Smith the Speaker at Chamber of Commerce Meeting
John B. Smith assistant superintendent of insurance will speak at the Chamber of Commerce meeting next Tuesday at 12 20 PM. The session is part of fire prevention week with a ladder sealing lifeline demonstration by the fire department at the new drill tower. Nonmembers are urged to reserve space and attend after the demonstration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John B. Smith
Chamber of Commerce
National Assoction of Insurance Agents
Exposition plans in Seville feature American exhibits
Washington discusses use of Spanish Mission style for American exposition buildings in Seville Spain with a focus on cultural and scientific displays. Former Gov Campbell resigns as architect. William Johnson to lead a new exhibit group. Seville as a hub for American cultural and commercial exhibits during the world expo period.
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Washington
API
United States
Amer
Seville
Spain
Phos . Campbell
Iona
Williand Johnson
San Views
Calif
Yermane Tieture
Americ
Spahn
Columbus
America
Posto
Cuba
California
Death sentence for Mexican rebel leader in court martial
General Alfred Ratijanie was condemned to death by a summary court martial for leading troops in the Mexico City rebellion against President Calles. Execution set for 7 o'clock this morning. Julfe Gonines named as principal conspirator faces battle and possible death. General Heeter Almada linked to the revolt, with forces loyal to Gomez providing support but outnumbered.
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Mexicvo
Alfred Rat Qhijanie
Meaxwo
Parrison
Tociay
Diener Julfe Gonines
Calles
Heeter Almada
Mexico City
Gomez
Lincoln refused rail job offer amid $10000 salary
New York Central reportedly offered Abraham Lincoln a position as general counsel. Parker Corning, grandson of the offeror, relays that Lincoln wondered what he could do with ten thousand dollars a year and feared the impact on his family. A dog bite to a boy near the scene is also noted.
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New York
ATJ
Abraham Lincoln
New York Central Railroad
Parker Corning
Winvaln
Cooper Institute
Jas Corning
York Central
Cornin
John W. Stary
Lincoln
Coriine Onlin
New York Central
Stadua Ao
Animal Attacks Edwin Mexander on Way to School
Edwin Alexander of BE. E. Alexander Mississippi Street was bitten on the neck and cheek by a large herd dog while walking to Pinckney school. He is reported seriously injured and the dog is under observation for rabies. The incident occurred on the sidewalk as several pupils passed. the dog belongs to Everett Lee of 423 Mississippi Street.
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Edwin Alexander
BE. E. Alexander
Mississippi -Street
Pinckney
Alexander
Alexander Boy
Everett Lee
Mississippi
Marriage Licenses Granted in Topeka Area
Two marriage licenses were issued Wednesday. Couples were married by L. H. Menger, Kate Ph, Leon Sault, Maple tit, and Thellp ya Exans. Lecomp ton, Harry H. Johnson, Topeka, and Verna Kae Topeka, Skin Cure, ors Drug Adv arber's Drug Stors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. H. Menger
Kate Ph
Leon Sault
Mapletit
Thellp Ya Exans
Lecompton
Harry H. Johnson
Topeka
Verna Kae
Ors
Adv
Arber
Stors
New Jayhawk Badge Designed by G C Mitchell
Novelty Jayhawk badges designed by G C Mitchell a K G student will be worn at University athletic contests this year The University Athletic association has ordered badges for sale inside stadiums and Corbin hall students will sell at railroad stations and downtown on football game days The badges are copyrighted by Mitchell and feature a blue wings and thighs red crest and red hair brown trunk shaped as a football with red ribbons on goal posts Yellow beak Text reads Kansas and likely a minting detail is noted
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. C. Mitchell
K. G
University Athletic Association
Corbin Hall
iMitchell
Jayhawk
Night shirt parade plans around UW campus
The annual night shirt parade after the Wisconsin game forms at 7 40 Saturday evening before the Administration Building. It marches along Twelfth street through South park then Massachusetts Street to Fight Street and back west stopping at the Armory for refreshments of apples cider doughnuts hot dogs and homemade pies prepared with cooperation from the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce and Merchants Bureau. The Armory hosts the topping place this year to better manage paraders and admission to the second show at the Bowersock and Varsity theatres is free for all in costume as announced by Glenn Dickinson owner. Flying squadrons will ensure student participation beginning at 7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wisconsin
