Teachers Arrive for Kansas High School Conference
Teachers and superintendents from accredited Kansas high schools began arriving in Lawrence for the annual High School Conference at the University. Sessions run this morning through tomorrow afternoon with lectures by Dr. Black and others, plus sectional meetings in English German romance languages and American History. A holiday is being observed in many Kansas high schools to honor the event.
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Kansas
Lawrence
Black
Bible Institute
Fairchilds
Fairchild
Hubert Morrison
William McKinley High School
St. Louis
Snow Hall
M. McNees
Montgomery High School
J. Black
M. Allen
Wichita
Carruth
Dunlap
Fire rips seven story building injuring dozens in New York
Dozens were injured as a seven story apartment building known as the Fifth Avenue apartments near Central Park South caught fire. Firefighters performed dramatic rescues as residents crowded window ledges and floors collapsed. In Toledo two more indictments were announced in the Ohio German Fire Insurance case, with Frederick D. Prentice and Miss Hope Yeager implicated for embezzlement and perjury, and steps planned for extradition from Tulsa.
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New York
Wfitth Avenue
Central Park South
Toledo
Lucas County Grand Jury
Ohio-German
Frederick D. Prentice
Miss Hope Yeager
Tulsa
Oklo
Prentice
Miss Yeager
City hosts Kansas basketball finals amid busy campus schedule
Lawrence hosts a packed basketball championship with girls and boys teams from Hutchinson Beloit Chanute Parsons Iola Kansas City Kans Eudora Lecompton Topeka Sabetha and Halstead. Referees Miss Jamison and Miss Maggie Belle Long. Games run all day and finals conclude tomorrow night.
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Lawrence
Kansas
University
Hutchinson
Reno County
Beloit
Chanute
Jamison
Colorado Springs
Maggie Belle Long
Parsons
Iola
Kansas City
Kans
Bible Institute
STOP DELAY OF STOCK TRAINS Live Stock Action Demanded
Topeka March 19 One of the strongest complaints ever filed with the State Board of railroad commissioners seeks to force Kansas City railroads to end delays between stock receipt and yard delivery. Delays and shrinkage cause thousands in losses monthly. The board will require railroad responses before a hearing date is set. Back in Fifteen Months Roosevelt Visit urged Nassau County delegation gathers at Sagamore Hill for final public remarks before Africa trip. Roosevelt promises to celebrate with supporters in about a year and a quarter if proven right.
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Live Stock Commission
Topeka
State Board of Railroad Commissioners
John Hutchison
Wyandotte County
Livestock Commission
Kansas City
Kansas
Commission
Pers of
State Board of Railroad and Missioners
Oyster Bay
Theodore Roosevelt
Sagamore Hill
Roosevelt
Nassau County
New York
White House
Washington
Africa
Starr
Mr. Roosevelt
United States
Kansas Girl Claims In Colorado Territory
Kansas girl takes claim in Colorado March 1 at Beloit where she joins other settlers in Colun do. Miss Brook secures a better claim than expected near Jower valley. She thought near Grover but moves to new Erford area with trading points on both sides. Her house readied for three girls to settle on adjacent sections. She brings $40 per acre value with fruit trees and ornamental plantings. sales and nursery business linked to her claim.
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Beloit
Esc
Colundo
Miss Brook
Jower
Grover
Buit
Erford
Recall Election Sparks Contested High School Scandal
Laceyville principal Clayton Kellar was arrested today on charges linked to an injunction fight over a recall election for mayor set for March 26. The case centers on alleged misconduct in a school chair incident and a bid to restrain the city clerk from proceeding with the recall vote.
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Fessor
Clayton Kellar
Laceyville
Here
Dozer
Los Angeles
Cal
Ruth Russell
Proceedgitl
Kellar
Ton
Harper
Hats at the Fair Highlight Castle Lines and Fashion
Lawrence crowd fills the annual Millinery Opening at the Fair with extensive display of Castle and Gage hats, plus new patterns and shades. The feature underscores fashion interest while broader tariff debates loom in Washington, with Maine and Pacific coast senators resisting lumber cuts and Curits endorsing duties on hides and dried eggs to protect Kansas industry.
