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Begun and completed in the past tense was the article William Allen White of Emporia, Kan., wrote about President Coolidge in the August (1928) Plain Talk. Excerpts...
...omnipresence was obviously desirable, and Telegrapher Rosewater saw bees everywhere, hiving, buzzing, hurrying, stinging. Actually, it was a printing house employe who suggested the name. But Telegrapher Rosewater always thought it a happy choice. Similar reasons, later, influenced publishers in Bellefourche, South Dakota; Owanka, South Dakota; Braymer, Mo.; Barnard, Kan...
Came a curious revelation. Some one looked up the baptismal record of Charles Curtis. It was at the Immaculate Conception (Roman Catholic) Church in St. Mary's, Kan. Dated April 15, 1860, it was signed by L. Dumortier, Jesuit priest, missionary to the Potawatomies. In St. Mary's it was recalled that Ellen Pappan Curtis, the nominee's mother, attended St. Mary's Convent. Interviewed about the discovery, Nominee Curtis said: "I learned for the first time only a few years ago that I had been baptized a Roman Catholic. . . . My mother died, you know, when I was very young...
...efforts" of partisans of the abdicated Crown Prince Carol to discredit his son, King Mihai, achieved such success, last year, that several worried Rumanian aristocrats hurried for authentic information to one of the few men who was generally trusted and esteemed in intriguing, scandalmongering Bucharest-a man from Emporia, Kan., William Smith Culbertson, then Minister to Rumania, now Ambassador to Chile. The Rumanians knew that King Mihai had several times been brought to play in the U. S. Legation garden with Mr. Culbertson's small daughters (whom reckless correspondents described as "sons" on one such occasion). The American Minister...
...grandfather, Benjamin Douglass, founded R. G. Dun & Co., business statisticians, credit raters. *His old friends of Hutchison, Kan., know him as a ready host and help when needed. Their children attend each other's weddings; the boys get jobs in Chrysler's factories-at Detroit, Dayton, Ohio, Newcastle, Ind. Mr. Chrysler has paid for an addition to the Kansas Wesleyan University at Salina, Kan. In one Kansas city he built five churches...