University
Twelfth Street
South Park
Massachusetts Street
Fight Street
Armory
Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
Merchants Bureau
Southpark
Bowersack
Varsity Theatres
Glenn Dickinson
Evaie
Start Country Club forms in Lone Star area
The Start Country Club with twenty five members announces completion of organization and securing a hunting and fishing site. A 20 acre tract leased from Roy Flory will host a seven to ten acre lake fed by springs for fishing and duck hunting. Timber grooves on the land accompany a roster of officers and trustees led by TL PL Smith and O B Lindell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lone Star Country Club
Lone Star
Roy Flory
TL PL Smith
O. B. Lindell
Walter Nieder
M. A. Childs
E. A. Lindell
Frank Lutz
J. B. Bethel
Community fair in Oskaloosa draws large turnout in local display
Report from Oskaloo sa highlights farm product displays across nearly all district high schools led by Leaverton with 143 items. Parade winners include Tibbet with Miss May Long, Wellman with Miss Vera Whitte, and Lone Tree with Miss Cathryn Croke. Senator Capper spoke to a large crowd in the school auditorium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oskaloosa
Oskaloosa Rural High School
Leaverton
Lone Tree
Wellman
Tibbet
May Long
Vera Whitte
Cathryn Croke
Senator Capper
Topeka
Jack Helm
Lawrence
McLouth
Tra N. H. Brammel
Kansas University Extension Division
Mars
Community Theatre Players
Una Scofield
Wilm
McLouthy
Walter Turner
Lawrence Monnay
Charles Fuk Ic P
Herman Recert
Lottie Ward
Eleanor Chanthion
Clara Champion
W. W. Carpenter
Clay Center
Ed Davison
Frank Champion
Ray Rogers
Walter Means
Julia
Arline Harding
Will
Harding
Stewart
Nolan Campbell
Frank Champion, Jr
Charles Nil
Shirley Joans family ties and fair exhibits noted
Shirley Joan Mrs Stewart once Miss Claribel Borst of McLouth left with Gene Kears and young child for Ft Smith Ark after a two week stay with her parents Mr and Mrs Will Wellman and family. At Prkslocis fair a native flower exhibit gathered by Mrs Walker Bell named by Mrs Elizabeth Slade displayed forty three varieties in a modest colorful display. Mr and Mrs Fred Champion with Mr and Mrs Walter Turner and daughters were visitors at the Frank Champion home Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shirley Joan
Stewart
Claribel Borst
McLouth
Gene Kears
Ft. Smith
Ark
Will Wellman
Walker Bell
Elizabeth Slade
Valley Grove News Roundup From McLouth Area
Harold Champion stays in McLouth for the week while Mr Wiley covers Route 1. Sunday school and church planned, rain woes noted. Local farming, cattle feeding, corn purchases, school events, a new pupil Lorraine Sargent, and baby born to Mr and Mrs Theodore Lange. McLouth football victory 13 to 0 at Winchester. upcoming game vs Leavenworth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Champion
McLouth
Wiley
Canavan
Snday
Valley Grove
Charles Stewart
Alvin Smith
William Keller
Lawrence
Ralph Stewart
Lottie Ward
Dorothy
Mr. Petrie
Rollin Smith
McLouth High School
Lorraine Sargent
Hall Farm
Theodore Lange
Mark Hedden
Chester Smith
M. L. Anfred
Lawrence Ward
Winchester
MeLouth
Leavenworth
Shirley Joan Stewart
Biologist critiques radical family plans at conference
In Buffalo a conference on Family Life in America Today drew social workers from the U S, Canada and Europe. Johns Hopkins zoologist Herbert Jennings argued the monogamous, lifelong family is the final term in evolution and dismissed polygamy as a means to raise population, saying human tendencies oppose it and it will likely disappear.
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Buffalo
N.Y
America
United States
Canada
Europe
Herbert 8. Jennings
Johns Bropkins University
Baltimore
Birth rate linked to fish consumption in Japan claims
Moscow based claim by Josef Washington Hall aka Upton Close says Japan, the world’s top fish eater, shows rising birth rates. He asserts about 400 pounds of fish per birth, citing his Moscow visit. The note mentions Hall’s pen name and unrelated ad snippets about varnish and unexplored regions.
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Moscow
UPI
Japan
Josef Washington Hall
Wu Pei-fu
Hall
Upton Close
Barber
Corn Market Surges as Weather and Delays Boost Prices
Chicago Oct. 6 AP reports corn led the day as weather woes and slow wheat seeding, especially in Kansas, bolster prices. Wheat moved up while oats and hogs showed mixed to higher tones amid heavy receipts and holiday slowdown.
