Memories of Ottawa Chautauqua Revived and Reflected
Miss Clara Kaiser recalls Ottawa Chautauqua’s 30 year era before the Model T, detailing its 1879 church encampment near Lawrence, growth to Forest Park Ottawa, and later decline by 1914. The note highlights tents, halls, notable instructors, crowd sizes, floods, and the cultural impact on hundreds of thousands.
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Ottawa
Missouri
Lawrence
Chautauqua Sunday School Assembly
New York
Bismark Grove
Juvenile Institute
Topeka
Forest Park
Ottawa University
Washburn College of
Baker University
Prentss
Womens’ Council
Willard
W.C.T.U. of Kansas
Frances E. Willard
Paola
Olathe
Burlington
W. F. Sherwin
West
Chicago
William Jennings Bryan
William Ravers Jerome
Patients At State Hospital Stage Polio Fund Benefit Show
At Osawatomie State Hospital fifteen mentally ill patients organized and performed a musical comedy to raise funds for the March of Dimes. The show, written by patients under their new self governing system, drew a large audience and raised over 100 dollars. Psychiatrists say the project offered therapeutic value and plans call for touring the act to other communities with invited observers from civil liberties and peace groups.
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Osawatomie
Osawatomie State Hospital
Three Soviet Officials Expelled From Sweden in Spy Case
Stockholm reports three more Soviet Embassy officials expelled over a Communist spy case. The Russians are described as contact men for Anatole Ericsson, the Swedish Russian national jailed 12 years last year for passing radar data on Swedish installations to Russia.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Anatole Ericsson
Russia
Communist party to admit some outside observers
New York. The National Committee of the American Communist party proposed to admit certain non Communist observers to its 16th annual convention opening tomorrow. The proposal awaits the approval of about 300 delegates and would mark the first time non Communists are allowed to attend.
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New York
National Committee
The
American Communist Party
Despondent Brooklyn Couple Die After Daughter
New York. A Brooklyn couple, Joseph Kennedy 46 and Nan Kennedy 42, and their 5-year-old daughter Valerie died after a fall from their ten story apartment. Police found bloodstains in the home and could not determine if the child’s illness or foul play caused the deaths. Investigators noted the parents appeared to “go down holding hands.”
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New York
Brooklyn
Nan
Valerie
James Lockhart
Kennedy family deaths puzzle police probe
A father, found on a television set with blood on a divan pillow, and Valerie found dead in bed in a top floor apartment. Valerie wore blue jeans a brown jersey and shoes and socks. Police say she had been dead since about midnight three hours before the parents’ deaths. No suicide note was found.
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Valerie
Kennedy
Subscribers Sign Up Names for Ottawa Herald
New and renewing subscribers listed include Baldwin Robert Foster Melvern Frank Bitts Ottawa H A Ward Earl Pope George W Studebaker Paola Mark Haight Pomona Robert Dillon Richmond Ralph Kramer Wellsville Velma Christie C W OConnor Williamsburg J W Wren.
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Ottawa Herald
Baldwin
Robert Foster
Melvern
Frank Bitts
Ottawa
H. A. Ward
Earl Pope
George W. Studebaker
Paola
Mark Haight
Pomona
Robert Dillon
Richmond
Ralph Kramer
Wellsville
Velma Christie
C. W. O'Connor
Williamsburg
J.W. Wren
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Ottawa Assembly
Fairgrounds
Chautauqua Assembly
Herald
W. C. Markham
van Nuys
Calif
State Hospital
Norman Thomas
Dorothy Day
Catholic Worker
J A. J. Muste
Fellowship of Reconciliation
Dean Berlin
Briscoe
Fuller
Bates
Rosewood
Dumari — Belding
Terrill’s Department Store
South Main
Star Grain & Lumber Co
the Herald
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