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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1924
Page
8
Disjointed 1924 clipping mentions youth duty, General Dawes homecoming, a Lawrence clinic on child health, airmen superstition around Charles Martin flight, Grover Bergdoll, Prime Minister MacDonald reparations plan, stock market fear, Governor Al Smith presidential boom, and proposed railroad board changes.
A fragmentary note cites “in consideration of such” and mentions “mbt rs” and risk. The text hints at an obvious danger but lacks full context or names, places, or actions. Further readable details are needed to clarify the event, parties involved, and outcomes.
A washed fragmentary column presents quirky quotes about crime, industry, fishing, golf, manners, perfume, money and travel. It reads as a patchwork of standalone witticisms and stray observations without a single clear event or named individuals.
Captain Warren J. Clear of the U S Army, attached to the American Embassy fee, leads a boxing class for Japanese Army officers in Tokio. Japanese troops, historically trained in jiu jitsu and wrestling, begin pugilistic training now. Clear, a former Army boxing instructor in Europe, has held heavyweight titles in China and the Philippines and trained with Jack Dempsey at Camp Mendle. The War Minister General Ugaki shows keen interest in the program.
A trade report notes export taxes and licenses slow Germany’s linen export revival. Prices for linen yarn are 60 percent lower than peace time, while New York cotton prices rose to 37 cents per pound. German mills expect linen costs to align with cotton textiles and seek foreign markets amid unsettled conditions.
Lifeboats of the German liner Columbus will be equipped with radio, powered by motors on board. Wavelengths will range from 200 to 600 meters as the ship operates between Bremen and New York, per Associated Press.
Col S A Cheney, former captain of Company A, recalls the 110th engineers from Kansas and Missouri with pride. Now stationed in Peking, he writes Tillotson that the regiment’s spirit reflects good home training. He plans to return to the U S next year and attend future reunions as the regiment’s "noble band" and credits his soldiers for their strong performance. He laments China’s anxieties, compares it to a steady but battered ship, and notes his wife’s death last September leaving a baby girl.
Strong lines across Kansas urge lower valuations and taxes after motor traffic and new highways shrink freight and passenger revenue. Joplin and Pittsburg interurban asks cut from 1.4 million to 400 thousand dollars in Kansas value, with unpaid taxes cited. Street railways report declining passenger revenue and some abandonments, while lawmakers may consider gasoline tax and converting city street lines to bus operations to level competition. Germany leads in new books in 1922, Swiss statistics show, with Britain, France, and the U.S. following.
The narrative describes early infant wear with garments handmade by Mrs. Shaun and neighbors. It notes initial abdominal wrappings or hand coverings, followed by earth or cotton diapers, and undergarments of light wool or cotton. Outer wear remains simple in white cotton with draft strings, plus wool or lighter hoods for cold or warm weather.
Mrs Roser and sons drove to Franklin County to see the Osher home and new ten pound baby James Miller. Visitors gathered at Firebaugh and Hilmer homes in Lawrence, with Easter baskets and school events noted. Comments on farming, church activities, and local travel fill a busy rural ledger of names and places.
Local notes report Leslie Churchbargn out with measles and Mildred Pardee caring for her aunt Mrs Starr near Eudora. Ed Pence and Nancy Lou Overbrook visited in Baldwin area. many neighbors attend church and school activities as reports of mising pages and weather shifts flow through the week.
Tokyo reports a huge new stadium to be built this spring near halfway between Kobe and Osaka on the Hanshin line. It will seat 50 600, expandable to 80 000, and include a modern baseball diamond with big league features, a running track, field events, and a seacoast swimming pavilion. The project aims to be the Orient's largest stadium, reflecting Japan's baseball boom and expected strong attendance.
Bakersfield, May 2. More than 140 shark teeth were dug from a ten by five feet mound on Shark's Tooth hill nine miles from the city by two policemen in spare time. The mound, about 500 feet high, sits at the edge of the Kern River oil field and appears made mainly of fossilized prehistoric sea creatures. Paleontologists have visited occasionally but no full systematic study has begun.
Advertisement extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for women's ailments including headaches nervousness backache and irritability. It claims fifty years of use proving health benefits without narcotics or drugs and urges every suffering woman to try it.
Kansas highway official Capt Tillotson reports to Isaac Bloom that the Capper Reece bill aims to deliver 12 4008 caterpillar 5 ton trucks 5 000 motor trucks and 500 repair shop units from army stock to state highway departments for road construction. Bloom cites Camp Holabird storage of over 1 000 vehicles awaiting inspection and questions why unused vehicles are kept in open storage.
Toneka Kansas May 2 Two soldier bonus disputes test whether a mother or widow receives the deceased s $742 bonus In Wyandotte county Mrs ane Belt sues in district court Kansas City claiming the bonus for her son Benjamin W Belt while the commission had awarded it to his widow A second suit in Smith Center by Mrs Franklyn Curtis Mendenhall seeks the bonus as the soldier s widow with the commission favorable to Curtis s mother hoping the former marriage of the younger woman was not dissolved by divorce or death Records on file in the case show
Fragments indicate an tied to a former husband named Edward Styles and Curtis with a bonus of 170 dollars. The text references Mrs. Ire and Louis Pat, and describes fashion and furniture design shifts toward simpler lines and refined tastes, noting straight leg styles and upholstery trends.
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