Kansas City Valley News Commentary Mixes Verse and Politics
Fragmented clippings present Reuters style wire reads and editorial quips from Ottawa Herald and Topeka Capital. It covers Kansas politics, party figures, Taft era notes, New York convention chatter, and sketches of local projects and amusements with scattered quotations.
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Kansas
New Farmer*Labor Party
St. Paul
National Committee
Stex. Howat
Ottawa Herald
Howat
National convention and cathedral dedication events noted
The 30th birthday of the Prince of Wales is marked as an heir to the throne. Salt Lake City hosts the fourth annual Disabled meet at Vererand of tha Wark at Bittish Rite. San Antonio features a $1,000,000 cathedral dedication of the Scottish Rite bodies. A politics and government conference opens at the University of Minnesota to discuss fundamentals of American and state government.
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Prince of Wales
Salt Lake City
San’ Antonio
University of Minnesota
Irish scholar Smiddy named first Irish Free State minister
Professor Timothy A Smiddy a noted Irish educator and diplomat is chosen as the first minister plenipotentiary of the Irish Free State at Washington He has studied in France and Germany and held economics chair and dean of commerce at University College Cork His career includes envoy extraordinary for Daily Irish in 1922 and chair of the Free State fiscal commission He is 48 from Cork and is married with one son and four daughters.
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Timothy A. Smiddy
United States
America
Irish Free State
Smiddy
Cork
K C Truck Driver Runs Afoul of New Ordinance
A. Walters Kakgall Goff B. Farrell were booked yesterday for trial in police morrow morning. E. Tingal was booked on speeding with trial set for Tuesday. F. M. Miller of Interstate Transportation charged with double parking and operating without a license. De ay Eastman Kodak Films. Rankin's Drug Store 110k Mass.
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A. Walters
Kangall Goff
B. Farrell
E. Tingal
Interstate Transportation Company
Massachusetts Street
Deay
Eastman’ Kodak
Rankin's Drug
Mass
Lawrence Council of Religious Education Attendance Report
The Lawrence Sunday schools reported 2235 white and 216 colored attendees, totaling 2451. Top schools include First Methodist, First Christian, Congregational, and others. Vacation Bible school enrollment nears 250 with strong daily turnout and praised progress.
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Lawrence
First Methodist
First Christian
Congregational
Baptist
Presbyterian
Second Presbyterian
Lutheran
North Side Christian
Ninth Street Baptist
North Side Methodist
Fables on health going swimming from old boyhood tale
Mr Mann recalls the old swimmin hole as summer returns while the family doctor cautions that swimming is healthful but can be overdone. He stresses short exposure to cold water, swimming at sundown on hot days, and avoiding sunstroke by prudent care at the beach.
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Mr. Mann
Youssee
Goring
Chicking
Plymouth Congregational Church Woman's Missionary Society Meet
The Woman's Missionary Society of Plymouth Congregational Church will meet Friday at 3 PM with Mrs. F H Smithmeyer at 721 Tennessee St. The program, led by E R Tenney and Mrs. C F Russell, will study "Religion as Seen by Men of Science" with further talks by Prof F E Johnson on "Religion as Seen by an Engineer." A Junior Department picnic is planned for Marvin's Grove Tuesday afternoon, with meet point at Mrs Spencer's 1014 Mississippi St at 3 PM. The county picnic date is July 31.
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Plymouth Congregational Church
Woman's Missionary Society
F. H. Smithmeyer
Tennessee St
Plymouth
School of Engineering
Church School
Marvin's Grove
the Grove
College enrollments in Germany rise sharply since 1913
Berlin reports a major surge in university matriculations, climbing from 94,000 in 1913 to 148,000 in 1923. Technical institutes show a 100 percent gain, commerce 90 percent, art academies 15 percent, and universities proper 40 percent, reflecting broader postwar expansion as many young men from Senta move into officer berths and higher education.
