National Representatives and WPA talk in 1930s tone
A jumble of addresses from national representatives and cities followed by Associated Press rights and a string of editorial notes. It comments on boondoggling at the WPA, Hoover era crime busts, law enforcement cooperation, civic dignity in Lawrence and Sebetha, taxation politics, African war news, and federal building plans for 29 Kansas towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Audit Bureau OF Circulations
Ralph Tennys
Babetha
Lawrence
Sebetha
Kansas
Mussolini Seeks Quick Annexation of Ethiopia
Mussolini aims to finalize Italy’s annexation of Ethiopia by Saturday amid rapid moves after the Addis Ababa standstill. Italian forces hold the sole rail line into Ethiopia, provoking French discontent as the League of Nations prepares for wash day diplomacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lion of Judah
Addis Ababa
Mussolini
Ethiopia
Italy
League of Nations
Duce P
League
France
Iitalians
Old Settlers Reunion and Marble King Contest Held at KU
Veterans from several states gathered in the University of Kansas Central Administration rotunda for the second annual Old Settlers Reunion. The day featured a marble tournament at South Park with Powell Hill winning the junior high title, plus a teachers marble contest won by Miss Opal Jayne Kennedy. A luncheon bridge hosted by Mrs. C B Russell and Mrs. Floyd Rankin followed, and Mrs. Carl Mettner celebrated her son John Randolph’s birthday with about a dozen children present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Times
University of Kansas
University
Department of Journalism
Journal-World
Lawrence High School
Benn Underwood
Eugene McFerland
Irvin McElhinny
Roland Stover
Powell Hill
Marble King
Joe Moore
New York
Alfred Switch
Haskell
George Burgin
Lee Cox
Stanton Smith
Quincy
Wilson Hill
Lincoln
Frank Silvers
McAlaster
Theodore
Cordley
DeFrance Copeland
Pinckney
Claude Payne Woodlawn
Mary J. Dillon
Opal Jayne Kennedy
Ursula Henley
New York School
Katherine Glendenning
Pinckney School
Mabel Richardson
New
Robert Rowlands
Carl Mettner
John Randolph
Miss Marcia Wood Injured in Sprained Ankle Incident
A history teacher Miss Marcia Wood sustained a badly sprained ankle on Wednesday while returning home from school. The incident occurred Friday’s notes indicate the injury was reported by the high school.
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Marcia Wood
Poor Pa by Claude Callan
A comic strip caption by Claude Callan presents a blunt exchange as a mother ponders marriage for her son Joe. The widow is suggested as a more insightful source than the family to answer whether Joe will wed.
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Claude Callan
Forty Years Ago May 8 Highlights From Lawrence
Forty years ago May 8 items cover local education changes with H A Finch and Downs leaving posts, Diaz retirement in Mexico, campus picnics and recitals, matinee dance, railway workers, and a bridge runaway. Also notes on decoration efforts, X ray lecture, political nominating caucus delays, court fines, and a scientific excursion by University of Kansas Bailey group.
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Lawrence
Knights Templar
Opera House
Blake
Santa Fe
Jack Harris
Harris
H. L. Stevens
Henry Johns
A. L. Ashby
John Tarpy
Kansas City
E. H. S. Bailey
Department of Chemistry
University
Iris Returns Home and Finds Family Embrace
Iris returns to Merrick Road, reunites with Uncle Will and Miss Ella, and confronts past wishes. Owen’s confession and Phina’s tears reveal old ties as Iris moves into her father’s restored parlor and redeems a quiet, hopeful future with Morgan and a renewed sense of belonging.
