Kansas Sees Record Crop Prospects Across Grains
Secretary F D Coburn reports Kansas crop conditions show best prospects in years. Wheat yields near 8.24 bushels per acre with 12 882 883 bushels total from 1 490 701 harvested acres. corn area 8 410 045 acres could reach 335 000 000 bushels. Oats barley potatoes and forage crops also strong amid favorable rains and improving pastures. Political unrest noted in a separate report from St Louis about Salvation Army confrontation and a local ice wagon incident.
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Topekas at Ottawa Forest Park Chautauqua
Topeka campers attend Forest Park Chautauqua in Ottawa on June 21 with a party of Topeka kindergarten teachers led by chaperon Mary Stewart. Twelve girls quarter tents on Assembly avenue near the east fence, eight who just graduated from the Topeka kindergarten training school. The group holds daily 8am kindergarten training, 9 to 11 am crafts, and meals at the dining hall with hosts Mrs Troutman Mrs Gordon and Mrs Overholt among organizers. The feature notes the group’s active schedule and cheerful arrangements.
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Margaret Adama
Katharine Searle
Mabel Quigley
Grace Plumb
Lillian Magill
Bertha Worden
Harriet Broad
Gertrude Dick
Margaret George
Alice Ivans
Tenta
Mra
James Troutman
J. CG Gordon
Harry Overholt
Sire
Overholt
Lealeo
Kindergar
Roy
Linus Blakesley
Dauch
May Close Sunday Plan Gains Favor Among Clerks
Lee Jones proposes Sunday drugstore closures and a meeting of druggists is planned for next week to decide the issue. Clerks back the plan strongly, many proprietors support it, and a factory agreement may result from the meeting.
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Lee Jones
Clerkless Land Office Sparks Budget Cut in Topeka
In Topeka officials report a retrenchment wave hitting the U S land office. The $75 a month clerk H B Wallace is removed and his tasks shift to the register, receiver and an assistant as the government trims expenses. Meanwhile the A O U W Supreme Lodge closes Carthage session after ten days and plans to meet in Buffalo next June. In Los Angeles detectives, Kennett now charged with murder in AB Lawson slaying after information filed by the district attorney. The bail set at 20000. Kennett formerly led St Louis police.
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Topeka Haya
United States Land Office
H. B Wallace
Supreme Lodge A. O. U. W
Carthage
Buffalo
N. Y
Sennett
Los Anantes
Cal
Kennett
AB Lawson
St Louis
Secretary Morton on money and one standard
Edward Stern of the Bi metallic association cites a letter exchange with Secretary Morton on silver and free coinage. Morton questions why higher wheat prices would translate to more silver value and argues for a single money standard based on the commercial silver gold ratio, noting current legal ratios differ from the market rate. The commercial silver to gold ratio cited is 31 to 25.
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Prinapetoyia
Edward Stern
Bimetallic Association
Morton
United States
Dagger Star Real in Play Fatal Stabbing at School
Ovide Lorrain a 16 year old boy playing Sterno the brigand in The Young Captives at Champlain school was stabbed in the neck during a staged fight. Des Jardins of similar age accidentally plunged a dagger into Lorrain severing the jugular vein.
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Monterey
Ovide Lorrain
Champlain School
Iowa Sunday School Convention Defends Prohibition Law
Ina Grove Iowa June 21 The thirtieth annual Iowa State Sunday School session ended after three days A heated debate over repealing the malt liquor ban led to a strengthened resolution urging enforcement of the prohibitory law to shield homes and families from liquor. Miss Mattie Bailey Shenandoah re elected state secretary Rev C W Sweet Ida Grove state president Sub scribed for the JovENaly
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Iowa
Ina Grove
Iowa State Sunday School
Mattie Bailey
Shenandoah
Rev
C. W. Sweet
Ida Grove
Plot Against Sultan Exposes Bulgarian College Plot
Thirty students at the Pachaidi military college in Varna Bulgaria were arrested as authorities in Constantinople report a state plot against the Turkish sultan. Others are expected to be detained as the students claim opposition to the regime, which they say is turning peaceful people into savages.
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Bulgaria
Constantinople
Turkey
Pachaidi
Ed Snow Moves State Printing Office
The state printer E H Snow is relocating the state printing plant from the old state printing office on Eighth Street to the old Commonwealth building on Jackson Street between Seventh and Eighth. Major J K Hudson, elected state printer, has leased the Hamilton Printing building from July 1 and is preparing to take over state printing after that date, with new machinery arriving to equip his plant and a plan to use typography focused equipment.
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State Printing Ofice
E H. Snow
Hamilton Printing Company
Old State Printing Office
Eighth Street
Old Commonwealth
Jackson Street
Seventh
Eighth Streets
J. K. Hudson
Snow
Hudson
T. D. Thacher
Major Hudson
Hudgon
Foreign Pope Possibility Raises Vatican Interest
The Rome desk reports Vatican attention to Cardinal Gibbons amid American bishops independence. Satolli may be made a cardinal, fueling talk of a foreign pope and reviving old tensions. In a separate item, Prof Huxley shows improving strength though kidney issues persist.
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Standard
Rome
Cardinal Gibbons
America
Washington
Satolli
Meicerenes
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