Easy Money Sparked by Hidden Bell Stock Fortune
A San Francisco woman is set to receive a fortune after uncovering a long-lost block of American Bell Telephone stock valued at about 1.75 million dollars. The stock, once deemed worthless, was found by a man and is being transferred to the East for sale under discreet arrangements involving WY. D. Harding, fiscal agent of United Wireless Telegraph, and a second unnamed party.
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San Francisco
Fus
WY. D. Harding
United Wireless Telegraph Company
American Bell Telephone Company
Fife
Baldwin University marks fiftieth anniversary program
Baldwin University and Baker University celebrate Baldwin's fiftieth anniversary from June 5 to 10 with a full week of events. The schedule includes chapel services, an anniversary exhibit, baccalaureate, vesper services, a university sermon, graduation exercises, a poetry lecture, historical celebration, and welcome greetings with Governor Stubbs presiding.
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Baldwin University
Baker University At
Baldwin
Baker
Hannurs
Fermer
Marlin
Paul M. Jeurson
J. Wilhis Gleed
Osman Grant Markill
Stubbs
Missionary George Leonard Proposes Night Schools Plan
The Independence Star notes George F Leonard of Lawrence loan firm advocates converting idle night hours at local school buildings into night schools for youth. He imagines short hand and bookkeeping courses taught by volunteers to widen opportunities for boys and girls who work by day. The piece questions Leonard’s motives but highlights the proposal as community improvement. The column ends inviting reader opinion on the plan.
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George F. Leonard
Lawrence Loan Firm
Independence Star
Leonard
Ltar
Enforcement of Child Labor Law Begins Soon
State Labor Commissioner W L A Johnson will enforce the new child labor law as soon as it is published. The act bans employment of children under 14 in theaters, elevators, mill facilities or packing houses and limits work hours for ages 14 to 16. Also notes school attendance aims and parental obligations. The text also includes Alumni Day and Commencement events, and a report on William Travers Jerome addressing accountability in public office at Cooper Union.
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W. L.A. Johnson
Johnososa
Sle
New York
William Travers Jerome
People’s’ Institute
Cooper Union
Bowen widow leaves large family in Linwood
Mrs M Bowen aged 85 dies in Linwood Kansas last week after sixty seven years of marriage to A Bowen. She is survived by her widower four sons two daughters twenty four grandchildren and seventeen great grandchildren. The family request no notice and the obituary notes the couple lived west of Mass and near Winthrop May 3.
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Linwood
Kans
Social Round Table notes and Topeka gatherings
The Society column lists omissions from Mrs. Governor Stubbs's Topeka visit and details a Motiel club meeting with Miss Nannie Mackey hosting tonight for Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brewer of St. Louis. Invitations issued by Mrs. J A Henley for Wednesday whist and Tuesday reception. Henley entertained Saturday for the Brewers and Mrs. Simons of Kansas City with a dinner whist for 48 guests at four-quartette tables.
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Round Table Club
Governor Stubbs
Topeka
J. O. Holloway
W. E. Higgins
HL “Holmes
Motiel Club
Nannie Mackey
Miss Mackey
Frank Brewer
St. Louis
J. A. Henley
Brewer
Henley Simons
Kansas City
Henley
Agnes Greenleys
Mrs. Henley
Case filed in Connecticut tests Employers' Liability Act
The government today filed in the supreme court of errors in New London county Connecticut its brief in support of constitutionality of the Employers' Liability Act of 1908 in the Mundon vs New York New Haven Hartford railroad case. Attorney General Wickersham and Wade J. Ellis prepared the brief and argue the act protects railroad workers and safeguards interstate commerce. Separately, social notices recount a wedding in Lawrence and local notices about sales, housing, and services.
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Washington
Supreme Court of Errors
New London County
Connecticut
Edgar G. Mundon
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company
Wickersham
Wade J. Ellis
WAS His AFFINITY Captured in a Murder Trial
In Flushing on March third week defense结束 begins with calls for Virginia Hains to testify about Captain Peter C Mains Jr and his alleged acts. Emma Lavelle, a former domestic, recounts meeting the captain in 1908 at Fort Smiton and witnessed him embracing Mrs Hains and kissing her.
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Flushing
Nay
Peter C. Mains, Jr
Wen. Eannis
Virginia Haim
Hains
Erna Lavelle
Local residents tour Kansas City and Topeka visits
A string of local residents are noted returning from or headed to Kansas City Topeka and nearby towns including Ida Martin Roy Cox Halliday W S Clawson Fred Cowles John Gallagher Gladys Scott Mrs J N Gordon Effie Graham J T Gallagher Elizabeth Heavey Ida Scott Jean Marlan Evita Robers etc. Several travelers attend events and visits to family and friends while plans for a Farmers Institute are postponed.
