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...Sunday had come to St. Louis from West Frankfort, Ill., famed gang battlefield, of whose alleged viciousness he said this to St. Louis citizens: "There's just as good folks up there as ever lived . . . a lot of St. Louis crooks went down there and hid behind machine guns. . . ." On leaving St. Louis, Evangelist Sunday will proceed to Iola, Kan., for six weeks of pouncing, bouncing, trouncing preaching; then he will go to Greenville...
Sirs: . . . You say "the million-dollar state capitol at Frankfort [Kentucky]." This capitol, completed in 1909, cost...
...THOMPSON Secretary, Frankfort Chamber of Commerce Frankfort...
...Frankfort. Ky., small Fleming Thompson, aged 13. put on a top hat and canvassed Kentucky's House of Representatives for an appointment as pageboy. Voted down, he applied to the State Senate, which last week voted that Fleming Thompson might be personal pageboy for Lieutenant Governor James Breathitt provided he continued wearing a top hat throughout the Senate's session...
...front of the million-dollar state capitol at Frankfort, Kentucky changed governors midstream. Out went Governor William J. Fields, Democrat. In came Governor Flem D. Sampson, Republican. So freakish had been Kentucky's political currents that Republican Governor Sampson entered office with a Democratic Lieutenant Governor (James Breathitt Jr.) and a departmental staff which is Democratic to a man. Soon a Democratic legislature will convene. Surrounded by Democratic Philistines, Governor Sampson was not, however, shorn by a Democratic Delilah. Hampered in obtaining legislation, he can still veto legislation. Governor Sampson was elected because Governor Fields wanted to smash...