Ickes Urges Speedier Federal Relief Spending
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation reports nearly three billion spent to ease the economy with about a billion repaid by borrowers, showing self liquidating projects. Secretary Ickes asks governors to speed up unemployment relief funds, Kansas included, to avoid highway-commission delays. Coal miners strike and gradual job gains noted amid NRA efforts. Gasoline tax leaks in Kansas appear plugged, boosting revenue. Buy Now campaign tied to NRA drive to sustain payrolls and production.
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Ickes
Atstee
Landon
Kansas
State Highway Commission
NRA
Rounding Up Cooperation Aids Crime Suppression
State and federal authorities intensified cooperation to suppress crime. The initiative yielded notable national results as prison doors opened wider to inmates and offenders were brought to justice.
Trials and recaptures frame Kansas crime recovery efforts
The text notes a jury selection for the Machine Gans Kellys trial, eleven convicts recaptured after Memorial Day escapes, and federal authorities joining local efforts. It also mentions KU football resting, Tammany politics in New York, and potential leadership shifts under Mayor O'Brien, with ail Smith as a possible candidate to lead Tammany.
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Gans Kellys
Kansas
Tammany
New York
McKee
O’brien
Ail Smith
History This Date Kansas 1896 Milk Cows Shortfall Report
A Kansas state board of agriculture special report notes 515 075 milk cows in the state, about one tenth of the desired number. Dr Edward Bumgardner discusses homeopathic doses and historic meteorite events, including the 1908 Siberian blast with massive damage and inconclusive trace of reindeer.
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State Board of Agriculture
Kansas
Edward Bumgardner
Siberia
Scarlet fever in childhood and toxin progression
Education notes discuss scarlet fever as a childhood disease, its toxin spread after the germ breaches bodily defenses, and the role of antitoxin treatment in the blood poisoning phase.
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Edad
New York
Iago Galdston
Scarlet fever toxin forms and treatment insights
The passage discusses scarlet fever stages, emphasizing the toxin form and severity. It notes the mild overall appearance in recent decades but warns fever cases require careful treatment to prevent complications. Early antitoxin and careful infection control are mentioned as beneficial.
Local Social Roundup Highlights Visits and Meetings
Mrs Marjorie Westerhouse and family hosted dinner with guests Mr and Mrs Wia Fred Eudal and others. Iva Brown attended a Johnson county teachers meeting in Olathe. Families from Kansas City Oskaloosa and Wever joined Mr and Mrs Carl Neis and grandmother Smith for gatherings. Frederick and Donald Kurtz were absent from school due to illness, while Mr and Mrs Fred Smith and Ned Rice visited with baskets for Mr Smiths birthday.
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Marjorie. Westerhouse
Carl, Howard, Whale
Wiafred Eudal
Guiars
Frank Wade
Regence
de Recsch
Onganoxie
Robert Reusch
Iva Brown
Johnson County
Olathe
Howard Bernitz
Lelia Mae
Kansas City
Rs. F. Bernitz
F. M. Brown
Lloyd
Kansas
Smith
Frederick
Donald Kurtz
Evening Star School
Fred Smith
Ned Rice
Oskaloosa
Eugene McFarland
St. Joeeee
Carl Neis
Mr. Smith
Community notes from Clinton Belvoir area report gatherings and births
Walter Houk Marion Tucker Faye Anderson Harriett Hume and Rose Baldwin spent the weekend with home folks. The September Missionary Society met at Mrs John Benander home with Mrs Joseph Kennison presiding. New births noted include a son for Mr. and Mrs Gaylord Schneck of Lawrence and a son for Mr. and Mrs Emmet Smith of Lawrence. County residents sowing wheat and visiting relatives are mentioned along with school and cemetery planning activities at Belvoir.
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Walter Houk
Marion Tucker
Faye Anderson
Harriett Hume
Rose Baldwin
Chester Baldwin
Moreland Baldwin
Eva Kuhns
Kansas City
the Missionary Society
John Benander
Joseph Kennison
Baldwin
Carl Miller
Dewey Benander
Will Hilbert
Cletus Lehman
Frederick Lee
Lawrence
Jude Anderson
Harry Murphy
Emmet Smith
Smith
Naomi Anderson
Harvey Barton
Silo
Ebon Anderson
Poo Debiees
Lon Whery
George Strahan
Sigel
Stull
Evangelical Church
Theodore Bellman
Near Stull
Fred Baldwin
Cletus
Ashwood Holds Prisoners After Night of Murders on Island
Detective Stevens pursues Ashwood who holds six captives for ransom after two men are killed in Ashwood inland. Jerry Calhoun and Emory Barnes race to rescue Nancy Wentworth as tension builds, while a search for a hidden gun intensifies on the island amid threats and looming violence.
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Ashwood
Stevens
Jerry Calhoun
Nancy Wentworth
Jerry
Emory Batnes
Pool Prings
Williams
Rcd
Weill
Alfred
Atee
Steve
Mallory
Lucci
Vals
California
Criuchss
Emory
Murder-Drunk Bird and Prisoner Motives Thorn Case
In a tense jailhouse drama the suspects churn theories about a guard killing and Williams’s murder. Jerry pressures action while emphasizing distrust among Lucci Lim and others. Emory longs for resolution amid mounting danger and an imminent confrontation.
Abduction Plot Spurs Vow to Marry and Act
In a tense scene, Jerry Emery and Stevens press Miss Wanttworth for a plan to thwart Ashwood’s abduction. Emory ponders a marriage license as a potential lever while the group discusses racing to the minister and the yacht tonight to secure a rescue and stake their claim.
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Ana
Jerry
Ashwood
Emery
Will
Talant
Ensworth
Emory
Stevens
Wood
Nature Class gangster Gus Winkler is shot dead in Chicago
Chicago reports Gus Winkler gangster and reputed killer was shot on a north side street. He was found on a sidewalk near a beer distributing agency and died after arrival at John B. Murphy hospital. Winkler, once linked to fugitive Fred Burke, had figured in notorious loot schemes and recently faced a vagrancy acquittal.
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Chicago
Gus Winkler
North Side Street
Winkler
John B. Murphy Hospital
Fred" Burke
Siitniaan Oe
Serscrony
Tina
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