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Berlin
Associated Press
Warren
Sho
Academies of Art
Be Ing of
Senta
Germany
Kansas cities split on charging for tourist camp use
Kansas communities remain divided on charging tourists for camping in municipal parks. Secretary John G. Stutz reports only a few cities will levy fees this season, while others favor free camps or vary pricing with police protection and standard services. Some towns, including Topeka McPherson Great Bend Garden City Goodland and Fort Hays area report moves toward paid or expanded control, with Pittsburg urging tourist sentiment surveys to guide policy.
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Kansas
John G. ‘Stutz
League of Kansas
Stutz
Topeka
McPherson
Great Bend
Garden City
Hays
Fort Hays Experiment Station
Goodland
Walter Layton
Salina
Prankfort
Pratt
W. C. Wilson
Pittsburg
Wilson
League
Newspapers in Ellis County to consolidate into two weeklies
June 21 report notes Ellis County will have two newspapers after July 1 the Ellis County News and the Ellis County Review Headlight both weeklies. A L Clark & Son sold the Hays Free Press to John S Bird and Frank Motz publishers of the Ellis County News.
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Hays
Kans
Ellis County
Ellis County News
Ellis County Review
Ellis
A. L. Clark & Son
Hays Free Press
John S. Bird
Frank Motz
Ells County
Ellis County Star
The
Free Press
Hich
Ge' Advocate
Miller
Beree
Hays’ City
Scotch Rule Households Loom in London Workforce
London reports a surge in Scottish domestic workers, with demand for Scottish servants outstripping supply. Registries and papers note parlor maids and general house workers paid higher wages, praised for cleanliness and conscientiousness. Judge Hugh Means schedules a court-wide cleanup of matters for next Thursday, adjusting previous plans.
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London
Associated Press
Hugh Means
Lisbon Terror Campaign Ties To Red Legion
Extremists calling themselves The Red Legion terrorize Lisbon with bomb outrages and daylight shootings. Police report several attacks this month. many business leaders have fled after receiving threat letters. About 60 arrests have been made and documents seized.
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Lisbon
Associated Press
Red Legion
Eudora Catholic Ladies Alter Society Meeting
Eudora Catholic Ladies Alter Society met Thursday afternoon with twenty six attendees including Viola McCloskey Blanche McCloskey Bertha Shively Mary Richstatter and Marie Sommer. After a brief business session a social hour followed with refreshments served by Adelia Zimmermann and Anna Sommer.
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Alter
Viola
Blanche “McCloskey
Bertha Shively
Walnut
Mary Richstatter
Marie Sommer
Adelia Zimmerman
Anna Sommer
L. C. Miller
Gardner
John Miller
George Fritz
John Edward
Denton
Texas
Kansas City
C. B. Floyd
Will Pentice
Los Angeles
Minnie Hammer
Duke
Sharle
Lawrence Bartholomew
Independence
Peter Neis
Winona
Neis
Louise- Lukan
Lenoi-Rhyne College
Hickory
North Carolina
Paul Lukan
Herbert Bolt
Roy Combest
Corsicana
Anna
Lothholz
S.C. Gilmore
Kaw Valley
Joseph Vitt
Gleaners
Methodist Church
Molira
J.D. Adams
George Lothholz
Sheldon
Ecards
Ed Miller
J. van Lindley
C. M. Williamson
Leslie Kindred
Oscar Loth~holz
William Miller
F. G. Hughes
Fred Rothberger
Lillian Fuller
Henrietta Schubert
Gladys Jones
Clarence Fuller
Ray Miller
C. E. Cory
Ends
Cox
Gtte Durr
Alcomb’s Grove
Iver
Nineteen Hundred Dancinig Club
Lawrence
Lefa Breithaupt
Harold Daugherty
Clarence Daugherty
Bert Daugherty
Pearl
Ruth
Fragmentary note hints at vaudeville acts and travel plans
A garbled item mentions beds in vaudeville, Mrs. Graham plotting travel with him last fall and plans for the coming summer. It also references taste of river water and ordering a bottle of Mt from McNish. The OCR yields unclear names and dates.
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Ham
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