Scrutiny Rises Over Beer Sales in Kansas
Topeka May 13 UPI reports beer sales in Kansas under scrutiny on three fronts amid constitutional prohibition. City hearings push for tighter controls on beer parlors especially about children and dancing. County officials also push for legal bans and ground floor access limits. State legislators discuss state wide regulation and taxation to fund social programs.
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Topeka
UPI
Kansas
Coffeyville
R. L. Becker
Montemery County
Emporia
Becker
State Legislative Council
Joseph McDonald
Kansas City
Kan
Montgomery County
Sacred Concert by Baldwin City Choir at First M. E. Church
Baldwin City will host a sacred concert Sunday at 4 PM by the community choir directed by Prof. Irving D. Bartley. Soloists include contralto Mrs. Paul Kochan bass Harold Flickinger soprano Grace Huey and violinist Ira Roene Woodring. The program features works by Mendelssohn and Shelley plus devotional pieces.
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Baldwin City
Mar
Baldwin Community Choir
Irving D. Bartley
M. E
Paul Kochan
Harold Flickinger
Grace Huey
Ira Roene Woodring
Elijah
Mendels Sotin
Windward
Seraphir Sens
Narrow escape for Dick Schrader after car overturns
Dick Schrader of Lawrence escaped serious injury after midnight when his motor car veered off the slab onto a soft shoulder and rolled over three times. He was alone and reported shaken but unhurt as help arrived at the scene.
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Dick Schrader
Lawrence
Mrs. Wolfe Leads Democratic Women's Outreach for 1936
Mrs. James H. Wolfe, director of the Democratic National Committee's women's division, has spent two years spreading government policy nationwide. She edits The Democratic Digest, mobilizes Democratic women from Utah who aided in the 1932 campaign, and frames politics in terms of home, jobs, schools, and health.
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James H. Wolfe
Democratic National Committee
National Post
Ic Health
Local Driver Survives Crash Near Baldwin Junction
A driver named Schrader rolled his car on Highway 59 about two miles north of Baldwin Junction. The vehicle overturned three times and landed in a field. Schrader, though badly bruised, walked to the road and flagged down Vernie Wilson of Lawrence, who drove him to Schrader’s home. The 1984 US coach was badly damaged and towed to town this morning.
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Highway 59
Baldwin Junction
Schrader
Vernie Wilson
Lawrence
Yo Yo Lyrical Tale And An Invitation To Roosevelt
A garbled text piece blends nursery rhyme style lines with a note about inviting President Roosevelt to Hutchinson’s state fair set for September. The report then shifts to civic items: Hutchinson Chamber of Commerce plans, and a note on Unity Class meetings led by Harriet Prouts at Plymouth Congregational church Friday mornings.
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Roosevelt
Washington
W. B. Greenwald
Hutchinson
Kan
Greenwald
Marvin McIntyre
Hutchinson Chamber of Commerce
Plymouth Congregational Church
Harriet Prouts
Kansas City
Lawrence Junior High annual exhibit set for May 14
The Lawrence junior high will hold its annual exhibit Thursday evening May 14 from 7 30 to 9 30 in two buildings Manual and Old High To reduce stair climbing two marionette shows The Three Bears and Jack and the Bean Stalk will be shown in Old High auditorium Miss Lucille McIntyre's seventh grade art classes will perform The event invites parents and friends to view the student work later Friday morning for a brief viewing of the exhibits in Old High including rooms 204 102 103 104 105 106 in the lower halls and in Manual building for vocational subjects science and related rooms with detailed listings of rooms and subjects.
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Lawrence Junior High School
Manual
Old High
Lucille McIntyre
Jack
Train makes good speed on Santa Fe Super Chief
The Santa Fe railroad's diesel powered Super Chief made its inaugural Chicago to the Pacific coast run stopping at 2 12 am and departing five minutes later. Officials said it once reached 102 mph between Chicago and Kansas City and it was due in Los Angeles the next morning. Hayden Peoples, a 28 year Missouri penitentiary inmate serving a life term for murder, is the prison's oldest inmate.
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Kansas City
Santa Fe Railroad
Chicago
Pacific Coast
Santa Fe
Los Angeles
Aig
Missouri Penitentiary
Jefferson City
Hayden Peoples
Local Social News Roundup From Oak Hill Area
Reno A H Hutton traveled to Ottawa on business Monday. Mr and Mrs Othel Wiley spent Wednesday in Kansas City. Floyd Black has gone to Colorado. Mrs H G Skeets and son Harry and Miss Audrey Winkleman visited Mrs D L McNerney in Perry on Monday. Ernest Stoner spent the weekend in Kansas City. Billie Winkleman and friends attended the I O Q F dance in Tonganoxie Friday night. Reno boys played Lawrence on Sunday. Lawrence won 13 to 8. A surprise party honored Harry Skeets Jr at Brr and Mrs William Winkleman home Saturday with pinochle and refreshments. Guests from Gilliland, Black, Skeets, Whittaker, Kelsall, Dehoff and Anderson families attended. Mr and Mrs Robert Blaker hosted dancing Saturday evening. Sunday afternoon visitors from Kansas City joined a picnic in the O'Dea woods with Roscoe Tichenor and children and R Hobbs, plus Robert Graham and Mrs H G Skeets and Miss Audrey Winkleman. Washington notes say cherry blossoms were sparse. Haydens bought a home at Falls City across the river from Washington and visit together. Jesse Graham of Topeka spent Tuesday with relatives. Linwood dance drew H C Woods, C L Dehoff, George White, Fred Bignall and families from Lawrence, who later dined at the White home before heading to Wichita for Bignall’s employment. William Winkleman hosted dinner Sunday. Harry Skeets and family attended. Birthday cakes celebrated Harry Jr.’s day. R Graham, Mrs Othel Wiley and children attended church in Tonganoxie Sunday.
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A. H. Hutton
Ottawa
Othel Wiley
Kansas City
Floyd Black
Colorado
H.G. Skeets
Harry
Audrey Winkleman
Perry
D. L. McNerney
Ernest Stoner
Billie Winkleman
I. O
Q. F
Tonganoxie
Reno Boys
Lawrence Boys
Lawrence
Brr
William Winkleman
Harry Skeets, Jr
The
Gilliland
George White
Fred Bignall
Harry White
Wichita
Bignall
Skeets
Harry Jr
R. Graham
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Ila da Lee
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London
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