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...acre Kansas wheat field for a few minutes, while cameras clicked furiously and other carefully garbed gentlemen stood in the stubble grinning jovially. Then President Harding, Senator Arthur Capper, Governor Davis, William Allen White and others repaired to a public green in the nearby town of Hutchinson, Kan., where the President gave a disquisition on farming problems. Thence the President proceeded to Denver, to Alaska and then to California where he died in a hotel, a month after being in the wheat field. . . . Last week, Hutchinson, assisted by some 300 newspaper editors on their way to a convention...
...hero of a Hutchinson, Kan., wheatfield...
...leads to watch for a blowing bowhead; that flocks of duck, whose northward flight beyond Barrow is strong evidence of land in the Arctic "blind-spot," fly so thickly and so low that the natives can lasso them with weighted strings; that the last suicidal migration of the Alas kan lemmings* was in 1888; that, protected against unmitigated sunshine glaring on ice and snow only by crude wooden masks or slit leather straps, the endless days are nights for many snow-blind Eskimos, days of black sunlight; that the Eskimo appetite is prodigious, measurable only by the amount of food...
...working on a comic opera in the manner of Gilbert and Sullivan. His degrees of M.A. and Ph.D. are for research in romance philology. He constitutes something of a pundit on Yiddish and Latin-American literatures, having served the Haldeman-Julius Co. ("Little Blue Books"?Girard, Kan.) in that capacity. Last year he published an exhaustive book on Editor H. L. Mencken of the American Mercury, for whom he has great admiration...
Beside a bend in the Smoky Hill River, near Sharon Springs, Kan., a white cow observed one of last week's sunrises, ruminatively as was her wont. But she never finished that morning's cud. At 7 o'clock the ground yawned beneath her with a rumbling roar and she was swallowed up, with a section of her pasture, into the bowels of the earth. That at least was what people thought had happened...