by Darren McMannis | Jul 7, 1924 | Rice, Suicide
Rejected by Sweetheart Caused Girl To Take Life Discover that Lover was “Double-Crossing” Her Led Ruby Clampitt to Jump to Death STERLING, KS – July 7 – It was the discovery that her sweetheart had gone back on her, and had given information...
by Darren McMannis | Jul 5, 1924 | Old News
Unification Plan Is Approved at Meeting of South Methodists Chattanooga, Tenn., July 5 – Organic union into one great Church of the 7,000,000 members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, depends upon the action during 1925...
by Darren McMannis | Jul 5, 1924 | Accident, Wyandotte
KANSAS CITY – Lawrence Lee Latimer, 2, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Harvey Latimer, died here last night from the effects of eating a “spit devil,” an explosive substance used in Fourth of July celebration. The Hutchinson News, Hutchinson, Kansas. Friday,...
by Darren McMannis | Jul 5, 1924 | Montgomery, Old News
School Board Must Pay Negro Attorney TOPEKA, KS – The Coffeyville board of education today was handed a bill for $1,000, the attorney’s fee charged by Elisha Scott, Topeka negro lawyer, for representing Mrs. Celia Thurman Watts, Coffeyville negro, in her...
by Darren McMannis | Jul 5, 1924 | Crawford, Murder
Alleged Car Thief Killed By Officers PITTSBURG, KS – Frank Pajer, 20 years old, of Frontenac, was killed early today [July 5] by Pittsburg officers who were trailing Pajer and a companion, suspected of motor car theft. Earlier in the night the men, it is...
