Bundles for America Bazaar in Lawrence to aid war effort
Lawrence Bundles for America hosts a Friday and Saturday bazaar at Ellis store 988 Massachusetts to raise funds for its wartime work. Marie Wilkins substitutes for Lily Pons as saleswoman. national HQ in New York urges Americans to join the effort aiding troops and families.
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Lawrence Bundles For
America
Ellis
Massachusetts Street
Lily Pons
Marie Wilkins
Miss Pons
Pearl Harbor
Bundles For America
National Headquarters
National
Fifth Avenue
New York
Owen Gates Torrey
People’s Organization
Althe
Henry Werner
Bunches For America
Lawrence
Crops Improve as Rains Boost Kansas Soil Moisture
Topeka reports the past week brought two to six inches of rainfall across eastern and northwestern Kansas, lifting soil moisture and boosting harvest prospects. Wheat heads out in the south while northern areas joint. oats and barley show fuller development after prior drought. Flax and replanting occur in washed southeast counties. sugar beet planting nears completion in the Arkansas River valley with Kaw valley potatoes at a good stand.
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Topeka
Kansas
Arkansas ‘River
Kaw Valley
Patee Theatre to Open Friday with Double Western Bill
The redecorated Patee theatre in Lawrence opens Friday at 7 PM under a new policy of two weekly programs with a Western feature on each change. Matinees at 2 PM daily. evening shows at 7 and 9. Saturday and Sunday start 1 PM. Ada Carmichael will manage. opening program includes Don't Get Personal starring Hugh Herbert Mischa Auer Ann Gwynn and Jane Frazee plus William Boyd in Secret of the Wastelands Cassidy film.
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Patee
Ada Carmichael
Jayhawker Theater
Lawrence
Columbia
Commonwealth Theatres
Hugh Herbert
Mischa Auer
Ann Gwynn
Jane Frazee
William Boyd
Outfielder Kalin Reports To Draft Board
Chicago May 12 Outfielder Frank Kalin received his army draft call today saving the White Sox money by avoiding a late purchase of Kalin from Hollywood Pacific Pack. The move comes with Sox having just six outfielders and prevents a $15 000 purchase price.
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Chicago
Frank Kalin
White Sox
Sox
Hollywood Pacific
Local Socials and Family Events Across Baldwin and Wellsville
Black Jack A D Van Tries sold his herd of 20 Guernsey cows to Mr. Clarrige of Baldwin. Mr and Mrs Morris Lynne Averill were Sunday dinner guests of Miss Ruth Averill in Topeka at a Thursday lunch. Mrs A D Hostetter entertained at her Wellsville home with Grace Hays Ada Hays Mary Bailey and others. Mrs Mary Bailey left for Kansas City to visit nieces before returning to Palmyra. Miss Dorothy Kalb attended the junior senior prom in Baldwin and sang in the glee club. Mrs Helen Kalb and daughters attended a band concert at the Wellsville high school. Mr and Mrs Cyril Roche attended a family basket dinner at Prospect school in honor of Cpl Arthur Gabriel from Camp Clayborn La.
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A. D. van Tries
Clarrige
Baldwin
Morris Lynne Averill
Ruth Averill
Topeka
A. D. Hostetter
Wellsville
Grace Hays
Ada Hays
Mary Bailey
Minnie Hays
Littie Cayot
Kansas City
Arthur Crews
Nadine Murphy
Palmyra
Dorothy Kalb
Elizabeth Pearson
Bertha Pearson
Dupreeze
Helen Kalb
Glee Club
Cyril Roche
Prospect School House
Cpl
Arthur Gabriel
Camp Clayborn
Painting completes John Canary farm buildings this week
George Siler finished painting all buildings on the John Canary farm this week. Mrs. Baker Murphy and Mrs. Helenie attended an all day meeting at the home of Mrs. Earl Janeway in Lone Star Wednesday. Mrs. Mae Stewart returned from a week with her daughter in Kansas City and reports Ethel Duffenlack recovering from gall bladder operation. Velma Harper writes she is slowly recovering from TB in a California sanitarium. John Canary and wife heard of their niece Treva Canary's marriage to Maxwell stationed in Carolina.
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Baker Murphy
California
John Canary
Treva Canary
Maxwell
Carolina
The Journal World Classifieds Are Towns Market Hub
The Journal World classified page operates as the town’s bustling marketplace with a wide mix of ads and listings across categories. Readers browse for jobs, housing, goods, and services reflected in a busy, local commerce hub.
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Journal-World
May Bomb a Volcano Study Probed by House of Commons
The Royal Air Force reportedly studied effects of bombing a volcano by design, replying that no official report exists on a 1940 Naples raid incident at Vesuvius. Under secretary Sir Harold Balfour said seismologists have been consulted and that many scientists doubt man made explosions could trigger a eruption.
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London
Royal Air Force
Naples
Vesuvius
House of Commons
Harold H. Balfour
Air
Japan
Mount
Fujiyama
Balfour
OPA Eyes Stable Ceilings on Hard Liquor Prices
Washington May 12 CP The Office of Price Administration moves to stabilize ceilings on hard liquors amid erratic fluctuations. Ernest G Even heads the pricing unit and travels to New York to confer with importers. Officials expect a roll back in whiskey gin and other spirits and will set ceilings by March 1942 prices plus cost and tax adjustments. Reports from war centers note widespread violations of general maximum price rules.
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Washington
OPA
Ernest G. Even
New York
Drunkenness Charge at El Navajo Cabin Camp
County officers were called to the El Navajo cabin camp early this morning to quell a disturbance. Sheriff R. Skinner and Under Sheriff Elmer Schiller arrested carnival employee Jack Leo Garner of Roden Oklahoma on a charge of being drunk. Camp management ordered other carnival workers to leave.
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R. Skinner
Elmer Schiller
el Navajo
Jack Leo Garner
Roden, Okla
Carnival
Recognition For Shut-Ins Topeka Sunday Proclaimed
Gov. Andrew Schoebpel proclaimed Sunday June 6 to honor the shut ins. The statement called attention to the vast army of soldiers sailors marines and civilians on the home front whose battles are fought in beds and wheel chairs.
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Topeka
Andrew Schoebpel
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Chick) Fredericks
U.S
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TWA
Lily-Pons
Metropolitan Opera
John L. Friesen
Newark Army Air Base
Knowledge Hill
Caromel
Carter
K.U
Palm Beach
Arrow
Wilson Bros. Pajamas
Zelon
Lisle
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