Great plans mark Haskell Institute anniversary week
Concerted events run June 10 to 17 at Haskell Institute Lawrence celebrating the twenty fifth anniversary of the 1884 founding. Highlights include Hawatha and Hiawatha plays, track meet, alumni baseball and games, lectures by Dr Wilbur and Frank Wright, a band concert, class day, and a baccalaureate. The program features Indian dance and costumes, exhibits from Domestic Arts and shops, and a benefit plea to Lawrence residents to fund the gala week.
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Shaw University
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Four Girls Club adds new member and society notes
Society items report Miss Carline Misa Alice Watts joining the Four Girls Club. Parties hosted by J A Henley and Mrs Clarence Kelso. Sophomore Night at Fraternal Aid Hall May 19. Recital by Wiedemann, Messler and Righter pupils tomorrow at 4 30. Miscellaneous vignettes and anecdotes follow about urban social life and humor.
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Righter
Immortal 600 member Captain Kirkman dies in Washington
Washington memorial report notes Captain Jackson Kirkman formerly Mississippi editor among the Immortal 600 died today. The brief obituary lists two famed Confederate veterans and mentions his South known status and wartime ties. The fragment references local ad copy for Wiedemann’s chocolate marshmallow sundaes and Tutti Frutti ice cream as unrelated product blurbs.
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Attorney General Rules Banks May Insure Assets Under Policy
National banks may insure solvency if policy form fits legal limits says Attorney General Wickersham in a Treasury reply. He notes discretion rests with bank directors based on solvency of insurer and premium reasonableness, urging removal of profit sharing and annual examination provisions from the policy. A question remains about the policy’s six month examination clause.
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Nothing to its new committees Offeers in Youngstown Ohio Do Not Believe
Pittsburg dispatch details James Boyle and wife Helen Boyle being jailed in Western Penitentiary after kidnapping case. Describes their arrival, separation, emotional reunions, numbers 6631A and 6032A, and talk of appeal. Also notes Daniel Reeble death mystery and council committee appointments in Lawrence with paving contracts and bond actions.
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Jury convicts Hains of manslaughter in New York trial
The jury in Flushing, New York, found Captain Peter C. Hains Jr. guilty of manslaughter in the murder of William E. Annis. Justice Garrettson instructed the jury that alienists cannot give dogmatic opinions and emphasized the presumption of sanity.
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Lawrence to Host Interurban HQ as Franchise Accepted
The Interurban company plans a large system through Kansas with Lawrence as its headquarters. Lawrence will host offices for Mariam Construction and Kansas City Kansas Southwestern. W Laming will post a $1000 bond with the city clerk to formally accept the franchise for building an interurban line.
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Journal
Standard Oil Cuts Crude Prices Again in Ohio Area
Standard Oil reduced crude prices by five cents a barrel across all grades in Lima on May 11. Eastern field stocks fell heavily while Oklahoma storage swelled with millions of barrels amid weak domestic trade projected for the summer.
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Standard Oil Company
Oklahoma
French Postmen May Strike Decision Hangs in Parliament
Paris May 11 A debate in parliament this afternoon will decide whether French postmen will strike. Leaders threaten action at a night meeting unless the Clemenceau cabinet falls, as the labor dispute escalates amid political tension.
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No Direct Nomination Defeated in Boston House
May 11 reports from Boston and Junction City describe a defeat in the house of a bill for direct nominations of senators and representatives. Other notes include clerks walking seventy three miles to factory remedy for perspiring feet and a pedestrian starting westward with mixed results, with local sales and performances referenced in a fragmented news brief.
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Edward Payson Weston
Fischer & Son
Wisston
Here
Adam Was a Gossip Said by Miss Austen at Club Breakfast
Miss Lorena E. Austen of Woodstock Illinois told Chicago Record Herald readers that Adam was the original gossip in a May breakfast address before a women’s club. She argued Solomon’s warning on gossip targeted men, not women, and criticized how married women endure calumny while bachelor maids speak out.
