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...Wichita, Kan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 24, 1928 | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...Topeka, Kan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 24, 1928 | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

There is a statue of the late Carrie Nation in Wichita, Kan. There is a Mrs. Maude Wilson living in Kansas City, Mo., 228 miles away. Mrs. Maude Wilson has an 18-year-old daughter who drank, last week, some gin in a speakeasy. When Mrs. Maude Wilson heard about this, she behaved not unlike the late Carrie Nation. Seizing a hatchet, she rushed to the speakeasy, swung high, swung low, shattered a mirror, windows, gin glasses. Barflies cheered her; bartenders ran out into the alley. Police came, but they did not arrest her. Cried she: "I warned them [bartenders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Hatchet | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

Homer Hoch, born on the Fourth of July in Marion, Kan., is a slim, sharp, dark firecracker under the oldtimers of the House. Not yet 50, he switched about in a variety of Government jobs, kept up his law practice, edited a country paper. He entered Congress in 1919. He stands high as a transportation expert and is rapidly learning the technique of the Steering Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Last of the 70th | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

Swallow Airplane Co. Wichita, Kan. / Commercial / Light sport, commercial & training / . . . . . . . .$1,795-$9,000 / First commercial airplane makers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

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