Kansas Brick Controversy Ends as Highway Board Keeps Paving Plan
Kansas roads move from brick to concrete and asphalt amid pressure from brick firms and an inquiry by Attorney General Hopkins. The highway commission maintains its focus on building roads, allowing brick pavement only if contracts are honored and deliveries made. The state directs that bond interest from the guaranty fund go to the general revenue, while Baker University begins its sixty second year expecting enrollment near five hundred.
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State of
Kansas
Harry Jiencke
Independence
Wichita
Coffeyville Brick Company
Richard J. Hopkins
State Highway Commission
Highway Commission
Sedgwick County
Baker University
Prosperous farmer A L Coover killed in crossing collision
A L Coover, 59, a prosperous pioneer farmer, was killed at a railroad crossing near his home northeast of Erie when his team was struck by a Missouri Kansas and Texas passenger train. The crash halted traffic as authorities investigated the fatal incident.
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A. L. Coover
Erie
Con Hoffman Named KU Secretary After War Service
Con Hoffman, active in Y M C A welfare work with Allied camps in Germany for four years, will become secretary of Kansas University this fall. He left Lawrence in 1915 for prison work and spent the last two war years in Berlin, the sole American Y M C A worker to remain in Germany after the U S entry into the war.
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Con” Hoffman
Y. GC. A
Germany
Kansas University
Hoffman
Lawrence
Berlin
United States
Preliminary hearing for Broeker postponed again
The preliminary hearing of Pelix Broe ker and H. D. Lefferdink in the Kansas State Bank fraud case has been postponed to September 22. This marks the second postponement of the proceedings.
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Pelix Broeker
Broeker
H. D. Lefferdink
Kansas State Bank
Parade Honors Veterans With Silk Flag Donation
Grains of memory marked the march as hundreds in uniform led a city parade. The town presented a handsome silk flag to the American Legion in a ceremony accompanying the event.
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American Legion
Three Men Captured After Baileyville Bank Robberies
Three suspects believed to be Baileyville bank robbers were surrounded in woods near Hiawatha and captured by a posse. They are jailed awaiting pursuit for the robberies. A motor car abandoned in a cornfield belongs to FE Harry Larson Loomis Nebraska. A $250 reward is offered for the car and capture. Two men gave names Allen Lee and R B Ryan of Billings Montana.
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Baileyville Bank
Robels
Hiawatha
Roberies
Cornfield
Allen “Lee
R. B. Ryan
Billings
Mont
Kansas City area fights new rate fixing plan
Kansas City and four nearby cities oppose the Kansas Natural Gas Company plan to trial a three point rate system. Hearings are set for October in Kansas City and Leavenworth, with Topeka awaiting results from investigations expected to take forty to fifty days. The Kansas State Bankers Association moves to prosecute Ed Adams and Harry Clayton for the Baileyville Bank robbery, with special counsel retained, while Missouri authorities consider pursuing the case as well.
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Kansas City
Kansas
Public Utilities Commission
Kas
Topeka
Lawrence
Leavenworth
Atchison
Kansas State Bankers’ Association
Ed Adams
Harry Clayton
Baileyville State Bank
George Hanna
S. M. Brewster
Missouri
Nemaha County
Bankers’ Association
Jail sentence follows rape and burglary case
After Hubert Shipman pleaded guilty, a mob from Miller attempted to lynch him. Sheriff Owens evaded the crowd, moved Shipman to the county jail, then to Topeka by train. Shipman later confessed to the attack and received up to thirty one years in prison.
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W. C. Harris
District Court
Emporia
Hubert Shipman
Miller
Charles Gibson
Tom Owens
Owens
Shipman
Topeka
Spider bite costs farmer’s wife both arms near Pittsburgh
Mrs B H Mahness, wife of a farmer northeast of Pittsbore, was bitten on her left finger by a spider weeks ago. The venom caused rapid swelling from finger to hand and arm. Part of the left arm was amputated at a hospital, then the right arm was amputated at home but recovery remains doubtful.
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B. H. Mahness
Pittsbore
Burglar Scare Grips Emporia As Thieves Strike
O Skarmauchi, a Chicopee baker, was arrested in Pittsburg after police found twelve half pint whisky bottles hidden under 200 loaves in his wagon. Emporia faces a burglar wave with forty homes robbed in two weeks. Marshal John Austin warns residents to stay off streets after 11 pm. A hand to hand clash with painter John W. Morgan ended with Morgan striking the thief with a shovel, who then escaped.
