University of Kansas campus gains with stadium and union
The October 8 1927 Journal World reports Completion Day at the University of Kansas with the stadium nearing full construction and the Student Union partially usable. It notes gifts from alumni farmers and students funded the project, the union housing the cafeteria, and the memorial purpose honoring those who died in World War I. It also mentions international news analysis and a Hoover quote on insurance solicitation.
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University of Ances
Union
Stawlion
Kansas
Kansas lines reorganize as receiverships ease
Two Kansas transportation lines, Kaw Valley Interurban and Orient, once under receivers, plan reorganization as financial troubles ease. The Times notes a shift in strategy and new operations ahead. It also mentions the prince of Wales taxing loyalty of sartorial followers after a pajamaed railroad platform stroll. Automobiles blamed for fewer roadside inns in France, while the U.S. sees growth along busy roads.
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Kansas Transportation
Kaw Valley
Orient
Prince of Wales
Hig
France
New Dressmaker Opens Shop in Town and Local News
In our old home town a Connecticut caller has opened a dressmaking establishment over Hume's store, praised as a superior craft. Local residents Al B Bowers returns to Lawrence, L G Hitchcock returns from Massachusetts with tobacco purchases, and Rev J H Payne plans a Bavarian mission posting. Native Wines offered at 118 Massachusetts Street. Lawrence Public Library transfers to city control with reduced rental rates to broaden access. Twenty five years ago notes recall weddings, social events, and local fortunes, including J Rahskopf returning from Yankee Colorado with ore valued at $100 to $170 per ton, and Pony Davis leaving Lawrence for Denver.
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Minot
Connecticut
Hume
AL. B. Bowers
Lawrence
Jefferson Uy
L. G. Hitchcock
Massichusetts
Cal
O. H. Dorrance
Kanacitie Railway
J. H. Payne
Sinois
Bavaria
K. BR. R
F. J
Ecke
Massachusetts
Lawrence Public Library
A. C. Griesa
Mabel
Ernest W. Young
West Lawrence
Florence Clarke
Mabel Griesa
Ernest Young
Miss Griesd
Ednah Grace Gifford
James Clark
Searles
Seven Gables
Hannah Mitchell
Loehengrin
Miss Cocka
Richard Cordey
Sparr
Schai
Margaret, Perkins
Rahskopf
Clear County
Colo
Pony Davis
Denver
Margaret Roche
Geo. W. Lederer
Broadway
New York
University men sail to France in U S Army ranks
Four University of Kansas men have arrived safely in France as lieutenants in the infantry and cavalry. John P. Flynn, W.N. Smith, Deane Akers, and Rey Gress, all seniors or sophomores from KU, join the overseas forces. Others plan trips and engagements include Katherine Pollock's engagement to Fort Riley’s S. P. Moyer.
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Topeka
Forthill
Rook
Haskel
K. Ui
France
University of Kansas
United States Army
John P. Flynn
Leutenant
W.n. Smith
Cavalry
Deane Akers
Infantry
Rey Gress
Europe
Chris Armstrong
Clarence Wilson
Michigan
R. E. Alen
New York City
A. D. Weaver
Wichita
Allen
Gertrude Devereur
Koussevitzky Returns to Lead Boston Symphony in Fourth Season
M Serge Koussevitzky arrives from Europe to conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra for his fourth season. Born in Northern Russia in 174 he studied at the Moscow Conservatory and became a virtuoso double bass player with the Moscow Imperial Opera Orchestra. He later founded orchestras in Berlin and Moscow, gaining renown for constructive ability, brilliant leadership, and dedication to promoting great music both old and new.
