Word: abouts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The great political friend of Kansas farmers is slim, grey-haired Senator Arthur Capper. This friendship he cultivates through Capper Publications, including the Topeka Daily Capital, third largest newspaper in Kansas (circulation 42.915)*, and Capper's Weekly, mighty farmpaper (circulation 369,120). Last week The Capital celebrated its 50th anniversary...
Died. James ("Uncle Jim") McCoy, 80, of Pikeville, Ky., last of the McCoy clan, famed feudists against the Hatfields in the '705 and '80s; in Pikeville. The feud started over contested ownership of some sows and pigs, lasted until 25 years ago when a mountain preacher brought about a peace...
Happy Folks. Peter Pan's happy light flitted about Columbia's Teachers' College. Professor Goodwin Barbour Watson there trapped it under the lattice bushel of his studies. "In general." said he, "the happy student is likely to be a healthy, popular, married man who thinks that he can tell a...
Had he been a Scot he could have said "the bagpipe," which never fails to rally battling Scots. But Scotland, which has been shouting, for centuries about her great men, has never produced a Bonaparte, so the epigram remains to be said.
Graf's Future. The Graf Zeppelin was built for demonstration purposes. It is aerodynamically imperfect. Because it is a cylinder with conic ends, air does not flow smoothly over it. It should have no straight surface lines or level planes as in the Los Angeles, "best product of the Zeppelin...