Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with his "sucker list," of exploitation.* Quick flipping of newspaper files show that from January to April of this year he used full page spreads in at least the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, New Haven Evening Register, Boston Sunday Advertiser, Peoria (Ill.) Star, Denver Rocky Mountain News, Cleveland Press, Topeka (Kans.) Daily State Journal, New York Evening Journal, Los Angeles Examiner, and Newark (N. J.) Evening News...
...most remarkable of the roads was the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. President William Benson Storey reports that, after all expenses have been deducted from his entire July operating revenues of $25,561,510, he has remaining a net balance of $8,446,943. That is almost double the net operating income ($4,724,336) of July, 1925. This fact and the high earnings of the previous months of this year explain why, last week, Atchison stock was quoted on the Manhattan Stock Exchange at 155%. (On March 30, 1926, its price...
...Montgomery Ariz.-Phoenix Ark.-Little Rock Calif.-Sacramento Col.-Denver Conn.-Hartford Del.-Dover Fla.-Tallahassee Ga.-Atlanta Idaho-Boise Ill.-Springfield Ind.-Indianapolis Iowa-Des Moines Kan.-Topeka Ky.-Frankfort La.-Baton Rouge Me.-Augusta Md.-Annapolis Mass.-Boston Mich.-Lansing Minn.-St. Paul Miss.-Jackson Mo.-Jefferson City Mont.-Helena
Nevertheless, in spite of these simplicities, it should be understood that Kansas is neither old-fashioned nor backward. Like the Puritan of New England, he is ultra-modern in politics and some of the most ingenious laws protecting debtor from creditor emanate from the legislature at Topeka. Nor is humor entirely lacking in the sunflower state as is proven by two well known Kansans, Mr. William Allen White, and Mr. Roscoe Arbuckle...
...dance began. Charlestoners, male and female, from Akron, Cleveland, Canton, McKeesport, Pa.; from Detroit and Toledo; from Wichita, Kan., Cedar Rapids, Clinton, Davenport, Topeka, Omaha, and Waterloo, la.; from Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Fort Wayne, Joliet and Peoria, 111.; from Charleston, Little Rock, Memphis, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Tulsa, Okla., branded their shinbones and burned their heels, clutched each other, pumping, weaving, while the fiddles whimpered and the drums pitapated. "CHARLEston," said the pipsqueak piccolos, "CharleSTON," sang the clariboes, "CHARLESTON." the drunken night-horns caroled, hoarse and sweet. The long-haired bimboes, the pool-parlor cowboys, street-sheiks, bullyboys...