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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1927
Page
4
Lawrence World carrier rates and local notices outline railway grade crossing safety measures. The piece discusses highway fatalities, crossing warnings, and pamphlets from Santa Fe and Union Pacific urging safer driving and policy changes. It also reports a dynamiting incident tied to water rights disputes affecting Los Angeles and valley ranchers.
The Geneva gathering opens with United States Britain and Japan leading a world peace effort through cooperative action. The talks contrast with efforts to build bigger armies and navies, a system seen as failing to prevent war. The armament conferences had not been held since prior years.
The United States proposes staying within naval limits alongside two powers, a gesture not born of fear but desire to curb armament races. Amid skepticism, General Wood's U S visit to discuss Philippines policy signals shifting priorities while politicians and actors brace for quieter news days.
Local notes record a new sidewalk being laid on the south side of Winthrop Street beside Mannelly’s stable. Mr J H Beaty and family plan an eastern visit. Willow Springs farmers report rat troubles, with a claim of killing 160 rats in an hour. Fireworks bans sweep Chicago and other cities. Governor Osborn departs for Chili as US minister, with Topeka farewell. Picnic plans at Knasas Pacific site include Sunday school excursion and Odd Fellows celebration.
Twenty five years ago work began on a large illuminated arch at Massachusetts and Quinty streets for the Fourth of July celebration along with twelve arc-lights and six hundred incandescent lamps. Gen Roberts is chief marshal with a Roy float. Town residents including Gilmore siblings and Prof Miller with wife plan summer travel and family moves noted.
Rapid City farmer gathering invites President Coolidge to speak at the Farmers Picnic. He is expected to appear before about 10,000 farmers at the summer White House venue, with Ardmore listed as the organizing site for July 16.
Geneva June 21 AP The three new naval powers meet to extend arms limits set by the Washington Treaty of 1922. The talks aim to cap battleship and cruiser tonnage, regulate aircraft carriers and submarines, and extend limitations to auxiliary ships to curb naval race costs.
Meredith Sr publisher of The Quakertown Free Press in Pennsylvania becomes president of the National Editorial Association in recognition of twelve years of leadership and his substantial community service as an editor.
At a League of Nations commission session in Rome, France and Italy push for total tonnage freedom while Britain and the United States demand detailed allocations by vessel type. Soviet Russia seeks strict controls amid calls for wider disarmament, as regional interests clash over submarine limits and coastal access. An unrelated Dodge City incident reports officers pulling a car at Fifth and Vermont, belonging to Naomi C. Simpson.
A garbled OCR set of quiz items asks about universal lanslase, an English soldier poet who died during World War I, a fourth largest city in a ward, an Israeli leader after Moses, a famous Southern college president, a Protestant majority among U S peasants, a modern writer named Francis Sparks Key, and a U S post where girls died, plus a query about where the F hand answers are.
Mexico City marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Imperialists’ overthrow and Diaz’s restoration as Gen Diaz, while Asheville NC hosts the American Home Economics Association’s meeting this week. South Dakota legislature convenes today for key actions. In Britain the Lords discuss access for English princesses. Sweden celebrates 400 years of Lutheran Reformation as state religion.
Brigadier General James Fechet, soon to be chief of the Army Air Service, began in the U S cavalry during the Spanish war, earned a pilot qualification in the west, and served in the Santiago campaign and the Philippines. He graduated Fort Leavenworth in 1904, fought in the Mexico punitive expedition, and commanded multiple air fields in World War I. He later served as Assistant Chief of the Army Air Service.
Local notes recount visits and calls from residents and relatives in Twin Mound area. Kansas City visitors Pearl Thacher and John Montfoort helped with hay. Families including Simmons, Readyands, Petefish, and Moore are mentioned visiting, calling, or traveling to Topeka and Lawrence. Weather seen as rainy recently, wheat and oats turning.
The excerpt shows a speaker recalling a prior visit to relatives where Ma treated the speaker unusually kindly to avoid detecting differences. The text appears as a fragment with odd spellings and archival transcription markers.
Garth Guthrie, scarred veteran and factor at a Hudson’s Bay post in Eikwan, returns from war to find his fiancee, family ties, and rival traders tangled. Quarrier, McDonald, and local indigenous figures move through a web of trade, loyalty, and danger as Guthrie contemplates threats to his name and future.
Fragmentary note references a French Pineapple recipe and a Journal-World prompt with a Thursday deadline. Mentions a $2.00 Market Market prize and adlike lines about affection and sk retention. Content is incoherent and lacks identifiable events or names.
An old advertisement claims Phillips Milk of Magnesia neutralizes stomach acid and relieves gas. It presents the product as a longstanding, prescribed remedy for stomach upset, offering a gentle purge and waste removal without harsh purging. The ad urges insistence on Phillips Twenty-five or Fifty Cent bottles from drugstores and notes its trademark history since 1873.
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