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Jerusalem
City Acts on Parks, Sewers, and Staffing
City council adopts a plan to install an eatery basin at Rhete Island and Warren streets and to advertise bids for paving and curbing on nearby avenues. It creates an assistant marshal position at zero salary, suspendes rules for second readings, and advances several sewer and street paving ordinances including lateral sewers from Ontario to Banks and from Illinois to Mississippi, plus Euclid Street paving from New Hampshire to Vermont.
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Missouri House Refuses Concurrence On Prohibition Measure
Jefferson City May 11 The Missouri House without debate rejects Senate amendments to the statewide prohibition resolution and sends it back, asking the Senate to recede A conference committee may be appointed If conference fails the bill faces further stalemate Senate amendments include delaying prohibition to 1913 and a 100 percent tax hike The licensing bill for social clubs selling intoxicants to members fails for the second time The governor urges passage via two messages to the legislature.
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Kansas Treasurers Meet in Lawrence This Week
Governor Stubbs will address visiting state treasurers at Eldridge House to open the Kansas State Treasurers Association convention with sessions Friday and Saturday. About 105 counties will be represented plus many wives. Speakers include J D Bowersock and J L Brady on Saturday morning, with Governor Stubbs in attendance. Women treasurers attend, and local merchants are urged to decorate storefronts for the event.
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Lawrence
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Sam Bishop
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Topeka
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J. L. Brady
Four Killed in Turck County Press Mill Blast
A blast at the large press mill of Jubs Powder Works in Turck County near Pillsburg, on May 1 at 3:15 pm, killed four men Robert McFarland Joe Stovall James Reod and Wm Morrow and injured many others. The mill and surrounding plant suffered extensive damage with debris scattered across the grounds.
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Turek
Chero' Kes County
Robert McFarland
Joe Stovall
James Reod
Wm. Morrow
Bristow to Be Heard On Tariff Bill as Aldrich Proposes Changes
Washington May 11 Aldrich said the finance committee would submit a revised duties schedule for gin a ore zinc and asked that lead products be postponed. Bristow said he would be heard when the white lead schedule is reached. The soup section was amended to impose a 50 percent ad valorem duty on perfumed soup. Votes on lead products and white lead will occur today. Scott urged protection for the glass industry noting tumblers once sold for 2.50 a dozen now eleven cents per dozen and lamenting drops in glassware prices.
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Ham and egg breed of John H Smith spawns gourmet claims
John H Smith of the local police force breeds ham and egg hens that lay eggs with ham like yolks and salty whites, promising a perfect breakfast when boiled or fried. He keeps experiments secret behind a high fence, pricing eggs at 25 cents and steering toward a wider market. He envisions a revolution in the egg business with a Welsh cheese diet to yield a broader menu.
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New York
Extend Cotton Marketing at Alabama Bankers Meet
Mobile May 11 that there is no reason why the marketing period for cotton cannot be stretched to nine or ten months instead of three or four. W P G Harding of Birmingham contends at the seventeenth annual Alabama State Bankers convention that banks should finance holding cotton for slower, more profitable marketing.
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Jury in Muskogee land fraud cases stalls in federal court
In Muskogee Oklahoma on May 11 a federal court tried to complete a grand jury to re investigate town land fraud cases involving Governor Haskell and others. Eleven men had qualified yesterday and five more were needed. The panel could not be completed until Wednesday.
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Haskell
No truth to claim on Crazy Snake kinship
Repulps Okla May 11 Alex Harjo brother of Chitta Harjo Crazy Spoke Creek leader said reports he knew Crazy Snake's whereabouts are untrue. Harjo arrested on a stealing charge but discharged when witnesses failed to appear.
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Alex Harjo
Chitta Harjo
Crazy Spoke
Abruzzi Duke Rumored Suicide Attempt in Fit of Mood
Sensational reports from Rome claim the Duke of the Abruzzi, in a rare low mood, tried to shoot himself but was disarmed by a vigilant aide. Authorities have been alerted, and the episode is described as a significant royal peril. Nearby, Smith's News Depot advertises counters and showcases for sale.
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