Word: kyner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women editors, Mrs. Irena S. Ingham, 46, and her sister, Mrs. Lenore Kyner, 43, know enough about roaring camps to keep their bobby pins out of oil-drilling rigs. They grew up in gold-mining Cripple Creek, published the Cripple Creek daily Times-Record. Recently Mrs. Kyner sniffed the excitement at Rangely, bought the News from an oil promoter. She and her 16-year-old daughter, Gloria, moved into a corrugated-iron shack office while Mrs. Ingham stayed in Denver as capital correspondent...
During the day, Mrs. Kyner tramps through Rangely's muddy streets selling ads, gathering local news. She calls herself "manager, editor, reporter, errand boy and devil." Often, while writing her stories and editorials, Mrs. Kyner is interrupted by the profane shouts of the town drunks. Rangely has no jail; the deputy sheriff handcuffs prisoners, nails the cuffs to a pole outside the Rangely News office...
...capital, Mrs. Ingham, a one-time district judge, fights for proper housing, sanitation, roads, water supply and schools for the town. In Rangely, Mrs. Kyner campaigns against cheap and dangerous building construction, unsanitary sewage disposal...
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