Lawrence Journal-World 1935 News Roundup Dated Sept 14
A compact digest notes aviation progress, airport planning, and relief policy debates. It highlights Laura Ingalls shortening Amelia Earhart’s record by four hours, Kansas university enrollments, and international fleet activity. It also mentions freshmen paddling at the University of Kansas City and ongoing bootlegger concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Kansas
Laura Ingalls
Amelia Earhart
Los Angeles
New York
Denver
University of Kansas City
Golden Bullets and a Birthday for Pershing
The piece notes Italy’s wartime gold funds tied to Ethiopia, detailing an $800,000 transfer to Emperor Menelik and a war chest built by successive monarchs. It then marks General John J. Pershing turning 75, recalling the A E F gift of the St Mihiel salient and comments on youth views.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mussolini
Italy
Menelek
Ethiopia
John J. Pershing
St. Mihiel
Old Home Town: Eastwood to Exhibit in St Louis
Professor Raymond Eastwood of the drawing and painting department has returned to Lawrence after summer work in Province-1 town Massachusetts and is invited to exhibit his works in St Louis this autumn. Old Settlers Annual Reunion in Lawrence drew 130 attendees at the G A R rooms with speeches by Theodore Gardner and James A Troutman among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond Eastwood
Department of Drawing and Painting
Lawrence
Province-1 Town
Mass
Eastwood
St. Louis
Old Settlers
Court House
Theodore Gardner
Association of
Douglas County
George Phenicie
Elmer Brown
S. J. Churchill
Chancellor Lindley
Hannah Oliver
James A. Troutman
Topeka
U. S
Charles H. Hoyt
H. B. Asher
May Seetin
Mr. Churchill
Hoyt
A. W. Lamb
Governor Reeder
Gardner
Will Endacott
Endacott
Agnes Engle
Highland
Department of
Highland College
Bertha Keteis
Long Beach
Cal
K. U
George Hackman
Grand Rapids
Mich
Women’s Relief Corps
Edna Patterson
Chicago
Fourteen Suits Issued To Prospective Varsity Men
Twenty five years ago on Saturday September 14 locker manager Waring issued fourteen padded moleskins at 4 o clock to prospective varsity players. Last year’s varsity men receive new suits while scrubs wear last year’s gear. Carded players include Captain Johnson Mike Lynch John Power Glen Wilhelm R E Smith Glen Fairchild the Woodburys Gossary Day Brown Davidson McGill Tibbits. Coach Kennedy will size up candidates this week as Assistant Coach Mosse arrives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waring
Captain Johnson
Mike Lynch
John Power
Glen Wilhelm
R. E. Smith
Glen Fairchild
Woodburys
Gossary
Day
Brown
Davidson
McGill
Tibbits
Kennedy
Mosse
Poor Pa by Claude Callan
Hazel quits her job after her boss keeps his wife in the office, placing constant pressure on Hazel to work hard every day regardless of her appearance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poor PA
Claude Callan
Hazel
Publishers Syndicate
Weeklong scrimmage picks and campus news
Ducks hunt the sloughs as two teams are chosen for actual scrimmage this week. In university notices, Miss Dora Renn and Prof. Frank E. Bryant wed in Chicago while faculty members plan a romance scandal from summer travels. Also reported are campus relocations, fraternity pledges, travel for shows, and student conductors joining the street car system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dash Lake
Crawford I McClung
Chicago
Cupid
Dora Renn
Frank E. Bryant
Renn
Carrie. Watson
Lulu Gardner
Bryant
Wisconsin
University
L. A. Noftzger
Anthony
Kan
Lawrence
Ohio Street
Joe Bishop
Huntsman Haworth
Lawrence Peairs
Beta Theta Pi
John Brooks
Alpha Tau
Mona Eberley
Will Hutson
Kansas City
Lew Fields
Midnight Sons
J. Frank Jones
Harold Iliff
Concordia
Concordia Blade
I. B. Flintom
Kemper Military Academy
Ruth Patterson
Hannah Mitchell
Bertha Kiock
Bessie Raymond
Bonner Springs
Mable Popenoe
Winifred Fisher
Billie Burke
D. E. Connor
Carl Hicks
Wm. Jones
F. L. Carl
D. R. Mants
Tommy Johnson
Frank Ford
Woodland
Local notices and social happenings in Fortieth year era column
