Helena Quake Shakes City Killing and Injuries Reported
Earthquakes hit Helena Montana and surrounding towns with at least one death and many injuries. Buildings including the Kessler brewery and a new high school suffered severe damage while hospitals treated shock and trauma patients.
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St. John's
St. Peter's
Helena
St. Mary’s School
St. John's Hospital
New High School
Northern Pacific
Placer
Red Cross
College
Intermountain Union College
South Main Street
Ninth Avenue
Marlow Theater
Temperature Drops With Thump As Wind Changes
Lawrence residents faced a sharp cold snap after a warm night. The thermometer, near 70 after midnight, plunged to 38 by 11 am as the wind shifted, marking a 30 degree fall in two hours. Stock market index edges up slightly from yesterday.
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Lawrence
Public School Art Exhibit Opens at Cutter Building
The public school art exhibit opens at the Cutter Building on Massachusetts Street with free admission from 9 am to 6 pm and 7 pm to 1 am each evening through Saturday. It features work by kindergarten through high school students, summer studio pieces, and teacher art, with demonstrations daily and groups from New York and Cordley.
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Cutter Buildin
Massachusetts Street
Otto Mae Bischof
Lucile McIntyre
Maud Ellsworth
New York
Sehiol
Cordley
Charger
Minnesota Dean Demands Facts About Conditions
Minneapolis October 21. At a Minnesota temperance convention E B Nicholson urged filing facts on alleged immoral conditions at the University of Minnesota. Dean Nicholson and St Paul businessman Mears claimed students live together without marriage and cited drinking at St Paul high school games. Officials said if any drinking occurred it was by adults after games.
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Dean Nicholson
Tam
Mears
Highland Park
St. Paul
Lightning strikes two homes in Bartlesville incident
In Bartlesville Oklahoma an electrical storm felled a bolt that hit two houses. One home belonging to Bill Tarr was demolished while his son Tim escaped unharmed. A baby in another home endured the strike with the mother injured but stable.
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Bartlesville
Okla
Bill Tarr
Holt
Tarr
Tim
Lee Crogden
Lightninie
Hamilton
Italy Opens Door to Peace Talks With Ethiopia
The Associated Press reports Fascist Italy, pressed by growing global sanctions, offers to negotiate peace with Ethiopia. League sanctions set a deadline around November 15 as Britain and the United States weigh responses, while Italian students protest in Rome and London officials press Mussolini.
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Associated Press
Italy
Ethiopia
Mussolini
Geneva
League of Nations
League
Britain
London
Eric Drummond
An Jl Duce
Eric
Mediterranean
England
Libya
Egypt
Rome
Great Britain
Via Sistina
Aduwa
Ethopia
Emperor Haile Selassie
Anthony Eden
Il Dure
Ickes Defends PWA Amid Johnson Attacks
Secretary Ickes attacked General Hugh S. Johnson over criticism of the PWA calling Johnson ill tempered and self serving with references to his dismissal from NRA. He mocked the idea that PWA should be run by army engineers or a cavalryman and dismissed questions about next year's relief program.
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Washington
CPH
Hugh S. Johnson
PWA
Ickes
Johnson
NRA
Tekes
Army
Chicago
Cold Wave Hits Kansas As Johnson Set To Speak
Topeka reports northern winds drive a hard freeze across eastern Kansas with lows dropping to the lower twenties and a wet October total of 4.38 inches. Gen Hugh S Johnson will speak at 8:20 p.m. in the University auditorium with questions to be answered from pre-submitted inquiries. Reserved seats are 75 cents, general admission 50 cents. Students require ID.
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Topeka
Kansas
D. Flora
Goodland
Flora
Montana
Helena
Mountains
Plains States
University of Kansas
Hugh S. Johnson
University
Johnson
Kansas City
New York City
General Johnson
Oklahoma
Spain
West Point
University of California
San Francisco
Cavalry
Pershing
Villa
War Industries Board
Gen. Johnson
Capper urges Kansas farmers to stay with AAA
Senator Arthur Capper told Farmers Union delegates in Tola Kansas that farmers should keep the AAA program until a better one is offered. He praised the wheat program and parity of purchasing power, criticizing federal policy on importation. Cal Ward retired as Farmers Union president and named possible successors John Vesecky John Frost and A J Wempke. The election will be Friday.
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Tola
Kan
Arthur Capper
Kansas
Farmers Union
AAA
Cal Ward
Ward
John Vesecky
Timken
John Frost
Blue Rapids
A. J. Wempke
Marshall County
Rally Behind Korah at Independent Dealers Meet
At the annual convention of independent gasoline and oil dealers in Chicago, 1936 presidential backers rallied behind Idahoan Korah. The group supports his trust busting platform as a central issue in the Republican campaign and urges his nomination to oppose President Roosevelt in 1936.
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National Oil Marketers Association
Roosevelt
Cold Threat Fears Apple Losses Across Washington
Apple growers in the Wenatchee valley and central Washington forecast losses nearing a million dollars as record cold gripped the region for a third day in October. Extreme cold stretched as far south as central California, threatening crops beyond the Pacific Northwest.
