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Married. William Lindsay White, son of Publisher William Allen White of the Emporia (Kansas) Gazette, associate editor of the Gazette, member of the lower house of the Kansas Legislature; and Kathrine Klinkenberg, of Ottawa, Kans., resigning member of TIME editorial department; in Manhattan. Their honeymoon: to Kansas by boat...
...heavy fog hung over Kansas fields near Emporia one morning last week as Edward Baker, farm boy of Bazaar, set forth to feed his cattle. Along about ten o'clock he heard an explosion, then a crash. Soon afterward, in a nearby pasture, Edward Baker came upon the flaming carcass of a ten passenger Fokker of the Transcontinental & Western Air line. Its eight occupants lay dead or dying...
...Largest town is Hamilton where stands the Sessions House, Bermuda's parliament; the Cathedral; the cinema (Mechanics Hall). Here dock the liners from New York and Liverpool and here are the great hotels: the Hamilton, the patrician Princess, the gaudy Bermudiana. And here are Bermuda's chief emporia: Gosling Bros., for groceries, foodstuffs, wines & liquors; and Trimingham Bros, department store. Trimingham's does...
Author of the letters is also an author of books (Letters of a Bohemian, Belle of Bohemia}. Her latest book professes to be the story of her life, begins with a newsgatherer of Emporia, Kan. named Graham discovering her, an infant, under a sunflower. He adopted her, lost her when, according to the book, she sought freedom for the stage by begging a passing stranger to marry her. He did. She left him, started on an international career which included four marriages and. according to the narrative, acquaintance with such statesmen as the late Theodore Roosevelt (who she says...
...Just prior to Herbert Hoover's nomination, Editor White in his Emporia (Kan.) Gazette called him a capon...