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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1936
Page
4
A New York Times pledge to back Roosevelt for a second term is questioned as naive and risky. The piece argues a conservative shift would not alter the New Deal trajectory, cites Wall Street figures seeking a mandate, and notes a likely GOP win would reshape Congress and policy. It contrasts Roosevelt’s budgeting stance with human impact concerns.
Fire prevention week urges households and businesses to inspect furnaces and flues and clear inflammable trash to lower fire losses. Separately President Roosevelt notes no national bank closed in a year, prompting questions about the completeness of the statement regarding government power and campaign use.
The Sunflower Faves celebrates the Helianthus annitus as a nationwide symbol of hope and health. It highlights its universal growth, decorative campaign use during the Landon era, and praise from National Geographic for its American origin and global reach. The piece links the flower to vitality, light, and democratic spirit, noting its cultural and economic uses worldwide.
In St Louis, Jesse Haines pitched cleverly as the Cardinals blanked the Yankees 4 to 0 in the opening game of the World’s Series before a rain stoppage in the fourth inning. Ruether Shawkey and Thomas started for New York in the downpour. Work announces a Friday faculty and townspeople assembly. Senator Work will attend the Indian homecoming at Haskell. A 1925 Buick coach is recovered after being stolen.
Twenty five years ago on Monday October 5 stories recount thefts near Funk chapel, police recapture near Topeka, and travel plans for local residents. Budgets include Wisconsin slogans, faculty recitals, storefront front improvements, and political ticket talk at S. H. S. with fraternity involvement. Prizes awarded by Civic League for garden contests and upcoming wedding notices in Hutchinson.
Forty years ago this week in Lawrence reports include Lander resigning from Western Union to join the Postal in Topeka. Bell's hand to play at the nine Wednesday to Saturday, with Haskell band at the children's matinee. Mrs. Dyche reports success in obtaining Big Horn White Sheep specimens from Cook Inlet. Bert Wagner and Rob Stuart buy the Tipton barber shop. A large cistern behind the girls building at Haskell is completed, capacity 185 barrels, with another near the tool house to be larger, making nine total to supply laundry water. Superintendent Swett envisions using cistern water for laundry via pipes. Prairs family spent Saturday gathering nuts at Shepherd's grove. W A Julien and family move to Lawrence. Charley to study law at the University. Popence and Sheen market a new campaign button two to three inches wide with a white enamel surface and a Republican slogan. Methodist Brotherhood meets at the First Methodist Episcopal church, with Irish stew served and E J Kulp of the Kansas City temple to speak. Night school at Business College opens Tuesday October 6.
Carol and Blake confront a painful choice in romance and fear of leaving each other. He urges courage and promises to wait, while she wrestles with love, risk, and a future beyond their past. Their dialogue hints at looming separation yet lingering hope.
Rooster named Yop falls from a window sill and flees toward Puddle Mud after glimpsing a haunted house once owned by Grandpa and Grandma Grouchy Gallup. He struggles to run, fearing what lies ahead, and mutters to himself about night terrors and danger. Christopher Calunidnas appears as the chase continues.
Fragmentary dialogue shows Christopher the crow accusing Toy Notch of mischief as the pair spurs a tense scene. The scene mentions Willy Nilly, an empty house, and curious cows of fear and speculation as Top Notch defends his actions.
Terence Mahoney navigates danger to uncover the true killer as a tense romance and a ruined city backdrop intertwine. The story follows Lena and Cornelia amid yearning, broken promises, and shifting loyalties in a workplace with fading purpose.
Dr Jago Galdston edits a New York Academy of Medicine piece stressing decay as a major health risk from tooth decay. The article emphasizes that bacteria from decayed teeth can invade the body, notes dental decay is common and largely uncurable by fillings or extractions, and highlights prevention as the focus of current medical opinion and progress.
The Medical Research Council of England reports no clear evidence that diet alters permanent tooth structure but finds high vitamin D intake before and after eruption reduces and delays caries in children. It urges pregnant women and young children to receive adequate vitamin D through cod liver oil haliver oil or viosterol.
A collage of brief items: a crippled grocer John Gardner defends his nightly hiding place with a broomstick. a deputy recounts a Negro intruder shot dead by Carine. a Houston detective notes a whisky purchase gone wrong. Clay county hosts a farm show blue ribbon for Victor Irminger’s prune specimen. Chicago hosts a knitting club with one male member. Donald Meyer wins wind harness title after spotting turkeys and bagging seven with one shot.
Jefferson City Mo Det A LP Governor Jine B Park will pan de Kansas this week to campaign against his Republican neighbor Alf Mo Landon for President. He said he was asked by the Democratic national committee to speak Wednesday and Thursday in Kansas, location not yet advised. Park said Roosevelt has as good a chance to carry Kansas as Iowa and Nebraska.
Betty Washington chapter of D A R sponsored a Saturday morning event at Lawrence High School auditorium for children and adults. Frank J. Ford lectured on Ferris historical paintings, with color lantern slides said to be unique in existence. The original works reside in the Smithsonian, and the program supported the 1937 summer art studio for children.
Local items report Mrs. Hartley and Phil in Baldwin, Ellen stories, and travel notes. John Taylor appointed supply pastor at High Prairie replacing Edgar who heads to Theological school. Miss Vanesta Sullivan visits Baldwin with college president en route to Coffeyville conference. Eugene and Marjorie Collins visit their mother Mary Collins in Baldwin. Mrs. Lucretia Shattuck returns home after visiting Mrs. May Torrey and Miss Maude Stewart. Miss Merle Fischer newly placed as music supervisor in Tonganoxie. Palmyra Old Settler’s Association to meet October 3 with a program including Dr. Kennedy’s Santa Fe Trail talk and Douglas County Historical Society remarks. O. A. Remington to Los Angeles for a family reunion. Young Democratic club met in Amphic Hall with plans to attend Roosevelt’s Wichita visit.
Radio programs for Monday evening October 6 feature KMBC WDAF and WREN schedules with music and drama including Little Orphan Annie Renfrew and Frank Farrell. Notable items include Wayne King's Orchestra, Fred Waring, Boake Carter, Amos and Andy, and a Weather Forecast followed by Late Headlines and a Reading Club notice.
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