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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1926
Page
8
The news notes rising wheat prices and firmer cattle trade with Chicago and Kansas City markets showing gains. Investors lift rail and industrial shares, with strong close hints and a broad upswing across several sectors, despite some slow trade in others.
Independence prison guards and county authorities completed a finger print project numbering 32 inmates with 500 prints. Police fingerprint expert Fred Howard demonstrated the method by testing on a single prisoner and identifying him within five minutes.
Residents in Deuzins county protest the removal of the Ninth and New Hampshire street fountain. Midland Lodge 140 petitions city officials to keep the fountain, citing aid to animals and public goodwill. Pleasant Hour Club also protests, urging preservation as a national monument. The city audit will be completed next week with a report to officials.
Down town Lawrence glows with window displays as Rankin’s Three Flower Window overflows with perfume, toilet water, talcum and bath crystals. The Vanity beauty shop offers permanent waves, while Blue Lantern gift shop shows ready embroidery and home goods. Reece’s drug store debuts chocolate malted milk ice cream at five cents a scoop, and Mr. Sample remains at Sample’s barber shop until summer.
A brisk roundup of early spring bargains and displays from Rankin's drug store and nearby shops. It highlights soap promotions, meat market visits for fresh ideas, Mrs Headly’s napkins and party supplies, New York Cleaners for delicate textiles, Retce's straw hat cleaners, the Lawrence Typewriter Exchange envelop sealer, waxed water lilies at City drug store, Green's Detroit Jewel Gas Range, and Peacock shoe styles featured at Fischer's.
Snow flurries were observed in Salina Kansas as a cold north wind began at daylight, bringing light snowfall to the vicinity this afternoon. The AP report notes the wintry conditions affecting the region on March 12.
Higdon, 20, is jailed in Seminole County awaiting formal sentence to life imprisonment after a verdict of first degree murder for killing his sweetheart Rita May Gosa two hours before their planned marriage. He confessed to county officers that she claimed to be pregnant and that he was not the father. The case arose from the February 14 slaying in Wewoka Oklahoma as district court recently concluded.
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