War in Russia and Kansas politics headline busy public life
Reports show press agencies pushing famine stories from Russia while America dominates the League of Nations assembly in session. Kansas adds recruits to Fort Riley reorganization and state funds earn bank interest, with Emerson Carey spending 50 000 on a private golf course. Los Angeles claims highest per capita output as tourists drive car use. Kansas City police stay from stopping a boxing match after a participant is seriously injured.
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Emerson Carey
Hutchinson
Mexico Orders Officers to Buy Their Own Uniforms
The government decrees army officers must purchase their own uniforms and officials must pay for their own meals and garage services, signaling Mexico's move toward normal state obligations and international standing.
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Mexico
Delayed High School Plans and Finance News
The board of education delays progress on a new high school, hoping for better value per dollar from careful design. The War Finance Corporation, expanded by action, can now advance up to 1 billion dollars for agricultural and livestock credits via a revolving fund. State Insurance Commissioner Frank Travis convenes insurers to discuss rate cuts after lower Kansas fire losses, though overall experience challenges large reductions.
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War Finance Corporation
Frank Travis
Kansas
Developments in finance and industry spark cautious optimism
The piece notes belief in improving conditions, mentions a counterfeit fifty dollar note circulating in Kansas City and predicts full recovery in New England shoe and textile industries. It also highlights Célmenes prewar plans for a French magazine signaling renewed political activity and possible upheaval in France.
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New England
Lorraine monument to American troops at Flirey expresses shared gratitude
The Flirey monument in Lorraine honors the American Expeditionary Forces with a stone shaft and carved doughboy figures. It aims to preserve the bond between Lorraine and the United States and to remind future travelers of the friendship formed during the war.
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Lorraine
America
Flirey
France
Germany
AL EL FL
New York Tribune
Judge Landis Linked to Socialist War Papers Display
The Lawrence Chautauqua address by Judge K M Landis referenced socialist war leaflets. Landis cited a May 1917 proclamation distributed nationwide, with the Socialist Party imprint from Chicago. The Journal-World sought a copy and received one from Landis’s private file for return.
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Lawrence
Kenesaw Mountain Caiis
United States
Journal-World
Landis
National Office
Socialist Party
West
Madison Street
Chicago
Ill
Socialist Party of the
Uni
Socialists Call for Struggle Against War and Capitalist Rule
The Socialist Party denounces U S entry into the European war as a crime of the ruling capitalist class. It urges continuous opposition to conscription, defense of free speech, and mass action to shorten the war while promoting international working-class solidarity and the socialization of key industries and resources.
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Ted
Selemity
Inter
Passin
United States
Europe
Fesipit
Pnswers
Gertany
Perinyy
Freien
Germany
Thhe
National Congress
Socialist Party
Pewer
Fea
Pullic
Femi
France keeps lists blocking Nordic firms from old customers
Growing Nordic unease over France maintaining its No Lists since January 15 1917. Swedish and Danish authorities face pressure from financial and commercial circles in Stockholm and Copenhagen to compel France to repeal the wartime act, arguing it harms legitimate business with German and Nordic firms alike.
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Copenhagen
France
Jan Fot
Scandinavia
Stockholm
Tunnels Planned to Link Banks With Federal Reserve
Chicago officials announced plans to construct tunnels connecting downtown banks to the Federal Reserve Bank to prevent street holdups of bank messengers. The first tunnels will link Illinois Trust and Savings, Merchants Loan and Trust, and Corn Exchange National Bank.
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Chicago
Federal Reserve Bank
Illinois Trust & Savings
Merchants Loan & Trust
Corn Exchange National
Wis
Anniversary and Meetings Highlight Today
Today marks the 300th birth anniversary of the famed General Conde and Brazil observes its independence day. The International Association of Public Employment Services begins its ninth annual meeting in Buffalo as Atlantic City hosts the Fall Dasant. A reunion for the Henry Wolcott descendants occurs in Boston. Treasury Secretary Mellon plans to brief the Senate Finance Committee on potential tax bill changes. Griffin Coal offers coal to Lawrence residents for 35 years.
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Feneral
Conde
Brazil
International Association of Public Employment Services
Buffalo
Atlantic City
Society of Dependents
Henry Wolcott
America
Boston
Crime Wave Blamed On Fashion and Liquor Says Hopkins
Kansas Attorney General Richard J. Hopkins blames radical negligee fashion and bootleg liquor for rising crime. He cites war laxity, a postwar moral decline, and widespread newspaper indifference as factors while noting 136 extraditions in 1920 and 76 in eight months of 1921.
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Topeka
Kans
Richard J. Hopkins
Kansas
Lucil
Allen
Hopkins
State Penitentiary and Reform School
Feneral
Hopking
Oth
Howat Defies Industrial Court Law and Rising Law Disrespect
The article notes Alexander Howat defying the industrial court law and argues big business violates anti trust statutes. It links a general disrespect for law to ongoing juvenile crimes, blaming parental laxness and urging enforcement or repeal of laws.
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Ers
Alexander Howat
Reduction urged in wheat acreage by Kansas union leader
Maurice McAuliffe, president of the Kansas Farmers' Union, calls for at least a 25 percent cut in the state's wheat acreage. He argues low prices export pressure means reduced sowing would raise profits, despite corn and feed crop damage and ongoing dry weather.
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Salina
Kansas
Maurice McAuliffe
The
Kansas Farmers’ Union
McAuliffe
Post War Chemistry Conference Opens in New York
Noieil chemists from Great Britain and Canada joined members of the American Chemical Society in New York on September 7 for an international conference addressing postwar chemistry across all branches.
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New York
Great Britain
Canada
American Chemical Society
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