Judge Seabury Targets City Hall in New York Probe
The Associated Press notes Judge Samuel Seabury, leading the New York city graft inquiry, says he is hindered in every possible way and accuses Mayor Jimmy Walker of obstructing the investigation. Seabury, feared by Tammany, vows to press forward despite opposition from city officials and allies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Seabury
New York City
Jimmy Walker
Tammany
Seabury
New York
Capone’s income figures reshape gangster myth
A defense lawyer for Capone argues he never made the millions once believed, presenting letters showing taxable income of 26,000 in 1926, 850,000 in 1927, 100,000 in 1928 and 100,000 in 1929. If accepted, this lowers the aura of the liquor racket and challenges the notion that gangsters earned vast fortunes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wall Street
Capone
The Little Nations Get a Break
The Columbus Dispatch notes how small nations and peoples deemed backward by modern standards are spared by the global mood. These nations avoid arms races and have governments with modest costs while their people produce mainly for local use amid hard times abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Columbus Dispatch
Prosperity Amid Machinery Upheaval And Political Moves
The piece weighs prosperity against rapid modernization and warns high speed production outpaced public understanding. It notes calls for a special Oklahoma legislature session, cautions about added tax costs, and hints at Governor Murray's shutdown era in oil policy. It also references conflicting terms used for dropped objects in Manchuria.
Townwide freezing forecast hits Lawrence area today
Lawrence experiences a light freeze threshold as the morning dropped to 39 degrees and a likely subfreezing night awaits. Local visitors include Mrs. Sol Marks en route to St Louis and Mrs. Susie Gilmore from Denver visiting relatives. Miss Lawrence hosts a dinner by Miss Mabel Dick with Marie Lawrence planning a winter in West Newton Pennsylvania. Sigma Nu House at 1300 Louisiana street narrowly escapes fire with only a burn on Lee Allen’s hand after he failed to notice the blaze while studying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Sol Marks
St. Louis
Susie Gilmore
Denver
Gilmore
St. Luke's Hospital
Miss Lawrence
Marie Lawrence
Mabel Dick
West Newton
K. U
Allen
Ten Years Ago News and Local Mishaps
Ten years ago on a Friday in October Uncle John Beamer, aged over 90, suffered a dislocated shoulder and is confined at home at 1935 Vermont Street. Postmaster C S Finch and Mrs Finch, after visiting Wichita for ten days, returned and were involved in a minor car crash at Indiana and Ninth streets. Mrs Finch sustained two broken ribs. Miss Nellie Kuhn resigned today.
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John Beamer
Vermont Street
C. $. Finch
Mre. Finch
Wichita
Indiana
Ninth ‘Street
Finch
Miss Kuhn
Nellie Kuhn
Lawrence Nurse Heads Change At Public Health Dept
Miss Kuhn, supervising public health nurse of Lawrence for two years, will attend a reunion of the 21 Base Hospital in St Louis, where she served overseas during the war. Mrs. Robert Seamons will become supervising nurse. Plus notes on Lon Poff touring Los Angeles as Father Joseph in The Three Musketeers and a Country Club party hosted by Miss Arlene Church and Miss Olive Weatherby with a guest list of local girls. Mrs. H A Woodward leaves for the Friends church fiftieth anniversary convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Kuhn
St. Louis
Nit
Robert Seamons
Lon Poff
Fairbanks Moving Pictures
Joseph
Three Musketeers
Penich
Los Angeles
Arlene Church
Olive Weatherby
Esther Johnson
Florence Beamer
Josephine Kerr
Madge Gaunt
Marie Gaunt
Marion Decker
Betty Rucker
Mary Jenkins
Ruth Wellman
Maurine McNish
Gladys Lyons
Viola Schaake
Thelma Edmondson
Rose _McCulloch
Josephine
Tuberculosis in Children Aims and Facts
Dr Jage Galdston discusses how tuberculosis often begins in children as a smouldering infection rather than an active disease. Many infected children show no obvious symptoms, yet close contact with an active case can lead to the childhood type of TB with no clear signs, unlike the adult form.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jage Galdston
Academy of Medicing
Kansas History Notes from 1885 1888 and 1892
A Topeka event marks the organization of a branch of the Irish National League in 1885. In 1888 J. J. Frey is promoted to general manager of the Missouri Kansas and Texas railway by the receivers. In 1892 Dr. S. B. Prentiss, pioneer physician, dies at Lawrence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irish National League
Topeka
J. J. Frey
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway
S. B. Prentiss
Lawrence
Flashes of Life from World Cities and Regions
News in brief from London New York Hollywood Moscow Edmonton and Syracuse highlighting the dissolution of Parliament the Riviera fashion auction Clara Bow’s return Lydia Kovalski earning Lenin decoration and Syracuse University easing unregistered class attendance with safeguards against skipping regular courses.
