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City. Where the Kaw River empties into the Missouri and the Missouri starts an eastern sweep to get on over and join the Mississippi, is the bottom of a great basin and a natural site for human habitation. They say you could give a freight car a shove anywhere within 300 miles of where the rivers meet (except eastward) and it would coast down to the Kansas Cities. Of these there are two. a small one in Kansas, a larger one (383,100 population) across the Kaw in Missouri. They are "the gates to the Southwest," "the continent...
...guarantee the U. S. farmer higher prices. Governor McMullen called for a "crusade" of 100,000 farmers, to demonstrate at the G. O. P. Convention in Kansas City. Governor McMullen went to Chicago and there declared that the number of farmers who would actually "hop in the family car and head down the concrete" for Kansas City, would exceed 100,000, perhaps reach 150,000. He said he had already received 15,000 letters in actual farmer handwriting assuring him the "crusade" was on. "The first caravan [of the Covered Wagon] developed the agricultural empire ; the second caravan is moving...
...while driving past one of the Sheffield buildings with his wife, a soda bottle was hurled out of a window and struck the fender of his machine. His wife, he claims, was on the verge of hysteria when students set up a prolonged cheer as the glassware struck his car...
...train stopped, and the Boy Scouts rushed forward to greet the man who stepped with sure tread from the car. Cameras clicked jerkily; the young shouted their welcome; reporters, notebook in hand, mused on childish love of deifying. The Bremen flyers were hailed with more ceremony, but with no more sincerity than was this man. If he received no key to the city; if no regal automobile waited him; if most of the Tremont Street crowds went their way unwitting, still the adulation and joy of greeting were present, and only the means for expressing them rightly won lacking...
...Goodrich makes the widest variety of rubber goods. Seiberling is the most redoubtable, starting from below zero only six years ago. Dunlop is unusual because, controlled by the British Tire & Rubber Corp. (Sir Eric Campbell Geddes is chairman) it has become important in the U. S. bicycle and motor car trade. U. S. Rubber has Malayan rubber plantations so extensive that it worries little over foreign control of rubber production. Firestone the past two years has made like enterprise in Liberia...