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Along dirt roads from Kansas City to Lawrence, Kan., a pair of sandals went clump-hua-clump-hua-clump-hua. . . . In the sandals were the red feet of Jose Torres of the Tarahumara tribe of Chihuahua, Mexico, who last week ran this 51 miles in 6 hr. 46 min. 41 sec. (a speed of about 8 m. p. h). In regulation track shoes, Purcell Kane, an Apache of Haskell Institute, finished second. Three other Indians also ran. Jose Torres, as everyone knows, recently covered 89.4 miles of concrete road in 14 hr. 53 min. (TIME, April...
...wells would produce a solvent company with flowing wells." The experiment fleeced a few hundred credulous souls out of $4,000,000 and put Dr. Cook in the penitentiary in 1923 for using the U. S. mails to defraud. Since 1925 he has been residing at Leaven worth (Kan.), where he has become an astute needleworker, the editor of th? prison magazine New Era, and an advocate of breeding a race of runts to do the world's work...
...producing and refining properties in 18 of the United States and in Canada. Its public utilities serve a population of over 3,000,000 people in more than 600 different communities, most notably Denver, Col.; Sandusky, Ohio; Kansas City and St. Joseph, Mo.; Kansas City and Topeka, Kan.; Danbury, Conn...
...Quoted from the farewell address of Representative J. Napoleon Tincher of Medicine Lodge, Kan., famed 250-pound fisticuffer who left Congress last week to plunge into the oil business...
...Story. Elmer Gantry of Paris, Kan., was born to be a talented garbage contractor or meat salesman. But his pious mother and the Baptist Church have given him everything except any longing for decency and kindness and reason." So they, and his well-developed thirst, lust and cowardice, drive him into the ministry. The first page finds him drunk in a saloon near his alma mater, Terwillinger College. Needing a fight, he lurches into a soap-box crowd that a pimpled Y. M. C. A. pipsqueak is converting, and flattens the hecklers. The Baptists gasp. "HellCat" Gantry, the black-maned...