National News From 1921: Oil Output and Prison Plot Alerts
Resumption of oil production in east Texas and Oklahoma boosts U S output but price remains under $1 a barrel. A Lansing prison plot unearthed shows officers foiled an early escape after guards and convicts traded warnings. Fred Burke reward rises to 1,000 dollars as authorities pursue killers in St Joseph Michigan. General Pershing tours Lincoln Neb to celebrate his birthday amid mixed public response.
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East
Texas
Oklahoma
United States
Lansing
St. Joseph Mich
Fred Burke
Burke
General Pershing
Lincoln
Neb
On the Right Track for Weather Forecast Vindication
A hopeful forecaster warned daily of cool breezes sweeping Kansas while heat records were set across the state. Despite incorrect forecasts so far, the forecaster remains optimistic, needing to continue predicting cooler weather to earn eventual vindication.
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Kansas
World series opener plans spark cross country chase
Busy sports fans plan a Sept Oct trip from St Louis to Philadelphia to catch games. The schedule shows October 1 opening in St Louis with games Thursday and Friday, then a Monday game in Philadelphia. Passionate fans vow not to miss the Haskeil Kansas football clash in Lawrence that night.
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St. Louis
Philadelphia
Lawrence
Kan
Signs around schools prompt careful driving in Lawrence
A Kansas City Star note reflects on fall activities resuming in Lawrence with few traffic accidents reported. It praises newly placed school area signs as well observed though urges continued police vigilance for inevitable lapses and timely corrective actions.
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Lawrence
Medals Won By Hunt In National Rifle Contest
Howard L. Hunt of company H K N G returned from Sea Girl New Jersey where he won first place for Kansas in the rifle contest and earned two gold medals. One brigade prize valued at 60 dollars and a regimental prize of 40 dollars. Other brief items note a stock farm tour through Illinois Iowa and Kentucky seeking horses and jacks, and social events for Miss Griesa including a bridal shower and family dinner.
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Howard L. Hunt
Sea Girl
N. J
Kansas
Hunt
E. Smith
Illinois
Iowa
Kentucky
John Wolf
Los Angeles
Ten Years Ago News Clips from Sept. 16
Ten years back on the September 16 issue Prof F H Hodder left for Aurora Ill after his mother’s death Mr and Mrs Max Wilhelmi Jr returned from Colorado Mrs Wilhelmi travels to Kansas City to meet their granddaughter Augerta Josephine born Sept 10 at Simmons hospital John Levi enrolled at Haskell Institute in commerce program weighs 200 pounds and plays football Mrs W A Eudaly hosts fortieth wedding anniversary gift a ruby brooch Estella Lindley and Mrs Lindley present Forty Years brooch to couple George Dunkley elected president Battery B 130th field artillery at Topeka meeting
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F. H. Hodder
Aurora
Ill
Max Wilhelmi, Jr
Colorado
Wilhelmi
Kansas City
Maxine
Brookfield
John Levi
Haskell Institute
Roy Orr
Simmons Hospital
Augerta Josephine
W. A. Eudaly
W. M. Lindley
Fudaley
Estella Lindley
George Dunkley
130Th Field Artillery
Topeka
Angina Pectoris described as heart strain warning
Angina pectoris is a symptom signaling heart stress with sudden chest pain under the breastbone and a sense of impending death. Patients should reduce physical effort and emotional strain, accept the condition, and limit activities to within safe limits.
Tomorrow Stalking a Disease
A medical note discusses diagnosing heart damage in angina pectoris patients using modern tools like the electro cardiograph and x ray. It emphasizes cautious activity, simple diet, small fluid intake, and steady, slow progress under medical watch.
Lee Mosier Is Sentenced to Hang in Wichita
1887 history item reports Lee Mosier, nineteen, convicted of killing a man in the Indian Territory, sentenced in federal court in Wichita to be hanged on November 13.
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Lee Mosier
Indian Territory
Wichita
Flashes of Life from the World Anew
London Gandhi opposes Buckingham Palace floodlights as wasteful extravagance though funded by the World Illumination Congress. Astor avoids cameras. Pullman’s centennial noted. Morgan’s Guernsey wins at Nassau show. King George aids a builder as Princess Elizabeth helps gather stones. Fitzgerald's will warns heirs against Wall Street speculation.
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Associated Prez
London
Mahatma Gandhi
Buckingham Palace
World Ilumination Congress
New York
Vincent Astor
Philadelphia
George Mortimer Pullman
Pennsylvania Railroad
Baltimore
Maryland
Mineola
N. Y
J. P. Morgan
Guernsey
Dorsoris Freesia
Queens Nassau Agricultural Society
Balmoral
George
Princess Elizabeth
White Plains
Edward F.fitzgerald
Westchester County
Treasury
Wall Street
Is Cramer's Plane Identified in North Sea Wreckage
New York Sept 16 AP K D Fosler factory manager for the Edo Aircraft Corporation identified wreckage found in the North Sea by the British trawler Lord Trent as Parker Cramer's plane American flyer lost en route from Detroit to Copenhagen. Fosler confirmed model and dates matching the wireless message though the manufacturing number showed a possible transmission error. Cramer and radio operator Oliver Pacquette departed Shetland Aug 9 for Copenhagen via Arctic air route and disappeared in a heavy storm while charting an airmail path for an American aviation concern.