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Phina
Iris
Beckley
Josephine
Owen
Honora
America
Georgia Blair
Dorriens
Georgia
Allan
Camilla Wendell
Camilla
Owen Darling
Jean
Persia
Fahina
Merrick Road
Will
Shim
Morgan
Ella
Jin
Miss Ella
Town Historical Museum
Peo le
Eliz
William
Kay Oliver
Park Avenue
Kay
Margaret Widdemer
Mrs Quacko Explains About a Rooster Author
Mary Graham Bonner's tale features Mrs Quacko advising Top Notch on writing a book about his life. He wavers at the spill mystery and the risk of sharing hidden knowledge, while Yellow Beak and Quackles laugh at his doubt as he heads home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Graham Bonner
Mrs. Quacko
Top Notch
Rooster
Brravargs
Weekend Visit Fragments From Fort Stockton and Beyond
Fort Stockton residents Mrs Hock Stephenson and daughter joined Mr and Mrs W A Edmonds of Bald win and Mr and Mrs Ralph Johnson for a Saturday visit. Peggy Black stays with mother Reba Black for a week. George Mosier of Kansas City and Ott Harding hosts guests. Shiners, Ridgeways, and Mamie Ridgeway travel to Lansing to see Mack Taylor who has resumed work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dale Ridgeway
Winchester
Mamie Ridgeway
Lansing
Mack Taylor
Taylor
Two-Thirds Rule At Democratic Convention Prompts Debate
Washington reports a shift among southern Democrats over ending the two-thirds rule for nominating a presidential candidate. Some Byrd supporters push for a majority rule in 1940, banking on a smooth process with Roosevelt. Byrd opposes the change, while past history shows the rule blocking even majorities, with notable reversals at 1836 and 1912.
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Preston Grover Washington
Preston L.grove
South
Byrd
Virginia
Philadelphia
Roosevelt
Andrew Jackson
Martin van Buren
Jackson
John C. Calhoun
van Buren
Calhoun
James K. Polk
Baltimore
Champ Clark
Woodrow Wilson
Bennett Champ Clark
Experimental Madness and the Mescaline Study
The report describes mescaline experiments using the Rohrschach test before and after intoxication to assess personality types. It notes depersonalization during intoxication and a split self, observed across psychotic states, while acknowledging no current treatment implications.
Kansas News Briefs Car Crash Near Tam pa
Degalies Kan May 8 UP Mr J and Al Hanger carriers of Tam pa Kan ref their three filed load overran a 2 foot embankment after a truck mishap. A boy of three was thrown from the vehicle with bruises. Gardiner trodhe lost control of the salt laden truck. Lt.
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Degalies
Kan
Mr. J
al Hanger
Tampa
Mae ‘Boverag
Sifemre
Gardiner
Radio Programs Friday Evening May 2330 WREN Dinner Concert
A brief chronology of a fatal crash near Sedgwick where Eugene Hopkins 38 a Harvey county road worker was killed when his car hit a bridge abutment five miles north of the area. The Wichita court case awarded Ruth Madison damages from Wichita residents over an auto collision. Walter J. Lesage 45 bakery worker died from a self inflicted gunshot with notes found. Grover Lesage said Walter had been despondent after moving from Butte Montana to the area.
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Sedgwick
Eugene Hopkins
Harvey County
Here
Hopkins
Wichita
Sedgwick County
Ruth Madison
Dodge City
C. D. Smiley
Smiley
Coffeyville
Walter J. Lesage
C. A. Lang
Lang
Lesage
Grover
Walter
Butte
Mont
Flashes of life and luck in brief items across cities
Short items report a three foot pet alligator craving hamburgers in Charlotte. A Columbia bridge foursome stacks cards toward a grand slam in spades. In Phoenix ten Indians among 75 testify about liquor sales to Indians in federal court. In St Paul a Minnesota plant scientist touts an X ray device to inspect fruit for defects. Jane Wyman, 22, lands a Warner contract after a single screen test in Hollywood.
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Red Town
Phoenix
Ariz
St. Paul
R. B. Harvey
University of Minnesota
Hollywood
Jane Wyman
St. Joseph, Mo
Jane
Warner Brothers
Cooperative creamery to start operation in Baldwin City
May 8 report that the cooperative creamery sponsored by local business and professional men will be in operation within 90 days. W. O'Byrne states shares will be sold by May 1 and contracts are in place for more than 2000 cows for the initial run. The plan aims to have the business ready by August 1. Frank Bateson pleaded guilty to intoxication before Police Judge Don Hults and was fined 5 dollars.