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Lawrence
Chevriw
Gage
Curtis
Kansas
Desert
Washington, D.C
Senate
Maine
Waeilie
Northwest
Minnesota
North
South Dakota
Cummins
Iowa
State Supreme Court Settles Commission Government Ballot
Topeka March 19 The Kansas Supreme Court issues a writ of mandamus directing the mayor and city clerk of Hutchinson to place on the ballot the names of nominees for commission government. The commission form was adopted this month but officials refused to recognize it, prompting the court action.
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State Supreme Court
Commission
Topeka
Mare
Supreme Court
Mutchinson
Fortune for His Son and the Whitla Kidnapping Case
Frank G. Buhl pledges to spend 100000 to recover William Whitla, the ten year old kidnapped boy, with authorities and a statewide search in progress. A deserted rig tied to the case, with state troopers and detectives on alert, as the father remains determined while the mother suffers.
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Buhl
Skaray
Frank G. Buhl
Vie Authondire Iron and Steel Wun
William Whitla
Pennsylvania State Conratabulary
Tere
Lulu
Warren
Ohio
Turned Menagerie Loose at Wichita High Play
In Wichita Kane on March 19 junior boys from the senior class in Crawford theater released animals from mice to dogs during a senior class play. Police detained twenty five juniors for disturbing the peace, keeping them jailed overnight as the performance resumed after a half hour interruption.
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Tamiora
Wichita
Kane
Crawford Theater
Water Tanks Burst Killing, Injuring Parkersburg Residents
In Parkersburg West Virginia three people died and three were fatally injured when large city water tanks supplying the water system burst early today. Aider says ten houses were wrecked and forty damaged as a immense flood rushed through the city heights. It is believed dynamiting caused the tanks to explode as explosions were heard prior to the burst. Water famine threatens the city with the entire supply released.
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Parkersburg
West Virginia
West Vd
Bishop Gillespie Dies in Grand Rapids Michigan
Bishop George D. Gillespie of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of West Michigan died today after a long illness in Grand Rapids Michigan.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
George D. Gillespie
Protestant Episcopal Diocese of
Weston Michigan
Run-away Horse Causes Collision on South Mass Street
Yesterday afternoon Alberta White and two girls Lena and Lenora Miller rode south on Mass street when their horse bolted in the 1400 block. A light spring wagon carrying Mr. and Mrs. C A Conner and an infant was struck, throwing all riders. Conner suffered a sprained ankle, Mrs. Conner bruises, the baby unharmed, and the girls slight bruises. All escaped serious injury.
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Alberta White
Lena
Lenora Miller
Mass Street
C. A. Conner
Warmest Day Sparks Spring Fever in Lawrence
Lawrence enjoyed a May like warm spell with temperatures reaching 73 degrees. The city had its warmest day since November 18 as Gulf winds and a developing eastern low pressure shaped a sunny afternoon. Snow was reported in Salt Lake City and freezing conditions occurred in southern Nebraska that morning.
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Lawrence
Kansas
Salt Lake City
Nebraska
Old Sweethearts Wed After Quarter Century Apart
In Denver on March 19 W S Evans of Nickerson Kansas aged 60 and Elverine Felek aged 53 married, ending a romance begun 25 years ago. Schoolmates in Kay and later sweethearts, they separated, married others, and reunited here a month ago. Now widowed, they decide whether to stay in Denver or return to Kansas as the Episcopal lectures continue.
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Denver
W. S. Evans
Nickerson
Kans
Eveline Felek
Kay
Fle
Kansas
Sharp free. Jury undecided in Cooper case verdict likely hung
Nashville reports the Cooper jury remains unable to reach a verdict on the Cooper brothers after finding John D. Sharp not guilty of murder. The jurors will return to the jury room for further deliberation while Sharp is released from custody. The trial centers on the assassination linked to former Senator Carmack. Names include Robin and Cot. Duncan B. Cooper. Judge Wart presides as the jury weighs next steps.
