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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1925
Page
4
The Journal World notes the Kansas legislature achieved notable reforms like taxation, the budget, and the state colleges regents law. It also comments on petty politics and personal squabbles, and remarks that a lightning rod agent recently arrived in town amid the same period. The piece contrasts the politician with the mere politician and cites a nearby lightning incident in Lawrence.
The formal opening of the new Woodlawn school will be held tonight. Congratulations to the north side for possessing the best elementary school plant in the city.
The article surveys Senate uproar over a War ren attorney general nomination and a clash of tempers on the floor. It notes party figures debating dignity versus politics while touching on Prohibition era issues and Klan involvement in local affairs. It remarks on campaign vows to cut taxes and the dullity of Lawrence politics ahead of city elections.
William Lawrence Saunders, a Georgian financier and prominent New York tool maker, is named the University of Pennsylvania's most distinguished alumnus for 1925. He chairs and directs the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, engineered underwater drilling gear, and has served on naval and commercial commissions. He has twice served as mayor of Plainfield, New Jersey.
Camp Fire Girls nationwide begin thirteenth anniversary celebrations while the Grand Council of DeMolay for Boys opens its fifth annual meeting in St Louis for a three day session. One year ago four planes were tuned at Clover Field Santa Monica for the world flight kickoff.
Topeka officials doubt the validity of a clause in the judicial executive budget bill that would bar county attorneys in larger counties from collecting a 25 dollar fee on liquor law violators. Assistant AGs say the bill mixes an appropriation with fee regulation and misstates the subject in its title, creating likely invalid provisions. The dispute arose after Rep Orlin A. Weede voiced concerns over an inconsistency in the bill.
Kermit Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Jr and explorer George K Cherrie announce a mountaineering hunt across Karachi to Gilgit and Kashmir entering the Himalaya region never before explored by Americans. Cherrie, veteran of forty eight expeditions, will precede the party gathering forty native guides.
Queen Wilhelmina received an honorary doctor of laws degree amid the anniversary celebrations. Women students presented her with the season’s first tulips as part of the pageantry.
London March 3 The Associated Press reports a trial of an oarless lifeboat by J R Fleming in front of shipping experts and government representatives The craft relies on occupants pulling eight levers to operate a propeller enabling movement at about three miles per hour with forty two occupants aboard and one per lever
New York reports detail a thriving boiler room scam where telemarketing swindlers fleece customers by selling fake stocks. con artists use dozens of phones, pressured upgrades, and false profits to lure victims across states, with many ending in loss and a few arrests.
An official announcement from Lloyds agents reported a successful speed trial with the lever reaching six miles an hour. The event was witnessed by representatives of the London Board of Trade the British Corporation and forty leading British steamship companies.
Copenhagen reports the mildest winter in three centuries with no daytime freezes. February usually the coldest month has felt like early spring this year. Furriers and coal merchants lament losses while other cities such as Helsingfors Reval and Riga see little snow this season.
London reports Sir William Bragg says the tiniest detectable by the eye are black spots in soap bubbles. He explains rainbow films are not the smallest, and earth sized magnified film would be as thin as a sheet of glass. Evangelist Edna Wells Hoke conducts Nazarenes revival services in Lawrence and Clinton with evening sermons and day meetings throughout the week urging Bible reading and personal conscience.
Sir Dudley Glenister faces murder suspicion as a missing cousin’s supposed corpse haunts Headon Hall. A crow drops a skeleton finger into a picnic crowd prompting a busy night of sleuthing. Kathleen Glenister and Norman Slater join covert searches while a visiting cabinet minister hints at hidden plots. The police seize the finger and ring as dawn nears, and a night-time pursuit leads to a summer house confrontation. Will the trail reveal the killer or deepen the danger?
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