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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1923
Page
8
A detailed travel and public affairs sketch from Lawrence Kansas writer Simons recounts a Chicago journey with stops at the Santa Fe station and a Lloyd George banquet. It covers banking scandals in Wichita, political shifts in Kansas, and observations on traffic, Prohibition enforcement, Mussolini’s Italy, and social scenes in Chicago.
Boston University marks its golden jubilee today with Dr Leshuel H Murlin as president. A 62 year old Ohio native, he joined the university after heading Baker University for over fifteen years and has guided expansion and growth at Boston University since 1894. He studied at Fort Wayne College DePauw University and undertook post graduate work in several universities before teaching at Fort Wayne College and Cornell College.
Today a large monument honoring Confederate dead will be unveiled in Holly Springs. Separately, U S and Mexican labor leaders plan a conference in El Paso on creating a Pan American Federation of Labor. Navy bids open today to scrap the first batch of eight ships under the naval reduction treaty.
Rome October 25 Associated Press reports a complete set of workman's tools unearthed during canal repairs for Velino river drainage. The tools are said to date to the era of Manius Curius Dentatus around 272 B C. The Velino bed rises due to lime impregnation, prompting the canal construction to divert the water.
New Orleans reports show graduates will wear simple gowns under a policy limiting costs to 15 dollars. Newcomb College offers modern dancing taught by Miss Frances Jay, with a diverse curriculum and no cuts. City marriage rates rise with 12.5 marriages per 1000 as under-18 brides are common, while a social service group cares for a premature baby weighing 3 pounds, later thriving. A hospital also notes its first dog patient, Blackie, saved after an automobile injury.
El Paso’s S. H. Sutherland claims a flag once tied to Civil War guerilla leader William Clarke Quantrell was saved by him and to be given to Lawrence Kansas. Kansas Historical Society secretary counters it belongs to the South Carolina Minute Men era and notes it depicts a coiled rattlesnake with “Don’t read on me” and ties to slavery era border war depredations.
The piece notes fixed plans for an 80 story building in New York with extravagant rent expectations, joking that it would dwarf the Woolworth building. It mentions shifting specifications and odd claims about spirits and pink writing, interspersed with unrelated gossip and sensational lines about marriages and divorces.
About eighty friends and neighbors gathered Saturday night to honor Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Whedon on their silver wedding anniversary. A program featured poems by Mildred Day and Ruth Brown, a gift of a silver buffet set, and a luncheon. The event included remarks of appreciation and plans for a church program and Halloween social. Several local residents visited relatives, attended events, or traveled to Topeka and Ottawa for activities and services in the days surrounding the celebration.
Pleasant Valley Farmers Union invites members and helpers to a booster meeting at the Pleasant Valley schoolhouse on Friday evening October 26. County president C. C. Gerstenberger and other Union notables will discuss progress. a program of readings and music follows, then a pie and coffee social in the basement.
A vintage advertisement touts a homemade cough remedy using 2.4 ounces of liquid and a pint bottle, urging use for severe coughs, throat irritation, and chest colds. It praises pine extract and a product called Pinex, promising fast relief and urging readers to ask for 2 and a half ounces with directions.
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