Forty years ago on September 15 Fort Lecompton residents and visitors are noted with social calls, entertainments, and fraternity news. Miss Sisson ill, Miss Orrie Cooper returns from the north with her sister, and L C Wilson family back from the east. Sigma Chi gains three new Salina members Osborn Sampson Rising. Mrs. Armstrong and Mrs Weyermuller host Degree of Honor Lodge gathering with mandolin music. A Knoxville rider arrestee proves harmless en route to Denver. McCurdy Culver firm dissolves. E W Wood becomes city sanitary officer. Prof Blake in Fort Lecompton witnesses the Scotland lightship race using his telephonic system, with pigeons and balloons also delivering news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orrie Cooper
North
E. A. Ault
Marysville
Kan
L. C. Wilson
Osborn, Sampson and
Rising
Salina
Sigma Chi
Anna
Della Knox
Topeka
Knoxville
Terin
Denver
McCurdy and Culver
E. W. Wood
Blake
L. I. Blake
Scotland
Prof. Blake
Fairview News Briefs and Visiting Guests
Mrs Eugene Leary and son Norman returned from Memorial hospital. Ed Pine of White hosts visitors including Ralston family and Aileen Cooper. Ed Pine and Josephine McCage joined Sunday dinner. Margaret Stocking left Chanute for home after visiting Roehner. Arthur Mitchell of Watsonville Calif visiting Ed Paasch family then headed east. Frank Newell of Topeka visited James Denham family. A total of 366482 automobile tourists entered California in the first half of 1935.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene Leary
Norman
Memorial Hospital
Ed Pine
White
Leary Home
Ralston
Aileen Cooper
Mabel Peters
Mary
Nancy Hines
Everett Pence
Wilma
Lila Hunter
Buddy Griffin
Josephine McCage
Margaret Stocking
Chanute
Roehner
Arthur Mitchell
Watsonville
Calif
Ed Paasch
Frank Newell
Topeka
James, Denham
Emily Faces Choice Between Independence and Edwin
Emily Felton seeks life beyond Elston library and a stable marriage with Edwin. David Carroll Morton is abroad in China Istanbul while Judith teases a baby boy. Emily weighs leaving home for work or love as family worries and Edwin travels to New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emily Felton
Mitte
Elston
David
Judith Carroll
China
Carroll
Emily
Jeffry
Edwin
Frances
Judith
David Carroll Morton
Istanbul
Constantinople
Carrollton
Will
Weeded Indiana Avenue Sparks City Government Debate
Letters to the Editor condemn the weed jungle in the ten and eleven hundred blocks of Indiana where weeds shoulder high force students to walk in the street. The writer contrasts perceived city action under commission versus council government, noting the mayor ordered cuts before rush week under one form and none under the other.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Journal-World
Indiana
Preparations for the Puddle Muddlers Side-Show
Mary Graham Bonner narrates the busy pre show routine of the Puddle Muddlers as they brush, bathe, and primp. Willy Nilly directs final touches while Top Notch preens his red comb and Sweet Face longs for ribbon and bell adornments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Graham Bonner
Willy Nilly
Sweet Face
Shanghai warns against suicide posters amid rising deaths
Reports from Shanghai describe a surge in personal crises leading to self harm. City posters depict the ugliness of intentional deaths to deter such acts. A recent incident saw six family members leap from a six story building into a crowded street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanghai
Shanghia
Flashes of Life and Oddities From Distant Papers
A collection of quirky, brief items from various locales. Rocco Sileo’s fall in a Philadelphia taproom after slipping on orange rind leads to stitches. A four year old breathes oddly as tar stuffed nostrils prompt hospital visit. A Chapel Hill student born on the 13th joins dorm group 313. Chicago tale follows a missing wife found in a detective bureau cell over bad checks. A Minnesotan packing manager laments high pork prices affecting sauerkraut demand. A Fond du Lac sexton reports 14 flags found in a squirrel nest at a war veteran cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Philadelphia
Rocco Sileo
Sileo
Chicago
John Hockstra
Berwyn
Rose
