Kansas plan to extend high school limits across districts gains support
Dayhoff superintendent and officers propose widening high school districts to a radius around cities, aiming to provide free high school access to 80 percent of youths, bringing resources and closer courses to homes. The effort envisions two thirds of Kansas counties with touching districts and outlines broader district benefits.
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Kangas
Sega Dayhoff
Dayhoff
Sit
Kansas
Union High
Wichita eyed for 100000 plant to make asphalt paving blocks
Capitalists plan a 100000 plant in Wichita to manufacture asphalt paving blocks. Wichita is seen as ideal due to nearby limestone quarries in Butler county and surrounding areas. Demand grows as eastern cities adopt the blocks, cutting use of brick and stone and reducing freight costs from the east.
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Wichita
Butler
Trustees Authorized to Sell Devlin Estate Property
The C. J. Devlin estate trustees are approved by referee in bankruptcy N. H. Loomis to sell assets they hold. Sales must meet a minimum price of three fourths of the appraised value. Coal lands and certain reserves are excluded from the sale.
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C. J. Devlin
N. H. Loomis
Dr. Price
Alwyn Jagmed
Daily Passenger Service Ordered on St. Louis and San Francisco Line
The state board of railroad commissioners orders daily passenger service from Cherokee to Girard on the St. Louis and San Francisco line. This line has lacked daily trains for some time as residents petitioned the board for service.
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State Board ‘of ‘Railroad Commissioners
St. Louis
San Francisco
Cherokee
Girard
Denver Franchise Contempt Ruling Ties Up Officials
Supreme Court refused to intervene in the Denver county court contest. George Ordway Henry Doherty Fred Williams and J Cook Jr were jailed for contempt of court until paying 400 fines each. Ballot boxes seized by guards were delivered to the sheriff after the supreme court declined to interfere.
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Denver
Galo
George N. Ordway
Henry L. Doherty
Denver Gas and Electric Company
Fred A. Williams
Republican - Central ‘County ‘Committee
J. Cook, Jr
Ben B. Lindsey
William Lail
Theodore Griffin
Election Commission
Alexander Nisbett
Lindsey
George W. Bailey
Supreme Court
Notre Dame Its Timeless Charm On Paris Bridges And Isles
Elizabeth Robins Pennell reflects on Notre Dame's enduring allure as she strolls along Paris bridges and the Left Bank quays. The familiar towers rise above roofs and palaces, culminating in the grand view from Pont Neuf to the island and the great square before the cathedral.
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Notre Dame
Paris
Quiys
Pont Neuf
Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Handwriting Said to Reveal Smokers by Saunders Claim
Former schoolmaster Mr Saunders told a British House of Lords committee on juvenile smoking that he could detect smokers by handwriting. He asserted that boys who smoke have looser, flabbier writing and called handwriting a cinematograph of the heart.
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Saunders
House of Lords
Iowa Democrats Nominate Full State Ticket at Waterloo
At the Iowa Democratic state convention in Waterloo a full state ticket was nominated led by Claude Porter of Appanoose County for governor. The platform calls for revenue tariff only, direct election of US senators, anti trust legislation, sympathy with national labor aims, and pledges Iowa Democrats to William Jennings Bryan in 1908.
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Waterloo
Iowa
Claude R. Porter
Apponoose County
United States
Samuel Gompers
John Mitchell
William Jenning Bryan
Kansas Tops Bank Density in Nation
Topeka reports Kansas has the most banks per capita except Nebraska with 36 banks for a population of 648,000 over ten years. Dean W. Hisely of Fairmont College notes Kansas averages one bank for 1,846 residents, compares Missouri and Pennsylvania figures, and cites Kansas matching England’s bank count while edging New York by nearly a hundred institutions.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Nebraska
Pennsylvania
Missouri
Dean W. Hisely
Fairmont College
Wichita
New York
Immigrant Station at Ellis Island Opens for Inspections
Washington DC dispatch states that the immigration station at Billis Island New York will open for inspection of arriving immigrants next Sunday and thereafter on Sundays by direction of President Roosevelt. Last Sunday the station was closed by order to give employees a rest, causing hundreds of immigrants arriving Saturday night and Sunday morning to remain aboard ships until Monday.
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Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
United States ‘Immigration
Billis ‘Island
New York
Department of Commerce and Labor
Peasants Beat Off Russian Parliament Member in Gravoff
In Gravoff the peasants severely beat M. Stefanchuk, an outlawed parliament member, after he failed to justify his return home without securing promised land and liberty. The episode highlights rural anger as protests flare against central authorities.
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Kiev
Russia
Gravoff
M. Stefanchuk
Rockefeller funds for Tanganyika project reported
The Times reports that John D. Rockefeller has supplied funds for a development project in Tanganyika on a London authority source. The disclosure cites Rockefeller philanthropy backing African development efforts with connections to England.
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London
England
the Times
Telable
John D. Rockefeller
Flrond Development Dn
Tanganyika
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