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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1934
Page
4
A Kansas City era column surveys mining walkouts in Cherokee County Kansas coal fields staged to pressure pay, and reflects on gangland battles and crime trials. It compares U S concerns with Russia under a stern eye on socialist experiments and debt policy.
About 3,000 relief workers in Sedgwick County faced a strike over wages, but roughly half stayed home while the rest continued work, reflecting debate over government responsibility for job creation and wage levels. The piece questions the push toward higher wages and collective society as the New Deal era experiments with relief programs and education.
Construction begins at 1530 Massachusetts street for a four story brick and tile apartment building by F. McDonnell of Kansas City. The eight unit structure will feature modern amenities and is to rise with eight residences. In other news, Mrs. Mabel F. Popenoe and Mrs. Fred Fisher sail from New York to London with their Santa Barbara home base, Haskell Institute supervisor H B Pesker heads to Chicago for Indian education matters, KU historian Frank Hodder elected president of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, and several Lawrence residents plan or return from trips including Denver California and Topeka.
Forties era notes report that A R Teen will deliver the Decoration Day address at Eudora on May 10. A recent woman suffrage meeting saw men yield seats to late arriving women. Friends of J L Morris surprised him on his birthday anniversary with a pleasant gathering.
Twenty five years ago a community notes several events in Lawrence. Post office preparations for a social at the residence of Arthur Henley. Grace Rector visiting. alumni address by A Wickersham at the Rose Polytechnic Institute. I O O F anniversary events in Atchison. local attendees listed. Floyd Lawrence changes address. Albert Leonard to Durango for surveying. Junior Force committee dinner. four sororities host Pan Hellenic dance. May Fete in K U gym. Pageant features Lord and Lady of the May and many tableaux before rain moved show indoors.
A collage of brief flashes notes Brig. Gen. Henry A. Barnum and Maj. Gen. Malvern Hill Barnum both hit by gunfire on July 1 in 1862 and 1898. Other items recount green cars misfortune Dr Balcerzak of Carnegie Tech, Berks County prison breakfast reform, and Montreal mayor paid a cigar per meeting.
Dry Tortugas are ten coral islets in the Gulf of Mexico about 120 miles southwest of Florida. Discovered by Columbus on May 10, 1503, the islets belong to Monroe County Florida, with an old Spanish fort marking the southernmost building in the United States. In 1903 President Theodore Roosevelt designated the area as a wild bird reservation.
Heavy rain nourished the wheat belt boosting the growing crop. William J. Bryan to deliver the commencement address at the agricultural college. An archaeological expedition along the Desna near Briansk uncovered six Paleolithic mud huts with tools and bones of mammoth and other animals.
Judith Dale confronts Norman over Bevins fortune and the Rio Diablo dam dispute as injunctions loom and judges, lawyers, and rivals maneuver. She moves offices, evicts Bevins interests, and plans to counter Lampere’s legal schemes while storm clouds gather.
Willy Nilly plans a quiet day at home with bathing lessons for cubs Jupiter and Stacky while others attend to chores and errands. Top Notch tends his general store, Mr Quacke cleans the Duck come, Mrs Quacker attends a party, Rip the dog roams, and Christopher gazes over nest treasures.
Cable News in Brief notes London papers doubt a quick war debts solution with the Express quoting that Roosevelt should know Britain will not pay more. Tokyo industrial leaders plan market expansion as Britain’s new limits bite. Geneva reports ahead of a four day League council meeting.
The article notes a possible demand by some nation, perhaps England, for Liberia’s expulsion from the league due to tensions over governing the Negro republic. It also reports Nanking’s decision that foreigners must hold Chinese visas and that foreign steamers on China’s inland and coastal waters require licenses.
The piece traces hysteria from Hippocrates through Sydenham to modern views, noting its multiform nature and psychological basis. It links mass hysteria to religion and folklore and explains how stress and personality disintegration drive it as a psychological escape. Tomorrow Rasnaud a Disease.
Treasury officials kept the two billion dollar stabilization fund hidden from public view since the January 30 gold reserve act. The fund appeared in the Daily Treasury Statement as a new bookkeeping entry tied to the dollar devaluation move. A secretive shift then moved related revenue items onto the fund, leaving observers bewildered by the opaque action.
A short humorous line notes a farmer's pride in his farm until government aid leaves him with little and in need of a new set of tires. The quip reflects satire on policy impact and rural life.
A shift to the Exchange Stabilization Fund naming and funding. One point eight billion dollars credited to the fund with two hundred million to the New York Fed, set to stabilize the dollar's exchange value through gold, foreign currencies and other instruments. Treasury officials remain cautious about administration intent.
AL endorses Hanes Wonderwear for a snug fit and full length shirts that stay down, resisting ride up. The copy claims elastic knit strength resists washing fatigue and promises colors that are guaranteed fast. See a Hanes dealer in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
General Johnson cited Kansas as one of the 18 states cooperating with the administration by aligning state laws. In Rome on May 9 an Italo Austro Hungarian economic agreement was reached, to be signed soon, featuring reciprocal duties, a minimum export price pact, and fixed purchase quantities among the three nations.
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