Helena Quake Strikes City Killing Man and Wrecking Buildings
Lawrence visitors greeted at state teachers convention as a devastating Helena earthquake rattled a 500 mile region from October 31. A brewery smokestack collapsed killing an unidentified man. Ed O Brien was dying amid many injuries. St Johns and St Peters hospitals treated shock victims as the city endured the worst quake since October 18, with damage totaling millions. The new high school and Intermountain Union college gymnasium collapsed or were heavily damaged, and streets filled with terrified residents. Fire, police, and Red Cross teams organized relief amid near zero temps. Widespread tremors reached Kalispell Missoula Chateau Glacier Park Whitefish Conrad and Spokane. The Commonwealth Lawrence Theater Corporation declared a 6.5 dividend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. John’s
St. Peter's
Helena
St. Mary's School
St. John’s Hospital
New High School
Northern Pacific
Placer
Red Cross
Marlow Theater
Kalispell
Missoula
Continental Divide
Montana
Spokane
Wash
Conrad, Chateau
Glacier Park Station
Whitefish
Butte
Miss Blanche Kent to speak on modern elementary education
New school expert Miss Blanche Kent, elementary education specialist, returns to her home state to discuss trends in elementary and kindergarten education. A University School demonstration teacher at Ohio State University, she has earned degrees from Kansas State Teachers College and Ohio State, with a career in Kansas and Ohio schools and national attention for her research project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blanche Kent
Ohio State University
Kent
Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia
Ohio State, University At
Columbus
Ohio
Kansas
Hutchinson
Miss Kent
Laura Zirbes
Lawrence
Public school art exhibit opens at Cutter Building
The public school art exhibit at Cutter Building, 10 Massachusetts Street, runs 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. through Saturday. Organized by Miss Otto Mae Bischof, Miss Lucile McIntyre, and Miss Maud Ellsworth, it features kindergarten to high school work plus summer studio and Saturday museum class pieces. Admission is free. several patrons expressed interest in buying works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cutter
Massachusetts Street
Otto Mae Bischof
Lucile MclIntyre
Maud Ellsworth
New York School
Cordley
Prade
Italy Offers to Negotiate Peace in Ethiopian Conflict
The Associated Press reports Fascist Italy signaled willingness to negotiate with Ethiopia as League of Nations sanctions tighten. Britain pressed Mussolini over anti Britain editorials. Italian students protested outside the British embassy in Rome. The League eyed a November 15 deadline for sweeping economic penalties, with 46 nations pledging sanction participation. President Roosevelt noted US neutrality and potential firm actions against firms violating it. Britain moves to enforce the boycott and curb trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
League
Italy
Ethiopia
Mussolini
Geneva
League of Nations
Front
Britain
London
Eric Drummond
Il Duce
Italan
Sir Eric
Mediterranean
England
Libya
Egypt
Rome
Great Britain
Via’ Sistina
Aduwa
Ethopia
Emperor Haile Selassie
Game
Anthony Eden
Trauce
Augusto Vasconcelos
Portugal
al States
Roosevelt
United States
Washington
Ickes Attacks General Johnson Over PWA Critique
Secretary Ickes ridiculed Hugh S. Johnson’s criticism of the PWA calling it “mental saddle sores” and said Johnson was upset after being ousted from NRA. He mocked the idea of turning PWA to army engineers or a former cavalryman and avoided commenting on next year’s relief plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hugh S. Johnson
PWA
Ickes
Johnson
NRA
Army Engineers
Army
Chicago
Editor Bruce Bliven to Speak at Kansas Teachers Session
Bruce Bliven editor of the New Republic will address the first general session of the Kansas State Teachers association at the University Auditorium Friday at 9 am. He is a former editor of the New York Republic and a specialist in international relations with strong ties to Latin America. The Lawrence and Pittsburg session leaders expect his lectures to be memorable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
New Republic
Kansas State Teachers Association
Jon
Future of Liberty
Bruce Bliven
Iowa
Horace Greeley
Leland Stanford University
Palo Alto
California
University of Southern California At
