Night of the Races in Farmer Green's Place
In a tale from Arthur Scott Bailey Katydid, Frog, Bat and others gather for a night of sports. Benjamin Bat grows short tempered, Frog frets over beating Katydid, and Katydid remains hidden listening while the crowd teases and plans contests. Benjamin's hunger adds a tense edge as the crowd waits for events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Scott Bailey
Mr. Frog
Benjamin Bat
Farmer Green
Farmer
Kiddie
Benjamin
Gindle Factory Upheaval Ends With Owner Turnover
Torpedo Gindle proposes gifting his factory to employees after wage demands and a promised wage hike. The plan collapses as the former workers strike for vacation and refuse to work, leaving the enterprise and its three Gindles in the poorhouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gindle Whistle Factory
Torpedo Gindle
Submarine Gindie
Periscope Gindle
Gindle
Gindie
George Matthew Adams
Crossing the Line Neptune Ceremonies From Ancient Seas
The piece traces sailors crossing the equator and the Neptune rites, once common and now waning, as a survivial of ancient sea customs. It links these ceremonies to medieval beliefs, atavism, and the shift from heathen rites to Christian practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Verybody
Neptune
Neptunes
Posiedon
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Great Financial Center Lombard Street History
The Lombard street in London is famed as Britain's financial hub for centuries. It takes its name from Genoa and Florence money lenders who replaced the persecuted Old Jewry Jews. One authority says Pope Gregory IX sent them in 1229 to lend to those unable to pay heavy taxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lombard Street
London
Great Britain
Genoa
Florence
Kansas City Star
Marcus Aurelius and the Christian Persecution Outsider Saintly Emperors
The piece contrasts Marcus Aurelius praised for breadth of mind with harsh Christian persecutions during his reign from 161 to 180. It notes a legend of Christians praying for rain during a northern campaign, yet asserts no record of mercy toward Christians, and places his death in Vienna after a campaign in 180.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Marcus Aurelius
Marcus
Aurelius
Antonius Pius
Lucius Verus
Vienna
Austria
Wayne TD. McMurray
George Matthew Adama
From Law Student to Supreme Court Justice
Willis Van Devanter recalls his twenty one year old ambition to build a law foundation as he rose to become associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. Born to a legal path, he became chief justice of Wyoming at thirty and climbed through roles as assistant U.S. attorney and U.S. circuit judge before his Supreme Court appointment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Law
Beco Ame
Willis van Devanter
van Devanter
United States Supreme Court
Marion
Ind
Wyoming
Supreme ‘Court
Justice van .Devanter
United States
Supreme Court
McClure
State Teachers propose luxury tax to fund Kansas schools
In Topeka the Kansas State Teachers Association committee urged a luxury tax on tobacco cosmetics and other luxuries to fund education with supplementary revenue sources. The plan also mentions a possible income tax for professionals who benefited from schools. The group adjourned to reconvene in July.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas
Kansas State Teachers’ Association
Jess W. Miley
Kan sas and Western Missouri Classical Association Elects Officers
Ottawa reports in the annual convention J E Hollingsworth of Washburn College Topeka was elected president Miss Mary Grant of the University of Kansas Lawrence vice president and W L Holtz of Kansas State Teachers College Emporia secretary treasurer in attendance at the gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Classical Association of
Kansas and
Western Missouri
J.E. Hollingsworth
Washburn College
Topeka
Mary Grant
University of Kansas
Lawrence
W. L. Holtz
Kansas State Teachers College
Emporia
Lawrence dean named Guggenheim fellow to study in Italy
Lawrence EB Stouffer of the University of Kansas graduate school has received a Guggenheim fellowship for advanced study abroad. He plans to arrive in Italy by October 1 and stay until the following June.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
EB. B. Stouffer
Graduate School
The
University of Kansas
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation For Advanced Study Abroad
Italy
Red Cross elects officers at district regional meeting
At the district regional conference of the Red Cross the following officers were elected The Rev Victor Hoag Salina regional conference chairman W B Nesta Glasco vice chairman Mrs St Cyr Concordia secretary.
Great Nebuchadnezzar and the God of Shadrach
This piece portrays Nebuchadnezzar as a mighty eastern king whose conquests and pride set him against the God of Israel. It notes his dreams, the attempted idolatry with a golden image, the furnace test of Shadrach Meshach and Abednego, and his eventual humbling before the power of the God of the Jews.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erbuchadnezzar
Babylon
Jerusalem
Tyre
God
Shinar
Nebuchadnezzar
Daniel
Shadrach
Meshach
Abednego
Jehovah
Western Newspaper Union
Old Superstition Dooms Girls to Plasterhood
An ancient belief in 61 year cycles brands 20 year old Japanese girls as unsuitable brides. Many fear lifelong loneliness and some have joined a Tokyo society promoting arranged marriages without parental interference. Historically thousands have died by self harm to escape the cloud.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Also Mentioned on This Page
Green
Mr._Ifrog
Grosset & Dunlap
B. H. Irving King
Great Financial Center
Jacqueline Logan
Jacqueline
Logan
Corsicana
Texas
Sherst
Miss Logan
Joseph Kaye
Kansas Public Service Commission
John J. Potlock
Federal Court
Tax Department of the Commission
Knsas
Fderal
Pollock
Sedgwick County
Chase
Lyon
Butler
Sumner
Kingman
Harper
John Nicholson
Newton
Oklahoma
Otis E. Hungate
Shawnee County District Court
Jonathan M. Davis
Kansas City Journal Post
Jimgate
Wichita
Fairmount College
Robert D. Blaine
Pratt
Masonic Temple
Blaine
Georgiana McCoy
A. W. McCoy
Co-Operative Marketing Associations
Colorado
Nebraska
Leonard A. Barrett
Ruby Brandon
Alabastine Company
Grand Rapids
Mich
Toledo, Ohio
Loti
Mae
Orepette
Vstas
Buffalo
Dpecwiry
N. Y
Cote Se Malang
Cathe Ee
Bera Les Bert G
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!