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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1920
Page
4
A Lawrence Kansas newspaper notes Sylvia Pankhurst is jailed again for publishing seditious literature in England. The item places her recent arrest amid international politics, contrasting it with British Irish and navy ministry issues and local service concerns.
The Douglas county bar gains its first district judge in years as Colonel Hugh Means is praised for service in World War I and steady leadership. The community unopposed supports his elevation, seeing in him a qualified, self disciplined candidate fit for the bench.
Commemorations mark Gen Benjamin Cheatham’s birth and Spain’s treaty ratification. The League of Nations opens in Brussels as Catholic archbishop Neil McNeil celebrates jubilee. Several society and church meetings begin in St Paul and New York. Liquor referendum in British Columbia weighs prohibition vs government control. A two day FAA tax talk in New York. Urban League and Negro welfare group meet in New Jersey. An ICC hearing in Columbus challenges Ohio rail fare hikes.
A fragment from the Republican Daily Journal dated October 29, 1876 recalls Lawrence’s landscape and climate. The writer notes sparse sugar maple growth, scarce evergreens, and the prairie flora, with a discussion of tobacco absence in Kansas, the sweet potato boom, and wheat fields. It mentions Kansas Pacific rail stock issues, a pilot car feature, a 36,000 brick school planned at Perryville, and an auction of fourteen Holstein heifers.
A compact list of notable anniversaries and events spanning 1740 to 1992 includes Maria Theresa’s Empress title and European wars, Jerome Bonaparte’s abdication, Grace Darling’s death, Michael Balfe’s career, Julia Marlowe’s stage debut, Sarah Bernhardt’s early Oslo engagement, electric lighting at the reading room, and the 1904 Hague peace conference invitation.
John C. Merriman at Carnegie Institution in Washington is 51 today. Nathan L. Mc candidate for po was born in Cordl 52 years ago. Admiral Walter F. Pullam, retired U S N, is 65 today in Monroe County New York. James R. Mann, representative from the Second Miami district, born Bloomington DL 64. Tr Rev Charles T Russell Catholic bishop Charleston born Baltimore 57 years ago today.
Frank Smith performed at the Chamber of Commerce meeting last night receiving enthusiastic applause. Faculty new members from the University of Kansas attended, introduced by H. B. Ober, while Haskell Institute staff were also present. Road-day celebration plans were announced inviting members to assemble at the courthouse at 3 AM to aid roadway work from Brexendale to No. etc
A Kansas man named Zumwalt recounts how strangers misjudge his heritage based on his German sounding surname. He explains he was born near Osborne to American-born parents, with ancestors who fought at Bunker Hill, and notes frequent misperceptions about his ethnicity due to his name.
Mrs Hugh MecVicker and Mrs Dan Duncan of Toveka traveled to Bonner Springs this morning to visit friends and the Holstein safe. J C Serriatt's, Oct 21.
William Allen White argues Kansas must cut farmer taxes through Amendment No. 2 by taxing intangible properties and widening the tax base. He cites Minnesota’s experience and says broader tax sharing will ease the farmer’s burden while railroads oppose the measure. He stresses Kansas as an agricultural state and notes political actions by Trinity Brotherhood and city commission to appoint election boards.
An international trade conference opened in Atlantic City and reports say anti-Roishe forces moved within eight miles of Petrograd. The item mentions Welch and Welch chiropractors and Palmer graduates, a local drug store named Ran kin's, a Holstein sale, J. C. Herriott's on October 21, and Serfula with swollen glands running sores and inflamed eyelids yielding to Hoods Sursaparilla.
R. O. Smith, county farm agent, attended a district meeting of farm agents and executives at Ottawa. The district covers Douglas, Franklin, Johnson, Osage, Coffey, Anderson, Miami and Allen counties. Plans for winter membership drives were outlined by C. R. Weeks and Carl Knaus. A Douglas County bureau board meeting in Lawrence on Nov 18 will hear the same program. English is being introduced as a compulsory subject in Belgrade schools. Lawrence business trip noted and suspensories advertised.
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