Word: kans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hurrying back to Washington from Topeka, Kan. to be present, Mrs. Gann said: "I don't know a thing about what has been done...
After Carry's second marriage, to Lawyer-Minister David Nation of Warrensburg, Kan., the daughter went insane and Carry Nation herself became very peculiar. Every night at bed-time Mrs. Nation told her troubles to God, dragging herself around the room on her knees. At times she felt herself suspended over a precipice by a heavenly hand; at other times she saw two snakes. She heard wings beating, saw angels and devils, met Jesus in the basement. A proud reminiscence: "I was often considered crazy on the subject of religion." At length she heard a voice exclaim from...
Intensity of light in Kansas City, Kan., dance halls must be one candle-foot (one candle's light a foot from the flame) at a plane three feet above the floor...
...able to maintain the health and discipline of prisoners. . . . It has been impossible to segregate drug addicts from other prisoners, due to our congestion. I would respectfully recommend that some plan for relief of congestion be undertaken. . . ."?Report of the warden of the U. S. penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., July...
From New York the contagion of prison revolt last week spread to the Federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan. It infected U. S. convicts with a fit of riotous fury which took six hours to cure. The prison temperature was 100°. Spanish rice was repeated at the noon mess. Nine hundred of the penitentiary's 3,758 inmates rebelled, threw their food and plates about, broke windows, seized knives and forks. Ordered back to their cells, they bolted for the prison yard where they screamed curses, milled about frantically, became altogether unruly. When a fire hose failed to break them, guards...