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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1925
Page
4
News items from Lawrence Kansas and national briefings cover politics wages and industry. Topics include Congress salary raises, fake medical diplomas, Methodists unification, a Lawrence federal job offer, Orient line freight cars, winter climate in Kansas, Prince of Wales and a mechanical horse, flu recovery, a California promoter’s debt, and English views on US wealth.
Vincent d Indy marks his seventy fifth birthday as a leading French composer. Born March 27 1851 in Paris he pursued music after a brief legal schooling and trained with Cesar Franck. He served as a volunteer in the Franco Prussian War and studied in Germany with Liszt before returning to Paris. He conducted major orchestras in America in 1905 and recently led Chant de la Cloche in Paris.
A bulletin notes the anniversary of James II's death cited as the wisest fool in Europe. It recalls the Louisville tornado's 35th anniversary marking nearly a hundred deaths. Delegates from Europe and the Americas convene in Montevideo for a Congress on Christian Work in South America. Col Robert H. Allen becomes chief of infantry, succeeding Maj Gen Farnsworth who retires.
An experimental dam costing 60 000 dollars will be built on Stevenson Creek north of Los Angeles to test constant angle arch construction. Funded by Los Angeles County and private interests, the project aims to prove thinner dam design can reduce costs for flood control programs estimated at about 35 090 000 dollars.
London reports the British Society of Engineers has elected Miss Annette Ashbury of Fulham as an associate member, the first time a woman has been admitted since the society’s 1864 formation. Ashbury, a wartime munition worker who led a department producing shells, later founded a company making machinery parts and wireless apparatus.
An extended travel narrative from El Paso to Tucson describes the Lawrence party’s stopovers in Lawrence at the Walling boarding house, visits with the Follin sisters, and encounters with friends like Ursel Findly. It recalls desert travel from Brownsville to Las Cruces, Deming, Lordsburg, Douglas, Bisbee, Tombstone, and finally Tucson, noting vivid desert vistas, irrigation efforts, and towns rising and fading with mining fortunes. The piece highlights Walling family prominence in Lawrence, the desert’s lure, and Tucson as a hopeful destination for tubercular patients seeking relief and possible cure.
The narrator recalls visits to a two hundred year old St Xavier Mission rebuilt in 1797 and Nogales Mexico for venison meals. He notes faded paintings and questions their artists as he describes the border town’s clear likenesses to America. Then a Kansas telephones report compares 390,009 daily users to South America and Mexico.
In a statement by H. Lee Jones, Kansas utilities director, Kansas asserts it has three times as many telephones as Africa, four times those in China, over three times Italy, and nearly five times Spain. London’s 7.21 million people trail Kansas by telephones, though Kansas population is 1.77 million. Austria’s whole telephones are fewer than Vienna’s or Kansas.
The first volume of the ancient Japanese tale Genji Monogatari by Murasaki Shikibu, written circa 1004, has been translated by Arthur Waley of the British Museum. The 500000 word work is hailed as a world classic with 800 named characters and centers on the love life of the emperor’s son. Waley began the project last March and aims to publish one volume per year for five years.
Norman Slater pursues Kathleen Glenister to Beechwood village and a woodland cottage. A cryptic note, a planted card, and a trap set by keeper John Grimes lead to a confrontation and Norman’s capture by chloroform in a tense chase toward Beechwood Grange.
Inspector Wrage visits Sir Dudley at the Grange seeking clues to Norman Slater’s killer. The talk swirls around Sally’s suitors and keeper John Grimes, but Dudley dismisses dangerous accusations while hinting at guarded village confidences.
Dialogue shows Sir Dudley mocking a father’s alleged plan while Wragge considers discarding Grimes. The scene closes with a curt farewell and a promotional line for Last Chance Keeley’s chocolates at Rankin's Drug Store, 1101 Mass.
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