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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1934
Page
4
Fragmented text discusses tax issues in eastern Ohio and concerns over gasoline tax revenues. It mentions city finances and distribution, highway or transit systems, and looming American Legion convention discussion. Names and clear facts are sparse due to garbled OCR.
The article notes Cecil DeMille worries film dialogue suffers from dropped consonants and casual responses like yeah. He warns this trend risks broadening into radio as producers seek actors who sound correct both in appearance and speech.
Barrisdall Refining Co of Kansas City plans two new filling stations in Lawrence. Ten year leases have been secured on corners at Seventh and Alabama Streets and Nineteenth and Massachusetts Street. Other items note a party at University faculty home with many guests and a marriage at St Pauls Evangelical church between Lilian Lentz and Gustave Wulfkuhle, who will reside at 2098 Kentucky Street.
Washington reports the navy will conduct experiments in long distance wireless telegraphy, linking Brant Rock Massachusetts 2900 miles. Instruments mounted in a 100 foot tower will receive signals from two scout cruisers Salem and Birmingham. Success could lead to a proposed wireless tower in Washington. Governor Hadlay recently appointed to a new post.
Miss Alberta Worbin and Mrs Strong attended a meeting in Topeka for the seat Valley Alliance of the Unitarian church. Chancellor and Mrs. entertained with an informal faculty reception. Large attendance, a spirit of companionship prevailed. Guests were received in the parlor and refreshments served in the dining room. Evelyn Strow assisted, others included Mrs Young Mrs Hodder Mrs Walker and Miss Dunjan.
Forty years ago on Tuesday October 23 references to Rob Johnson resuming as Ottawa laundry agent. Susan B Anthony to speak in Lawrence next week. Rascal rally event October 26 at Journal Hall. Cattle trade notes describe shipments of hundred head of three to four year olds to Kansas City from J M McCarroll. Many social updates on residents traveling, visiting and leaving for studies, plus local business updates and a two hour flatboat crossing on the Kaw with a cottonwood craft nicknamed Nellie Blue.
A safety pin and a hound dog thwart a robber on an 80 year old farmer in Cleveland Tennessee. A Colorado Springs moonlight view of Pikes Peak appears nightly between midnight and 1 a.m. A Wheeling Ohio rural mishap spills 150 chickens from a wrecked truck. An Ames Smith Jr 14 year old nearly choked by a misplaced apple prompts medical relief.
The first concrete road in the United States was built in Bellefontaine Ohio in 1892. The oldest concrete pavement in the world, in Edinburgh Scotland, dates back to 1863 and remains in good service. Today there are about 100000 miles of concrete roads in America.
Kanwaka Township Farm Bureau will meet Friday evening at the Kanwaka schoolhouse at 8 o clock. The program includes township vice president election community singing instrumental music and demonstrations by Leonora Elkins Olive Madde Evans Willard Shaw Georga Haverstork and Mary Low Elliott. A piano solo and an accordion color by Marguerite Hird are listed with refreshments to follow.
A quirky exchange at Real Friends Diner shadows a playful moment as a dog sits watching. Chelsea Rae is referenced in a chatty, incomplete scene about a plate and a sitter, leaving questions about who owns what and why the dog remains alert.
In a chatty scene Lan and Lon plan a tasteful village of cozy homes. Marian consoles Lon as money troubles surface and a cake mishap interrupts a tea party.
Lon confesses being broke while Marian offers a thousand dollars, proposing a business loan to cover five hundred for payroll. He worries about mortgage or selling the car, and Marian pledges support, urging him to work and not fall back to barter. They part hopeful, crossing to the hilltop to watch night fall over the valley.
A garbled report notes a group described as gipsies near Paddle Muddle with nearby animals including Rip the dog and Top Notch the rooster. The passage mentions Christopher Columbus Crow and a supposed camp cleansing process observed by Top Notch.
The Puddle Muddlers reach a gipsy camp and find the caravaners unpacked and settling by a fire. Quick-Dick the fire horse irrupts, then wanders off with the gipsies to swap tales as a colorful gypsy woman invites them to share dinner while plans unfold for tomorrow.
A newspaper note recalls France plans to move the discoverer Rene Laennec from his modest 1826 tomb to a mausoleum. The piece recounts how Laennec improvised a paper funnel to hear heart sounds, creating the stethoscope. It notes the device’s historic prominence yet evolving role after X-ray and other advances.
A special board studying the nation s land and water resources is expected to submit recommendations to President Roosevelt before the next session. The rivers and harbors question will form the core of the report, a topic long tied to political grabs during prosperous times.
Members of Congress show caution while criticizing the administration as estimates reveal a total of 128 132 800 for projects. An additional 285 319 700 may be needed to complete the work and Mansfield of Texas argues that large expenditures without congressional authorization invite public criticism and should be handled by Congress, not the executive branch.
Mrs Sarah Cannon Brownlee born March 16 1812 in Canonsburg Pennsylvania spent her girlhood there. She taught school then married to B Brownlee and served as a home mission co worker with the United Presbyterian church. She later joined Purview Methodist and lived at a Lawrence country home for 39 years. She died October 15 1954 at age 92 years 7 months leaving Mary Oscar Homer Brownlee Roy Irvin and two grandchildren.
John S. Akers, longtime Lawrence post office clerk and rural carrier, is commended by Postmaster General James A. Farley for a 28 year plus service record. The letter notes his start in 1905, 11 months as a rural carrier, and ends with best wishes for happiness and contentment in retirement.
William Ardersong of Kan City visited Mrs Dolligg Hill on Sunday. Lawrence residents Wm Loeschy and Dean Capps spent Sunday dinner with the Sawyers. The Speerschneider resale was postponed to Tuesday morning due to Lent. William Torneden hosted several callers including Mr and Mrs Chas Douglas and son Lloyd.
A 19th century advertisement touts Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a famous, harmless vegetable-based laxative. It claims the tablets cleanse the bowels, remove poison from faulty elimination, and restore rosy cheeks, asserting long use by men and women for twenty years.
Lawrence area social notes describe Lone Oak Schoenhofer and family hosting. Kahsaa City guests at Bertha Gatons. Trapps and Moores hosting and visiting Veterans Hospital. Ida Waters and George Differ visiting. Quinhins and Quinlan families motor to Nebraska for friends. Happy Hour club meeting at Mrs Roberta Douglas with Current Events. rain and mud affect attendance.
A Topeka family hosted visitors including Mr and Mrs Sam Sutton from Barber and Pasadena California. The gathering included the Jolly Quilters meeting planned for Wednesday October 24 with Mrs Suchieun and daughter Mrs Hare in attendance.
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