Romanian Force Flank Presses Bulgars Near Danube
London dispatches report Romanian units crossing the Danube near Rahovo to outflank the Bulgarian left and threaten retreat of Von Mackensen south of the Constanza rail line. Berlin claims the bridge was destroyed. Sofia notes the operation but gives no full contact details.
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London
Danube
Bulgaria
Rahovo
von Mackensen
Constanza-Tchernavoda
Sofia
Berlin
Makakalasat
Vidin
Struma
Karadjakoi
Lake Tahinos
Price of eats is hiked in New York
New York October 4 Prices for staple foods rose as a large dairy restaurant chain raised many items. Large increases included six and a half cents on staples, beef up five to twenty cents, eggs up six cents, and pies up nineteen cents per cut. Sugar wholesale and retail prices also climbed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Price OF Eats
New York
Towan
Ime Crom
Wits
Pro-American Champarro Elected President of Nicaragua
Elections across Nicaragua concluded with General Emiliano Champarro declared likely president. Champarro, a pro American figure and former minister to the United States, attended a directors’ meeting in Kansas City for the Mid-West National Bank as the announcement arrived in Managua.
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Gun. Chamurro
Oe Nf
Nicaragua
United States
Shin Sap Diexa
Managua
Nicaragre
San Diego
Calif
Emiliano Champarro
Republic
T. J. Sweeney
Kansas City
Mid-West National Bank
President Wilson Moves West on Special Train
President Wilson traveled from Pittsburgh to Omaha on a special train avoiding a campaign tour stops. He plans to speak in Chicago that night, with no firm platform speeches. Mrs. Wilson, Secretary Tumulty, Dr. Graygon, and secret service accompany him as a private car remains on the regular train. Thousands in Alliance Ohio welcomed him as he passed en route, while three board members to investigate the eight hour law will be named after their consent.
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Wilson
Pittsburgh
Omaha
Chicago
Cary ‘T. Gray Gon
White House
Secret Service
Alliance
Ohio
Pesigent + Wilson
Middle West
Salem Jand Alliance
College rooming houses praised in state inspection report
State hotel officials report 4 216 inspected places in Kansas with 143 college lodging sites. In Lawrence 23 rooming houses serving students, 40 restaurants, and 9 hotels are listed. nearly all student houses rated good to excellent. Inspector Leon Congdon notes 99.3 percent of college lodging as good. Rates to be repeated later.
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Lawrence
State Hotel Commission
Topeka
Leon Congdon
Congdon
Ne . Lawrence
A. R. Adair
John Adams
J. Rugney
J. van Arsdale
O. M. Walling
E. S. Weatherby
L. F. Wilson
A. Hotels
Savoy
Lawrence House
Dunakin
Eldridge
Hiawatha
Star
Fairfax
Wilson House
Nicholas Allen
Jerry Bassett
E. S. Bennett
E. E. Bricken
Brooks Brothers
Lee Bryant
Roy C. Bulis
Capen Brothers
Joe Clark
Jacob J. Collins
F. Crites
Lucy Culver
Dan Dal Tene
C. A. Foley
Jank Haskins
Robert Knight
Martha Johnson
Johnson
Tuttle
Johnson and Johnson
N.C
Lyon and
Kansans March In Big Parade Today
San Antonio crowds watched the Twelfth Provisional Division parade with Texas Illinois Kansas and Wisconsin troops. Health reports from the Mexican border show 2.25 percent sick with seven deaths among militia and five deaths among regulars. The First Kansas regiment awaits departure pending arrival of the Michigan regiment to take its place after a final review.
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San Antonio
Twelfth Provisional
Henry A. Greene
Texas
Illinois
Kansas
Wisconsin
Camp Wilson
Washington
War Department
Michigan
Auto bandits rob six saloons in Chicago spree
Two bands of auto bandits began a drive through Chicago on a wet evening in early April. In about an hour they held up six saloons on the south and west sides. Police say one gang included a boy in need trousers as a member.
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Chicago
Auto Bandits
Second District Editorial Association Meeting and Osawatomie Trip
The Second District Editorial Association plans a two day meeting in Osawatomie with Keith Clevenger as master of ceremonies. A Thursday fishing trip on the Marais des Cygne river and Friday tours to historic sites and the state hospital are planned. A dinner at the Elks club Friday night will entertain visiting editors.
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Second District
Osawatomie
Keith Clevenger
Osawatomie Graphic
Marais Des Cygne
First government infant mortality survey starts in Ford County
Topeka Kans Oct 4 The first government inquiry into infant mortality in rural areas begins Monday in Ford County The State Board of Health reports Dr O J Crumbine will join U S Children’s Bureau agents to conduct a house to house canvass Ford County chosen as the nation’s rural starting point due to its representative conditions Authorities estimate one in eight babies dies before age one to study causes and trends through this nationwide effort.
