Germany Signals Acceptance Of Allied Ultimatum
Berlin reports show Dr Wirth agrees to form a new cabinet and accept the London terms. Paris notes French officials anticipate Germany will yield to reparations demands as Reichstag factions move toward support. Resolution urges swift conformity while Bavaria’s armament stance remains a factor.
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Berlin
Dr. Wirth
Fehrenbach
Paris
Germany
Ebert
Paul Loebe
Reichstag
Upper Silesia
Rhur
Theodore Wolff
The
Tageblatt
Democratic
London
Bavaria
Wilhelm Mayer German
Briand
France
Brnning
Drownings and floods from May rainfall across eastern Kansas
Reports to the state board of agriculture describe extensive crop damage from last nights rain and floods. A tornado near the Pottawatomie reservation destroyed farm buildings, injuring Mrs James Martin. Two people drowned near Holton as Banner Creek overflowed. Topeka area saw four to six inches of rain with floods threatening Kaw valley and rivers rising.
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Topeka
State Board of Agriculture
Pottawatomie Indian Reservation
James Martin
Jeks Martin
Ossinga
Banner Creek
Holton
George N. Haas
Scott Ross
Kaw Valley
Manhattan
Council Grove
Butler
Greenwood
Marins Des Cygnes
Ottawa
Little River
Little Arkansas
Santa Fe
Hutchinson Trade Special
Salina
Lincoln
National School for Commercial Secretaries Planned
A national school for commercial secretaries will be conducted this summer under the joint auspices of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States the National Association of Commercial Organization Secretaries and Northwestern University. The program aims to establish educational standards for chamber of commerce work.
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C. of C. Secretarie
Chicago
Chamber
of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce of the United States
National Association of Commercial Organization Secretaries
Northwestern University
Lone Robber Robs Wichita Bank For $12000 Loot
A lone bandit entered Stock Yards State Bank at eight this morning, forced the cashier to open the safe, and escaped on foot with $12,000 in cash and liberty bonds. About $8,000 in currency remained untouched, and this may be Wichita’s first bank robbery.
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Wichita
Stock Yards State Bank
Weather rainfall totals and forecast for Lawrence era
The rainfall at the weather observation station last night totaled 1.68 inches, adding to the nine and a half inches since Saturday morning for a Lawrence total of 3.84 inches. Tonight and Wednesday look generally fair with a slight cooling in the east. yesterday evening readings showed 3.68 inches, 7 p.m. 3.68, 7 a.m. today 5.sy, 2 p.m. today 70. Maximum yesterday 75, minimum today 55. Also noted is a comment on athletics by W L George, England's leading authority.
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Lawrence
Belvoir Bridge Saved From Driftwood Amid Severe Floods
Heavy rains flooded the Kaw and Wakarusa valleys with over four inches since last Friday. Driftwood threatened the Belvoir bridge but neighbors removed it, preventing damage. Williamstown and nearby roads suffered washouts while bridges along the Oskaloosa to Williamstown route were generally flooded or washed out. The Kaw at Lawrence rose but not to danger, as reports noted widespread surface flooding across the Wakarusa and Coal Creek areas and undermined approaches near Fort road.
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New
Belvoir Bridge
Williamstown
Oskaloosa
No. 6
School House Road
Clinton
Lone Star
County Farm
Eudora
Mud Creek
New Fort
Fort
B. L. Wolfe
Kaw
Lawrence
Kansas
Ottawa
Vinland
Wakarusa
Blue Mound
Coal Creek
Washington Creek
Abe Attell Arrested in New York Fugitive Case
Abe Attell former New York boxer indicted in 1919 over the Chicago baseball scandal was arrested in New York today on a charge of being a fugitive from justice. He was held without bail.
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Abe Attell
New York
Chicago
Canadian women professionals form New York club
Canadian business and professional women residing in New York City establish a dedicated club to advance networking, support, and professional development opportunities for members in the metropolitan area.
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Newark City
Imri Zumwalt Dies in Kansas City Hospital
Word arrived from the state printing plant that Imri Zumwalt, state printer, died at Bethany Hospital in Kansas City Kansas at 1 80 this morning after months of illness.
