Word: kans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frank W. Palmer's place near Norton, Kan. last week, beneath the creak and jingle of harness and the wooden noises of wagons you could hear the bang and rattle of hard corn ears hitting against wagon boards as 13 strapping farmers set out to see who was the best cornhusker in the U. S. Drought had made Palmer's stand of corn sparse for a husking bee- barely 60 bu. to the acre-and caramel-colored dust rose from underfoot to get in your nose, but there were not many weeds and that makes for fast husking...
Vice President Charles Curtis, hurrying back to Washington after voting in Topeka, Kan., stopped off at Chicago to read election returns. Said he: "We expected the Democrats to be disappointed but it was we Republicans who were disappointed. . . . They can't beat us in 1932. . . . Good times are just around the corner...
Author of the letters is also an author of books (Letters of a Bohemian, Belle of Bohemia}. Her latest book professes to be the story of her life, begins with a newsgatherer of Emporia, Kan. named Graham discovering her, an infant, under a sunflower. He adopted her, lost her when, according to the book, she sought freedom for the stage by begging a passing stranger to marry her. He did. She left him, started on an international career which included four marriages and. according to the narrative, acquaintance with such statesmen as the late Theodore Roosevelt (who she says...
...Learned that his son Fernando Ortiz Rubio (145 lb.) had fought at Atchison, Kan., while 900 spectators cheered, in a three-round, no-decision bout put on by St. Benedict's College. The President's son's opponent: Gus Glazer of St. Joseph...
...held the ball for kickoffs, chirped the signals, lay back as safety man, slapped the bigger boys on the back and his Pembroke prep school "Midgets" beat the Kansas City "Bearcats" 12 to 0 before and after the first half of the Iowa State-Kansas game at Lawrence, Kan...