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M. Serge Koussevitzky
Europe
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Russia
Parish
Londoh
Moscow Conservatory
Moscow
Imperial Opera Orchestra
Berlin
M. Koussevitzky
Ten years since major Franco British push at Ypres
A decade ago today a heavy artillery bombardment opened a new Franco British drive in the Ypres region. U.S. Senator Coleman J Blease, former South Carolina governor, enters his sixtieth year as well. Memphis launches a nationwide airplane motel contest for youth inspired by Lindbergh. The Navy orders two new carriers, Saratoga and Lexington, to be the largest and most powerful afloat.
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Ypres
Coleman J. Blease
South Carolina
U. S
Col. Lindbergh
Paris
Memphis
Travesty and Other Books in Lawrence Review
A Lawrence column surveys fiction and non fiction, praising Clare Thornton’s Travesty for its humane transformation of Cesca Gibson, notes Lewis Browne’s That Man Heine, and previews radio adaptations of O Henry stories. It also covers The Flight of Georgianna, Lawrence’s best sellers, new Holt publications with book plates, and children’s verse by John J. Ehrhardt among other arrivals and author spotlights.
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Clare Thornton
Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, Publishers
Miss Thornton
Cesca Gibson
John Fancing
Jim Gayton
Cesca
Jim
John
Sach
Henry Holt Publishing Company
Lawrence
Grant Overton
Wodehow Witwer
AL Ac Milne
Consolidation of Two Publishing Houses United
The merger combines Double day Page Co and George I per Co to form Doubleday Pyrate Go In Bags l. From January the new firm will operate under Willian Heinemann Ltd. Elsweth Phane novelist marries William Beebe aboard Beebe’s yacht at Oyster Bay. The couple cruise southern waters while Miss Thane works on new titles.
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Doubleday, Page & Co
George I
United Cancer
Doubleday
Willian Heinemann, Ltd
Test
Elsweth Phane
Willia Beebe
William ‘Harrison
Mé Beebe
Oyster Bay
Long Island
Miss Thane
Wof
Stokes
Elisabeth
Salvation Army Home Service Drive Targets 33 600 Goal
Solicitors launch a hands on campaign in Tawrener and Douglas counties to raise 33 600 for The Salvation Army Home Service Fund with Lawrence’s share set at 2 850. Donations may be paid at any time and are not scheduled for public listing. Contributions can be left at headquarters or with Treasurer C H Tucker at Watkins National Bank as volunteers push to beat the quota next week.
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Topeka
Jownal
Democratic Party
Kansas
al Smith
Smith
Journal
Smith Meeting
Salvation Army Home Service
Tawrener
Douglas County
Lawrence
Canaign
John M. Linden
Salvation Army Home Service Fund
C. H. Tucker
Watkins National Bank
Lawrence J
Letion Heys
Poor Pa AuDe Callan and County Fair Remarks
Fragmentary text from a 1927 county fair listing notes exhibits of farm produce livestock and educational features with awards. It mentions Pratt county bureau sponsorship and a peace officers meet. The readable line includes a mother in law and crying child quote as a digressive anecdote.
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Pratt County
Fave Bureau
Kansas Peace Officers to Convene at State Reformatory
Kansas Peace Officers' association members gather at the state reformatory in December for their annual contention. About 450 officers are expected with fingerprinting and identification instruction, talks on criminal investigations, and a rifle and pistol drill. Sherif Howard King of Dade City serves as president.
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Hutchinson—i
Kansas
Kansas Peace Officers’ Association
Tryon
Pratt County fairs open in Preston and Iuka schedule
Pratt County begins its sixth annual community fair series with Preston hosting today and events running through October 16. Fairs will also be held at Iuka on October 11 and continue to Byers later in the month.
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Pratt, Kas
Prattsounty
Preston
Byers
Iuka
Nine Babies Weighed at City Hall Clinic This Week
Nine babies were weighed Thursday afternoon at the well baby clinic held in the health rooms at City Hall per the city health nurse's report. Lord Coleridee, the distinguished English jurist who died recently, was buried in a coffin made from a tree he planted in his zenuth.