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Press
London
New York
Riviera
Welker
City Hall
Edmonton
James Hazlett
Red River
Syracuse
Syracuse University
Sam Sherrill and Peak Abbott Meet for Breakfast Plan
Sam Sherrill confronts Peak Abbott after a chapter of engagement and money maneuvers. She asks him to let her set the day and control the talk, promising not to discuss major matters until she gives the word. The scene shifts from conflict to a tense, cautious truce as both navigate unseen motives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Sherrill
Peat Abbott
Sam
Fourth Alderson
Faw
Peak
Fourth
Freddy Mun‘gon
Peats
Freddy
Abbott
Im 2
Yosney
Commonsense
Mr. Cupid
Old Taylor Place
Freemen Lincoln
Sundown Walrus Dinner
Mary Graham Bonner tells of walrus family members teaching John and Peggy to swim. The creatures boast heavy land movement but swift water action, diving and surfacing with tusks and loud calls. They dine on clams beneath ice while bidding farewell, inviting a future return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Graham Bonner
John
Peggy
Kansas Briefs Touch on Temperance Union Elections
Manhattan reports Mrs. Lillian Mitchner of Hutchinson elected president of the Kansas Women’s Christian Temperance Union with a slate of officers from cities across the state. Altoona notes a taxpayers meeting in Topeka on October 15 supported by Wilson County leaders, drawing about 1,000 attendees. Olathe records an unidentified man about 60 killed by a westbound Santa Fe passenger train. Journal-World classified ad encourages selling poultry and eggs.
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Associated Press
Manhattan
Kansas Women's Christian Temperance Union
Lillian Mitchner
Hutchinson
Ida M. Walker
Norton
Mary E. Dobbs
Wichita
Leah Thomas
Barclay
Jenny B. Greer
Leavenworth
Emma W. Grover
Winfield
Messenger
Mabel Plumer
Downs
Young People's Branch
Amanda Schirmer
Holton
Loyal Temperance Legion
Altoona
Topeka
Wilson County Taxpayers’ League
Jonathan Davis
Kansas
Harold Megugin
Olathe
Farm Bureau notes on dairy costs and relief food plans
Douglas County dairy herd notes show average feed cost 51 cents per hundredweight and butterfat 12 cents with grain feeding yielding cheaper milk fat. H B Peairs led in butter fat and milk with a ration of wheat oats alfalfa. The report covers herd averages, culling goals, and relief food guidance from the Bureau of Home Economics advising minimum weekly food quantities for families and stressing use of abundant foods like apples and tomatoes to combat malnutrition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas County
Dairy Herd Improvement Association
Carl Foster
Association
H. B. Peairs
Peairs
Peakrs
B. F
Bureau of Home Economics
Bureau
United States Department of Agriculture
Washington
D. C
Farm Bureau
Lawrence
Bureau of Home Economies
Tomatoes and ripe fruit in home canning and meals
A home economics note urges using the last tomatoes, canned options if budget allows, and includes catsup, chili sauce, pickles, piccalilli and green tomato dishes. It notes green tomatoes ripen to vitamin C, while vine-ripened boast vitamins A B C and minerals, with canning recipes and usage guidance available from Washington Bureau of Home Economics and local agents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau
Washington, D. C
Bureau of Home Economics
Wise
Farm| Bureau
Lawrence
Mosley Tickets Noted Athletes in General Election slate
Sir Oswald Mosley announced Kid Lewis a new party candidate in the general election. He has gathered other athletes on his ticket including R. O. Harding a former Cambridge rugby captain who will run in Swansea and Peter Howard a former England rugby captain standing at Yardley. Mosley is an amateur boxer of note.
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London
Oswald Mosley
Kid” Lewis
England
House of Commons
Hig
R. O. Harding
Cambridge University
Swansea
Peter Howard
Yardley
Oswald
Baldwin News Social Gatherings and Visits
Dr. Charles E. Stephens visited his brother James Stephens and Mrs Stephens in Garnett on Monday. Mrs John Wellborn hosts the Kensington club on Thursday evening. The Baker Faculty club enjoyed a picnic supper in East Park on Monday evening with members in charge Prof and Mrs W H Garrett Dr and Mrs Wiley A Keve and Dr and Mrs
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles E. Stephens
Garnett
James Stephens
Stephens
John Wellborn
Kensington Club
Faculty Club of
Baker
East Park
W. H. Garrett
Wiley A. Keve
Delta Zeta Hosts Tea For New House Mother In Kansas City
The Delta Zeta sorority held a Thursday tea to honor their new house mother Mrs. Florence Rounsavelt of Kansas City. New members attended including Prof. and Mrs. Luther Leavengood and Prof. Paul C. Keehan. Mrs. Harris chairs the November dinner committee. Austrian President Reelected in Vienna Wilhelm Miklas wins 109 to 93 over Dr. Rennary Socialist in congress.
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John W. Hillman
W. J. Williams
Helen Wilson
Clara Krefting
Luther Leavengood
Paul
C., Keehan
D. L. Dalke
Thomas L. Harris
Delta Zeta
Florence Rounsavelt
Kansas City
Vienna
Wilhelm Miklas
Austrian Republic
Rennary
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Murray
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Manchuria
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Laura
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Tomorr
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Bun
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McCalls
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Wolf’s Book Store
Muss
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Wall Paper CO
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