Highway and court area traffic easing after paving work
With Eleventh street intersection paving and a widening project on Massachusetts street underway, traffic at the south end of the business district is thinning. The intersection may reopen earlier than the rest of the street, easing access to the courthouse and reflecting a delayed winter plan. A transatlantic flight season opened with a risky landing on Irish soil, showing ocean air travel remains hazardous and prompting calls for safer equipment, yet people will continue attempting such voyages.
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Eleventh Street
Eleventh
Massachusetts
Vermont
Massachusetts Street
Courthouse
Rome
Pennsylvania and national issues mix in New Deal era notes
In a feature of national concern the Department of Justice reports unpaid taxes from bootleggers and alcohol diversions. Pennsylvania primary results show Pinchot’s defeat as a test of the New Deal's popularity. Southwest coal operators report harm from the coal code, while three kidnapped men plead guilty, accepting life terms to avoid trial in California.
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Department of Justice
Southwest
Washington
New Journal World to Build Modern Plant on Site
Contracts let for a modern building replacing and adjoining the current Journal World site. Journal World will occupy existing space plus basement and new sections. Douglas County Building & Loan Association and Gen Wilder S Metcalf will use front portions of the north section. Geltch resigns University of Kansas violin professor to join Marquette University. Model bungalow at 125 East Nineteenth Street opening for inspection May 26. Bridge luncheon at Docking home reveals engagement of Miss Alice Docking to Homer Neville.
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Journal-World
Journal- World
Douglas County Building & Loan Association
Wilder S. Metcalf
Geltch
Waldemar Geltch
University
Marquette University
Milwaukee
Wis
University Extension Division
Kansas
University of Kansas
Lawrence Kiwanis Club
East Nineteenth Street
Lawrence
Harold Constant
William Docking
Alice Docking
Mrs. Docking
Miss Docking
Maude Graham
A. N. Rousch
Topeka
James Stranathan
Homer Neville
Kansas City
C. D. Cowgill
Forrest Allen
Epworth League and NM E church mark twentieth anniversary
Twenty five years ago on Thursday May 17 the Epworth League and NM E church society held special services for their twentieth anniversary. Evening services were led by the young people with Grace Light delivering a paper.
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Epworth League
Society of the
NM. E. Church
Grace Light
Poor Pa by Robert Quillen
Poignant quip about family tensions as Uncle John needs frequent doctor care and the speaker notes burdens of medical costs and looming inheritance, reflecting small town humor and moral nuance from 1928 syndicate output.
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Robert Quillen
Forty Years Ago Highlights From Lawrence News
Forty years ago readers heard about local gossip and events in Lawrence. Short addresses by Clark Hanson Weatherby Fred Bayless and Herbert Jones appeared, along with news of a new touring car purchased by C B Hosford. Mumps struck Burt Brown and three children in West Lawrence, mail troubles from a wreck, and mud creek flooding with bugs in potato fields were noted. The junior class staged a senior class dinner and the Lander Teter wedding drew local interest. Justice of the Peace Charlton improved while city clerk duties shifted and Field Day attracted a small crowd amid a lengthy, noisy events sequence.
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Clark ‘Hanson
B.S. Weatherby
Fred Bayless
Herbert Jones
B. Hosford
Burt Brown
West Lawrence
Lawrence
Bickabash
Otto Luckam
Linwood
Mud Creek
Luckan
Smith Hall
Ogden Jones
Helen Hodgson
Agatha
Melville Wond
Adrienne Atkinson
Bessie Raymond
Hannah Mitchell
Pune
Elsa Barteldes
Mary Atkinson
Fred Morris
Los Angeles
Cal
F. W. Barteldes
Agnes Uhriaub
Lander-Teter
Jacob Lander
Clara Lander
Charles Teter
John Wearth
Iola hosts GOP editors session in 1899 Kansas history
In Iola the Second District Republican editors hold a session with Charles F. Scott of the Iola Register elected president. Also noted is a Kansas farm property insurance rate cut of 10 to 26 percent announced by fire insurance companies.
