State Reports 287393 Auto Licenses and $1.44 Million Fees
Secretary Pettijohn releases Kansas 1921 year end figures showing 287,393 automobile licenses issued and $1,436,965 collected in fees. County road funding from license revenues noted with standings by county and state growth trends. Also reports death of Rev. Dr. Francis Blayney and updates on former Governor George Hodges at Lake Darling.
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Pettijohn
Topeka
L. J. Pettijohn
Kansas
California
Iowa
Nebraska
South Dakota
United States
Sedgwick County
Wyandotte
Butler
George H. Hodges
Endowment Drive Aims to Build $1 Billion for Wichita Children's Home
Twenty year endowment insurance totaling 300000 has been placed in Wichita by local businessmen as the first step toward a 1 billion endowment fund for the Wichita Children’s Home. Four trust companies will administer the endowment at no charge. An insurance company carries the risks without agency costs to the home.
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Wichita
Interstate Commission Orders Kansas Freight and Passenger Rates Rise
The Interstate Commerce Commission orders rate increases for railroad freight and passenger service within Kansas to take effect by August 24, with petroleum and its products exempted from the rise.
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State of
Kansas
Interstate Commerce Commission
Quarantine Enforcement Announced by Health Official
Dr C He Kihina Geary county health officer announces a campaign for strict quarantine law enforcement. In initial steps two men are arrested for breaking quarantine and failing to report a contagious disease. A Hutchinson child Liverett Reed, eight, dies. his sisters Ruby and Ruth Reed, six and one, are severely affected after eating musty wheat. Amline of Council Grove named warden of the Kansas Penitentiary replacing acting warden Hudepeth.
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C. He Kihina
Geary
Liverett Reed
William Reed
Hutchinson
Ruby
Ruth
Amline
Council Grove
Kansas Hae
Robert i Hudepeth
Kansas farm returns show low profits and high mortgage load
Data from 44 Kansas farms in 1920 reveal an average investment of 40000 yielding 3 percent profit while most owners barely break even. Jackson and McPherson counties report horse work hours about 2 to 3.4 per day. mortgage indebtedness averages 25.9 percent with Kansas equity higher than U S peers. Two teens confess to a Beaver County murder, with Frank Miller an accessory, as detectives pursue linked cases in Dodge City.
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Kansas
McPherson County
Grimes
United States Department of Agriculture
J. C. Mohler
State Board of Agriculture
Mortagage
United States
Mohler
Clyde T. Parker
Stevens County
Harry K. Ellis
Horset Ellis
John Longenecker
Beaver County
Longenecker Ranch
Liberal
Harry. Ellis
Henry Smith
Ellis
Longenecker
Frank Miller
Smith
Dodge City
Kansas City
Kansas Rail Rates Hike Ordered by ICC Over KS Utilities
J W Connell Santa Fe general passenger agent says passenger rates will rise July 26 or 27 with freight rates soon after under ICC order, overriding the Kansas Utilities Commission. All Kansas railroads filed an injunction suit in U S district court at Topeka to prevent interference.
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Kansas
Interstate Commerce Commission
Kansas Utilities Commission
J. W. Connell
Santa Fe
United States District Court
Topeka
Utilities Commission
Two Men Cut to Pieces On Santa Fe Train Near Wichita
Mrs. Howard Utt, 16, identified her husband among the two killed when the Santa Fe train north of Wichita cut them to pieces. Kirk Field is the other man dead. E. B. Smith, who accompanied them, is missing. Authorities undecided if murder and robbery or accidental fall occurred.
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Santa Fe
Wichita
Howard Utt
Kirk Field
E. B. Smith
Women jurors favored for Wichita district court term
Judges Thornton W. Sargent and Jesse D. Wall voiced support for allowing women to serve as jurors in Wichita district court. They stated that taxed women should be eligible and may serve if they wish, though not compelled.
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District Court
Wichita
Thornton W. Sargent
Jesse D. Wall
Sargent
Farmers Cut Harvest Costs with Combination Outfit
Frank Kern of Rice county operated a harvester thresher in one field while a header worked the adjoining wheat field. He estimated the outfit cuts harvesting and threshing to 5 cents a bushel versus 42 cents with the old method. Ottawa residents weigh tax hike and consider a taxpayers league. Lena Loeschen, 19, drowned in the Neosho River near Leroy while wading with friends. Mrs J McCarty of Chapman, mother of J T McCarty of Junction City, died at home after long Kansas residence.
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Frank Kern
Rice County
Lena Loeschen
Herman J. Loeschen
Neosho
Leroy
House for Four Sows and Litters
Article by William A. Radford describes a 14 by 40 foot frame hog house with four farrowing pens, concrete foundation and floor, south facing windows for sun warmth, raised plank bedding, and a concrete outdoor feeding floor. It explains breeding timing and conditions for clean, healthy pigs and notes free expert farm-building advice.