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State Board of Hearth
Ford County
Topeka
Kans
United States
State Board of Health
O J. Crumbine
Children’s Bureau
United States Department of Labor
Griesa Files Involuntary Bankruptcy in Topeka
Theodore Griesa, long time in the Lawrence nursery business, filed for involuntary bankruptcy in federal court yesterday. Bankruptcy petition lists total liabilities at 24,564.87 dollars with unsecured credits of 9,064.87. Assets total 21,425.47 dollars, including 1,650 dollars exempt, largely land and extensive nursery stock.
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Theodore &. Griesa
Lawrence
Mort Albaugh
Topeka
Bhursery
Naismith to Speak at Baptist Church This Evening
Dr. James Naismith, chaplain of the First Kansas regiment, will describe the life and experiences of the Kansas troops on the border at the Baptist church tonight. His lodge expires October 10 and he expects to rejoin the regiment then. He notes a man sometimes balks at duties due to disliking an orders-giver.
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James Naismith
Kansas
Naismith
Weather outlook for Kansas shows showers and cooler conditions
A Kansas weather brief reports showers tonight and again Thursday, with cooler temperatures expected on Thursday. The western and northwest areas may experience the strongest cooling while tonight’s precipitation dominates the state.
Concert Course at University School of Fine Arts
Tickets go on sale tomorrow for the University School of Fine Arts concert course. Dean Butler plans the best series yet and expects higher costs, with one concert alone priced at $1,000. He seeks public support to ensure a successful financial run for the season.
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University School of Fine Arts
Dean Butler
Cornell Researcher Studies Dragon Flies In Kansas Visit
C. H. Kennedy of Cornell University toured the University of Kansas museum in Lawrence to compare dragon fly collections. He noted Kansas hosts about one hundred varieties and plans to return to Ithaca after a week of study. Dragon flies, known locally as snake feeders, are valued for their role against mosquitoes.
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Cornell University
Kansas
C. H. Kennedy
Lawrence
Kennedy
University of Kansas
Germans Use Reserve In Costly Somme Counter Attacks
London reports an official German statement on the Somme offensive says reserves were used in costly counterattacks that failed. Since July 1, 26,375 prisoners taken and 38 German divisions engaged, 29 withdrawn exhausted or broken, with a fourth defensive line behind a ridge west of the Bapaume road. Seven new German divisions since Sept 15 opposed British, five against French, while British air superiority is claimed with 200 British planes for each German over the front.
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London
France
Bapaume Road
Off Campus Living Plan Weighed by Interden's Train Offer
Interden's plan to allow Kansas City University students to live at home hinges on special rail rates. The Kaw Valley and Western railway would charge $1.15 per round trip if fifty students commit to five trips weekly, dropping to $1 with one hundred participants. Early response suggests insufficient interest to proceed.
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Interdeban
Kansas City
Kansas City, Kaw Valley and Western Railway Company
KK. U
Mount Bread and Cat
Taggart asks for First Kansas to be sent home early
Congressman Joseph Taggart urged Secretary Baker to include the First Kansas regiment among troops withdrawn from the border, arguing the unit is elite, well drilled, with many officers and students from the University of Kansas, and that other districts have contributed more troops. Baker replied he will consider the request when forming the next withdrawal group. Also noted is Jonathan Dow from New York University leaving to study there.
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Joseph Taggart
Second Congressional District
Secretary of War
Kansas
Taggart
University of Kansas
Baker
Coperesian Taggart
Lytg
Mr. Taggart
Kansas National Guard
Newton D. Baker
Local group pushes for permanent roads and federal aid
Seventy five guests attended a Merchants and Farmers Association meeting to discuss building permanent roads in Douglas County and securing federal aid. W S Gearhart explained that federal funds require local and county funding, with maintenance excluded from aid. The group formed a committee to lobby county commissioners for a route through Douglas County and endorsed Lawrence hosting the state good roads convention planned for November.
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Merchants and Farmers Assosiation
Douglas County
A. A. Hicks
A. B.smith
Irving Hill
Thomas Harley
E. 0. Perkins
Merchants and Farmers ’Association
Association
W. S. Gearhart
Kansas
Mr. Gearhart
Frank Smith
Pleasanton
Kansas Good Roads Association
Lawrence
J. G.hinshaw
Kansas City
E. Otis Perkins
Tonganoxie
McNaughton
McNerney
B. Otis Perkins
E. H. Dunmire
Dean Butler
University School of Fine’ Arts
School of Fine Arts
Wrist watches become common among K U students
The article notes many K U students in the First regiment on leave exhibit a wrist watch habit. It describes wrist watches as the prevailing trend among soldiers returning to civilian life, deemed practical time savers by adherents despite concern about the spread of the habit.
