Social Register Secrets and Sparks of New York Elite
The dramatic world of the Social Register is exposed as readers debate who belongs and who is dropped for marriages to Eddie Duchin and other figures. The article traces origins from Louis Keller to current managers, noting Beekman’s control, the price rumored at $600, and the annual earnings and circulation of the New York edition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Social Register
Marjorie de L. Oelrichs
Eddie Duchin
Social Register Association
Harry K. Thaw
Stanford White
Polly Lauder
Gene Tunney
Roger Welfe Kahn
Julia Hoyt
Ellin Mackay
Miss Mackay
Anna Case
Louis Keller
Keller
Charles A. Minto
Maurice
Charles Keller Beekman
Beekman
Morton Bogue
Ralph Wolcott
Bertha M. Eastmond
Miss Eastmond
Summit
N. J
Father and Son Banquet Planned by Jayhawk FFA
The Jayhawk chapter of Future Farmers of America will host its annual Father and Son banquet tomorrow evening at the Liberty Memorial high school cafe. More than 100 people are expected to attend. W. A. Cochel, editor of the Weekly Kansas City Star, will be the principal speaker. F. H. Servitus, secretary of the American Royal Livestock Show, will present a trophy for the chapter showing the best baby beeves at the American Royal this fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jayhawk
Future Farmers of America
PLEDGES 15 NEW MEMBERS OF QUILL CLUB AT KU
Feod Rune reports fifteen new pledges for the K U chapter of the American College Quill club. Named are Thomas Kennedy Medford Mass Helen Brewer Dorothea Weingartner Lawrence Hubert Anderson Wellington Helen Louise Stiles Columbus Roderick Burton To oka Betty Creager Milwaukee Wis Hazel Binney Meviden Mary ENen DeMette Kansas City Mo Agnes Mumert Viiets James Bradfield Kansas City Mo Bill Stafford El Dorado Harriet Stephens Topela Roy H Goss Enter prise and Carolyn Hewy. John E Hawkins English department will again supervise the group. Plans include hiring a literary agent to market the members work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Feod Rune
K. U
American College Quill Club
Thomas Kennedy
Medford
Tmass
Helen Brewer
Dorothea Weingartner
Lawrence
J. Hubert Anderson
Wellington
Helen Louise
Stiles
Columbus
Roderick Burton
Tooka
Betty Creager
Milwaukee
Wis
Hazel
Binney
Meviden
Mary Enen DeMette
Kansas City
Agnes Mumert
Viiets
James Bradfield
Bill Stafford
el Dorado
Harriet Stephens
Topela
Roy H. Goss
Enterprise
Carolyn Hewy
John E. Hawkins
Department of English
Test Your Knowledge Classy Puzzle From The Classifieds
Seven quiz questions appear on the page asking about adverse possession Marie Dressler death the Buckeye State distance in a fathom voting rights for American born Chinese and Japanese John Milton the eighth old Roman month the New England hat industry and Pickett s charge. The ad at 919 Mass offers eyewear fitting and Dr Alexander dentist contact details.
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United
John Milton
New England
Pickett
Magazine editors face Social Security forms at KU
KU student publications The Sour Owl and The Jayhawker, run as private ventures, face Social Security paperwork as state employees. Campus notes cover prize poetry at William Jewell, Thanksgiving holiday plans, Mystical Seven versus Sachem ball trophy history, turkeys funding tuition, and a Worden church program.