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Ida Martin
Siet
Roy Cox
Baldwin
Haliday
W. S. Clawson
Kansas City
Sam Bishop
Topekas
Fred Cowles
Kanas City
W. Laming
J. N. Gordon
DeSoto
Effie Graham
Topeka
J.T. Gallagher
Gladys Scott
Edgar Wright
Byron Mancock
J. F. Roberts
Odessa
John Watkins
Mildred Poindexter
Tleputy
Sanborn
Elizabeth Heavey
Jelen Scott
Leavenworth
Jean Marlan
Ikta
Downs
Misa Viva McKenzie
Farmers’ Institute
Fairview
John Nutebings
Mes
Helening
Herning
Emporia
Pi Beta House
Misa Rachel Pugh
Rome
Independence
D. C. Yarbaugh
Tedhope
Edith Mord
City
C. G. Hawk
Jones
Ska
Is City
Limone
Istbel Keeler
Nellen McFarland
T. L. I Patlock
Marion Russell
Great Bend
Kansas
Phi Delta ‘Theta
Virginia Coleman
Yestery
Hoisington
Wichita
F. W. Bartel
CS. Charles Pierson
Lane, Kansas
J H
Allie Brush
M. E. Roth
Ralph
Russell
A. Young
Liberty
William Jenvis College
Tess Critchfield
Helenames
Amorette Weaver
Imogene Dean
Beta Sorority
Washburn
Wm. Hughes
Arapahoe
Oklo
George Gowman
Charles Engle
Missouri Law and Federal Judges Face Push for Inquiry
May 3 reports from Kansas City and Jefferson City describe Representative Murphy of Missouri proposing a resolution to investigate federal judges McPheron and Phillips over Missouri rail rate disputes. The measure cites alleged court conduct, alleged jury influence, and affronts to state anti trust law. Governor Tadley telegrammed Murphy to avoid derailing pending U S circuit court proceedings.
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Kington
John Bdhllips
Smith Melherpurr
Misouri
Murphy
Missouri
Philips
Jude Philips
Philips Becum
Jefferson City
Tadley
A. P. Murphy
House
McPheron and
Phillips
United States Circuit Court
Supreme Court Reverses Lower Court in Anthracite Case
The Supreme Court today reverses and remands the high court ruling in government v Anthracite collieries on the commodities clause of the Hepburn rate law. It upholds the clause as constitutional but narrows government scope and allows stock ownership of subordinate firms to ride through transportation. Justice Harlan dissents on stock.
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Washington
Supreme Court
All Court
Harlan
Bank assets to be examined for possible dividend
Fort Scott Kansas May 3 Dissatisfied creditors of the Fatleal Hornaday Ur senal bank seek examination of assets after three months of waiting for a second dividend. Attorneys report to the comptroller of the currency, who advises organizing a committee to inspect assets. local lawyers and creditors form a group to pursue another payout.
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Fort Scott
Fatleal Hornaday Ursenal Bank
Ispsita
Iink
S. G. Lamping
Jane Hornadey
Keith Wwat A
Ope
J.rown
John Swisher
Reliable
W. C. Simona
B. Hodson
Pens
L. E. Waterman
Re Busse
Home Book Co
Warren Street
Markets by Wire Graing and Provisions Kansas City May 3
Wheat receipts 72 ears May price 1.274 July 1.40 Sept 1.52 Cash No 2 Ford 1.30a 1.40 May 69 3/4 67 1/4 July 72 1/2 Sept Cash No 2 mixed 72 3/4 72 1/2 No 2 white 72 3/4 72 1/2 Oats No 2 white 56 58 No 2 mixed 53 3/4 Rye 84 50 Hay Choice Timothy 12.50 12.0 Prairie 11.25 11.50 Butter Creamery 2.00 packing 1.0.
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Kansas City
Sa.be. Hay—Choice Timothy
Cluire Prairie
Butter—Creamery
Chicago Market Prices and Livestock Receipts Summary
A table of livestock receipts and commodity prices shows cattle receipts at 19,000 beef steers and 44,000 top, with cattle values listed for cows, heifers, stockers and feeders. Hog receipts total 11,000 with packers and heavy hogs priced, and pork, lard futures quoted. Wheat, oats and corn futures feature May July September contracts. A mix of household kitchen measurements and food preparation tips appears alongside commodity data.
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Chicago
Corm
Home Book Co
Automotive listings and Alaska lecture announced
AUTONOBILES. Malel N Ford £ 250 Mootel Weene Ho0 Corbin Tourkng ar $1,800 1 Pierce Great Arrow $2,800 NATIONAL AUTO EXCHANGE AL Thornton Manager Home Phone 6832 LAWRENCE EANS will Give a Lecture P. J. Coston will lecture tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 in Blake Hall on The General Condition of Alaska The lecture is free and the public is invited.
