state action to secure essential production.
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Pollock
Kansas Public Utilities Commission
Kansas Natural Gas Company
State Commission
Kansas Natural
Kansas
Kansas Natural Company
Kansas .Natural
Igs
Germany
Ilinois
Inllinois
Kansas Administration
Statute versus opinion on school dancing ruling
The Nebraska Supreme Court upholds school boards authority to permit dancing in school buildings, noting a Kansas teacher’s certificate cancellation stemmed from official opinion rather than statute. The Kansas attorney general’s view mirrors Nebraska. Kansas City, Kansas, orders rabies precautions with hot weather, screening all hot dog stands.
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Nebraska Supreme Court
Kansas
Attorney General of
Nebraska
Kansas City
Dr Charles Lucius Clark Named New Chancellor at American University
Dr Charles Lucius Clark, chosen as the new chancellor of American University in Washington DC, is a veteran Methodist educator and minister. Born in Iowa, he earned an A B from Cornell College in 1893, studied theology at Boston University, and spent two years in Glasgow. He organized the Iowa State University department of religious education, the first at any U S state university, and has served as a Methodist pastor in Washington for seven years. He has traveled to Europe and the Near East.
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Charles Lucius Clark
American University
Methodist Institution of Learning
Washington, D.C
Iowa
Cornell College
Boston University
Glasgow
Department of Religious Education
State University of Iowa
United States
Methodist Episcopal Church
Washington, c
Clark
Europe
Near East
Miscellaneous sayings and civic notices reel in Wichita
A compilation of quips and local notices touches on work, love, honesty, and public service. It notes Wichita Red Cross home service ending after World War II cases, with Mrs Stephen G Skinner closing duties, and hints at American Legion and Veterans bureau activity. mentions early European paper mills at Faliano in 1150.
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Wichita Red Cross
Wichita
Home Service
Sedgwick County Red Cross
Stephen’ G. ,Skinner
American Legion
United States’ Veterans
Faliano
Italy
Wages Upheld By Courts For Lossing Firms In Topeka
Kansas supreme court ruled that the industrial court may order a temporary wage and hour adjustment in a loss making packing plant to safeguard public welfare. The decision emphasizes that public welfare requires workers be paid living wages even if the firm operates at a loss, and notes the ruling did not address eight hour day or open shop questions. Justice Marshall authored the opinion, with dissent by Justice Burch.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas Industrial Court
State Supreme Court
Wolff Packing Company of Industrial Court
Wolff’ Packing
John Marshall
Court of Industrial Relations
Public Service Corporation
United States
Supreme Court
Industrial Court
R. A. Burch
Silas W. Porter
Burch
Kansas child labor law stands firm after federal ruling
Topeka June 17 Kansas employers are warned to obey the state child labor law says Miss Alice McFarland director of women's work Kansas industrial court and in charge of enforcement. She notes the US Supreme Court decision on the federal act has no effect on Kansas law and promises stronger enforcement while plans at a national conference to push constitutional amendment for Congress to enact child labor legislation proceed. The article covers age limits prohibitions on hazardous work and permit requirements for vacation work.
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Topeka
Kansas
Alice McFarland
Kansas Industrial Court
Miss McFarlind
United States Supreme Court
United States Supreme ‘Court
Miss McFarland
State Department
Hartisburg
Naional
Congress
Blind man earns law degree at St Louis University
William D. Ely, blind for over eight years, completed a law program and received the degree of bachelor of law at St Louis University. Despite personal tragedies, including the loss of his wife and child, he trained as an accountant, learned broom making at a blind school, and persisted with his studies aided by his sister.
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St. Louis
William D. Ely
Amd
Ely
St. Louis University
U Ie
Today marks battles and anniversaries across nations
Today events commemorate the Battle of Bunker Hill's 147th anniversary and Moravian missions bicentennial in Germany while Premier Poincare heads to London for Verdun Day. Maine and Minnesota primaries close, Junior League Finnish Lutheran Synod convention opens in Calumet, Michigan as U.S. soap laundries consume fifty thousand tons yearly.
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Bunkerill
Germany
Poincare
France
London
Maine
Minnesota
eStein
Finnish Lutheranational Synod
Calumet
Michigan
United States
Neosho Rapids Proprietor Fined for Selling Cigarettes
County officers raided Neosho Rapids where the proprietor was fined fifty dollars and costs for selling cigarettes in violation of state law. Officers found cigarettes and cigarette papers during the raid.
