Kansas Free Fair Set to Open with Record Entries
Topeka Kansas September 9 1926 The Kansas Free Fair opens Monday September 11 and runs all week Secretary Phil Eastman says the event will run smoothly with more hogs and beef cattle than ever before in the livestock divisions Each division is strong and the fair promises clean wholesome amusements including daily horse racing Wednesday and Saturday auto races amateur band contest rural club plays and vaudeville shows Every evening features circus acts and a large fireworks display Free camp grounds and rail fare reductions aid visitors Gates are open with no admission to the grounds yet preparations await the biggest crowds in the fair’s history
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Kamsas
Maby
Kansas Free Fair
Eastman
Ami
Russian Blouse Sparks Summer Garb Trend in Moscow
Moscow reports Americans may adopt the Russian blouse for hot weather. The garment, worn outside trousers with a belt, includes short collars and bright embroidery, yet remains masculine in appearance. Americans, noting Russia’s winter to summer adaptation, favor light fabric, air flow, and practical styling in provincial attire.
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Moscow
America
Ion
United States
Pidins
Bohemian conductor Josef Stransky marks fiftieth birthday
Josef Stransky, a native of Bohemia and longtime leader with the Philharmonic Orchestra in New York, celebrated his fiftieth birthday as his career spans decades of formal study in Prague and extensive music work.
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Josef Stransky
Philharmonic Orchestra
New York
Stransky
Bohemia
F. Prague
Radical Changes in Fall Apparel Designs and Textiles
Fall oped from Peis Shoin highlights radical changes in apparel design. Three-piece costumes dominate with no full suits shown. skirts stay straight and long, jackets wrist or fingertip length, fur trimmed, with tailored straight-line dresses and long sleeves. Embroideries mix Persian Chinese Hindu motifs in workrooms of Cast. Coats are full length with wide fur collars. bright fur-trimmed leathers and sport dresses in wool appear. Evening gowns feature Grecian Egyptian drape, coats and capes in fur and metal fabrics, with two-tone fabric combinations. Assessments note heavy use of metal matelasse and lace in Calais Chantilly and sheer guipure.
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Calais
Chantilly
Kansas Graduate Wins French Scholarship in Keen Contest
Miss Blackfan, a University of Kansas 1917 graduate and Phi Beta Kappa member, earned a French scholarship at Toulouse, competing against 655 applicants for one of twenty-two awards. She later earned an A.M. at New York University and taught at a southern women’s college before pursuing a doctorate in France.
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Europe
University of Toulouse
Blackfan
University of Kansas
Phi Beta Kappa
University of New York
French University
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN Fashion notes and legal curiosities
Miss Paula Gellibrand acts as a hobbyist mannequin in London. Umbrellas lost by travelers flood police stations at over 200 daily. Mrs. Harding becomes the first Lady to vote registration sent as a voter from Marion. Miss Florerice Schreicher of Ann Arbor renounces society for ministry study. Mrs. Bessie Bellinger in Pensacola holds county judge office after her husband’s death. In Tibet women face no legal disabilities and can manage households and spouses with broad authority.
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Paula Gellibrand
London
Harding
White House
Marion
Florerice Schreicher
Ann Arbor
Michi
Bessie Bellinger
Pensacola
Fila
Tibet
Soi
Fads and Fancies Umbrella Vanity Handle Highlight
A clipped note describes fancy umbrellas featuring vanity mounted in the handle. The piece cites a black velvet wrap and a bright, airy design as a stylish, modern accessory.
One Lawrence Girl Guest at K C Mayor's Picnic
Virginia Hosford and her mother attended the Kansas City mayor's picnic at Swope Park last Saturday. Despite heat, a crowd enjoyed sights and activities, with four ambulances reported on site for safety and aid.
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Lawrence
K.C
Virginia Hosford
Swope Park
Kansas City
Fire department demo aids heat stroked residents in Virginia
The event featured a fire department display to assist those affected by heat with rescue demonstrations. Firefighters ascended a tall tower and used short ladders and ropes to reach victims. Bay Saints patrolled the grounds all day guiding separated mothers and children to a pavilion porch where names were read aloud by a man with a megaphone.