Los Angeles
Bliven
New York Globe
Globe
New York Republic
South
Foreign Policy Association of the
United States
American Council
Institute of Pacific Relations
Committee On
Latin America
K. U
Liberty
Garnett School Leader C H Oman Reaches Forty-Fifth Teaching Year
Will Preside Here of the Garnett schools, vice president of the Lawrence meeting of ciation. A dean of the schoolmen of Kansas, Supt. C. H. Oman opened his forty-fifth year of service as a teacher this September. He began as a rural teacher, then elementary principal, then high school principal. After five years as Garnett high school principal he became city superintendent thirty-four years ago. His record of almost forty years at Garnett shows sustained growth with the community through long service. Born near Columbus Ohio, he came with his parents to a Garnett area claim at age three. He studied at district school in Anderson county and a private high school in Garnett. He graduated from the Kansas Normal College Fort Scott and pursued graduate study at the University of Kansas and University of Colorado. He holds a Master of Arts degree and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa Kappa Delta Pi and Pi Gamma Mu.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
C. H. Oman
Garnett
Oman
Columbus
Ohio
Cfaim
Anderson County
Kansas Normal College
Fort Scott
University of Kansas
University of Colorado
Phi Beta Kappa
Kappa Delta Pi
Pi Gamma Mu
President Roosevelt Returns Home for Day Off in Hyde Park
President Roosevelt arrived by special train from Washington at 8 30 a m and went to his mother's home in Hyde Park to take the day off. He said there was nothing on the calling or business list today as he prepared to vote in the state election next Tuesday. Stephen T Early accompanied him and set up an office in nearby Poughkeepsie to stay in touch with the White House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Washington
Stephen T. Early
Poughkeepsie
White House
Northwest cold with snow and freezing winds
Winter intrusion across the northwest brings near zero weather, piercing winds, and cold rain. Snow blankets North Dakota and parts of northern and western Minnesota as Williston records a low of 2 degrees above zero.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul
North Dakota
Minnesota
Williston
Insurance firms push farm loan drive to invest surplus funds
Confidence in farming's future grows as life insurance companies expand loans on farms. A Kaw Valley Douglas county farm appraised at 125 dollars per acre was approved for a loan within ten days. Rates now run as low as four percent for good farms, with five percent standard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West
C. BR. Hosford
Douglas County
Kaw Valley
Rally Behind Borah at Independent Dealers Meet
A Borah for President move gained steam at the annual convention of independent gasoline and oil dealers. The National Oil Marketers Association urged Borah as Roosevelt's opponent in 1926, rallying behind the Idahoan's trust busting platform amid campaign currents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
PKA Borah
Move
National Oil Marketers Association
Roosevelt
WPA Work Starts in County Today
WPA labor begins in Douglas county with 42 workers on Baldwin Ottawa county road surfacing, four days weekly and three 14 man shifts. A three mile Wakarusa township project delayed by weather will start tomorrow with 36 men plus foreman and timekeeper. First Johnson county project starts tomorrow with 45 men on Spring Hill township road surfacing over a 6 42 mile strip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Campbell
WPA
Johnson Counties
Court House
Wakarusa Township
Martin Jeffries
Lawrence
Baldwin-Ottawa County
Campbell
Johnson County
Spring Hill Township
Wheat acreage projected for 1936 by Kansas farmers
Topeka October 31 CPJ F Jarrell director of the Santa Fe railroad agricultural development department estimated 12,000,000 acres will be seeded to wheat for 1936 in Kansas. Last year’s sowing was about 13,049,000 acres. Planting in eastern three quarters is near finished. western counties may plant through November if rain holds and freezing weather stays away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Cpj. F. Jarrell
Santa Fe Railroad Agricultural Development Department
Kansas
Darrell
Jarret
Commissioners Review Poor Relief Restructure Plans