Pinchot Sees Wealth Block in Republican Comeback
Former Pennsylvania Governor Gifford Pinchot says concentrated wealth is the chief obstacle to the GOP’s comeback. After conferring with Governor Alf Landon in Topeka, Pinchot calls wealth influence the political hazard No. 1 and urges a moral public revival, criticizing Farley-ism as corruption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Gifford Pinchot
Pennsylvania
Pinchot
Alf M. Landon
William Allen White
Emporia
Landon
Richard Lloyd Jones
Tulsa Tribune
East
Harry Darby
Alex Adams
Plains
Kan
Republican Party
America
Farley-ism
Fourth Annual Music Supervisors Clinic at Emporia State
More than 700 Kansas music supervisors and students will attend the December 4 5 6 event at Emporia State Teachers College. The All Kansas high school chorus and band will be directed by Mrs Carol Pitts and Harold Bachman with Douglas county students named among the performers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emporia
Kan
Kansas Music Supervisors
Emporia State Teachers, College
All Kansas
Carol Pitts
Omaha
Neb
Harold Bachman
University of Chicago
Douglas County
Phyllia Burgett
Rose Ann Edwards
Joyce Wiesselman
Marcus Loessig
Ruth Yeomans
Lawrence
Jack Stephenson
Jeanne Moyer
Betty Mase Dunn
Robert Pine
Doris Twente
Mildred Clevenger
Betty Bridges
Wayne Dicker
Liberty Memorial debaters travel to Atchison meet
Six members of Liberty Memorial high school debating team under Marston McCluggage traveled to Atchison last Saturday for a non decision meet. Ann Murray and David Watermulder were negative, David Whitney and Albert Decker were affirmative, with Jean Stouffer and Helen Evans as alternates. They debated Wyandotte Kansas City, Holton, Topeka Catholic, Atchison, and Valley Falls, on the topic that Electric Utilities in the United States Should Be Government Owned and Operated. A Topeka high school debate is set for three weeks hence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liberty Memorial High School
Marston McCluggage
Atchison
Ann Murray
David Watermulder
David Whitney
Albert Decker
Jean Stouffer
Helen Evans
Wyandotte High School
Kansas City
Kans
Holton
Topeka Catholic
Valley Falls
Polynesian Dancer Says Native Tahiti Is Changed
Hollywood reports Reri the Polynesian star of Tabu says Tahiti has changed since her last visit. She notes young girls dress modern while radio stations exist but poorly run and local life remains relaxed. She adds only one thing unchanged life’s easy pace.
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Hollywood
Reri
Tabu
Tahiti
Sigeees
Rail Tycoon Brothers Build Shaker Heights Empire
Oris P Van Sweringen mourns a brother as Chesapeake & Ohio and Pere Marquette announce stock dividends exceeding 23 million. The two brothers, starting as newsboys in Wooster Ohio, built a Cleveland suburb and expanded to control a vast railroad empire including Toledo St. Louis Western Erie Illinois and others, riding a nationwide recovery to new prosperity.
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Chesapeake & Ohio
Pere Marquette
Wooster
Oris P
Cleveland
Shaker Heights
van Sweringen Brothers
New York
Chicago & St. Louis
van Sweringens
Toledo St. Louis & Western
Lake Erie & Western
Detroit
Toledo
Hocking Valley
Erie
Wheeling & Lake Erie
Missouri Pacific
Kansas Alumni To Host Radio Rally Tonight For KU-Missouri Game
Kansas alumni plan a radio rally on KMBC tonight at 10 30 led by Ad Lindsey and Mike Getto with Dan Servey as MC. Speakers include J W Jenkins Swede Carlson Pratt Davis Strickler Nichols Lynch Sklar and band members will perform in Kansas City before a rally at Union Station.
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Kansas
KMBC
Jack Starr
Ad Lindsey
Mike
Getto
Dan Servey
Kansas City
K. U. Athletic Board
Kansas City Union Station
University of Kansas
WHA
WDAF
KK. U
Union Station
J. W. Jenkins
John “Swede” Carlson
W. H. H. Pratt
Don Davis
T. J. Strickler
C. Nichols
Mike Lynch
Dick Sklar
K. U
SPEAK AT MARYSVILLE KU Y M C A deputation visits Marysville
The University of Kansas Y M C A deputation returned from Marysville after a weekend of talks on world peace. Speakers included David Angevine Henry Barker Paul Moritz and John L Hunt. They stayed with Rev Moritz and wife and were hosted at a roast duck dinner by the Evangelical Reformed church Young People's League.
