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Editorialized Editor-Publisher W. L. ("Young Bill") White in the Emporia Gazette: "What Mr. Stauffer has purchased is a dead horse of fantastic proportions, and his bill of sale has bought him largely the right to use his brains and energy to try to revive it. Mr. Stauffer, however, is one of the shrewdest businessmen in Kansas. He has never yet bit off anything without knowing clearly in advance exactly how it should be chewed...
...Stauffer cubbed on the Emporia Gazette, became a reporter and copyreader on the Kansas City Star, where he worked five years. Then in 1915 he plunked his savings into the purchase of two struggling weeklies in Peabody, Kans., merging them into the successful Gazette-Herald. But Stauffer's greatest coup in Peabody was to buy land options at the going rate of $1 an acre. When oil was struck, some of the $1 options were worth $500, and by 1924 Stauffer had a kitty of at least $100,000 to buy newspapers in earnest. Primarily a businessman, Publisher Stauffer...
...Promised Land. If anything, Stassen succeeded only in solidifying Republican support behind Dick Nixon. But his action, crackled the Emporia (Kans.) Gazette, had come "in time to do the utmost political damage to the party which has tied the feed bag onto Mr. Stassen's big mouth...
What is happening to the old-fashioned U.S. bookstore? Answer: it is dying, and only a thinning line of browsers show so much as a damp eye. Last year saw the passing of some of the nation's oldest shops. Among them: one in Emporia, Kans., aged 59; another in Hanover, N.H., aged 27; another in Brookline, Mass., aged 29. Of the 1,000-odd members in the American Booksellers Association, says its executive secretary, Joseph Duffy, less than half "are worth a book salesman's call." Department stores, book clubs, newsstands, drugstores and supermarkets are forcing...
Among nervous city officials at election time memories are short and faces long. The political play is to the grandstand and every gimmick scores points. This explains the sudden crackdown on Boston's emporia of hotcyed culture, the Old Howard and Casino burlesque (or burlesk, in the Casino's cas) house...