Word: kans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Miss Marian Bleakley, who attracted nation-wide interest in 1904 when exhibited as a two-pound "incubator baby" at the St. Louis World's Fair; to one Dewey W. Brown; at Topeka, Kan...
...Kansas City. Harry Greb, middleweight champion, who has acquired the preposterous habit of fighting as if he enjoyed it, of training in baggage cars while touring the country to seek whom he may devour, flattened one Ed Smith of Neodosha, Kan., in four rounds...
...stepped lank Dorothy Klotz of Chicago; the Conclusion settled upon her 4 and 3. Up stepped Helen Payson of Portland, Me., a nervy novice; the Conclusion finally rested at the 18th green, 1 up. Along came pouring rain and sure-putting Mrs. H. D. Sterrett of Hutchinson, Kan. The Conclusion wavered before those pitiless putts that streaked for the hole over yards of squashy turf. Near the tenth tee grew a four-leaf clover. It was picked, pensively. Near the 18th cup lay Mrs. Sterrett's ball, only a short span to go for a birdie...
...Columbus, Kan., Middleweight Champion Harry Greb won a newspaper decision over one Billy Britton in a bout arranged by the Anti-Horse Thief Association...
...Leavenworth (Kan.) Penitentiary, expert now at needlework sits Dr. Frederick Albert Cook, self-proclaimed but discredited "discoverer" of the North Pole (1908). Last week Dr. Cook was reported "in such a bad mental and physical state" that he might never finish his term (begun early this year) of from 1 to 14 years for oil-stock fraud...