Douglas County commissioners met at the courthouse to assess a KERC bulletin mandating the merger of Poor Commissioner and county case supervisor roles effective November 1. Chairman James F. Brass noted no official word from John G. Stutz on upcoming changes and warned that if WPA work relief funds fail to absorb all clients, the county could face a higher direct relief burden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of County Commissioners
Court House
James F. Brass
Board of
Douglas County Commissioners
Ohn
KERC
Kansas Weather Forecast and Road Conditions
The forecast for northwest Kansas is fair with showers likely in the east and south, cooler in the east and south, much colder in the southeast tonight, and colder Friday. Morning outlook shows cloudy skies with Wichita rain. Dirt roads mostly good but slippery at Emporia, muddy at Manhattan and Wichita, and soft at Arkansas City and Topeka. Douglas County roads are rough. Temperature readings show 70 at 7 p.m. yesterday, 38.5 at noon today, with today’s maximum and minimum not fully clear. rainfall around an inch noted at the Santa Fe station resort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Wichita
Emporia
Manhattan
Arkansas City
Topeka
Douglas
Santa Fe Station
Kansas Association Meeting Draws 4000 to University City
Lawrence welcomes about 4 000 delegates for the seventy second annual Kansas State Teachers association session over Friday and Saturday with six sectional meetings statewide. First general session at K U auditorium features Bruce Bliven on The Future of Liberty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas Association
University City
Lawrence
State Teachers Association
Holiday Declared for Lawrence Public Schools
Lawrence public schools will have a one day vacation tomorrow due to the State Teachers association meeting in town Friday and Saturday. It is the first holiday of the school year with no student activities planned. High school football practice is canceled until Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Public Schools
State Teachers Association
Dance for teachers at KU Union Friday night
Lawrence Chamber of Commerce hosts a 9 15 pm dance for visiting school teachers in the University of Kansas Union with 12 piece Red Blackburn orchestra. Admission requires convention registration cards and Lawrence businessmen will dance as partners. A parallel event for visiting colored teachers will be held in North Lawrence at Lincoln School gymnasium organized by the Lincoln Parent-Teachers association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh Johnson
University of Kansas
Lawrrence Chamber of Commerce
K. U. Union
Lawrence
Red Blackburn
Lincoln School
North Lawrence
Lincoln
Chamber of Commerce
Lincoln Parent-Teachers Association
F. L. Pinet
State Teachers’ Association
Mary Louise Beltz
Keith Davis
Robert Ledore
E. H. Lindley
Dean R. A. Schwegler
K. L. School of Education
Union
School of Education
Eldridge
University Auditorium
Robinson Gymnasium
Engineering
Fraser Theater
Administration Building
Kansas State College
Colonial Tea Room
Kentucky ‘Street
George Hedrick
C. E. Friend
K. C.dramatic Club
Kansas Teachers’ Convention
Allen
Crafton
Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
University of Kansas Union
C. B. Holmes
Chamber of Commerce Entertainment Committee
K. A
Holmes
North
Lincoln Parent- Teachers Association
Minnesota Dean Demands Facts About Conditions
In Minneapolis on October 31 dean of student affairs E. E. Nicholson urged that any alleged immoral conditions at the University of Minnesota be submitted as facts before school officials. Temperance leader N. T. Mears claimed students live together without marriage and that drinking occurred at St. Paul high school games, though officials said any drinking appeared to involve adults after games.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
University of Minnesota
E. E. Nicholson
N. T. Mears
St. Paul
Minnesota Temperance Movement
Dean Nicholson
University
Mears
Highland Park
Also Mentioned on This Page
Commonwealth Lawrence Theater Corporation
In New School
Seattle
Wenatchee
Bergeins
British Stand
General Johnson
Will
Garnett Schools
SUPT
C. H
President
Idaho
New Ford
Hamilton
Baldwin
Ottawa
Jarrell
Bruce Blivens
I. C. Stevenson
Stevenson
Arthur Kallett
K. U. Engineering
W. A. Irwin
Washburn College
Tale Zeller
Miss Zeller
Wichit
K.‘U
Dale Zeller
Lawrence School
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!