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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1928
Page
8
Douglas county Sunday school picnic sponsored by the son Will be held on the University campus July 26. Sunday schools from all over the county are expected to attend. Morning hours include tours of the campus and a campus organ recital. A lunch will be served at noon. Afternoon program features a lecture and baseball game among scholastic teams.
The Kansas police commission tax department prepared for equalization assessments to be heard on July 11. The schedule lists counties including Allen, Anderson, Barton, Ford, Ford, Hodgeman, Meade, Osage, Pawnee, Shawnee, and many others. The notices name tax commissioner and board members, with intentions to set dates and locations for the proceedings.
Fragmented text describes paving captain and official names with unclear actions. Mentions trips into starday and a list of names Bud Trin line culverts Majki Novis Tairriage. context and specifics are unreadable. No clear events or outcomes emerge from the remnants.
Probate sue against Thomas Moffet Wallace Tut tle Marcella Uttinger and Eugene Starling with Virginia Starling, all of Kansas, plus Douglas county transfers to Atchison Santa Fe railroad for land parcels in sec 36 with 79 acres in Douglas. Peddler Esa Mustafe arrested for peddling on streets without license forfeited bond. Cigarette licenses issued for Ralph Roby Drug Store Lawrence Sandwich Inn Neils Drug Baldwin. Two overparking fines recorded on Massachusetts Street for Co. BE dili and W. H. Chariton.
A jumble of item descriptions appears: bananas two dozen for 15 cents, Sunkist oranges, New cabbage per pound, ginger snaps or fig bar cookies two shillings ten pence per quart tin pail, seedless beans and eggs and cream offered in various quantities and prices.
Laura Ballou, Kansas graduate and former Kansas Players member, will lead The Florist Shop at Greenhall Little Theatre on July 5 after studying acting in New York. Ralph Smith portrays Slovsky with other cast members Sidney Edwards Dorothy Mae Roberts and Stanley French. Two additional plays, Thank You Doctor and Louder Please, also programmed.
Paris AP reports France faces a rare surplus as production matches consumption for the first time in years. After wartime shutdowns, France previously relied on imports, but last year output rose to sixty million tons with Saar Valley adding about fifteen million. The shift threatens European coal markets and reflects a broader postwar energy balance.
The discussion notes a postwar coal surplus of about sixty to seventy million tons yearly as Europe returns to work. It reports French figures to the League of Nations and explains how France, once a net importer, now burns its own coal, puzzling French operators over reducing costs, cutting production, and limiting imports amid renewed competition from Britain.
Fragments state that sea routes from England offer shorter distances than routes from the other side of France. In France certain points yield shorter hauls for Belgians and Germans than for the French. Oakland officials debate a gasoline tax to fund street work, with W. H. Parker proposing a cent per gallon levy.
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