Russians To Bring Families Back From War Torn Russia
Topeka Andrew Fred Bellendier an Topeka inf will travel to Russia with a group of about thirty Russian wives and children of Santa Fe shop workers. He has citizenship papers to enter the Soviet Union and return with his group by Christmas. The Santa Fe arranged transport from Hamburg Germany to Topeka. Families have not heard from relatives since the war and revolution began seven years ago.
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Topeka
Andrew Fred Bellendier
Inf
Russia
Santa’ Fé
Bellendier
Henry J. Allen
Saratoff
Santa ‘Fe Railroad
Hamburg
Germany
Santa Fe
America
Bellen‘dier
Mrs Amanda Dodds Kansas insurance pioneer dies at 80
Mrs Amanda M Dodds aged 80, described as Kansas’s eldest insurance woman, died after strokes last week at her daughter Mrs J E Jones home. She moved to Kansas in 1868 and worked in insurance for forty years.
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Amanda M. Dodds
Kansas
J. E. Jones
George Campbell prominent Kansas figure dies at 73
George Campbell of Augusta a longtime Kansas politician and Masonic figure died of a heart attack at 73. He helped with Coffeyville city affairs for over twenty years and served in the state senate from that district. Alva Wycoff of Russell Springs will succeed. David Elmberg, who resigned as Logan County sheriff, in Topeka said Governor Allen assured Wycoff’s appointment.
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J. Weers
Wee
Emporia
George Murry
Francis .Clark
Atchison
Allen
State
Lansing
George Campbell
Kansas
Io Masonic
Augusta
Campbell
Coffeyville
Alva ‘Wycoff
Russell Springs
David Elmberg
Logan County
Topeka
John’Molind
Wycoff
National bank examiner appointment to Belleville banker
Emery Johnson is appointed for a five year term as national bank examiner in the Tenth Federal Reserve District, linked with the People's National Bank of Belleville. The move strengthens oversight in the region.
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An. Appointment Ag. National
Federal Reserve ‘District
Emeryohnson
People’s National Bank—Of
Belleville
Overcrowded Kansas Institutions Prompt Transfers and Parole
A state report shows 6 560 inmates in twelve institutions with capacity 6 397. Insane patients are sent home to free space, probate judges urged to admit more to county homes, and parolees number 1 315. Jails and reformatories run over capacity while budgets lag. The Clyde Walno case ends in a murder near Emporia. Christian Endeavor Union approves a large development budget to expand societies and alumni chapters.
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Malcolm Gray
State Board of Administration
Topeka
Osawatomie
Kansas
Jansing
Hutchinson Reformatory
Gray
The
Christian Endeavor Union of Kansas
Ross Brothers Seed Co Files Bankruptcy in Wichita
Ross Brothers Seed Company of Wichita petitions for bankruptcy after 37 years in business. Dissensions among firm members and reduced stock are named causes. Creditors claim debts exceed $60,000 that the firm cannot pay.
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Ross Brothers’ Seed Company of
Wichita
Oxford marshal’s killer admits shot that killed him
John Stizel, charged with killing Nick Dammet the Oxford marshal nearly a year ago and captured at Eldorado, has admitted firing the fatal shot. Sheriff Lingen felder says the case will move to district court soon.
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John Stizel
Nick Dammet
Oxford
Eldorado
Dammet
Lingenfelder
Tubercular cattle costs hit Sedgewick County fund
County commissioners reviewed payments to farmers since January 1 for cattle killed by tuberculosis. The total cost to the general fund reaches eight thousand dollars this year.
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Sedgewick County
Coffeyville Brick Yard Clerk Killed in Box Car Accident
Herman Sherwood a 24 year old yard clerk at Coffeyville Utahified Brick and Tile Company was knocked from a box car in the company yards and crushed beneath the wheels.
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Herman Sherwood
Coffeyville Uitfified Brick and Tile Company
Fire destroys barracks at Camp Funston
A recent blaze at Camp Funston consumed one large barrack and two smaller buildings with unknown origin. Earlier the same night fourteen buildings were burned, indicating extensive fire damage on the installation.
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Camp Funston
Pastor Resigns From St. Mark's Lutheran Atchison
The resignation of Dr. R. L. Patterson from St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Atchison was received from Mount Pleasant North Carolina where he has spent six months due to ill health. He served six years as pastor.
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A. Cochran
Pratt
Tincher
Cochran
Republican
R. L. Patterson
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
Atchison
Mount Pleasant
N. C
Johnson County Prisoners Put to Work on Roads
Johnson County reports thirteen inmates in its jail a record count. Commissioners learned each prisoner ate 75 cents worth of food daily and directed the sheriff to assign prisoners to road labor.
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Johnson County
Modern Building for Dairy Herd
A feature on a 96 by 36 foot modern dairy barn with 80 stalls and a 72 by 36 foot wing. It highlights steel stalls with sanitary stanchions, open feed rooms, carrier tracks, ample daylight and ventilation, and the goal of reducing labor while increasing milk production. The piece advocates diversified farming and year round dairy revenue as farmer reform.
Superstitions of the Tub Guiding Laundresses
A column describes Friday washing beliefs, Good Friday cautions, and quirky portents. Laundresses fear death within a year for washing on Friday, wedding or drunken-spouse outcomes from soap, water on the apron, or upside down shirts signal misfortune or death. A cross of two clothes-pins is said to neutralize Good Friday washing.
No Real Cause for Alarm in Cosmic Expansion Debate
Einstein’s view that space might be finite drew cautious support from many eminent physicists. Yet acceptance would not imply a drastically smaller cosmos. Einstein himself argued light would need about a billion years to traverse a complete outer boundary.
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Einstein
More Light in the Pulpit Awakened by Candles
A country preacher urges more light as he addresses his congregation. The sexton, awakened from a doze, adds two candles to the two lit already and whispers that there is no more light to be shared.
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William A. Radford
Prairie Avenue
Chicago
Sexton
Mediums and a Soldier Speak on Afterlife Messages
In a heated exchange Dugan doubts mediums can truly contact the dead while Monahan pledges proof. A soldier recounts a sister’s medium reading claiming his wish to return from war, while he says he was aboard a transport at sea at that moment.
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Clyde Walno
Lyon County
Emporia
Wauna
Walna
Walno
Dugan
Monahan
Earth
High Sea
Dr Kilmer Swamp Root Kidney Liver Bladder Remedy Ad
A vintage advertisement touts Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as pure and safe for kidney liver and bladder troubles. It claims scientific herbal formulation, non stimulant use, and dosage in teaspoonfuls. A sample bottle offer requires ten cents to Binghamton New York with a note to mention the paper.
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Dr. Kilmer
Boy answers with quick family source for swearing
A Boston Transcript item recounts a boy's sharp reply to his mother's rebuke. When asked where he learned to swear, he cites his father shaving, the uncle golfing, the brother's flivver, and the sister's parrot.
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Boston Transcript
Be Kind to the Aged and Youthful in Daily Life
An editorial urges balanced kindness to both elderly and young while noting personal grooming should not invite meddling. It questions unnecessary interference and promotes considerate conduct in everyday affairs.
Praise for Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Mother’s Letter
Millston Wisconsin mother praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for restoring health after illness and aiding in bearing a healthy baby girl. She credits the remedy with easing postnatal suffering and urges other women to strengthen their systems to be mothers.
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Lydia E.pinkham
Millston
Wis
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mrs. H Janssen
Wisconsin
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