Parade of nightshirts and political notes from Kansas
A fragment from a 1922 Lawrence Kansas page comments on a university parade of nightshirts, then shifts to international politics. It discusses Bonar Law and Lloyd George, U.S. prohibition enforcement, and the need for patient attitudes toward dry laws, plus a note on Dr. Abbott and free thought in the United States. It closes with a budget forecast from the federal budget bureau aiming to hold next year’s expenditures near four billion dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonar Law
Lloyd George
England
Federal Budget Bureau
Queen Victoria of Spain Sets Joyful Anniversary Tone
Queen Victoria of Spain, daughter of the late Prince Henry of Battenberg and Princess Beatrice, marked a thirty fifth birthday with praise for her democratic spirit and missionary interests. Known as the beauty of royal lines, Ena, as she was once called, wed the King of Spain in Madrid on May 31, 1906, and their heir, the Prince of the Asturias, was born in May 1907.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queen Victoria
Spain
Rn Ling
Prince Henry of
Battenberg
Beatrice
Great Britain
Eugghite
France
Ena
Madrid
Prince of the Asturias
Fragmented Old News Notes and Local Items
Patchwork of quotes and brief notices touches on finance, aviation, social decline, and local events. Mentions old King coal, Villa bank plans, a ship fire, a famous aviator, family jests, social ladders, German debt, and regional gatherings. Includes festival chorus plans near Pittsburg, Apple premiums in Perry, and a stray agency note about religious prejudice.
Republicans Present Clean Douglas County Ticket
The Douglas county Republican slate features Willard Morgan and Chas Beeks for legislature, C Bussing for county clerk, Art Huddleston for treasurer, Mrs Isai E Wellman for Register of Deeds, D F Smith for Clerk of the District Court, Oscar J Lane for County Superintendent, Dr Carl Phillips for coroner, Sheriff Will Johns for re election, and H Menger for Probate Judge. Voters are urged to support a capable, veteran group including a noted dirt farmer candidate and a strong mix of farmers and professionals ready to serve the county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas County
Willard Morgan
Dougla County
Chas. Beeks
Beeks
Baldwin
C. Bussing
Farmer's, State Bank
Lawrence
Board of County Commissioners
IA. E
Huddleston
Art
Art Huddleston
K. O
Register of Deeds
Isai E. Wellman
D. F. Smith
Land Star
Ott
Oscar J. Lane
Lane
Carl Phillips
Couglas
Phillips
France
Will Johns
Perise
Eitre
Johns
Itabel
Rail Stress Findings From Curve Tests At Illinois University
A 1918-1920 progress report from the Port of the engineering department of Illinois University details rail stress measurements taken since 1914. The study, funded by the American Railway Association, covers how locomotive weight, rail joints at curves, ties, ballast, and tamping affect curved versus straight track. Over a million measurements from Atlantic to Pacific informed the findings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Ilinois University
American Railway Association
American Rail Way Engineers Associations
American Society of Civil Engineers
Atolantic
Pacific
Princes Hermine’s Ancestry Recounted By Remote Family History
Berlin reports on the engagement of former Emperor William to Princess Hermine of Reuss, detailing the long lineage of the Reuss family. The piece explains a century‑long naming tradition with Henry I through Henry XXIV, noting medieval upbringing and arranged marriages of Hermine’s sisters and the strict line of succession maintained by the senior branch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Get
William
Hermine of
Ruess
Hohenzollerns
Alwi
House of Hohenzollern
Hermine
Marie
Baron Guegnoni
Emma
Koenigle
Hungary
Ida
Stolberg Rosla
Prince
von Schonnich-Carolath
Reuss
Henry
Ermine
Henry I
Watich
Henry XXIV
Famous Chief Leiato Dies in American Samoa
Pagopago Oct 24 Leiato a high chief of Tutuiki is dead. He signed the Cession of Tutuila to the United States and ordered his people to build a road on the south side of Tutuila named McKinley Road in memory of President McKinley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pagopage
American Samoa
Leiato
Tutuiki
Tutuili
United States
McKinley
Tutuila
McKinley Road
Stamp Counterfeits Fear London Deception Hits Danzig
Stamp collectors warned of fake German stamps said to be made in London for English spies in Germany during wartime. Counterfeits target ten and 15 pfennig denominations with duller mucilage thinner paper and missing curved lines in the letters TH Deutsches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danzig
London
Germany
Deutsches
Kingman County Fair Returns This October
The fourth annual Kingman county fair will run October 25 for four days. All departments will be filled with fine exhibits, according to the organizers.
Pleasant Valley Wheat Seeding Nearing Completion
Pleasant Valley reports fall wheat seeding nearly finished. Local residents and visitors recount community social visits and family gatherings across Lawrence and Emporia, including A L Holcom and John Maloney hosting and visiting neighbors.