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Virginia
Nog
Big Sisters to Meet New KU Students at Campus
The University of Wisconsin women dean Anne Dudley Blitz says more cooperative housing applications this year. Big Sisters from the YWCA will greet arriving students beginning Saturday, offering information on rooms and housing as lists are posted at Henley House on Dread Avenue.
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Anne Dudley Blitz
Itis
Henley House
Dread Avenue
Yous
Celebrated Women Invited to Legion Auxiliary Convention
New Orleans hosts the national American Legion Auxiliary meeting on Oct 16 1920 with Queen Marie of Romania invited plus wartime heroine and many prominent women leaders including Mrs Warren G Harding and Mary Roberts Rinehart expected to attend the convention and address by education commissioner John J Tigert.
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Legion Auxiliary
New Orleans
Queen Marie of
Europe
de’ Auxiliary
The
Legion
John’ J. Tigert
United States Commissioner of Education
George B. Utley
American Library Association
M. P. Higgins
National
Parent-Teachers’ Association
Herbert Hoover
Girl Scouts of America
George Minor
Daughters of the American Revolution
Philip A. Moore
National Council of Women
Agnes H. Parker
Women’s Relief? Corps
Livingston Rowe Schuyler
United Daughters ‘of the Confederacy
Cora A. Thompson
Lahus People and Customs in Burma and China
Rangoon reports describe the Lahus a sociable farming tribe living mainly in the Chinese Iran province near Burma. Highlights cover their gunmaking, courtship by campfire, turbans exchange, and a 12 day naming calendar where children take titles like Master Dog or Miss Midnight, with extended family patterns and possible multiple lastborns in a single line.
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Rangoon
Ralphi Henderson
Rangoon Gazette
Iran
Burma
Handerson
Yunnan
China
Kengtang
Hsamtun
A Man s 1 3 Cup Muffin Recipe and Stuffed Flank Steak
A historic clipped recipe item lists a muffin style batter with flour sugar milk eggs and raisins baked in small tins and served with meringue. It also describes trimming a flank steak and rolling it with a bread crumb stuffing secured by skewers then baked with suet and water until tender and browned.
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J. W. Montgomery
Conn. St
Domestic Discoveries From Odd Home Tips List
A quirky older column offers quick home hacks from extinguishing fires with flour to fitting corks by soaking, rotating bugs to prevent wear, and keeping white silk hose from yellowing after washing. It also suggests semen juice in a food processor to stop sticky foods from adhering.
Letters on compensation from Kansas WWI veterans
Lawrence September 5. A reader urges the American Legion Post Commander to grant compensation for war veterans. He recalls the sacrifice of 45,000 who died for their country and asks Kansas to approve the request as a measure of gratitude, even suggesting selling the fatted calf if needed. Abs A. Weingartner. 226 Locust St.
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Lawrence
American Legion
Kansas
Abs
A. Weingartner
Locsut St
Japanese Interest High in Tokio Money Market
The Chugai Shogyo notes Japanese capital is plentiful yet interest rates remain abnormally high. Loans under eight percent are scarce, while first class industrial debentures fetch nine to ten percent. Government loan bonds yield about seven percent. The Finance Ministry and Bank of Japan are trying to curb rising competition.
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Tokio
Chugai Shogyo
Department of Finance
Bank of Japan
Retiring Tokio Instructor Succeeds at Yokohama Seminary
Reverend Eugene Booth D.D. retires August 31 after forty years as principal of the Fervis Seminary at Yokohama. Miss Jessie Kuyper succeeds him. Booth is noted as a leading instructor of Japanese young women and a pioneer in constructive educational work in Japan. Shanghai plans moving pictures of municipal department activities to publish public records for future administrations. Mrs. E.P. Smith visits Lawrence seeking a winter house as the Ottawa family prepares to move for school access.
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Tokio
Eugene 8. Booth
Fervis Semissary
Yokohama
Jessie Kuyper
Booth
Japan
Aho
Shanghai
International Settlement of
E.P. Smith
Lawrence
Ottawa
Baldwin News Highlights Local Society And Baker Opening
Baldwin residents attend the sixty sixth Baker University opening and reception as local clubs plan Lawrence convention floats. Community events include Woman’s Christian Temperance Union sessions, readers, and lodge gatherings. area travel includes Kansas City visits and a hospital stay for a local resident. An upcoming city marshal appointment aims to enforce traffic laws while oil drilling expands Baldwin’s field and local ministers coordinate pulpit exchanges.
