Children’s Health Car to Tour Kansas State
The state health board plans fall travel across all counties with a rebuilt Warren health car serving as a children’s unit. It will offer mothers and babies care, nurse and physician, lecture rooms, a story lady, and a model mother child library with home made toys and backyard gym gear. Five Kansas residents labeled pro German were interned in Georgia, including Wichita physician Herman Phillip.
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Kansas
Warren
Division of Child Hygiene
State Board of Health
General Health Division
Pullman Company
Fort Oglethorpe
United States
Herman Phillip
Wichita
Lord Kitchener
Lusitania
Phillip
Hugo Bohe
Kensington
Bohe
Carl Neinke
Ellsworth
Kansas War Industries Board Sets Wages and Hours for Women
The Kansas War Industries Board recommends a $9 weekly minimum wage for women after six months of apprenticeship and $6.50 for the first three months rising to $7.50 for the next six months, with eight hours daily and time and one half for overtime. Applies to women and minors in packing houses creameries dressmakers and milliners. Prizes for rural school standards awarded Diamond School Brown County and Volunteers School Rice County with second prizes to Center School Jackson County and Centennial School McPherson County. teachers listed.
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Kansas War Industries Board
Industrial Welfare Commission
War Board
W. D. Ross
Diamond
Brown County
Volunteers
Rice County
Center
Jackson County
Centennial
McPherson County
Iela Hostetler
Jessie Miller
Hallie Moulton
Anna Blanche Hall
Marriage by telegraph links Olivet couple to Camp Mills soldier
Miss Lyda Pierce of Olivet wed Leo Strop agel a soldier in the 41st Field Artillery now at Camp Mills New York. The ceremony was completed by Probate Judge Walter A Jones and Chaplain Tracy Huffstutter. Provost Marshall Crowder rules Class 1 draft quotas must be filled from the home counties on the ordered day.
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Lyda Pierce
Olivet
Leo Stropagel
S41st Field Artillery
Camp Mills
N. Y
Emporia
Walter A. Jones
Tracy Huffstutter
D14ud Field Artillery
Kansas
General Crowder
Governor Capper
Rail traffic slump noted by all railroads at Topeka
Railroads in Topeka report a sharp fall in passenger business since June 10. Officials attribute the drop to people rushing trips before the 3 cent fare took effect and say new summer tourist rates for north and west will be announced around June 24.
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Topeka
Farm Bureau to cease operations amid draft call
The Douglas County Farm Bureau will stop operating as Farm Agent T. E. Moore has been drafted and sent to Camp Funston in Comanche County. In other news, Ralph Kimball, nine, died by drowning in Neo Desha, and Albert R. Greene, noted Kansas pioneer and writer known as Joe Fluffer, died at Hood River Oregon.
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Douglas County
Albert R. Greene
Kansas
Hood River
Ore
Greene
Kansas City
Joe Fluffer
Eldorado Chamber Plans 33 New Homes To Ease Congestion
Eldorado chamber members approve a project to build 33 houses on $325 lots to relieve congestion. The plan calls for four and five room modern homes with rents set at 25 dollars per month for four rooms and up to 35 dollars for five rooms.
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Eldorado Chamber of Commerce
Rev Edwin Locke dies in Topeka at age 60
Reverend Edwin Locke of Kansas City secretary of the Methodist Episcopal Church General Conference died unexpectedly in Topeka. Born in Brookville Indiana in 1857 he was the ninth son in a long line to enter the ministry and was elected secretary in 1916.
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Edwin Locke
Kansas City
Kas
General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Topeka
Locke
Brookville
Ind
General Conference of the Church
Haskell County Man Detained by Vigilantes in Kansas
J Jerogge of Haskell county was seized by neighbors and handed to the Finney County defense committee. He was paraded in a car, forced to salute Old Glory, and jailed awaiting federal action. The Salina meeting of Kansas retail pros adjourned after two days. Sugar sales capped at twenty five pounds per person this season.
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J. Jerogge
Haskell County
Ead
Committee of Defense
Finney County
Kansas Retail Procers
Salina
Dairy Barn Design Sparks Practical Farm Building Advice
William A. Radford urges sturdy, sunlit dairy barn plans built to last with concrete floors and ample ventilation. He highlights two-row cow placement, central feed alleys, and sanitary steel stanchions, citing a Winona county barn as a model with basement access, full light, and moisture resistant vitrified tile walls.
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William A. Radford
Prairie Avenue
Chicago
Old Salem
Winona County
Minn
The Making of a Famous Medicine
A laboratory tour reveals Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound production. Over 350000 pounds of herbs are harvested annually, solvents extract active properties, and every utensil is sterilized. The compound is pasteurized and bottled in sterile containers to ensure purity for treating female illnesses. Endorsements from women cured by the remedy accompany the feature.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Pop, an Abyss and the Sleepy Herd Question
Fragmentary dialogue explores whether an abyss can be something sleepy. A child questions the nature of 1 as yawning, and an adult replies with a corrective, probing inquiry about what caused the child’s thinking.
Cuticura Complexions Ad Promotes Soap and Ointment
Promotional notice for Cuticura Soap and Ointment claiming clear complexion clean scalp and soft white hands. Offers free samples by mail from Cuticura Dept. X Boston. Soap 25 cents, Ointment 25 and 50 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuticura
Dept. X
Boston
Soya bean substitute aims to curb celluloid flammability
A new nonflammable celluloid substitute called Satelite, invented by Prof. S. Sato in Japan, is made by coagulating glycine from soya bean with formaline. A company will build a Tokyo factory, with production starting next autumn.
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Japan
S. Sato
Tokyo
Wooden Motor Tires for Ships Use
Motorcycles are being shipped abroad with wooden tires instead of rubber. The wooden tires answer all purposes in some localities, but no rubber is allowed to go abroad now except for war purposes.
Optimism at Work Inspires Steady Effort and Hope
A brief reflection on optimism that matches effort, highlighting how hopeful attitudes drive persistent work and resilience in facing challenges. The message emphasizes practical optimism rather than mere sentiment.
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