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Chicago
Kansas City
Milo Omaters
Rye
Nat ON
Tavrley
Nonlnaly
Chicago _Patate
Tata! Los
Lawrence High Football Squad Heads for St Joseph Clash
Sixteen Lawrence players and Coach Melvin Griffin depart by bus for St Joseph Missouri to meet Central High in a decisive afternoon game. Kennedy shifts to fullback signals, Schaake at safety, with Mackie and Red Birch in backfield. Hardtaker and Stote lead the line. Last year St Joe won in a thrilling finish, and Lawrence aims to reverse the result with a strong forward effort and a final scrimmage shown as preparations conclude.
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Lawrence
Melvin Griffin
St. Joseph
Central High Eleven
Atchison
Can Uin Hardtaker
Barber
Shhenk
Sebneck
M. Birch
H. Birch
Mackie
Red't Birch
Hardtaker
Stote
Sehneck
Michaels
St. Joe
Lawrence Gridmen
Homer Friend
Friend
St. Joe Crew
G. Stuber
Filis
B. Way
Sam Utz
St. Joseph’ Central High
Fasco
Westport
Kansas City
Lawrence High
Saa
Old Relics Unearth Berlin Settlement Clues
Berlin officials report relics found while restoring the royal library pile-frame indicate a prehistoric settlement on the site. Bones of unknown animal species and simple pottery suggest a community once thrived here as peat bogs pervaded the area. The discovery prompts paleontologists to study a potential catastrophe that killed animals simultaneously.
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Berlin
Frederic the Great
Royal Library
Wall
Niger
Jersey Central
Chicoko & Northwestern
Soo
Conmon
Torres
Changes in street cars at electric railway convention
Cleveland dispatch reports Henry Ford is not alone with new cars as about fifty new street car designs debut at the American Electric Railway association convention. Cars feature eye catching colors, quieter operation with lighter weight and roller bearings. W. H. Sawyer opens the gathering with 10,000 delegates attending and 120,000 feet of exhibit space. Gas firms plan to convert containers into beacons for navigational aid at night, while tan cars will be painted in distinct colors and floodlit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland, O
Henry Ford
United States
Americant Electric Railway
Canada
W. H. Sawyer
East St. Louis
Ill
Leavenworth items mix gas chief meeting and a sailor’s return
C T Dodds of the ToTal Gas Co will attend the American Gas Association annual meeting in Chicago. The Leavenworth Times notes three young women replied to a professor’s roll call when the name Darling was read. Captain Roy V. Richard’s eye ailment at Fort Leavenworth hospital shows marked improvement and he is due back in Lawrence Saturday. In Zurich a German aviator reportedly flew upside down for ten minutes and four seconds, claimed as a world record. Rage ca teeran Alabastine Barber's Drug Store Adv.
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C.T. Dodds
Total Gas Company
American Gas Association
Chicago
The
Leavenworth Times
E. W
Darling
Roy V. Richard
Fort Leavenworth
Richard
Lawrence
Zurich
Luncheon Celebrates Miss Pendleton’s Pending Marriage
Mrs Vernon Smith hosted a luncheon for sixteen at the Colonial tea room in honor of Miss Virginia Pendleton whose marriage to Waldo Bowman of New York is planned for next Wednesday. Guests included Miss Helen Pendleton and numerous society members. prizes were awarded in bridge, and a guest prize went to Miss Pendleton. Dinner plans were announced for Miss Helen Friend before her year abroad. The article also notes the Music Club’s opening fall meeting with a program on Fundamentals of Music and a tea service in the Swarthout home attended by forty members.
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Vernon ‘Smith
Colonial Tea Room
Virginia Pendleton
Waldo Bownan
New York
Maurice Crane
Laura Rankin
Miss Pendleton
Helen Pendleton
A. B. Weaver
William 3. Johnson
Wareld Longnecker
Fred Zoellner
Tonganoxie
George Ballene
Fred Doodieke
Wilma Miller
Jeronmy Mack
Marcia Baty
Dorothy Hissins
Richard Jackman
Smith
Arthur Owen
H.ashton
A. J. Andersen
W. A. Mencever
Frank Strong
A. B. Mitchell
W. C. Head
Ann Arbor
Personal notices from Wilson and Topeka theft report
Mree J B Carter of Wilson and Mrs Harry Dodderidge left yesterday for Weskridge to attend a federation meeting. Mrs W F Coffey of Urbana is caring for sister Mrs LT Th Mrev RT Gilben and Gilben’s operation at Memorial hospital. Edwards left for Washington DC to visit uncle. Three cars stolen in Topeka as Wild West show visited. Kort touring, Bard coupe and a Buick car reported taken.