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Seattle
Wenatchee Valley
Washington
California
WPA Work Starts In County Today
The WPA program begins in Douglas County with 42 workers on the Baldwin Ottawa road project, four days a week, plus a foreman and timekeeper. A 36 man Wakarusa township road job and a 44 man Johnson county project at Spring Hill township start soon, with shifts divided across groups.
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Douglas County
Baldwin
Ottawa
Don Campbell
WPA
Johnson Counties
Court House
Wakarusa Township
Martin Jeffries
Lawrence Ond Tishway 40
Baldwin-Ottawa County
Campbell
Johnson County
Spring Hill Township
Wheat acreage estimate for 1936 Kansas crop
J F Jarrell director of the Santa Fe railroad agricultural development department estimated 12 9 million acres will be sown to wheat for 1936 in Kansas. Planting in eastern two thirds completed. western fourth may continue into November if rain holds and freeze is delayed. Some ministure in western counties but late planting common to December yields strong pastures. livestock from other states to graze wheat. Feed crops reportedly ample across the state.
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Topeka
J. F. Jarrell
Santa Fe Railroad Agricultural Development Department
Kansas
Jarrell
Jarret
Halloween Festivities Stir Lawrence Streets
Halloween activities in Lawrence spill into the twilight hours with bands of youths roaming, ringing bells, and overturning trash cans. Grotesque window displays and soaped windows appear as families brace for a busier Halloween night amid police patrols and extended duty.
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Lawrence
Life insurers push farm loans as investment
Confidence in farming rises as life insurance companies begin active campaigns to loan surplus funds on farms. In the last 10 days a Kaw Valley Douglas county farm appraised at 125 dollars per acre secured a loan. Rates as low as 4.72 percent, with a standard 5 percent on farm loans, reflect optimism about agriculture’s future and safety of these investments.
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West
C. B. Hosford
Douglas County
Kaw Valley
Commissioners Consider the Poor Relief Problem
The Douglas county board of commissioners met to discuss changes from KERC on the expected merger of offices November 1. Chairman James F. Brass said no word yet from John Muirs about possible changes. Harold T. Baker, the present poor commissioner, lacks required work experience in a recognized serial service agency. If federal work relief funds halt, the county could face a higher direct relief load beyond WPA projects.
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Board of County Commissioners
Court House
James F. Brass
Board of
Douglas County Commissioners
John ‘Tuiz
KERC
Harold T. Baker
Ars
President Roosevelt Returns Home Takes the Day Off
President Roosevelt came home to Hyde Park to vote in the state election and take the day off arriving by special train at 8 30 a m and motoring to his mother’s home for breakfast He said there was nothing on the calling or business list today Talks with national leaders about international and employment issues are planned Stephen T Early accompanied the President and set up an office nearby to maintain White House contact
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Washington
Stephen T. Early
Pouzhkeensie
White House
Weather and road conditions forecast for Kansas
The forecast calls for fair weather in the northwest with showers likely in the east and south tonight and Friday. Much colder air moves in southeast and east areas. Morning outlook shows partly cloudy conditions with some rain near Wichita. Dirt roads vary from slick in Emporia to muddy in Manhattan and Wichita and soft in Ark City and Topeka. Douglas rarity reads rough. Temperatures and rainfall details are noted from Gas Office Reer and Santa Fe station reports.
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Kansas
Wichita
Emporia
Manhattan
Arkansas City
Topeka
Douglas
Santa Fe
State Teachers to Meet Here Friday
Lawrence welcomes 4000 delegates for the 72nd Kansas State Teachers Association session to be held Friday and Saturday. The event includes sessions at K U venues, speakers Bruce Bliven Arthur Kallett and E H Lindley, plus social events and lodging efforts by the Chamber of Commerce. Miss Dale Zeller will attend only the morning Lawrence event before heading to Wichita.
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The
New Republic
Kansas State Teachers Association
Future of Liberty
Lawrence
Masonic Temple
Tenth
Massachusetts Street
Mmembers
W. E. Whetstone
Robert Ledore
Walton Ingham
George Trovidlo
John J. Kistler
James A. Naismith
A. H. Jackson
Joe M. Williams
Raymond A. Bsechwegler
America
Charles Louk
Chamber of Commerce
I. C. Stevenson
Arthur Kallett
K. U. Engineering
E. H. Lindley
Dean W. A. Irwin
Washburn College
C. FE. Birch
Lawrence Public Schools
H. C. Brinkman
Merchant's Bureau
Red Blackburn
Lincoln
Dale Zeller
Miss Zeller
Wichita
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Spokane
Wash
Conrad, Chateau
Glacier Park Station
Whitefish
Butte
Bruce Bliven
Cutter Building
Minnesota
Augusto Vasconcelos
Portugal
United States
Audi
Hugh
Joh
Capper
Idaho
Rio sTurr
Will
Supt
C. H. Oman
Garnett Schools
President
Kansas Association
K. U
Tom
Ron
Ning
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