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Emporia
Neosho Rapids
Here
Ciga Rets Land
War Romance Brings Wichita Soldier and Nurse Together
News from Wichita reports the marriage of Claude M. Johnson, a Wichita serviceman, to a nurse who cared for him in France. The couple met recently during convalescence at a Prescott, Arizona hospital where both are now patients.
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Wichita
Claude M. Johnson
France
Tharice
Prescott
Aviz
Readable Fragments From a Darning Craft Tale
Betty and friends improvise on a sewing project with a cap and frill. The Understanding Scissors sniffs at creativity while Betty and the Paint Box Pal contribute playful, crafty actions amid dialogue about fabrics and fitting.
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Miny
Betty
Betty Henn Wipes Pens in The Adventure Trails
Betty builds a doll from a hair pin, cloth, and wool to resemble a pen wiper named Hattie Henn. The creation includes a head, body, arms, a shawl, three colorful skirts, a white apron, and ribbon curls. The completed figure stands on a cork ready for travel in a 1922 George Matthew Adams feature.
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Hattie Henn
Public Wheat Delivery System During Emergency Measures
The article describes maintaining a public warehouse to store wheat until the emergency ends. It allowed any person with two valid scales for future delivery to supply wheat in May and fulfill contracts. All interests including the farmer and public were protected, and closing prices reflected fair balance under supply conditions worldwide.
Ancient Egyptian doctors used to perform operations
Chicago June 1. Egyptian physicians in the wars of the Hebrew patriarchs treated the heart as a central system for the body. Prof. Breasted discusses the Edwin Smith Papyrus at Paris July 12, noting its scientific organization of cases.
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Chicago
J. H. Breasted
University of Chicago
Breasted
Champollion
Paris
Francr
Secaul
Bulletin
New York Historical Society
Edwin Smith
Smith
Oldest County Attorney Claims Civil War Veteran Status
Wellington James Lawrence, Summer County Attorney, asserts he is the oldest attorney in Kansas and in his late seventies. He also claims to be the only Kansas county attorney who is a Civil War veteran, a distinction he emphasizes.
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Wellington
James Lawrence
Summer County
Kansas
Hie
American Teal Milk Goat Register Association Opens Local HQ
The organization promotes goat milk usage and has secured a state charter for its new headquarters in Vodze City. Meanwhile the American Legion post in Iola votes to raise 1700 dollars for a memorial at Highland Cemetery.
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Vodze
American Teal Milk Goat Register Association
It Pays to Advertise and the Flapper Today Proves It
Emporia Kansas June 17 The flapper of today proves the old adage it pays to advertise Dr E A Ross University of Wisconsin lecturing at the State Normal school says never a time when so many young women were marrying. More attractive women are marrying eligible men and industry does not deter marriage. The feminine type remains while the masculine role persists in industry.
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Emporia
Kan
E. A. Ross
University of Wisconsin
State Normal School
Dr. Ross
Cupid
Russians Living on Government Pay Reach 4.5 Million
Moscow reports that more than 4.5 million people in Russia rely directly on government wages excluding the Red Army and Navy. Ukraine and other regions add to the total, with estimates suggesting one in twenty Russians hold a government job.
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Moscow
Red Army
Navy
Russia
Ukraine
Far Eastern
Trans- Causasus
Bokhara
Turkestan
Economic Life
Supreme Economic Council
Department of Education
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Journal- World Mines
HE World Company
C. Simons
Massachusetts Street
Eatnae
Mall
Mallee
Lawrence
A. R. Keator
Hartford
New York
Franklin P
Alcorn
Marbridge
Associated Press
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Postoffice
Journal-World
Goerveany
HOPE
Signor Marconi
Tom Sims
Amundsen
North Pole
Rotary Club
the Industrial Court
Doe
Kelsey P. Burchfield
Wichita, Railroad and Light Company
Burchfield
L. L. Winters
Chicago Board of Trade
Old Hutch
B. P. Hutchinson
Leiter Turner
P. D. Armour
Leiter
Pices
WieesHang Eaiss
Elsinore Crowell
Scissors
Giegly
Ancient
Egypt
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