Fewer Coal and Wheat Cars Move Across Kansas Lines
Interstate commerce actions limit coal car movement while aiding wheat shipments. Kansas faces high coal costs and car shortages as Eastern railroads receive 11 500 coal cars under service orders. Judge Clyde Reed warns the fuel supply is strained with soft coal at 9.50 a ton and potential $12 to $16 prices next winter.
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Kansas
Kansas Fields
Car Service Commission
Eastern Roads
Santa Fe
Rock Island
Union Pacific
Missouri Pacific
Katy
Frisco
Mississippi
Barton
Jasper
Missouri
Crawford
Cherokee
Clyde Reed
Industrial Court
Fed bank to back Kansas wheat growers this year
W F McMichael president of the Wheat Growers Association says the Federal Reserve bank board will finance wheat producers. He notes that local banks will accept wheat paper and that the board aims to fund farmers cattlemen and others producing essentials. Also reports I W W arrests injunctions and new rates requests in Kansas news.
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The
Federal Bank
Kansas
W. F. McMichael
Washington
McMichael
Wheat Growers’ Association of the
United States
Wichita
W. L. Harding
Federal Reserve Bank Board
Federal Reserve Bank
Harding
Mr. McMichael
The Crow as a Pet and Pest Across Farming Flats
A Washington bulletin on crows weighs benefits and harms. Crows eat 38 percent grain and many insects but kill young poultry and eggs. The piece notes crows’ intelligence and sociable nature, describing how a raised crow becomes gentle and stays with the family while roaming to fields at times.
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Washington
United States Biological Survey
George F. Burba
Columbus Dispatch
Girls Spell Better Than Boys In Seneca County Contest
In Seneca county schools the girls dominated the county spelling and speaking contest held in Tiffin. Miss Gertrude Bertsch of Thompson won the seventh and eighth grade spelling contest, Harry Sperow of Hopewell won the fifth and sixth, and Irene Hatten of Attica won the third and fourth. Rosamond Showalter of Attica and Thomas Watson of Old Fort captured honors in the two divisions of the speaking contest.
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Tiffin O
Seneca County
Gertrude Bertsch
Thompson
Harry Sperow
Hopewell
Irene Hatten
Attica
Rosamond Showalter
Thomas Watson
Old Fort
Tragedy in Swiss Theater as Python Kills Trainer
In Serbruck Switzerland a Hungarian trainer named Ciro was crushed to death by a giant python during a theater show. The audience cheered assuming her cries were part of the act until the serpent was killed by her manager after the event.
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Serbruck
Switzerland
Ciro
Watermelon Seed Disgorged Brings Hope for Toddler
Marguerite Stoller, twenty months old in Huntington West Virginia, had a choking episode last September when a watermelon seed was swallowed. Physicians feared for her life, but after the seed was expelled she began to improve and is now expected to recover.
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Huntington
W. Ve
Marguerite
E. W. Stoller
Capt Wesley Moore Dies Aboard Ohio River Pilot Vessel
Lawrenceburg Indiana Captain Wesley L Moore seventy eight year old river pilot who often said he wished to die on the Ohio River was found lifeless in his cabin aboard the Ivory Wood a vessel operating between Cincinnati and New Orleans confirming his death at sea level.
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Lawrenceburg
Ind
Wesley L. Moore
Ohio River
Cincinnati
New Orleans
Ocean noises tells ships how to see under water
The hydrophone like a ship bow ear is a government invention used on destroyers and some transports. It uses 48 receivers to detect propeller sounds and determine water depth and approaching ships, aiding navigation in fog and near coastlines. Naval officers claim it can reveal icebergs and warn of shoals.
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America
Science
Breckenridge
Oine
Navy
H. C. Hayes
Swarthmore College
von’ Steuben
Long Island
Doctor Hayes
Bear pit mauling at Berne zoo injures student
August Kabler, a medical student at Berne, Switzerland, fell into a bear pit at the zoological gardens while feeding the bears. He suffered severe injuries with his left arm and left leg torn away and was rushed to a hospital in serious condition.
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August Kabler
Berne
Switzerland
Zoological Gardens
Cranmore claims state’s healthiest town title
Cranmore California touts its status as the healthiest community in the state based on a cemetery record showing no graves since 1868 the last funeral here. Residents have died elsewhere though and Cranmore notes no local deaths since 1863 in a remarkable statistic.
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Cranmore
Cal
Revolt Looms as Kapp Supporters Hide Among Estates
In Stettin region of Pomerania unrest grows with rumors of a monarchist coup. Former War Minister Reinhardt seeks a lid as two Junker outfits are raided and militarized police tighten control. Workers and estate laborers face uncertain tension amid distrust of Reichswehr and looming factional clashes. In Noblesville Indiana Rosa Davis wins $3000 against Central Indiana Railroad after challenging witnesses in her husband Charles Davis death case.
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Stettin
Pomerania
Reinhardt
Junker
Reichswehr
Kapp
Noblesville
Ind
Rosa Davis
Central Indiana Railroad Company
Charles
Davis
Trade Moral Columns Highlight Honest Advertising Linkages
This piece explains that the paper’s advertising columns serve as business news by connecting buyers to merchants. It emphasizes mutual integrity between advertising and trade and vouches for the honesty of both sides.
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Pittsburg
Juett McDonald
First Presbyterian Church
JI. W. W
Wells
Hays
W. A Miller
C. H. Serrigo
State Register of Vital Statistics
J Newton Kroh
Hiawatha
Ernest Rounds
Kroh
Lansing
James A. Kimball
Supreme Court
Ancretta Ann
Rodgers
Topeka
Vive Dan Eric
Phillips
Kansas City
Carrie Sellers Fayne
Wellington
L. T. Hussey
Hopkins
District Court of
Butler County
Oklahoma
A. T. Ayers
Eldorado
R. J. Hopkins
Order
Downs
Kansas City Telephone Company
Kas
5. J. Crumbine
State Board of Health
Crumbine
O. D. Walker
Salina
M. H. Ernst
Albert H. Jewell
C. A. Hoskins
K. F. Macy
Sara Greenfield
E C. Reiman
Republic County
William Briant
Pratt
Martin Hood
Junction City
Hood
Hoffman Mills
Enterprise
Crow Farmer
Uncle Sam
Killa
Fraulein Ciro
New York
Panama Canal Commission
Scandia
Harry Hohman
M. W
Adolph Nelson
Lebanon
W. C. Preble, W. M
Clarence Albro
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J. W. Plotner
John A. Freeburg
W. MW
Wah
Jim ‘Jones
Pasper
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