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New York
K. D. Fosler
Edo Aircraft Corporation
North Sea
Lord Trent
Parker Cramer
Detroit
Copenhagen
Cramer
Associated Press
London
Kdo Aircraft Corporation
College Point
N. Y
Vosler
Oliver Pacquette
Shetland Islands
Canada
Arctic
Fires on Collector in Kansas City
Arthur Bonne tried to collect an installment on a radio from Joe Labella. Labella returned with a shotgun and fired, injuring Bonne and three bystanders including Cavelle who ducked. Labella fled. Police reported Labella had not made payments on the radio loan, and Bonne gave details from the hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Arthur Bonne
Joe Labella
Bonne
Labella
Joe Cavelle
Cavelle
Richard Dement
Matt Doland
Perry Clark
Kansas Woman Dies by Own Action Near Wichita
Katherine Bowes thirty died by shooting herself in the head at the home of Mr and Mrs Small in Viola Kansas near Wichita. She asked a young son of the Small couple to witness the act before firing the shot. No reason could be found for the suicide.
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Kansas
Wichita, Kan
Katherine Bowes
Robert Small
Viola
Kan
Fourth Aldersen's Secret Drives Family Strife
Sam fears a widow backs Fourth's invention while Nelson and Martha live in a city apartment funded by Sam's stepfather. Fourth proclaims wealth from his invention and challenges Sam to read a document he leaves behind. She urges Peak Abbott to uncover the truth, promising surprising results.
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Fourth
Sam
Peak Abbott
Freddy Munson
Nelson
Chanter
Aldersen
Joan
Martha
Sir Kourth
Freeman Lincoln
Peak
Loporte
Amaze Am
Bonfire's History Told By Mary Graham Bonner
The Little Black Clock and children John and Peggy witness a community boonfire as Thad turns back time. Neighbors arrive with sticks to build a warm, shared blaze, while the Clock explains the bonfire’s long, friendly history and its charm.
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Mary Graham Bonner
John
Peggy
Percy
Thad
Tomorrow Animalcules Kansas News Briefs
Topeka Miss Annie Miller 68 of Muscotah is state spelling champion in the old folks division. She correctly spell s a word after opponent R J Stockmeyer. The event also lists winners in Class 4 Dorothy Doramus Conway Springs Class B William Edmond Marysville Class C Joe Prelogar Arma. In Hays heat affects grocery store with 100 degree street temperature and apples baked in a show window. Manhattan Kansas State College reports enrollment 2766 students.
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Associated Press
Topeka
Annie Miller
Muscotah
R. J. Stockmeyer
Gardner
Dorothy Doramus
Conway Springs
William Edmond
Marysville
Joe Prelogar
Arma
Hays
J. B. Basgall
Manhattan
Kansas State College
Sec
Local notes from Topeka and Hutchinson region events
The report covers public service staff changes in Topeka with J W Scott successor acceding to rate clerk duties, a Hutchinson marriage of publisher Leslie Wallace to Roddie Victor of Larned, a fatal murder case of Walter Batten bound over in neighboring county, and church salary reallocation within the Kansas conference plus district realignments. A boiler blast injures Ruth Sullivan as a house collapses nearby.
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New Orleans
Havana
Cuba
Cammon
Walter Batten
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Fort Scott
Kansas City
Independence
Parsons
Topeka
Ruth Sullivan
Phenomenal Heat Period Holds On Across Kansas
Severe September heat gripped Kansas with 100 degree readings at eight stations and a record 102 at Winfield. Forecaster S D Flora warned cooler weather toward the north and west but expect 100s again this afternoon. Drought and stock water shortages noted, while pastures burned out except in northeast Kansas. In divorce notices Martha Webster sues Lloyd Webster for abandonment and neglect. Corinne Fuentes sues Charles Fuentes for extreme cruelty. Bud Selves departs Emporia for McPherson College as interim assistant coach.
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Topeka
Weather Bureau
Kansas
Mercury
Federal Weather Bureau
Winfield
S. D. Flora
Whatsal
Tribune
Flora
Phillipsburg
John Callahan
District Court
Martha Webster
Lloyd Webster
Websters
Corinne Fuentes
Charles Fuentes
Fuenteses
Vinland Convention Draws Dense Rural Attendance
The southeast district Douglas county school of religious education held its annual convention at the Vinland grange fairgrounds on Sunday September 13. Large crowds attended services and the noon basket dinner. Attendees came from High Prairie Ives Chapel Fairview Clearfield Baldwin City and Vinland with two Sunday schools represented.