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John Haber
Evangelical Church
Worden
Baldwin -Friends
Samuel Saigh
Mamie van Landingham
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
First Christian Church
Lawrence
Miss van Landingham
Haigh
Callie C. Bruner
Baldwin
Harold Smythe
Concordia
Rome
John Howard Campbell
Smythe
Ruth Washburn
Baker University
Cristopher Fischer
Freida Fischer
Nathan A. Horrel
Nettie Hill
Kansas City
W. A. McClure
John van Duzer
Wichita
van Duser
Dorothy Riley
Clarke J. Garson
Great Falls
Montana
Carson
Geraldine
Freid Riley
Ruth Riley
George M. Liston
May Liston
Labette
Wilson Counties
Neodesha
Verdon Liston
Altamont
Lowell Davis
Merrill Liston
Davis
Frank Hendrickson
Tonkea
Tendrickson
A. E. Tunin
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
Mary A. Ault
Warry Case
Donella Mackensie
Deh Maclay
Ella Alderdice
W. Muenzenmayer
May
Naomi
Warren
Woodbine
Muenzenmayer
Gem
Wallace’ Reid
McAdow
Lorna Bailey
Gladys Keohane
Gladys Pardee
Miriam Swayze
Hope Murray
S. A. Decl
Christian Organization
Wallace B. Fleming
Baker
Lecompton Area Social Roundup Notes Travels and School Start
Clarence Glenn and many locals traveled to Lecompton Topeka and Perry with visits to relatives from Ontario California to Big Springs. Glenn school opened September 6 with 31 students taught by Dora Black. Charles Custard held a public sale at Big Springs as the community awaits Lecompton high and public schools to resume.
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Clarence Glenn
Lecompton
Glenn Shatner
Topeka
Clarence Welcher
Geo. L. Glenn
R. M. Gray
Wm. Goephart
Perry
Paul Davidson
Comptonas
Ontario
Calif
A. Davidson
Othr
Wm. Bowen
Kanwaka
Harley Hogg
Walter Brown
H. Z. Brown
E. B. Myers
Will Hogg
S. LE. Dark
Clarence Wetcher
Cecil
Gladys
Rosemary
JE. A
Cyris Glenn
Enal
Bowen
Cyrus Glenn
BR. EB. Myers
Delmir Parrish
Clarencee Welcher
Glenn
Dora Black
Rose- Mary
Vester Robison
Fred Smith
Big ‘Springs
Wichita Plans Broad Exposition for Wheat Show
Wichita to host the International Wheat and Farm Products Exposition from September 2 to October 7 with expanded exhibits across agriculture and industry. More than $20,000 in premiums and prizes. entries from Mexico and multiple U S states amid future attendance expected. Major speaker William Jennings Bryan highlighted. 35th division AEF reunion set for first three days.
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Wichita
Mexico
Texas
Oklahoma
Calorado
Montana
Miasoutl
Nebraska
Iowa
Whea
Horace S. Ensisen
Southwest
Grant
William Jennins Bryan
Diviion
American Expeditionary Forces
Kansas and
Missouri National Guard
Toklo Heat Paralyzes Tokyo Business Life
Toklo Japan or Toklo district reports extreme heat from mid June to end July causing government offices to close at noon and leaving officials exhausted. An American mail delay sparks claims of illness due to heat. A second item notes deadlocked financial policy and urges the new ministry to pursue financial reform.
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Tokin
Japan
Kale
Yokohama
Tokio
Kato
Takahashi
Forty five De Molays Initiated in Neodesha Kansas
Forty five candidates were initiated into the Neodesha Order of De Molay with the installation of the chapter here the other night. Jack Garrison of Independence officiated in charge of the ceremonies conducted by the Ghanule chapter.
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Molays
Neodesha
Kan
Neodesha Order of
de Molay
Jack Garrison
Independence
Ghanule
Card of Thanks from Jones Family for Kindness
We thank relatives and friends for their kindness during the sickness and death of our wife and mother and for the beautiful flowers. J. L. Jones and family.
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J. L. Jones
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Betty May
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