Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great political friend of Kansas farmers is slim, grey-haired Senator Arthur Capper. This friendship he cultivates through Capper Publications, including the Topeka Daily Capital, third largest newspaper in Kansas (circulation 42.915)*, and Capper's Weekly, mighty farmpaper (circulation 369,120). Last week The Capital celebrated its 50th anniversary with a monster Golden Jubilee edition containing 164 pages, about 250,000 words...
Unlike that more ebullient, cosmopolitan journalist, William Allen White of the Emporia Gazette, Publisher-Senator Capper confines his interest to Kansas. Last week he editorialized: "I pledge for myself and The Capital at least another half-century's wholehearted devotion to the task of making Topeka a greater and better city; Kansas a more prosperous and happier State...
Atchison, Topeka & Santa...
Seven Railroads: 1) Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rose from 197¼ to 275, a gain of 77¼ points. On the basis of 2,416,293 shares of stock outstanding, this was an increase of $186,658,634 in the market value of the company's common shares. 2) Chesapeake & Ohio rose from 218½ to 274, a gain by similar calculations of $65,542,170. 3) Great Northern preferred,* from 111 to 123½ or $31,193,325. 4) New York Central, from 188 5/8 to 241¾, or $246,362,682. 5) New York, New Haven & Hartford...
Atchison, Topeka & Santa...