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Douglas
County School of Religious Education
Vinland Grange Fairgrounds
High Prairie
Ives Chapel
Fairview
Clearfield
Baldwin City
Vinland
Eckieldp
Geraldine
Clifford
Edward
Dolores
Okmulgee
Okla
Irvin Lane
Justine
Garnett
Glenn Miller
Big Springs
Frank Hagerman
Max
Bernice
Hoskinson
Hubert
W. H. Hoskinson
Jake Ruesch
Cora Karnes
Overbrook
Pleasant View community notes and society events
Community notes recount meetings of the Ladies Aid and Coleman Dell Club, election of Union Sunday school officers, visits from members to Baldwin and Lawrence, and plans for the Vinland grange fair. Mentioned are Mr and Mrs Janzen, Rev and Mrs Husted, Mrs Lyberger, and Miss Helen Hammond among others.
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Tsmend
Coleman Dell Club
Hutton
Union Sunday School
Margaret Hammond
Harry Hemphill
Annie Weiler
Cecil Sorith
Eunice Hammonds
Mabel Eckman
Home Department
Bertha Weiler
Mary Sturdy
Helen
A. G. Hammond
Martha Kelley
Jennie Stevens
Janzen
Hulse
Albert Bridenstine
Husted
Tanoia
Colo
Omi Hansen
Bridenstine
Archie Baugher
Mount Idis
T. P. Stevens
Jennie
A. K Stevens
Deer Six
Baldwin
Hemingway
Wilbur Dunn
Ray Dunn
Kansas City
George Sturdy
Ruth
Margaret
Lyberger
Maude Gerstenberger
Howard Smith
Julia Hammond
Olson
Hammond
Mildred Nichols
Lawrence
Mildred Paach
Sibley
Mildred
Ruth Paasch
Argentine
Anne Kelley
Dorothy
Deel
Helen Gill
Mary Margaret Williams
Betty Ebricht
Allie Gayle Parmenter
Vinland Grange
Connie Foote
H. A. Biskie
C.B. Glover
State Agricultue College
Fairview Sunday School convenes at Vinland with program
Fairview Sunday school attendees joined an all day convention at Vinland and enjoyed a varied program. Mr and Mrs William Stone of Lawrence visited Mrs Edmondson and Mr and Mrs Russell Cooper on Monday evening. Miss Carlotta Brown of Kansas City spent the weekend with Miss Elsie and Ted Brown. Mr and Mrs Harold Marshall and Patricia Ann visited Sunday. A ladies aid bought a shared Friday pike and moved the old one to the basement for social gatherings. John Fuller of Kansas City visited from Thursday to Sunday with Charles Wells and Brownlee homes. Mrs Russell Cooper spent the…
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Lawrence
Steve Merritt
Kansas City
Elmer Winkleman
Chatanooga
Okla
Chas. Wells
Wichita
Vesta Stewart
Robert
Ralston
Bloyd Nisely
Theodore Howard
Walter Howard
Pleasant Valley
Anna’ Peters
Ed Howard
William Wells
Alfred Potts
Vernon Garrett
Lilburn Dowers
William Stone
Edmondson
Russell Cooper
Carlotta Brown
Elsie
Ted Brown
Harold Marshall
Patricia Ann
Ladies Aid
John Fuller
Brownlee
McLouth Attending Band Concert Ends With Shower Interruption
Attendance at the closing band concert of the season was unusually large in McLouth. A water melon feed was part of the program but a shower interrupted the event. Arthur C. Chapman was appointed district No. 75 director of schools, succeeding Jiatt Woodhead. Alonzo Lambertson and Miss Elsie Lambertson of Pairvie x were guests of Richard Steeper. Mrs. M. E. Spenser and Mrs. G. M. Raltis with Marjorie Raltis of Kansas City visited Mr. and Mrs. E. Steaner. Mrs. Myrtle White and Cecil White with R. W. Reynolds transacted business in Lawrence. M. H. S. alumni enrolling at colleges include Marlin Cox, Herat Caufield, Paul Sanders, Charlies Davison, Marianna and Maxine Taylor, Laura Margaret Sanders, Arnold Sidmonds, Doris Edmonds, Helen Gardner, Wilma Fowler, Mabel Williams, Richard Steeper and Cecil White at the University of Kansas and other institutions. Comrade J. W. Malloy and Mrs. Malloy of W.R.C. attend the national G. A. R. encampment in Des Moines, Iowa. E. D. Bradford and Amos Leech of Oskalonsa visited Amos MacLouth at Soldiers’ Home. Lightning struck and destroyed a barn and contents on the Jay F. Bond farm Saturday evening while families were in town. loss partially covered by insurance.
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Arthur C. Chapman
M. E. Spenser
G. M. Raltis
Marjorie Raltis
Kansas City
Steaner
Myrtle White
Cecil
R. W. Reynolds
Lawrence
Marlin Cox
Friends University
Wichita
Herat Caufield
Paul Sanders
Baker
Charlies Davison
Lawrence Business College
Marian
Amos Leech
Oskalonsa
Amos MacLouth
Soldiers’ Home
Jay
Bond
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Seearby
Animalcules
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McPherson
Emporia
Lester
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College of Emoria
McPherson, An
McPherson College
Melvin Binford
Vinland and Vicinity
Ene
Puffy
Pleasant View
Bun
Earth
Lawrence Building and Loan Association
Lydia
Pinkham
Mra. V. E. Schnepper
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Evansville
Indiana
Mt Nt
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Craig
Mass
Yee Lee Ane
Lawrence National Bank
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