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Marvin Peterson
James F. Anderson
Jack Pfeifer
David M. Brown
Robert Bailey
George Robson
C. E. Rogers
Hazel Riggs
Joe McCanles
H. W. Sherman
Rex Kendall
Forrest A. Jackson
John C. McFarland
F. E. Gurtler
W. M. Gill
Baldwin City
W. O'Byrne
Frank Bateson
Don Hults
Radio Schedule Dense with Orchestra Names and Times
A dense, era radio program listing shows stations KMBC WDAF WREN WDAE and others broadcasting from 5:45 p.m. to midnight. It catalogs hosts and orchestras such as Roy Campbell, Dorothy Lamour, Irene Rich, Fred Waring, Richard Himber, and Abe Lyman along with venues like the Hollywood Hotel and Union broadcasts across multiple markets. The long sequence includes varied programs from concert hours, dance orchestras, and weather forecasts, offering a snapshot of midcentury radio programming and the prominence of live musical variety.
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WDAF
Roy Campbell
KMBC
Boake Carter
Wren
Dorothy Lamour
Irene Rich
Baltimore
NBC Music Guild
Hollywood Hotel
Fred Waring
Palette
WDAE
Jack Randolph
Mme. Marienne
Roy Shields
WREX
Phil Levant
Kubinos
Amos ‘o"_ Andy
Country Club
Weink Bools
Tesse Crawford
KMSC
S—Hick Mansfeld
Cadia Cafe
Te Smith
Rubinof
Af—Patadise
Orch
KMNC
Russ Morgan
KMAC
Tastler
Tpiaza
Henry Halstead
George Olsen
Mark Hopkins
Orch- S
Asters’ Orch
WDA
KMT
Paul Levant
Crane
NBC
Carl Schreiber
Uiday
Ruuite
Russia
Fe Daf
Senator Fishface
Professor Figsbottle
uChee War Mothers
Abe ‘Lyman
Melodiana
Sanderson Ae Graph
REM Harpistan
Guarde
Voice of Experience
Jack Benny
Eillie Cantor
Robert L. Ripley
Bowes
Aek
H Jton
Merry- Collenads
Detroit
Orebéllea
HIG Jont
Barclay'a Community
RD Rae
KMPC
Hotel
Morrison Orch
Chas. Dornberger
Grand Terrace Orchestra
Rubinoff
Duke Eviington
LDS
Trianon
Carl Ravazza
Leon Belasco
Philip Crane
Earl Hines
Merry Gardena
Abe Lyman
Bismarck
Wren—Carl Schreiber
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Chanute H.S
Donald Alford
Talaquah
Oklo
Vanetta Pugh
Gladys Luckan
Miss Luckan
Hiawatha
Floyd Finch
Leavenworth
West Point
Diaz
Mexico
Mexico City
May
Porfirio Diaz
Francisco I. Madero
Briggs
Sisson
Chloe Cory
Hazel Browning
Fraser Hall
Blanche Lyons
Louise Wiedemann
Nutt
C. H. Angevine
N. B. Nutt
Boston
Lois Greenlees
Marion Henley
Edna Dunmire
F. Hall
Helen Walton
Elizabeth Brodhead
EH. Marks
American Express Co
Grand Island
Neb
W. H. Windman
Beatrice
Robert Hackman
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Winfield Scott
Altus
Okla
Kaw
Charles Schultz
Golden Rainey
McLouth
Washington
New York Academy of Medicine
Iago Galdston
Jimmie Allen
The
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Hilands
Charlotte
N.C
Shamrock
W. B. Matthewses
Columbia
S. C
R. C. Light
Walter Atkinson
John L. Ellis
Mrs. Light
Baldwin
KMRC
Howard Scott
Jarac
Hampton Institute Singers
Herbert Foote
KMMNC
Nis
Bruna Castagna
Wpdafe
Frank Fay Calis
7HD
EMBC
Col
Scoopnagle
Budd
WDAR
George ‘Washington
Kansas City, Mo
Ft. Madison
Joliet
W. W. Burnett
Lawrence, Kan
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