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J. B. Carter
Wilson
Harry Dodderidge
Weskridge
Federation of Elubs
W F. Coffey
Urbana
Gilben
Memorial Hospital
Philia “Edwards
Topeka
Yestern
Tuick
Car collision blocks Kentucky Street injures drivers
A Ford touring car driven by E T Ireland from 246 Arkansas Street collided in the 790 block on Kentucky Street with a Dodge touring car owned by George Hout of Clinton. The Dodge was parked at the curb. Police records note the mishap occurred late yesterday afternoon while notices mention a church chicken dinner event.
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Kentucky Street
E. T. Ireland
Arkansas Street
George Hout
Clinton
Geting
Baptist Church
KU to broadcast five special events over ten days
KFKU will air five events over the next ten days at the University of Kansas. October 8 features the dedication of the Kansas Memorial Union at 11:05 a.m. with William Allen White as chief speaker, and the completion ceremonies for Memorial Stadium at 1:45 p.m. The Wisconsin Kansas football game airs at 2 p.m. on October 8, followed by the October 14 dedication of the news auditorium at 8 p.m. with Charles F. Scott as chief speaker.
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KFKU
University of Kansas
Kansas Memorial Union Building
William Allen White
Memorial Stadium
Wisconsin-Kansas
News Auditorium
University
Charles F. Scott
Lola
Convention Dinner Tickets On Sale For Lawrence Meeting
Tickets for the Central Protective Association convention dinner in Lawrence on Monday and Tuesday go on sale via DL FL Smith. The event, held in the Chamber of Commerce rooms, gathers lodge secretaries from Douglas County and members from Kansas Missouri and Nebraska with Falls City Nebraska handling new member work. A shed fire at 606 Alabama Street caused by children playing with fire was reported to the fire department. Every Democratic president who has served completed his term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Protective Association
Lawrence
Doulas County
DL FL Smith
Chamber of Commerce
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
Falls City
Alabama Street
F. C. Richardson
Flower Club to Give Cherry Trees to K U
The Lawrence Flower Club plans to buy flowering Japanese cherry trees to present to the University for campus planting. The trees have thrived along the Potomac in Washington and bloom in April. Wichita may be the only Kansas city growing them. A plant sale Saturday afternoon in the courthouse basement will raise funds, offering hardy perennials such as Shasta daisies, violas, and irises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Flower Club
University
Washington, D. C
Potomac
Wichita
Kansan
Flower Club
Court House
GIVE ENGINEERING AWARDS AT DUST SOCIETY MEETING
The Dust meeting of the student branch of the American Society of Civil Engineers met in Marvin hall last night. Prof. HA, Rice, F. A. Russell, and W. C. McNown spoke on society ideals before awarding honors for efficiency based on a point rating. Top scorers were T. C. Thee of Kansas City and R. A. Mettor Mick of Wichita, with H. L. Sweeney of Hiawatha and M. D. Clark of Arkansas City as second high. Awards covered work at engineering summer camps near the Lyons fair, one and a half miles west of the university.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Society of Civil Engineers
Marvin Hall
Ha, Rice
F. A. Russell
W. C. McNown
T. C. Thee
Kansas City
R. A. Mettormick
Wichita
H. L. Sweene
Hiawatha
M. D. Clark
Arksmsan City
Engineering Sumer
Breakey sues Czaplinski over hen house accident in 1927
George Breakey of Lawrence files a district court suit against Charles Czaplinski for 1500 dollars actual and permanent damages. He alleges injury May 10 1927 when a hen house he helped raise collapsed on him, injuring a leg and causing ten weeks of work absence. Multiple property transfers and a quiet title suit are also noted in the record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Breakey
Lawrence
Charles Czawlinski
Breakey
Czaplinski
Breaker
Dr Caldwell’s 3 Rules for Health and Constipation Relief
Dr Caldwell promotes Syrup Pepsin as a natural laxative that avoids harsh purges. He claims it safely and gently empties bowels, with no griping, and urges readers to obtain a free sample by writing to Syrup Pepsin Monticello Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caldwell
Dr. Caldwell
R. Caldwell
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