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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1926
Page
4
The page shows subscription rates for The World Company in Lawrence Kansas with weekly, biweekly, and yearly terms, plus mail options and regional pricing. It also contains syndicated notices from Associated Press and Orleans, letters about national affairs, and a mix of editorials and public notices on strikes, banking guarantees, and university publicity chains.
A Kansas City regional note traces a liquor theft from the federal building and a court officer’s clash with police, stirring speculation about missing liquor. The piece highlights improved road safety with fourteen traffic deaths this year, down from twenty seven last year, and reports on sidewalk ownership debates amid winter snow and urban obstruction concerns. It also mentions a Lawrence resident’s challenge with cigarette smoking under a klucker’s rule.
Editorial argues both major parties will ignore state primary laws by holding conventions to name platforms and candidates. It notes no penalties exist for bypassing primaries and warns such conferences could tilt primaries in favor of regular partisans. Also humor column jests about a 67 year old Rifian warrior's 70 mile run as a feature for relay coverage.
In this city fifty years ago C T Ek reports families returning and a resigning principal at the Deaf and Dumb Asylum. Quincly school literary society divisions Philomathean and Alpha showcase closing exercises with a large program. High school graduates in Liber Ball and Lawrence senior class celebrate a quiet evening ceremony under Principal Miss J Clark and Prof. Cole.
A mixed rogues gallery of local life includes Miss Ethel Connelly and Mrs. Cora McCullum Smith traveling to Cameron on May 9 for a concert at Wesleyan College, Mrs. Kate Flinton returning from the East, Miss Nelle Dodge resigning from her reporting post in Beloit, and various remarks on notable trees, town events, and social gatherings. The piece also notes upcoming events including Alabama Senator W. W. Underwood’s 65th birthday, the British throne’s sixteenth anniversary, and international Girl Scout meetings in Boston with honors to social service leaders in New York and Simmons College.
At the annual dinner of the National Institute of Social Science in New York Stephen Tyng Mather will be awarded a gold medal for distinguished social service as director of national parks. A San Francisco native and descendant of the Mather family, he rose from journalism to manage large properties before joining the federal effort to build the park system. The report notes his long service and wealth lent to the cause.
An article argues that business men need university training. It cites competition, proven commitment, efficiency, and collaboration as reasons. The writer notes growing value of schools of business and predicts increasing demand for college-educated managers in the future.
Jefferson City hotel owners praise the Eldridge for its standing among new hotels. Mr J A Huegel of the Central Hotel in Jefferson City visited Lawrened and spent the night to gain ideas for the new hotel. The Central has boosted tax receipts and will add 125 more rooms once completed. Huegel plans to stay in Topeka and return with further plans.
Baldwin residents attended church gatherings and school events this week. Notable items include Dr. I M Hargett speaking at Baker University chapel and returning for Baldwin High School commencement. Miss Grace Huey placing in music contests. the community mourned Perl Barton with services in Baldwin and Herrington connections, and various visits and social club activities across town.
The Tuesday Reading club week at the First Methodist parsonage welcomed Thelma Rinchard and Hahlyn Stewart faculty members of the high school and the school board with their spouses as guests. Miss Alma Boicourt, pianist, and Mrs Anna Flickinger presented a program including selections from Sampson and Delilah and original compositions. Both performers are Baker graduates. A two course luncheon followed. Out of town guests included Mrs C F B Wolf Miss Mary Fay Brown and Mary Elizabeth of Ottawa.
In a desert home near Desert? Grande Arizona on Tuesday Mrs A J Cox killed her two young daughters aged four months and three years then took her own life with a rifle after a rattlesnake bite and failed home remedies. The tragedy was found by Cox upon returning to his desert hamlet after an absence of more than a week. A diary described attempts to ease pain by slitting a foot wound with a penknife and failing to reach neighbors seven miles away before firing on the children and herself.
A. Whitcomb presented a bouquet of tulips at the Journal-World counter on a fine Tuesday, then delivered them to a sick employee's home. Whitcomb recalls his family ties to the paper, mentioning his father was a printer and he once lost a finger in printing press gears as a boy.
Ostrich plumes once topped hats costing twenty dollars are now rare as fashion changes. Dealers report milliners less interested and pivot to ostrich feather dusters and brush products. Cheap feather heads and long plume brushes sell for modest prices as the market reacts to evolving styles and the decline of hat adornments.
Stockholm United Press reports a prohibitionist petition to limit weekly alcohol rations for Swedish families was rejected by the Government Liquor Control Board. The board cites temperance benefits but warns tighter limits could revive bootlegging as contraband spirits have recently declined and most drunkenness cases linked to illegal imports.
Reading reports a new Santa Fe railway station will be built here. The contract was awarded to a Saline firm which constructed the nearby depot in Eninoria.
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