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K. U
Windy spell makes students sleepy study note
University professors report direct reaction in classes as windy conditions induce drowsiness in students after outdoors exposure. Ely Moore and Mrs C C Seewir attend to ill father Mr Ely Moore in Linwood. his illness worsened after a visit there. Also welfare updates include Odd Fellows parade thanks, marriage license issued to Charles F. Nelson and Selma Johnson, divorce suit filed by Johanna Lavin, and routine county road planning. Striker violence injures four on New York elevated trains amid broad attacks on transit lines.
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Ely Moore
C. C. Seewir
Linwood
Ely ‘Moore
Tickets Go On Sale for University Concert Course
Tickets priced at 3.50 and 4.50 for eight concerts go on sale tomorrow morning at Round Corner Drug Store and the registrar's office. Marketed as the largest best concert course in the middle west, the low prices aim to fill Robinson auditorium and secure a permanent Lawrence concert series. The sale is portrayed as desirable for the future of Lawrence.
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Round Corner
Middle West
Robinson Auditorium
Lawrence
Watermelon Feed Pep Meet at Local High School
About seventy five students and part of the faculty attended a football and pep meeting at the YMCA Auditorium. The event featured a “watermelon feet” program and talks by F H Olney Bonnie Reber J A Dennis James Sellars and J Blaine. Ramsey spoke to parents on football prospects and school work.
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YM. G
F. H. Olney
University Senate Abolishes Chapel and Considers Schedule Change
The University Senate voted to abolish the morning chapel as attendance dropped despite advertising. Debate over resuming 8 o'clock classes continues as deans report next month. A proposed grading reform would shift to I III IV, raising the bar for top marks without lowering overall standards. Exams for advanced standing must be taken within six weeks of the semester start.
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K. U
University Senate
Seimester
Senate
Robbery Suspect Charles Stevens Arrested in Denver
Charles Stevens also known as Savage, a Black man, was arrested at his grandfather’s Denver home on suspicions of involvement in multiple western robberies including a $50,000 nail pouch theft from a bank shipment. He had previous convictions and a federal sentence at Leavenworth, with a history tied to a 1909 mail pouch heist and a 1913 release after a currency find nearby. Federal inspectors pursue further leads.
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Denver
Cole
Charles Stevens
Savage
Kansas
United States
Ralph Smith
Salt Lake City
Kansas Citys
Union Station
Los Angeles
New York
Leavenworth
Kans
Leaverwworth
Stevens
Charles Savage
Bridge to Open by December First in Lawrence
Concrete bridge over the base river near Lawrence is on schedule to be completed by December 1 according to A J Schilling secretary treasurer of the Missouri Valley Bridge Co Leavenworth. The bridge shows solid lines and will be a prominent structure in Douglas County with approaches and brick pavement to follow.
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A. J. Schilling
Leavenworth
Misosuri Valley Bridge Company
Lawrence
Santa Fe
Douglas County
Schilling
J. J. Heim
Inter- Urban Line
Heim
Mr. Heim
Kansas
Pretty Girls Help the Boarding Clubs
Boarding club stewards distribute cards bearing the phrase Mixed clubs which reportedly attracts KU students to meals. One steward faces accusations of offering special rates to attractive co-eds to draw larger trade from male patrons.
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Karda
K. U
Supreme Court orders L and N officials to answer ICc questions
Washington DC Justice Stafford of the district supreme court holds the railroad executives must answer Interstate Commerce Commission inquiries about political contributions. The ruling hinges on how such contributions affect rate reasonableness and railroad accounting. Milton H. Smith and leaders of the Louisville & Nashville and Chattanooga & Louisville railroads faced compelled testimony after Smith had refused earlier, with the commission pursuing court relief. An adjacent item reports a Lawrence man fined $1 for leaving a motor car on the street, marking the first offense under a new police rule.
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Washington
Pet
Stafford
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Milton H. Smith
Louissville & Nashville Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
Smith
Joseph
Lawrence
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Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry
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Paul Shaler
Oread High School
Young Shaler
Sunnyside
Jefferson County
T. BE. Griesa Bankrupt
OVFER
New York University
Jonathan Dow
Douglas
Odd Fellows
R. W. Dale
Ed Leonard
Odd Fellows Lodge
W. J. Francisco
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Ed Charlton
J. B. Wilson
Chas. F. Nelson
Selma Johnson
C. E. Lindsey
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James Lavin
0. R. Brown
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