Hog husbandry tips for profitable farming
The piece argues hogs require a clean warm sunlit house for farrowing and rearing. It describes small-farm hogs with three to four sows producing 20 to 30 pigs and suggests a concrete, frost resistant feeding floor laid in square sections with gaps.
Hoover Confers On Government Reorganization
In a discussion with a former secretary of commerce, Herbert Hoover weighs government reorganization. A parallel tale of two African American soldiers returning home ends with one foreseeing a grand outfit while the other says he will attend a funeral.
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Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Georgia
Mike
Southland
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Regulation Controls Wireless Device For Correction Feed
A self regulated system controls the wireless device used to receive corrective signals. The device operates under its own governance to ensure proper reception and application of corrections.
Automated testing and control system boosts chemical efficiency
Efficiency advances in industrial chemistry through an electrical system that automatically tests and controls a process. Continuous readings of solution strength acidity and gas content are charted remotely while electronically operated valves correct shortages or surpluses in real time. The setup compensates for temperature pressure and reaction time changes and even handles mixtures with identical electrical resistance.
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Popular Mechanics Magazine
Tanlac credited with curing Lakeville farmer's wife
Mrs. Amy Peterson of Lakeville Mass says she dropped from 103 to 92 pounds due to acute indigestion and distress. After taking Tanlac she regained weight, reports renewed strength, appetite, and relief from stomach pains. Tanlac sold by leading druggists.
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Amy Peterson
Lakeville
Mass
New Bedford
Tanlac
Wisdom Teeth and Folly Exchange Sparks in Boston Tran Script
A humorous exchange from the Boston Tran script mocks the link between wisdom teeth and intelligence. The speaker quips that pulling all teeth would not make one any stupider, satirizing the idea of wisdom linked to teeth.
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Boston Transcript
Bayer Aspirin Adverts Warn Safe Use and Cross Logo
An old Bayer Aspirin promotion urges to take only Bayer tablets as directed by physicians over 21 years of proven safety. It highlights the Bayer Cross logo as a mark of safety for colds headaches neuralgia rheumatism earache toothache and other pains with inexpensive twelve tablet boxes and larger packages sold by druggists.
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Bayer
Right in His Lime
Wifey asks a doctor to help a husband troubled by money concerns. The wife pleads, and the doctor wonders why the husband should be sent to him for relief from troubles.
Women Need Swamp-Root for Kidney and Bladder Trouble
Thousands of women suffer kidney and bladder problems without realizing the cause. The ad warns that back pain, headaches, and nervousness can signal kidney trouble and urges immediate treatment with Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root. A sample bottle offer requires ten cents and a request note to Dr Kilmer & Co.
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Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
Self Winding Clock Receives Noon Time Signal From Observatory
A New Jersey based self winding electric clock uses wireless impulses from the Washington observatory to correct its time. It has a radio selecting receiving and relay system that tunes to the noon signal and automatically switches the receiver on and off. If no signal is received the switch opens at 12:30 and won’t close again until one minute before noon the following day.
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Washington Observatory
New Jersey
Popular Mechanics
Reform inmates moved as delegation visits Jeffersonville
A New Albany Hope Lodge of Odd Fellows delegation rode to Jeffersonville to confer the work for Tabor Lodge. They arrived at the interurban station, marched two abreast, and noted that about 3000 inmates of the reformatory had been sent north. The visitors later recounted the tale at the lodge and mocked the Jeffersonville newcomers.
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New Albany
Jeffersonville
Indianapolis News
Had Him Guessing About Marcella’s New Fad
Marcus notes Tony, newly engaged to Marcella Lennox, wears a worried look. Tony fears Marcella’s passions shift rapidly from horses to dogs to prize poultry and Angora rabbits, questioning if he is truly a steady sweetheart or just a target for her latest craze.
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Marcus
Tony
Marcella Lennox
Marcella
Mark
Angora
American visitor recalls bull fight folly in Madrid tale
A dinner in New York features the Spanish punter telling of an American who left a Madrid bull fight in disgust. He quipped that a bull is a foolish animal for chasing a red cloak endlessly around the ring and town, amid lively regional banter.
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Senora
Dbilar Sereda
New York
America
Madrid
Rest Your Tired Feet Llen Foot Baseh
The antiseptic preparation is shaken into shoes to relieve pain from corns bunions and tired aching feet. It cools and comforts feet prolonging shoe and stocking wear by reducing soreness and blisters.
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Francis
Blayney
Presbyterian Church
Abilene
Grand Lodge of Masons
Agricultural College
Taxpayers’ League
Ottawa
William A. Radford
Prairie Avenue
Chicago
Teeding
Farmer
Sqandia
Harry Hohman
Nordman
Adolph Nelson
Lebanon
Joseph McGowan, W.M
A. R. Morey
Sec’y
Scandia
H. C. Coleman
V. C
Sears
Peter
Jones
Mason's Store
Johnson
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