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Imri Zumwalt
Dead Opera
Kansas
State Printing Plan
Bethany Hospital
Kansas City
Bergdoll case questioned over Governors Island guard
Washington May 10 Military authorities at Governors Island were warned about Grover Cleveland Bergdoll before his escape, a letter read to the house committee showed. Colonel John E Hunt testified that the warning letter may have been signed by Colonel Weibel but claimed no jurisdiction over the disciplinary barracks. He said Bergdoll fled during a gold hunting trip to the Maryland mountains.
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Washington
Governors Island
New York
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll
House
John E. Hunt
Bergdoll
Weibel
Department of the East
Philadelphia
Hunt
Martinl
Maryland
Weibels
Judge Advocate
Peters
Manhattan high school grain and stock judging lineup
The Manhattan contest features a high school judging team of Ross Mom Lloyd Preston Leslie Hammig and Charles Eberwein set to compete Thursday in the state event at Manhattan. About 100 to 125 schools are entered and Lawrence boys seek five cups plus cash prizes offered by state seed houses.
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Manhaattan
Ross Mom
Lloyd Preston
Leslie Hammig
Charles Eberwein
Lawrence Boys
Tts
McNamara Released From San Quentin After Nine Years
John J. McNamara, freed from San Quentin after nine years and five months for the 1910 Llewellyn iron works dynamiting in Los Angeles. He had been sentenced to fifteen years but earned the maximum good conduct reduction.
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San Quentin
Cal
John J. McNamara
Llewellyn Iron Works
Los Angeles
State boards convene to nullify Wooster rulings
Topeka May 10 members of the state boards of education opened a session to pass resolutions nullifying the rulings of Miss Lorraine E Wooster state superintendent of public instruction. Wooster who as ex officio chairman refused to call the meeting is reported to be in Chicago.
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Topeka
State Boards of Education
Lorraine E. Wooster
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Miss Wooster
Chicago
John Bull Sends Big Gold Shipment to Apply on Account
New York May 10 a five million dollar gold shipment said to be the first of a series by the government of Great Britain to aid retirement of its November 1 maturity in this market has arrived. It was consigned to J P Morgan Co fiscal agents here for the English government. The gold came yesterday aboard the Mauretania.
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New York
Great Britain
J. P. Morgan & Co
Mauretania
Kansas University prepares site as old stadium is torn down
Kansas University campers and workers dismantled the aged McCook field bleachers in under two hours. Contractors cleared planks nails and supports while a Kansas City film company captured the moment. Afterward University-wide convocation and a massive barbecue fed 4000 students with the aid of 15 chow lines run by University women.
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McCook
K. U
Kansas City
McCook Avenue
J. C. Nichols
Thornton Cooke
George L. Kreeck
Lawrence
E. H. Lindley
Pr. F. C. Allen
University
Lorado Taft to Speak in Lawrence on Thursday
Lorado Taft, renowned American sculptor, will lecture Thursday in Fraser Hall chapel Lawrence on One Hundred Masterpieces of Sculpture. The talk will be illustrated with views of masterworks and is part of a Kansas trip including Topeka and Wichita. Taft, tied to the Chicago Art Institute, recently completed the Midway group in Chicago.
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Lorado Taft
Lawrence
Mr. Taft
Topeka
Wichita
Kansas
Taft
Midway
Chicago
Chicago Art Institute
Delta Phi Delta
Fraser Hall Chapel
Wallace Urges Lower Rates to Stabilize Economy
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace told the American Agricultural Editors association in St Louis and spoke at the Missouri Botanical Garden dedication. He urged lower freight rates and a higher price level to steady economic conditions, saying the reparations settlement will be a new starting point for the world and benefit all nations with a stabilizing effect.
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St. Louis
Wallace
American Agricultural Editors Association
Missouri Botanical Garden
Harding broadens field for postmaster selections
President Harding modified Wilson's civil service order to widen the field for selecting first, second, and third class postmasters. Instead of choosing the top candidate from any single exam, the administration may designate any of the top three on the qualified list for a given postmastership.