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Nashville
Tenn
John D. Sharp
Elow. Carmack
Robin
Cot
Dancan B. Cooper
Jude Hart
Wart
Photographing Africa’s Deadly Fly by Ricalton
Tamea Riealton travels to Africa with a camera to photograph the tsetse fly linked to sleeping sickness. James Kierlion plans to sail Wednesday to gain images, while veteran hunter and naturalist Mr. Ricalton, who served in the Boer War, documents the entomology of the region.
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Tamea Riealton
Africa
South Orange
Mareh
James Kierlion
Ricalton
South Africa
Epidemic of indigestion blamed on liquor sales in Lawrence
Officials fear an epidemic of indigestion in Lawrence as liquor is sold by drug stores to treat it. The new state liquor law will be enforced and authorities pledge to stamp out all sales. The Journal supports fair, city‑protective franchises for an interurban line and local electric franchise, urging balanced terms and city safeguards.
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Laning
Dayton
Lawrence
Sutiston
Laming
George Davis
Lee
Kansas
Willassey
Lanzing
Journal 4
Real Kansas Hero Seeks Wife After Buried Thirteenth
A Kansas figure nicknamed Speedy Reeves in Lebu, famed for burying his fourteenth wife, seeks another partner. He urges a healthy, hardworking, good-edged girl and stresses open, in daylight courtship over secrecy, contradicting old ballad notions.
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Urighwa
Lebu
Thia
Kansas
Speedy
Reeves
Assalites
Nevis
aMicht
Enameled jewelry and Easter Post Cards at Gustafson's
Gustafson offers enameled jewelry and urged buyers to pick Easter Post Cards now at Boughton’s, 1025 Mass. St. The store lists Shirt Waist Rings with turmalas coral jade amethyst priced at 3.00 dollars and up.
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Boughton’d
Mass. St
Gustafson
Caught Hipty Man Who Murdered Walker Caught Morning
Patterson, the man who killed Dom Walker Monday afternoon in the bottoms, was arrested in Baldwin by Sheriff Banning and deputy Woods and Sheriff Latimer of Franklin county. He claimed self defense and said the fight began over a game. He walked two Badwin after the killing, and officials traced his movements to Baldwin before capture. News of the arrest caused excitement in Lawrence as officers moved the prisoner through crowds.
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Dom
Walker
The
Bottoms
Ed Dus
Baldwin
Banning
Woods
Latimer
Branklin County
Lawrence
Bey
Golten
Diss
Porter
Sheil Lanmer
Ottawa
Tirse
Lipty
Sheriff Banning
Abe Sheins
Watterson
Stephen Riggs Dead A Kansas pioneer and trustee
Stephen Riggs a early Emporia settler died at his home at sixty six after a week illness Grippe with heart trouble caused his death He helped found the first church and aided the location of the state college serving on its board of trustees and as a regent Survived by his wife Alma Finley and several Riggs children and by brothers S A and Jos Riggs of Lawrence His house where he died was William Allen White’s birthplace and had stood forty years
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Jos. Riggs
Emporia
Mans
Stephen Riggs
Kansas
Emporit
Shapin
West Union
Ohio
Alma Finley
Francis Riggs
N. Riges
W. A. Gardner
Cissesgo Northwestern Railway
S. A
Jos, Riggs
Lawrence
William Allen White
Bank Robbers Fail at Bald Knob Vault Heist
In Bald Knob on March 19 a band of robbers fired twenty charges at the Bank of Bald Knob vault, blew open the outer door but could not breach the inner doors, then fled as pursuing posses closed in. One citizen was wounded during the exchange of gunfire. Authorities say several posses are in pursuit.
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Bald Knob
Ack
Tercue
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