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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1925
Page
2
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Fragmentary OCR notes hint at a restless scene or testing moment. The text references a preview and an acid test, suggesting a difficult trial or evaluation process with hurried lines and unclear details.
A muddled May report from New York discusses recruitment directives attributed to Commissioner Enright. The piece notes emphasis on local recruits, with cautious limits on accepting applicants from other cities amid evolving trade phase considerations.
Fragmented notes indicate dancers planning a continental tour with statements about sending companies to the continent. The text is incomplete but suggests a focus on travel and performance.
A historical report describes a university gathering discussing architecture, excavations, and academic debates. It notes speakers presenting topics such as the resistance of cosmetics to explosion and cognition in males, with caricatures shown and telegrams sent to faculty including E Miller in California and Moeschkeitz at Princeton.
London May 18 Press-Young reports George Landsbury a newspaper editor and socialist member of parliament described the dole as three wretched years of state policy. He urged stopping the allowance for idle young men aged 18 and over, arguing many could forgo benefits if better conditions existed and that society must teach self-reliance after the armistice.
The plan for the 1932 two hundredth birthday of George Washington will be held in the city founded by Washington under a commission created by Congress. The commission, chaired by Speaker Bayard, includes Rep. Hawk Tilson of Connecticut, Rep. Garner of Texas, and Rep. Burns of Tennessee. Presidential appointees include Mrs Anthony Wasyne Cooks, Mrs Mary Sherman, Henry Ford, Hap ford MacNider, Bascom Slemp, A Lawrence Lowell, Edgar B Piper, Frank A Munsey, and John Hays Hammond.
Carl Hunt general manager of the Associated Advertising Club of the World told the Federation of Women's Advertising Clubs at the World Advertising Convention that women are underpaid relative to their ability. He asserted that lack of confidence in women themselves keeps them from higher status and pay in advertising. He warned against traditional views limiting women's advancement in the field.
The text argues women are undervalued in business and must be convinced of their own abilities. It stresses the advertising woman has a growing place, yet men still control much of buying and rest of it. It claims a woman with equal intellect can craft better ad copy than men if she studies.
Ottawa May 18 The Anm peoples Have made the world a neighborhood but not a brotherhood declared George Collins secretary of the Fellowship of Reconciliation in addressing Ottawa university students. He said whites maintain a double standard in evaluating races including white black brown and yellow. Collins pursues reconciliation of conflicting interests and ideals among races during a speaking tour of U S colleges. He asserted the negro is treated unfairly and that misdeeds of some blacks are charged to color rather than to the individual. He also condemned excluding negroes from hotel and restaurant service and urged college men and women to read the path to freedom from racial prejudice.
Prof Thomes from the University of Denver presents color preference findings showing blue as favored by white and Indian children, with red disliked as education rises. A separate note explains dogwood’s name origin from old butcher practices using daggar wood sticks.
Aged gentlewoman Mrs. Robert Haldane recalls pre Victorian life in Perthshire Scotland during her birthday tribute. She recounts early schooling brutalities, first locomotive, balloon ascents, prison treadmill and 1830s remedies, noting barriers for the poor and shifts since her youth. She highlights Victorian manners, class influences, and the emergence of modern comforts.
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