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Washington
Wilson
Harding
Wives Seek Divorces in Douglas County Court
Divorce petitions filed by Ella Langley against A. J. Langley and Rebecca E. Vance against Robert James Vance claim marriages of sixteen and since 1908 respectively. Ella Langley cites seven minor children, non support and abuse. Vance alleges abandonment in 1909 and extreme cruelty and neglect during the marriage.
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Charles F. Moss
Douglas County District Court
Ella Langley
A. J. Langley
Rebecca E. Vance
Robert James Vance
Largest Kansas sewer project opens in Atchison
Atchison officials declare the White Clay creek storm sewer the biggest ever built in Kansas. The system will run water through two twenty two foot square concrete conduits from Fifth Street to the river, about six blocks, at an estimated cost of roughly half a million dollars as the work nears completion.
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Atchison, Kan
Atchison
Kansas
White Clay Creek
Fifth Street
Marine Strikers Riot at Baltimore Customs House
Three hundred or more alleged marine strikers and sympathizers stormed the doors of the customs house in Baltimore to reach fleeing African Americans seeking protection inside. Several negroes were beaten before police arrived and drove off the rioters with withdrawn pistols.
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Baltimore
Customs House
Federal Building
Unitarian Church proposes home for working girls in Lawrence
The Unitarian church-led plan seeks to sell the Ricker home on Maine Street and buy the Flintom residence at Ohio and Eighth to establish a working girls home. The church asks the Lawrence Business and Professional Women’s Club to support using the new property at full occupancy with rents just covering costs. A special committee at the Chamber of Commerce last night handles the proposal.
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Lawrence
Chamber of Commerce
Dinsmore Alter’s Buff Rock Team Shows Strong March to April
Dinsmore Alter’s Buff Rock chickens placed fourth in March among sixty pens at Missouri’s national egg laying contest in Mountain Grove and improved to second in April. The pens averaged 2 ½ eggs per hen per month with one hen laying 57 eggs in 61 days. Entries included special laying pens from England and Australia.
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Dinsmore Alter
Missouri
Mountain Grove
Mr. Alter
England
Australia
McCook Field Feed Aims to Stir Spirit at Kansas Campus
Dozens of workers, students, and volunteers gathered at McCook Field as captains led a playful drill and a brisk cleanup. Cap Garvin led the emergency squad while Phog Allen urged loud cheers during filming. A Red Cross visit reported one nail injury as the Chamber of Commerce and Haskell Band led a noon march to the barbecue.
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Chamber of Commerce
McCook Field
Haskell
K. U
Cairns Granted Temporary Gas Service Restraining Order
Judge L H Menger grants a temporary restraining order to John Cairns to prevent the gas company from disconnecting his service after he offered partial payment for April and refused the 50 cent April charge. Cairns argues past acceptance of charges and seeks to protect other users who may file similar actions. Hearing and further steps noted, city officials silent on broader implications.
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L. H. Menger
Douglas County
John Cairns
New Jersey Street
Ution
E. Moss
Dounty District Court
Hugh
Menger
Bry
Meanse
Jud Stewart
Cairn
Fergary
March
Cairns
Hugh Means
Ottawa
Pageant by School Children at McCook Field
School children will stage a big pageant at McCook Field featuring "Little Miss Carefree" and "The Awakening" with sparse dialogue and songs by local students. Merian Meader leads the cast, Huel Isley performs Monster Disc, Kennard Kennenes and Betty Stinson present The Good Fairy, while parental admission helps cover production costs.
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Miss Carefree
McCook Field
Childr Lawrence
Merian Meader
Huel Isley
Kennard Kennenes
Betty Stinson
Babe Knocks His Ninth Home Run This Season
Detroit reports Babe Ruth knocked out his ninth home run of the season as New York Americans secure a victory. Middleton contributed for Detroit in a brief game summary amid incomplete lines and unclear supporting details.
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Detroit
Babe
New York
Middleton
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