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...Southern runs due south from Kansas City, Mo., through Pittsburg, Kan., Joplin, Mo., Fort Smith, Ark., Shreveport, La., to Port Arthur, Tex.,* on the Gulf of Mexico. It carries grain, livestock, minerals, cotton...
Near Medicine Lodge, Kan., stands a five-room brick cottage, from which, 27 years ago, crusaded Carrie Nation, Prohibitionist, Reformer, Hatchet-Wielder. Last week Prohibitionists began a movement to preserve this cottage as a Carrie Nation Memorial...
William Allen White ( editor of the Emporia [Kan.] Gazette, prolific commentator on life and literature) told the New York Herald Tribune the turning point in his career. It came, he said, when he was a "smart aleck . . . infant prodigy," aged 24, on the editorial staff of the Kansas City Star. He was clowning, being loud, disorderly with three drinks under his belt, when a brown-eyed girl, whom he later married, told him to give up "that stuff forever." Then, said he, "I saw the bright lights of all the great cities of the world go pale...
...coeducation was the chief point at issue between the University Travel Association, Inc., which conducted the Ryndam's cruise, and one A. J. Mclntosh, assistant organizer, who anticipated the Ryndam's return by founding an International University Cruise, Inc., of his own, with Professor Thomas W. Butcher of Emporia, Kan., as president, to sail next autumn on the S. S. Aurania as a co-educational project (TIME, March...
...Author. The shrewd, pitiless accents of Edgar Lee Masters, who was born in Garnett, Kan., in 1869, were heard in Chicago long before he turned professional poet. He was a trial lawyer with side interests in Democratic politics. Writing poetry was another sideline. His friend, Publisher William Marion Reedy of Reedy's Mirror, refused several of his contributions, but accepted from one "Lester Ford" some subjective epitaphs on imaginary dwellers in an imaginary Illinois town called Spoon River. This "joke" was the beginning of the Spoon River Anthology. But before Spoon River waxed famous, Poet Masters adopted another pseudonym, "Elmer...