Muddy Kansas roads aid contest shows swollen season woes
Photographs sent to J. Frank of the Keawood Roads association depict highway mud crippling travel across Kansas. Images show marooned autos, wheel-deep mud, and a rural carrier using a car stuck in ruts. Kids trek a swampy road to school twice daily amid churned mud and collapsed slopes.
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Sharp reductions in your shoe bills
An advertisement touts Neollin Soles from The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. claiming doubled wear life, waterproofing, and comfort. Readers are urged to have old shoes resoled and to buy Neolin shoes for the family, with a testimonial from H. Noyes Collinson of Hazelton, Pennsylvania.
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Hazelton
Nedlin
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Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
Akron
Ohio
Rails of Mud and Ruts Spark War on Road Conditions
A reader contest of wartime road scenes shows parallel ditches misused as trenches in France and mud on a milk wagon wheel detailing. A milkman praises his rugged wagon photo while a Santa Fe Trail image captures deep ruts in Kansas.
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Entries for Penn Games Open as Coach H m finalizes
Entry blanks for the annual Penny Relay Games arrived at W O Hamilton's athletics office. Coach Hamilton has not yet submitted entries but will decide which Kansas athletes compete at the Philadelphia meet on April 25. Haddock and Rice are highlighted returnees with potential in pentathlon events while distance and sprint specialists may join March meets in Kansas City.
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Philadelphia
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O'Leary
Rodkey
Weewall
Eekely
Kansas City
Card of Thanks and Notices From Nostalgic Ledger
Card of Thanks expresses gratitude to neighbors and friends for kindness during illness and death. Mentions Mr. and Mrs. Ford and Mr. and Mrs. Nichols. Miscellaneous jumbled notes reference health products, ads, and references to John Frederick Bottger and Dresden china inventor.
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AL Ford
Amas Nichols
Anni Sereaty
John Freiderick Bottger
Botteher
Apothecari
Dresden
China
Obituary and society notices from Lawrence Kansas era
Salathiel Ford Fort died in Lawrence Kansas on March 5 19 1. He was born April 20 1849 in Reynolds County Missouri and married Nelle Shockley May 16 1867 in Gentry County Missouri. Survived by four sons and one daughter his wife and one daughter preceded him in death. Funeral held March 10 at Maple Grove Cemetery. A memorial resolution honors Sarah Jane Walker and the Missionary Society of Maple View Kansas. Also a note on a Jersey heifer shipment to Los Angeles from Bell’s Stock Yard Menlo Kansas as a promising starter for coast dairies.
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Forcian Missionary Society
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World
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G. Lavtad
Los Angeles
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