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Iola
Charles F. Scott
The
Iola Register
Kansas
Lincoln Nominated Despite Kansas Delegation Split
Congress report notes Abraham Lincoln was nominated on the third ballot at the Republican National Convention in Chicago on May 16. Kansas, though still a territory, sent six delegates C Wilder John A Martin Wm Phillips W Ross J P Hatterheidt and A G Procter who all supported William H Seward on all three ballots.
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Lincoln
Kansas
Chicago
C. Wilder
John A. Martin
Phillips
W. Ross
J. P. Hatterheidt
A. G. Procter
Abraham Lincoln
Wm.h. Seward
Far East thinks of war only uncertainty is start
London Ontario May 16 AP war in the far east is predicted as a certainty by Rt Rev W C White bishop of Henan China He says Japan China Russia and possibly Britain and the United States will be involved He told the Anglican synod of Huron meeting yesterday that in the east they no longer speak of war only when it will begin.
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London
Ont
Far East
W. C. White
Henan
China
Japan
Russia
Great Britain
United States
East
White
Anglican Synod of Huron
Roosevelt backs stock exchange regulation by FTC
Washington May 16 AP President Roosevelt declared emphatically for federal regulation of the stock exchange by the federal trade commission as proposed by the house He urged the senate and house conferees to adopt the stringent marginal requirements for stock exchange debts in the house bill The house set a 45 percent marginal requirement as standard The senate bill leaves no specific figure.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Federal Trade Commission
House
Senate
Judith Lane and dam dispute at Big Tom
Judith Lane oversees the Rio Diablo dam project funded by Tom Bevins while a will contest looms, pitting Judith against Morton Lampere and the law firm Maritellan. Norman Bevins asks for space in a heartfelt farewell note as Judith and ally Justin Cunard plan legal and travel maneuvers to protect the fortune and dam’s progress. Judith awaits news and prepares for a Mexico trip tomorrow.
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Judith
Rio Diablo Dam
Tom Bevins
Bevins
Norman
Morton Lampere
Big Tom
Ike| Ephriam's Emporium
Slim Sanford
Trip Sumamer
Justin Cunard
Cunard
Clia
Lampere
Maritellan
County Court House
Adge Morgan
Morrison
Judge Morgan
Delphy
Miss Judith
State Commission
Sanford
Dime Building
Dam Property
Renford
Clin
Cha
Parhans
Big ‘Tom
Scoggins
Big Tom Town
Rio Diablo
Mexico
Andwn Cries on Andwn Cries on The Detectives
Mary Graham Bonner story follows Top Notch and Christopher as they plot a delivery theft. From hidden perches they observe Grandpa exit with a rope and a package, later triggering a sneeze that reveals the plan. Grandpa pursues, a crow escapes, while Top Notch is overpowered. Tomorrow Grandpa Is Puzzled.
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Mary Graham Bonner
Grandpa
Top Notch
Christopher
Radical thyroid removal eyed as major heart remedy
The article discusses how rest and thyroid removal may affect nervous children and weight gain, suggesting that reducing bodily energy demands could ease heart strain. It notes the procedure as heroic with reported good results, though its ultimate value remains uncertain and tied to long term experience. Tomorrow-Growing Pains to ee
Embargo Talk and Naval Rights Headlines Europe Asia
Cable News in Brief reports a League of Nations proposal for an embargo on armaments to Paraguay and Bolivia to end the Gran Chaco war. Other items note Capt George Pond and Lieut Cesare Sabelli touring Ennis, and Japan seeking equal rights in national defense at the 1935 naval conference. Soviet accounts claim guards fired over a ship during the Amur incident amid competing narratives.