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Lord Coleridee
State Hatchery Purchases Truck to Carry Baby Fish
Pratt Kansas AP report notes the state hatchery bought a new truck to transport baby fish such as bass perch crappie and catfish to streams across Kansas. Warden J B Daze says deliveries will mostly be by truck when roads are good, possibly naming the truck The Mud Cat.
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Pratt
Kansas Owlers
Kansas Fish Hatchery
J. B. Daze
Cars Collide on Massachusetts Street Collision Report
Two vehicles collided yesterday in the 600 block on Massachusetts street. Evelyn Breland of 1032 Kentucky street and Wm F Cochran of Hutchinson Kansas were involved, according to police records.
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Evelyn Breland
Kentucky Street
Wm. F. Cochran
Hutchinson
Kanads
Massachusetts Street
Chlorine Gas Treatments Offer Catarrh Cure Claims
Advert claims curing catarrh with chlorine gas treatments combined with other therapies. Includes testimonials from several people who say the treatment helped them after physicians allegedly declared their cases hopeless. Consultation and examination offered.
Free VW offer for health examination reads aloud
A fragment promotes a free health check claiming to reveal ailments without questions. The ad promises to diagnose chronic diseases or hidden conditions and urges readers to receive the examination.
Diabetes reframed as digestive disease claims cure
A medical notice states diabetes is a digestive disease linked to catarrh and now considered curable. It asserts all diabetics have catarrh histories, promotes non surgical treatment for female troubles and rectal diseases with a guarantor-backed cure.
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Shest
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Rence
Vance
Chicago
A. BR. Kent
Frankiip
Alcorn
Madison Ave
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Audit Bureau OF
CIR
Coast Guard
New York Yankees
Pirnays
War Memorial
Atchison Globe
Mexico
United States
Therebe
Osear Underwood
Ag Erieved
Herbert Hoover
Eldoraga Times
B. W. Woodward Chin
Mains
Rook” Woodward
Sheriff Woodward
Ida E. Pollock
Katherine
P. Moyer
Fort Riley
Kans
Rhode Island Street
J. W. Robertson
Mr. Robertson
U. S. Navy
Saratoga
Lexington
Lewis Browne
Heinrich Voine
Heine
Browne
Hirth
Heban
Turore
America
O. Henry
National Broadcasting Company, Inc
Doubleday, Passe & Company Sincezes
Redio
Tildy
Georgianna
Robert Neilson Stephens
L. A. Page Publishing Company
Georgianna Foxwell
England
Charlies Everell
Charles
Ann Inn
Foxhall Manor
Georgiaana
Beatre
Durine
Will
Durent
Jalna
de la Roche
Dorothy Parker
Weinrich van ‘Loon
Clonway Wescott
Rosamund Lehmann
Book of the Month Club
FG. Weels
Napoteon
Napoleon
Century
Thig Tx
Emil Ludwig
Thunderer
E. Barrington
Count Balmain
Julian Park
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Buffalo
Napolemy
Island
St. Helena
Lanes o'Ladland
John J. Eherhardt
Salina, Ks
Herhardt
Plains
Wansan
Reade
K. C
Wiliam K. Stidges
Linwood Boulevard Methodist Church
Kansas City
Dr. Stidner
Harold Bell Wircth
God and the Grooveryman
Coolidge
Cuba
Pres Machat A
Gerardo Ma«chado
Havana
Frank B.kellogg
Woodrow Wilson
Washington-Cuba
Salvation Me
Purtisuers Syndicate
State Reformatory
Farm Bureau
State Hatchery
Shimmons Bros
Journal World of Trader Torn
Trader Horn
Alfred Aloysius Horn
Central
Africa
Transition
Will Durant
van Toon
Book Nook
Mass
Didumostivian
Eldridge Hotel
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Optometrist
Mperor
Tiberius
Rome
Jesus
Pilate
Caesar
Dollon
Schubert
WARD
Oo Mase
Kops
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