Financial lessons from auto crashes and road reform
The 1930 casualty insurance sector posted a $14 million underwriting loss on auto liability, 8.4 percent of premiums, with 1929 at $4 million. The Baltimore Sun urges the merit system lowering premiums for careful drivers to curb accidents, while legislatures press gas tax increases amid taxpayer backlash. The piece links higher costs to reckless driving and calls for rewarding safe operators and tougher penalties for danger.
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The
Baltimore Sun
Sun
Remarkable Courage of Judge Hopkins Praised
From the Observation Tower by Bert Ww. Selin notes Kansas’s Federal Judge Richard J. Hopkins facing New York gangsters and delivering a four year prison term plus an $11,000 fine for conspiracy to defeat prohibition. The piece lauds his courage and urges stronger action against bootleggers and originors of liquor.
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Kansas
Richard J. Hopkins
New York
John “Leg
Diamond
Atlanta
Georgia
Hopkins
Scandia
Chicago
Judge Hopkins
Historian Truslow Adams Recalls Past Economic Panics
In reviewing 19th and early 20th century crises, James Truslow Adams notes 1887 and 1873 panics, bank suspensions, factory closures, riots, and railroad bond defaults. He argues that comparing with prosperous eras can make present hardships seem less severe, citing stock performance in 1925 as a counterpoint.
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James Truslow Adams
North Carolina
New York
Financial House
Stock Exchange
Chicago
Santa Fe
Pennsylvania Railroad
Union Pacific
American, Tobacco
General Electric
County approves lower levy as valuations rise
County commissioners set the tax levy at 3.774 mills for the coming year, down 0.718 mills from last year 4.492. The cut follows state valuation increases of tangible property 50000 and intangible 118000. Judge E W Thompson refunds 318.83 salary overpayments after discovering population data showed probate salary misalignment since 1929.
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County General Fund
State Tax Commission
Blade Empire
E. W. Thompson
Thompson
Cloud County
Judee ‘Thompson
Amusing Quotations From Kansas Pages
A collage of light humor and gossip from Kansas papers includes jokes about marriage, manners, and misadventures. Witty quips touch on drinking, hitchhiking, teeth and brushes, postcards, and a mock obituary remark.
Scandia Plans Home Guard Formation and County Soldier Event
Scandia prepares a home guard with Theodore Granstedt promoting signups as local men and business leaders pledge to join. A Belleville ceremony on Aug 31 honors Republic county’s 124 soldiers headed to the National Army, with a full day of programming noted for the occasion.
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Scandia
Theodore Granstedt
Joseph Mallory
Haggman
Republic County
National Army
Court House Park
Belleville
J. H. Sandell
Kansas City
L. R. Welch
Journal Office
Beckman Cash Store
Fred ‘Jackson
Seandia
Phillipsburg
Elijah
Goodwin
Norton County
Claude
Frank Goodwin
Unio
Smith
Edith
Sandell
Courtland
Howard Vincent
Kansas
Farm and sheep trade notes amid Kansas county reports
The piece outlines Stoll Bros of Oakley buying 800 acres near Oakley with 16000 bushels of wheat to pay, harvesting 28000 bushels on 640 acres this season and profit from cultivation. It also notes 100000 sheep being brought to Ellis county from Nevada with Ed Madden and Jack Gaskill guiding farmers on care, promising four cents per pound gain until January 1.
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Stoll Bros of
Oakley
Kansas
Oakly
Cuba
Ellis County
Nevada
Madden
Hays
Jack Gaskill
Winnemucca
Nev
Gaskill
Ens
Time Table Seemingly Jumbled Train Schedule Note
A garbled OCR snippet shows fragmented times and destinations with unclear phrases. It appears to reference a timetable mentioning a departure around 440 p m and a number like 10700, but the text is largely unreadable and lacks coherent facts.
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Russia
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Chanute Tribune
Holton
Lady Wilkins
Sir Hubert
North Pole
Pittsburgh
el Dorado Times
Glen Elder Sentinel
Dash
Concordia
Bear
Atchison Globe
Hiawath W Orld
Topeka Journal
C. V. Hageman
Fort Riley
Army Medical Corps
Albert Moe
Kansas‘ City
Paul Moe
Frank -Larsen
Ayis
Knutson
South Dakota
Orville Smith
Jamestown Picture Show
Jamestown
Barton
Concordia Kansan
Burr’ Oak
G. G. Smith
J. F. Robertson
L. W. Ogelvie
P. H. O’brien
McPherson
Mr. Helstrom
Burr Oak
U.S. 36
Burr, Oak South
Burr Oak. Herald
Jack Harris
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Noite
Stafford
Courier
Pete Johnson
Bendena
Pete
Snort Town
Carl Brown
Eve
England
Jewell
Washington
Ed Chapman
Noah
Chet Shore
Rock Island
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