Word: atchison
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...while Old Tack had rattled out his folksy nonsense, Publisher Howe had become a no-nonsense businessman. He had built up a string of eleven newspapers and a radio chain reaching to the West Coast. Later, he trimmed to an easily manageable five papers (at Amarillo and Lubbock, Texas; Atchison Kans.), two radio stations, and a deposit box full of blue-chip stocks...
Gene Howe had been bent on such Lone Star independence ever since he fled from the towering reputation of his famous publishing father, Old Ed Howe, Kansas' "Sage of Potato Hill." When Gene was 15, sharp-penned Old Ed wrote: "Three Atchison young men disgraced themselves . . . Saturday. The publisher's son was the drunkest of the bunch." Gene struck west, and after six years as a reporter, came back and soon took over the Atchison Globe...
...roads struck were the Pennsylvania west and north of Harrisburg, the New York Central west of Buffalo, the Southern, and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, plus, at week's end, 100 miles of Santa Fe track in California used by the Union Pacific. By this kind of piecemeal attack, the firemen tangled up the nation's heartland without causing a national emergency that might have brought the President into the fight...
Died. Julia Arthur, 80, Canada-born Shakespearean actress of the 1890s, widow of multimillionaire Yachtsman-Financier Benjamin P. Cheney (Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad); in Boston...
...Next three: Canadian Pacific, Southern Pacific, Atchison, Topeka & Santa...