Word: kans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...woman asked "Jack" if he had ever thought of getting married. He had not. She said she would marry him. He did not want a wife, he said. She insisted he ought to have one. His inability to say "no" again overpowered him. They drove to Coffeyville, Kan., and were married...
...Walt" Chrysler was a Kansas boy. Mr.Chrysler Sr. sat at the throttle of a Union Pacific locomotive and made his home at Ellis, Kan., where the railroad had some shops. Young Walt worked as a chore-boy at the grocery store. He hated the little wagon he had to deliver bundles in. When he was 17 he got into the Union Pacific shops as an apprentice, glad of 5? per hour pay and a chance to learn something...
...Wichita, Kan...
...Topeka, Kan...
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...