Chicago Detective Bureau
Fond du Lac
Wis
Otto Jens
Sexton
Unusual Milwaukee Robbery Warns of Odd Drawer Theft
Richard Weder reported a burglary at his Milwaukee home where $4.56 disappeared from a bureau. Later the family found $3.56 sitting in a milk bottle on the perch, suggesting an unusual thief targeted small sums.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Richard Weder
Weder
Gold as a Remedy Across Ages and Diseases
The article surveys mankind’s long fascination with gold as a curative, noting ancient and mythical remedy uses. It cites Dr Jago Goldston and references Breasted’s Conquest of Civilization while highlighting gold’s tested role in modern times, especially in treating tuberculosis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Owls JR
New York Academy of Medicine
Jago Goldston
Breasted
Radio Schedule Highlights for September Weekend
A dense listing of radio programs across stations WREN KMBC WDAF WDAE WRES and others for Saturday September 14 and Sunday September 15. It details music shows opera orchestras talk and variety programs with times and station affiliations, noting performances from Brubeck-like ensembles to Denishawn era acts and long-running serials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wren
Israel
Af—Sizzlers
WDAF
Tack Armstrong
KMBC
MSN Renssaterday
Lillie
Martani
the Troopers
Columbia Concert Hall
WDAE
Gea al Jolson
Vancouver
Glen Island Casino
Budd Rogers’ Orchestra
WDA
Keanswood Park Orch
Kmbartler
Kmbe Rank Dailey
Orch
Seymour Simons
Chas. Dornberger
Palate Hotel
Glen Lee
Bismarck
Henry Busse
RMAC
Ran Hawkins
Vanity Fair
Oriental Gardens Orch
Modern Music Box
Willard Robison
St Joouis
KMNC
St. Wis Parade
Estwreen
A Levy
Gowdy Af— Actlive Man
Paul Henning
Fo Rebs Lyman
K. C
Rhythm Symphony
Wrre
Doe Preant
Mac
Julia Sanderson
Bob Becker
Chata
Oswaldo Mazzucchi
KMNG
WRES
Grand Hotel
Grand Canyon
KMUC
Wt1af
Wrex
Lanny Rosa
Fiat
The
Feople
Howard Ely
Hendrik Willem van Lood
Silken
Berry
Kxlbc
Haenschen
Rch
Walter Winchell
Neila Goodelle
Wayne King
Meredith Wilson
Seth Parker
Alexander Haas
Grant Park
Morin
the Constitution
Wren—Press
Eddie South
Seymour Simon
WWDAF
Glenn Lee
Wren— Barney
Rappa
Dick Fidler
LDS
East Hines
Lee Gordon
O—Wren
Floyd Town
Maurie Stein
Jess Hawkins
Gold Remedies for Tuberculosis and Joint Diseases
A survey of gold compound use in treating tuberculosis and arthritis notes Kochs observation on gold salts killing tubercle bacilli in vitro and the lack of decisive clinical proof for gold therapies. The report also mentions local community notices and a Peiping jail case where radicals were released after affidavits denouncing communism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Koch
Peiping
Also Mentioned on This Page
Poer
Audit Bureau OF Circulations
Kansas City Times
Lewis Doug Jays
Roosevelt
Douglas
Harry Hopkins
WPA
Ickes
PWA
State Agricultural College
Mediterranean
Fairview
California
Morning Star
Birmingham
Charlotte
Warren Inn
Marian Sim
Riessons
Jy FS
Sydenham
Jimmy Hawkins
Chapel Hill
N.C
Robert Palmer Brewer
University of North Carolina
Grand Coulee Dam
Wash
Government Engineers
St. Cloud, Minn
E. A. Barthelmy
Wee
Lawrence National Bank
Rooke Carter
Glen Island Casino Orch
Io ‘Theatre
Sies
A ‘Am
Inst
Primerincess
Pat Players
KNEC
Wren—Constitution
KMEC
Louis Prima
WPAF
Ames
Dorothy Jamour
Tattler
Yis
Tony
Gus
Carl Hoffa
AI Donohue
EMBC
Melody Palette
KNGC
Moment Musicale
Don Gil
Shandor
Leon Belasco
Af—Riley
Lake House
Exni—Griff Williams
Lincoln Tavern
KMTC
Elmer Wintermantle
Roy Schwahn
Henry Breithaupt
Edgerton
Glen Schwartz
Walter Schwartz
Sophia Schwartz
Oscar Lutz
Lois
Floyd Heffner
Ruby Mae
Charles Schwartz
Thelma
Olin Heffner
Doris
Jose Heffner
Arlie
Sas City
Olin’ Heffner
Trinity Lutheran Hospital
Alrs. Gfeller
Arnold
Junction City
Stupianek
St. John’s Evangelical Church
Nellie Wintermantle
Charles Nuffer
Norma
Pauline
Oscar
Otto Stebener
Fred Heim
Union Community Club
Carl Schwartz
John Stoebener
Clarence Albright
Otto Stoebener
Albert Schwartz
America
Canada
Montreal
Toronto
First National Bank
the First Savings Bank
of Lawrence
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