Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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ARTHUR CAPPER- Topeka...
...Chairman of the U. S. Senate Committee on the District of Columbia ; publisher and proprietor of Capper's Weekly, the Breeze Topeka and Daily many Capital, another farm Farmers' paper. Mail...
...Wichita saloon in 1900 she eyed a nude over the bar, told the bartender that the picture was an insult to his mother. As the town marshal escorted her to the station, many a rotten egg was flung at the Hatchet-Swinger. She was jailed three times in Topeka. In Kiowa, when the mayor demanded that she pay damages to a battered saloon, she threatened him with fire and brimstone, then, as he allowed her to leave, turned, delivered a benediction: "Peace on earth-good will to men!" As her fame spread, there came offers for lecture tours. For some...
...than 45 oil-producing and refining properties in 18 of the United States and in Canada. Its public utilities serve a population of over 3,000,000 people in more than 600 different communities, most notably Denver, Col.; Sandusky, Ohio; Kansas City and St. Joseph, Mo.; Kansas City and Topeka, Kan.; Danbury, Conn...
...frolicked with young redskins, taught tricks to puppies, rode ponies. At 8, he was a jockey in a state fair; Kansans cheered lustily for " ol' Captain Curtis' boy." There is a story that he was a Paul Revere at the age of 10; he rode 60 miles to Topeka to bring aid to the Kaws when the Cheyennes swooped down on their reservation. When the Kaws were sent to new lands in Oklahoma, he started out to go with them, but his family said: "No, Charles, you must go to school." So Charles went to school in the winter; jockeyed...