Siam Law Grants Debtor Three Months Before Seizure
The law in Siam allows a debtor a three month grace period. If payment is not made, the creditor may seek court orders to seize the debtor and compel labor without pay until the debt is settled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Siam
Hay Crop Moving Prices Lower Across Markets
Washington reports the 1922 hay crop is moving at prices slightly below last year. No. 1 timothy averages about 21 per ton, prairie hay about 14, and No. 1 alfalfa about 21.50. Estimated 1922 crop exceeds 11 million tons, with timothy and clover rising, and prairie and alfalfa with smaller surplus. movement hampered by scarce cars. Local supplies vary by region with New England receiving influx from Ohio, New York and Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U. S. Department ‘of Agriculture
Timothy Hay
North Carolina
Virginia
South Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
New England
Ohio
New York
Michigan
Community Notices From Yarnold And Nearby
Winter Miss Ruth Sehveyer dismissed her school to attend the teachers meeting in Topeka. Mr and Mrs K B Rodgers of Forest Hill La are proud parents of an eight and a half pound son. Mrs Shipman Carter and son Richard visited the C Richard home in Barker neighborhood. A nine and a half pound son was born to Iv and Mrs John Banks. Grandma Anderson has been on the sick list. Mrs George Banks visiting her mother in Lawrence. Richard Elwin Carter weekend with grandparents in Lawrence. Mrs Ship Winter visited Kansas City. Mr and Mrs Will Amerson returned from western Kansas. Mrs Arnold Ranswell Mrs Ambage Bigsby and Sausrider Elizabeth spent Thursday with Mrs Shipman Carter. Charles Winter and mother of BE W Coles visiting from Chicago spent Sunday at the Charles Sehon home near Lecompton. Paul Winter spent Monday with folks and Kelpey his brother Charles picking apples.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willizor
Evans
Pasadena
California
A. L. Holcom
A. K. Hayden
Billy
Charles LaDuke
Dewey Rains
Lawrence
Ochlert
B. Shuckway
Hugh Axe
la Duke
Shuck
Pence
Nora Norris
Jim Norris
Otis Wigrins
Raymond la Duke
Roy
Frances Curtis
Maloney
Flavia
W. GC. Miller
Noble Messer
Ralph
Jim Anderson
John Maloney
Mildred
A. L. Holcém
Fred Kennedy
Kansas City
Ruth Sehveyer
Yarnold
Topeka
K. B. Rodgers
Forest Hill
Rodgers
John Banks
Grandma Anderson
George Banks
Richard Elwin Carter
Ship Winter
Will Amlerson
Kansas
Arnold Ranswell
Ambrage Bigsby
Sausrider
Melen Elizabeth
Shipman Carter
Charles Winter
BE. W. Coles
Chicago
Charles Sehon
Lecompton
Paul Winter
Nome
Kelpey
Charles
Horses remain vital in epietican commercial life says official
Wayne Dinsmore secretary of the Horse Association of America notes New York City shows a 100 percent rise in horses in use over five years. The American Railway Express Company reports 16,254 horses in service on July 31, 1922, with 402 horses sold after five years for 24 percent of their original cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wayne, Dinsmore
Association of America
New York City
United States
American Railway Express Company
Chicagoy
Washington University enrollment up as women rise
In St Louis on Oct 24 the university reports total enrollment of 4794 with a notable shift of women in professional schools. Women increase in law medical commercial fine arts and nursing departments though architecture shows a decline from seven to four. Men sent by the Federal Board for Disabled Veterans grow from 200 in 1920 to 444, mainly in commerce and finance courses. An unusual trend shows more women in art and sciences than men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Washington University
Nummer
Federal Board For Disabled Veterans
Bridge plan eyed to link Cimarron River region
Steveries county board of commissioners plans a large cement bridge across the Cimarron River in the northwestern part of the county. The bridge would allow residents from a broad area to reach Hugoton and expand the town’s trade reach. Construction is expected soon amid a dry Cimarron River.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cimarron - Hugoton
Board of Commissioners of
Steveries County
Cimarron
Hugoton
Kansas
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NAL World “Ay
World Company ‘Wart Arete President
Nia
Pe Kester
Franklin Partridge
Associated Frese
Associated Presa
Focal News
Pestortica
Cate Thia
Geony
James
Acibg
Incibent
Legislateg
Lyntian
Abbott Noves
America
Dr. Abbott
Russia
Tom Sims
Villa
Mowrer
Brass City
Bill
Pittsburg
Albert A. Rose
Perry
Douglas “Country
Tamimergan
Old
Ben Franklin County
Trispinia
Republican
The
Journal-World
Mitchell
H. “Menger
Menger
B. Hosford
A. L. Cox
Hosford
Hosford & Arnold
Minors University
American Rail Association
Guess
Thrace
Emperor William
la Princess
Samoan
San Juan
P. R
Jung
Pleasant Valley
New En Hornes
Bsr Ju
Springfield
Ill
Hiineis Telephone ‘Association
United States Adent Telephone Association
Its
Tate
Mt Aa
Jts
Jay ‘G, Fitehel
Illinois Association
Ninoja
Bell Company
Minois Association
National’ Association
Ilinois Association
Jenny Lind
Derby Grain Co
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