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O. Skarmauchi
Chicopee
Kas
Pittsburg
Emporia
John Austin
John W. Morgan
Leavenworth Business Leader James B. Welch Dies at 47
James B. Welch longtime head of a food and coal firm in Leavenworth has died at age 47. He was born and raised in Leavenworth and is survived by a brother and two sisters.
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James B. Welch
Leavenworth
Justice John Marshall in Kansas Supreme Court in critical condition
The condition of Justice John Marshall of the Kansas Supreme Court was reported as very low after an operation two weeks ago. He had been unconscious for two days.
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John Marshall
Kansas Supreme Court
Bridge repair plan agreed for Kaw River crossing at Eudora
After months of delay in repairing the Kaw River bridge at Eudora the Douglas and Leavenworth counties commissioners agree on proper division of expenses. The river channel under the bridge has shifted and will be kept in place by several jetties to be constructed according to the joint meeting agreement.
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Kaw
Eudora
Douglas
Leavenworth
Barn for Farm of Medium Size Features Ventilated Design
A blueprint style feature on a medium sized farm barn details a 36 by 52 foot 6 inch gambrel roof structure with a central feed alley for 13 cows and 6 horses. It highlights water systems, ventilation shafts, and overhead carrier tracks connecting to a silo to boost efficiency and milk production.
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Central West
Women of Middle Life Find Relief in Vegetable Compound
Urbana Illinois resident Mrs Frank Henson reports lasting grippe after change of life symptoms and says Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound restored strength. She credits relief from nervousness heat flashes backaches headaches and the blues to the remedy and urges other women to try it through their doctors guidance.
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Urbana
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia E.pinkham
Frank Henson
Orchade St
Ill
Lydia
EB. Pinkham
New Maps Urgently Needed For United States
Dr E Lester Jones of the United States coast and geodetic survey says only about 40 percent of the 3 000 000 square miles of the United States have been accurately mapped and much of that will require original methods. Fire Island entrance on Long Island has shifted four miles in 50 years illustrating topography changes. An article by L RB Clerc of Paris suggests airplane photography could yield maps of states or countries more quickly and accurately, though it cannot yet measure elevations.
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United States
E."lester Jones
United States Coast “and Geodetic Survey
New York World
Fire Island Entrance
Long Island
N. Y
Clerc
Paris
Jones
Poetry Society prize split for 1918 verse volumes
At Columbia University the Poetry Society awarded $500 for the best American poetry volume of 1918. The judges split the prize between Margaret Widder for The Old Road to Paradise and Carl Sandburg for Corn Huskers. Jury: Prof. William Lyon Phelps, Richard Barton, Sara Teasdale Filsinger.
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Columbia, University
Poetry Society
Paradise
Margaret Widdemer
Carl Sandburg
William Lyon Phelps
Yale
Richard Barton
Sara Teasdale Filsinger
Hardships of Travel and Railroads Control Echoed
A tattered wanderer laments government control of railroads and harsh schedules. He recalls taking three weeks to travel from New York to Florida, noting the strain of winter migration and travel delays.
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Yank
Florida
Judge Questions Repeated Fights Over Silence
In court Judge White presses a man who has appeared for a third time over fighting. The defendant says he could avoid trouble by ignoring a writtten recipe he claims to follow, preferring to act despite possible consequences. The exchange ends with the man insisting on saying nothing and doing nothing.
Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules Ad Claims Class A Health Boost
An advertisement urges men to stay in top form by maintaining kidney health and general vigor. It promotes Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules as a daily remedy, claiming improved energy, muscle suppleness, and mental sharpness. It promises a money refund if not helpful and urges readers to ask druggists for the imported Gold Medal Brand.
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Eatonic
Haarlem
Rule for Shoe Salesman
The shoe shop proprietor warns the new assistant never to ask a woman her shoe size arguing it is easier to measure her than to argue. The remark appears in London Answers as a blunt salesroom trope reflecting gender bias in retail.
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London
End to His Ropes Cheat Exposed by Inevitable Duel
A sharp warning on fraud. cheats eventually face an unavoidable reckoning as deceit collapses when confronted by a truth teller or an honest opponent.
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U.5
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Harry Hohman
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Nordman
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A. R. Morey
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