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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1925
Page
4
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On Saturday March 28 1925 market observers note a second price break in wheat amid government investigations into the recent decline. Experts say the probe raises speculation but the origin of the initial drop remains unclear while questions about perpetual motion ideas surface in commentary.
In Lawrence, voter indifference is blamed on taxes as residents prepare for the April city election. One commissioner and three board of education members will be chosen, with four-fifths of taxes supporting city and school budgets. Officials warn wise leadership is needed to maximize value of every tax dollar.
Senator Pat Harrison criticizes recent government appointments as damaging to the republic while voicing concern about Coolidge's leadership. He recalls backing a corporation lawyer for president and warns that tax rulings on rural credit shares and building associations may force taxation, pending Supreme Court clarification. The text notes internal political tension and legal questions awaiting court action.
Early reports of fire losses were revised as firefighters limited damage to property. The piece shifts to a Tennessee inquiry on whether evolution should be taught in schools, noting the state’s ban and reactions from Topeka and Fort Scott newspapers.
Viscount Cave, chosen by the English Privy Council as Lord High Chancellor in the King's absence, rose from a stellar legal career. Born near London and educated at Merchant Taylors, Oxford, he joined the Inner Temple and became Master of the Bench in 1923. He served as standing counsel to Oxford University and as Attorney General to the Prince of Wales, then Solicitor General in Lloyd George's coalition and later Home Secretary. He is an avid outdoorsman who enjoys rowing and riding.
The University department of drawing and painting announces an April exhibit featuring about a hundred prints including etchings woodcuts and lithographs plus a few watercolors. Professor Albert Bloch notes works from the sixteenth century to modern times by Millet Steinlen Manet Whistler Pennell Israels and others in a catalog highlighting major masters of graphic art.
Professor Bloch hails the works as among the greatest in German art and wood engraving. An exhibition of etchings by Rembrandt and Albrecht Dürer, 1471 1528, will showcase in May at the University of California rooms. William Griffith, former University artist now at Laguna Beach, will be featured in the display.
London officials report science’s attempt to clear fog with suction fans failed. A dense fog would require about 750 condensers across streets roofs and poles at an estimated cost of 25 66 0 000. The London County Council seeks inventor interest and financing for further tests.
In Richmound Virginia on March 26 the National League of Women Voters outlines a program advocating the outlawry and abolition of war as a legalized institution. It proposes U S representation at a disarmament conference and support for the Permanent Court of International Justice. The plan also calls for women appointments in government and commissions with international representation, stronger child labor laws, and increased federal education funding.
Springfield Illinois March 28 Five supposed skulls of John Wilkes Booth, the Lincoln assassin, are on display in a U S exhibit. Herbert Wells Fay, custodian of Lincoln's tomb, dismisses the claims as hoaxes by money seekers. He recounts Booth death near the Garrett farm, the barn fire, and the subsequent embalming and identifications by surgeons and Edwin Booth.
A summary of committee plans on legal status of women and education funding outlines, plus book reviews of The Skyrocket by Adela Rogers St. John and These Women by William Johnston. The article discusses education equalization, married women's legal disabilities, women voters representation, Muscle Shoals power legislation, and social commentary from two Cosmopolitan reviews. The book critiques cover Hollywood life, female ascent, and gender roles with sharp observations.
The piece questions marriage norms and female ambition, hinting at a new term hemigamy as a frontier in social puzzles. It asks what share of a husband's income wives claim, the price of business success for women, and whether wives ever feel content, while hinting the author of a crossword style coinage will define it in These Women.
Greetings to Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks mark their fifth wedding anniversary while Milledgeville Georgia celebrates the centennial Lafayette visit. Madison Square Garden ends preparations for spring circus season as the Prince of Wales and a sizable party sail to South Africa and Argentina. A six member U S House delegation including Insular Committee members departs New York to review naval maneuvers at Hawaii.
In a Beechwood house, Inspector Wragge and butler Hinkley uncover a hidden Judas-hole gallery listening to a library confrontation. Kath leen Glenister risks exposure as Sir Dudley schemes to marry her while a diary reveal may bring police scrutiny.
In a tense drawing room scene Sir Dudley and Ivy press a barter over a diary as Mr. Simon Trickey unexpectedly reappears outside the French windows. The detective Wregge watches, fearing exposure of Truth, while Trickey’s presence threatens their precarious alliance and impending revelations.
Presbyterian students and nonmembers are invited to a five thirty tea at First Presbyterian Church Sunday evening. A permanent organization will be formed if the way is clear. All Presbyterian students on the hill are urged to attend.
Sir Dudley presses a brave admiration as a suspect faces the music while Kathleen seeks a way out. Wragger slips from the gun-room to pursue the quarry and Tritkey lingers near the library, awaiting the next move in the tense night at the mansion. Want ads get results.
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