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University of Kansas Y. M. C. A
Marysville
Evangelical Reformed Church
Moritz
John L. Hunt
University Y. M. C. A
Personal notices and a divorce suit headline mix
Personal items report Mr and Mrs John Canavan hosting guests from Kan C P Radcliffe Udall and Mrs H B Ober bound for Kansas City for an automobile show A divorce suit Grace M Hoffman versus Benjamin S Hoffman filed in district court with an order restraining him The Hoffmans married March 4 1903 at Berdon Neb and have 15 children 14 living One injured in collision near Holcom s grove on Highway 59 two cars badly damaged The Kansas City Kansas vehicle carried Mr and Mrs George Terry and two children Thefts From Car report license plate and taillight stolen from Fred Heck s car near Lawrence Memorial High School Kansas 16 4372
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John Canavan
Charles Nathan
Peg Wing
Art Koetting
Kansas City
C. P. Radcliffe
Gerald Trautwein
Udall
H. B. Ober
District Court
Grace M. Hoffman
Benjamin S. Hoffman
Hoffman
Hugh Means
Hoffmans
Berdon
Nebr
Mile
Globe Store
John Miller
Eudora
Kan
Holcom’s Grove
George Terry
Fred Vogler
Fred Heck
Sheriff's Office
Lawrence Memorial High School
Kansas
Bombardment of Madrid resumes as foreign powers react
In Madrid the civil war rages with international volunteers defending Casa de Velasquez dormitory amid renewed bombardment. The Spanish government labels Italy Germany and Portugal recognition of Franco's regime as a declaration of war. Both sides trade isolated attacks on Madrid suburbs with no clear gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northwestern University City
Casa de Velasquez
Francisco Franco
Juventud
Germany
Italy
Portugal
Altho
Berlin
Rome
Burgos
Guatemala
San Salvador
Central America
Franco
Madjrid
White Way cable installation nears completion in city
The city reports 2,400 feet of white way cable arrived and being installed across three blocks. Poles installed in 800 and 900 blocks, with 1000 block work to begin tomorrow weather permitting. Lighting for 600 and 700 blocks completed last week. A socket mismatch holds up lighting for the remaining blocks. 49 sockets were rejected and Topeka WPA headquarters must arrange correct tight type sockets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WPA
Ben Babb
Topeka
Babb
Navajo tourist cabin proprietor rents Triudium for Christmas shop
Lawrence Kasold, owner of the Navajo tourist cabin, rents the Triudium building at 10 Massachusetts Street for the Christmas shopping season. He displays articles made by Americans. Sheriff Vogler escorted Edna Harding to the state industrial farm for women at Lansing Kansas to begin a 2 to 14 year sentence for narcotics possession, doubled due to prior felony conviction, following a November court verdict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Kasold
Triudium
Massachusetts Street
Fred Vogler
Edna Harding
State Industrial Farm For Women
Lansing
Kan
Funeral held for Emma Ellen Fitzsimmons at Funk Chapel
Emma Ellen Fitzsimmons died Friday morning at her daughter Mrs. Frank Curbow’s home at 1304 Prospect Avenue. The funeral was conducted at 2 PM by Rev. P J Postlewaite at Funk Chapel, with burial in Memorial Park Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Ellen Fitzsimmons
Funk Chapel
P. J. Postlewaite
Memorial Park Cemetery
Water System Approved In Eudora Grant
Final approval of six Kansas PWA applications totaling 819520 includes a waterworks system for Eudora. Ray Ogden of Eudora received a telegram from Senator George McGill announcing a 25364 grant on a 56364 project. Eudora voted a 31000 bond last year for the city share. bids hoped around January 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
PWA
R. E. Lawrence
Eudora
Ray Ogden
George McGill
KU seniors join Tau Beta Pi honorary group
Lawrence juniors Royd LaVers Bryant and Grover Sterling Tolson and others from the University of Kansas engineering and architecture school are elected to Tau Beta Pi. Chancellor Lindley announced the honors convocation. Senior members hail from the top scholastic quarter, juniors from the top eighth.
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Royd LaVers Bryant
Grover Sterling Tolson
Lawrence
University of Kansas School of Engineering and Architecture
Tau Beta Pi
E. H. Lindley
James Brain
Lee’s Summit
Nelson Ehlers
Raymond Halstead
George Holman
Ralph K. Means
Joseph Robinson
Kansas City
Victor Koelzer
Seneca
William Nesbeitt
Waldemar Sorensen
Kan
Ritchie Wallace
Tecumseh
Boyd LaVers Bryant
Grover Sterling Polson
John Seigle
Cottonwood Falls
Hervey Vigour
Axtell
Emil Wienecke
Tulsa
Seigle
Wienecke
K. U
Lindley
Sigma Tau
Richard Gage
Minneapolis
Fascists Press Madrid Defenses In House to House Fight
With fascist forces outside Madrid clashes intensify around the model prison as insurgents press upward through lower floors amid machine gun fire and grenades. Moors and foreign volunteers clear buildings and force defenders to upper stories in a brutal street battle.
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Madrid
Local church events and visits in Lawrence
Miss Janice Patchin sang at the First Christian musical program in Lawrence. Attendees at the First Methodist achievement day luncheon and exercises included several local ladies. Walter Benjamin and wife, formerly of Lawrence, visited the C. C. Winslet home during Youth day in town. A Brackett P T A supervised singing school met at the schoolhouse Thursday evening. Mrs George D Walters attended a church tea at a local home.
