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...
by Darren McMannis | Jun 28, 1920 | Old News, Sedgwick
FORMER SOLDIER’S BODY WILL NOT BE PERMITTED TO FILL PAUPER’S GRAVE Shall the body of a soldier who fought with the Allies be allowed to rest in a potter’s field? WICHITA, KS – An emphatic “no” was the local American Legion’s answer to the question when they...
by Darren McMannis | Jun 27, 1920 | Old News, Sedgwick
WICHITA, KS – In the early morning of June 27, 1920, Rock Island Railroad Special Agent Charles F. Artz arrested four men on vagrancy charges near the Rock Island tracks in North Wichita. As Agent Artz escorted the men out of railroad yards to meet a city...
