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...lived in Wheaton, Kan., you would be well aware of the 1Depression. For two years the crops have been failures. The farmers have no buying power. Things have been slow in the business district. Even the biggest businessman in town, H. S. Kusahl, has felt the Depression. His hardware, furniture and undertaking establishments have not done well. And neither has Farmers' State Bank of which he is president...
...American Legion. Republican Haucke made known that he did not smoke, drink, chew or go to dances. Democrat Woodring made known that he was an expert crocheter. Political enemies even went so far as to claim he once won a county crocheting prize. His history: born in Neodesha, Kan., into a family of several sisters, served in the War, became a Neodesha bank cashier, resigned to run for the governorship...
...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...
...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...