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Janice Patchin
First Christian Church
Lawrence
C. L. McClung
Guy Bigsby
Daniel Kirby
John Levette
Jack Kelsey
First Methodist Church
Walter Benjamin
Barlington
C. C. Winslet
Benjamin
The
Journal-World
Brackett P.T. A
George D. Walters
Boy Sentenced to Die Brooklyn Youth 17 to Electric Chair
Brooklyn New York November 23 a seventeen year old high school boy James Sullivan was convicted of fatally beating a shopkeeper with a bowling pin during a $9 robbery and sentenced to die in Sing Sing electric chair. Dr John Mustard dead Ketchikan Alaska November 23 funeral arrangements delayed while authorities seek relatives. He was found dead of a heart attack last Saturday. Italy to Approve Blockade Rome November 23 Italy will provide moral support to a blockade of Spanish ports but will not supply material or military aid to the insurgents pursuing non intervention. Explorers find two ancient funeral towers on Nakhichevan mountain summits. Iranians left their dead on towers for eagle consumption.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
Sing Sing
James Sullivan
Herman S. Meyerson
John Mustard
Ketchikan
Alaska
Maj
Army
Los Angeles
Abilene
Kan
Montesano
Wash
Mustard
The
Alaska. Board of Medical Examiners
Italy
Rome
Nakhichevan
Autonomous Republic of
Soviet Union
Go West Young Man slows Mae West road show
Dickinson review notes Mae West in Go West Young Man with dialogue by West and Warren William. Film follows a movie star on a personal appearance tour and a Pennsylvania farm detour. Cast includes Randolph Scott Alice Brady Elizabeth Patterson Lyle Talbot Isabel Jewell. Short units feature news reel musical and cartoon.
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Mae West
Pennsylvania
Randolph Scott
Alice Brady
Elizabeth Patterson
Lyle Talbot
Isabel Jewell
Margaret Perry
Mac
Ade Is Still Improving Despite Recovery From Ailment
Indiana humorist George Ade at 70 sits up and reads newspapers in Miami Beach after beating a heart and lung illness. Three physicians express belief he is out of danger as he recovers at his hotel. Fire breaks out in a garage at Miss Annie Monroe’s Indiana street home. firefighters extinguish blaze with minimal damage.
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Miami Beach
Fla
George Ade
Indiana
Annie Monroe
Indiana Street
Community Notes From Lawrence Area Gatherings
Local social news recaps numerous visits and events. Mrs. Wilson Martin hosts friends at the hospital and at home, with guests from Topeka and Ottawa. A school program draws 100 attendees, proceeds funding library books. Various families share meals, banquets, and weekend visits across Lawrence, Topeka, and nearby towns.
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Wilson Martin
Lawrenceater
Kelvin McClerend
Moral Hospital
W. Thompson
Topeka
Mildren Brown
Brown
Bert Seiwald
Mee
A. W Roney
Billy
B. M. Gre
Schellhorn
Washington Cheek
Bre Schellhorn
Martin
Gregory
R. W. Yeoman
Standard Oil Co
Ottawa
R. J. Catlett
Olin Osborn
Lester Stillinger
George Bigsby
Lloyd Bigsby
Guy Bigsby
Ernest Kasold
Pleasant Hour Club
N. F. McClelland
E. C. Stimpson
Edwin
Kellen
Sydney Emmett
Janice Patchen
JoAnn Fralick
Paul Kiefer
Jack Patch
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Jim Coleman
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Sachem
Althe
Missouri Boys
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Timken
Peggy Anne Landon
Pi Phi
Worden
Worden Evangelical Church
Butcher
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Lawrence High
Montgomery Ward
H. L. Burtner
Allen Newman
Ralph Hixson
K. UM. U
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Bryant
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Chicago
UPI
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Livestock Handlers Union
Kansas Corporation Commission
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Supreme Court
Shad
Cass County
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Schulz
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Funk’s
Y. M
Coal Hero
Harry Turner Coat Co
University Coal Co
Johns’ Coal Co
Logan-Moore Lumber & Cop
Orley M. Smith Coat Co
Krum Koal Kompany
Dayhawk
Orley M. Smith Coal Co
Coase
G. ‘. Filchs
Milne
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