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Malel
Ford
Corbin
P. J. Coston
Blake Hall
Alaska
Endurance Run Planned by Lawrence Automobile Club
The Lawrence Automobile Club plans an endurance run for next month, weather and road conditions permitting. Only local entrants may participate, with a silver loving cup for the winner. The club, now a major city organization, will meet soon to finalize details amid growing local car ownership and interest in better roads.
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Lawrence Automobile Club
Cara
Gustafson
The
Lawrence
A. C. Griesa
Marmon
RB. Brodhead
Buick
John Herman
Ford
Automobile Club
Roosevelt Tops Lion Hunt at Wani in British Africa
Roosevelt adds another lion to his tally on the Wani expedition near Kapiti in British East Africa. Kermit bags a cheetah as cheers rise for the hunters. A nearby escort narrowly escapes a ferocious counter. In Paris James Hazen Hyde and chauffeur Ladwice receive prison sentences for a car collision. A Lawrence mortgage drive to aid Aunt Isabel’s near centenarian home continues with scant funds raised so far.
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Wani
Narobi
British East Africa
Roosevelt
Timterday
Kapiti
Kermit
Roosevelt Yeserday
Beast
James Hazen Hyde
Paris
James Hazep Hyde
New York
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Ladwice
Iyde
Hyde
Riveria
Isabel
Lawrence
Flood fears rise near Silver Lake as Kaw river erodes banks
A Topeka Capital summary warns the Kaw river near Silver Lake ten miles west of Topeka and about forty miles from Lawrence threatens farms valued at 300000. The river is gradually cutting the river bank, with no dams or bridges to impede flow, risking inundation and loss of acres after an abrupt bend and neck cut, similar to Lawrence.
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Lawrence
Kaw
Silver
Topeka
Silver Lake District
Silver Lake
Kansas Bank Deposit Guaranty and Surety Chartered
Topeka May 3 a charter was granted to the Kansas Bank Deposit Guaranty and Surety Company with a capital of $500 000 It grew from the federal move to bar Kansas national banks from the state bank guaranty law The comptroller acting at the request of Senator Curtis approved forming a mutual insurance company to guarantee national bank deposits
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The
Kansas Bank Deposit Guaranty and Surety Company
Topeka
Kansas National Backs
Curtis
Patterson Goes On Trial For Murder In Kelley Resort Shooting
Patterson is being tried in district court for the fatal shooting of Walker at the Kelley resort in the bottoms last winter. The defense pleads self defense as the morning focused on jury selection and the case opened in the afternoon. Witnesses described a quarrel over debts and a gun, with Patterson fleeing Baldwin two days later.
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Hipty
Patterson
Walker
Triad
Secur
Kelley Resort
Bottoms
Paterson
Baldwin
Reuben Goss
Lacy McGee
Dee
Aaid Walker
Preas
Wallpaper for sale at 919 Mass St Home Book Co
Advertises wall paper options and right prices at Home Book Co located at 919 Mass. The note markets a visit to pick wallpaper and mentions the store as a source for affordable wallpaper products.
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California
Home Store
Warren St
Boyles
Mass
919
Stl Home Book Co
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Fo Neville
Orner
JO Bot
J. M. Neville
Bell Phone
EASY
Geo. Leonard
the Christian College
William Frazier McDowell
William Alfred Quayle
Commissioner Johnsson
General University
Henry W. Warren
LL. D
Jerome
Heran
Neal
Minnie Wilbur
Mr.Olson
Arthur Olson
Olson
Douglas County
W.W. Bolt
Plymouth Congregational Church
Brotherhood
Plymouth Church Brotherhood
Bop
W. L. Burdick
J. Delong
Inez Plumb
Pi Beta Phi
Calvin Newman
Ednad Leedy
Edward Harcastle
Afiss
Russ Parkman
Mary Kellogg
Mable Stone
A. C. Ireland
Gertrude Boughton
Airs. Kitt Plumb Delong
Globe
Raymond's
F. A. Anderson
Martin Investment Co
St. Bell
West Limits
Te Town Exore
J. B. Reese
B. Caldwell
W. B. Caldwell
Mr. Heese
Calddwell
Mr. Caldwell
Tie
John Reese
J. J. Heese
Union Pacific
Angie
Furely Personal
MecPherson
Hadley
John F. Phillips
Washington Dispatch
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Lena
Lower Court
Ian
Eger
Teddy
Slyde
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Doom’’ Walker
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