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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1923
Page
8
The Lawrence Kansas Journal World notes Isaiah's call for mercy, discusses local corn husker recruitment rumors tied to Kansas weather and Nebraska football, critiques oil road vs concrete highway choices in Johnson County, and comments on Veterans Bureau challenges and postwar rehabilitation policies.
A discussion highlights veterans helping themselves amid Bureau failures, praising those who managed without full aid and faulting delays. It cites reform concerns, reformatory doubts, and a Kansas City judge critique. It ends with a mention of Mexican congress gunfire and a wounded man as political tensions rise.
The Ottawa Herald notes the season's many tied games and asks if football must change or perish. It argues that with three or four nearly equal top teams, decisive outcomes are elusive, risking spectator interest and players shifting to other sports if victory becomes unattainable.
Sixty years old today is William G McAdoo once a prominent cabinet figure in the Wilson administration. Once treasury secretary and director general of railroads he became a national figure revealing a record of action and large affairs. Born to a poor Tennessee family he rose by education and drive, partnering with bankers and railroad men, and building major infrastructure including tunnels under the Hudson and North rivers.
Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio is slated to speak at the Harding memorial exercises this evening in New York hosted by the National Republican Club. The Interstate Commerce Commission begins a public hearing on anthracite coal rates at Montpelier Vermont today. The National Association of Cotton Manufacturers opens its 170th convention in Boston today. A memorial to British Army chaplains who died in the World War will be unveiled on the walls of...
A brief dialogue shows a customer asking to buy toilet ren esites and medicine for teeth. The druggist replies affirmatively as the customer requests Blank-blank's dental cream, ending with a polite good afternoon.
St Louis, a historic fur trading post at the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, remains a leading raw fur market. Local dealer P. B. Fouke says sixty percent of US raw furs are sold here, with trapper earnings around 15 million dollars yearly over four months, plus millions more from winter sales and semi‑annual auctions attended by buyers worldwide. Government skins sales also precede the auctions.
Jumbled notes from a 1920s page mix stray items including Cleveland makers sending Coolidge a tub of ice cream to favor presidents, a Lexington golfer's ball killing a lark, and a Denver stamp meeting hinting at glue flavoring. Miscellaneous quips touch Lloyd George in America and bootleggers in Detroit.
London notes mock British place names and royal quips as a traveler rebukes Ferdinand. observations on Stambul, Stamboul, and exile. Prohibition critics cite French data linking alcohol to tuberculosis, insanity, crime. England enforces a half-holiday closing law for shops, with druggists exempted.
Washington reports growing interest in migratory bird study as 12 000 birds have been banded since July by the biological survey and cooperators. Last year over 25 000 birds were banded, a rise of 6 000. Data from banded birds may reveal migration speeds routes stopovers and lifespan.
The state association of Presbyterian women met in Hutchinson with plans to hold next year’s convention in Topeka. New officers include Mrs. Bert Hoag Newton honorary president, Mrs. D B Kinniburgh Atchison president, Mrs. Edgar Martin Topeka first VP and secretary of stewardship, Mrs. E C Templeton Winfield second VP and secretary of children's work, Mrs. J W Gowans Hutchinson corresponding secretary, Mrs. A F Cockerill Marysville treasurer, Mrs. P M Haisington Newton secretary of associated members, Mrs. R A Clymer El Dorado secretary Westminster Guilds, Mrs. L R Brown Newton secretary of literature, and Mrs. W H Martin Parsons secretary of overseas and sewing.
Newton Kansas observes a half holiday to celebrate becoming a rising oil town after a local company brought in a large well. Since October 11 the well pumps about 280 barrels per day with a pipeline linking to Walton. a carload of oil is dispatched every two days. Visiting Mr and Mrs Glis Cook of Terre Haute Ind spend the week with her father G C Sizer county farm superintendent. Rankins Drug Store 1101 Mass.
Belgrade reports M Balugichiteh, Yugoslav minister to Greece, in Berlin to explore a Soviet Russia recognition treaty. The move follows Yugoslavia’s defence laws that curbed Communism, while Pashitch weighs Moscow’s role in resolving the Macedonian question amid multiple Russian commissars in Berlin.
Governor John M. Parker of Louisiana denounces the Ku Klux Klan as an infamous organization. He rented a large New Orleans auditorium to denounce its imperial wizard and its policy of linking Catholics and Jews with African Americans as unassimiliable elements.
Winnipeg reports the wheat crop across Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta at 425,503,169 bushels, up 50,000 from 1922. Officials say the trio now accounts for about 55 percent of Canada’s total wheat. Yields reach 45 to 60 bushels per acre. most wheat grades as No 1 hard, with oats at 386,825,295 bushels and barley, rye and flax also estimated.
Paris reports a growing toll as France opens hunting season with many accidents, some fatal. A Chamber of Deputies member pledges a bill to require a shotgun handling examination before issuing hunting licenses.
Observable observers in Bucharest report improved ties between Soviet Russia and Romania, amid expectations of formal Soviet recognition of Romania’s claim to Bessarabia. Romania maintains military readiness with about 100,000 troops along the Dniester frontier to deter raids and control refugees, while trade talks linger over whether deals must be between Moscow and Bucharest, delaying progress.
Jesse Erwin Miller born March 17 1888 in Dark County Ohio moved to Douglas County Kansas in 1902 married Minnie E Heist August 26 1908 and had one daughter Lara. He spent most of his life in Douglas County and later lived in Bonner Springs where he was foreman of the Kaw Valley interurban line and died after an accident October 12 1923 at age 35. Funeral held at Church of the Brethren Ottawa with burial at Oak Hill.
A collage of poems jokes and notes from Hilltop writers and staff including reflections on life and letters to readers. The column mentions Neolithic finds near Worthing with drills and flints and describes a dormitory gift debate at Corbin Hall. It also notes a marriage license for Walter J. Tice and Mary V. Ammen, a county teaching appointment for Hilda Matthews, and various campus quips and adverts.
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