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Associatia Press
Geneva
Great Britain
League of Nations Council
Paraguay
Bolivia
House of Peers
America
Japan
Moscow
Amur
A Farmer Protests NRA and Relief Plans
Letters to the Editor discuss public sale petitions to Secretary Wallace protesting beef processing plans. The writer argues NRA relief raises costs without boosting producer prices, cites wheat and cotton policies, job losses, hog purchases, and the corn hog tax as benefiting manufacturers and consumers more than farmers, while delivering little relief to producers.
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Journal-World
Wallace
NRA
AAA
Packer
Government crop controls spark farmer dissent in Kansas letters
Readers discuss wheat contracts and government crop data requests, arguing such measures threaten personal liberty and farm autonomy. Critics urge local farmers and laborers to study Italy's managed economy and note education board actions they deem an affront to representative government and tenure protections.
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U. S
Frank Knox
Chicago Daily News
Italy
Kansas City Times
S. Harvey
Lawrence
Kan
Journal-World
League of Women Voters
Board of Education
Agnes Thompson
Flashes of Life and Oddities Across Towns
A collection of quirky local items and a high school Dillinger spoof ends with a Harvard yard skirmish tale. Highlights include a Dillinger play mishap in Barberton, a brave old mare saving a calf in Missouri, a Milwaukee clerk’s joke about a bathing suit arrest, and Harvard yard police and a skunk line encounter.
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Associated Press
Barberton
John Dillinger
Roy Christensen
Dillinger
James Bristow
Bristow
Cambridge
Mass
Harvard Yard
Charlie Apted
Apted
Harvard
A Kansan Sees Hollywood By Richard Doan
A Kansan and former RK U student reports on Hollywood, noting Garbo on a Swedish stamp, Sweden’s expected stamp revenue, Gertie Lawrence and Doug Fairbanks Jr. in a London play, and Frank Lloyd’s Cavalcade Derby anecdote. He mentions Olsen and Johnson at Sardi’s, Ben Bernie and others near a nonworking radio mic, Hepburns Spitfire receiving a muted premiere, and urges audiences to see the film despite critiques.
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Hollywood
Cal
Garbo
U.S
Sweden
Gertrude Lawrence
Doug Fairbanks Jr
London
Gertie
Frank Lloyd
Jake
Olsen and Johnson
Sardi's
Ben Bernie
Lew Cody
Wheeler
Woolsey
Hepburn
Tyne
Will Rogers Names and Coxey Echoes in Sketches
U S Capital Sketches revisits Will Rogers Oklahoma politics and a rival Will Rogers bid for Congress. The column recalls Coxey’s Army from 1894 Toledo Tama, a joke about a truck driver, and a Charleston West Virginia misnaming episode by Charles F. Scott.
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Will Rogers
Oklahoma
Robert E. Lee
C. N. Haskell
Rogers
Rogara
Congress
Nei Xu
Coxey
Washington
Frank G. Beardsley
First Congregational Church
Kansas City
Kan
Western College
Toledo
Coxey’s Army
College Avenue
Tama County
Tama City
N. Wi
Milwaukee
Tama
Charles F. Scott
Kansas
A. B. McDonald
Kansas City Star
Charleston
Charlestown
West Virginia
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Murray
Dolph Simons
Lorenzen & Thompson, Inc
New York
West 44Th St
South Michigan
Wes City
St Louis Star
Attista
Waltey Building
Ispalidies
Ise
Royal News
Audit Bureau OF Circulations
Lawrencte
Ylvania
Pinchot
Pennsylvania
Reed
California
Jim Challis
John
Publishers Syndicate
John Charlton
Charley Tucker
Honnold
Olathe
A. Henley
Nellie Sims
Nebraska
McCook Field
Athletic Association
Davis
Prof
Shepard
Hector Cowan
Edward Bumgardner
Judith Lane
Judy
Endeed
New York Academy of Medicis
Driago Galdston
Cable News
Arsarame
Boston
Fred J. Bucks
Richard Doan
RK. U
U.S. Guyer
Sany
SR Holmes Inv
Coine Insurance
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