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...Psychiatrists Karl A. and William C. Mennmger, of Topeka, Kans, for pioneering in improved care of mental patients...
...Clergymen should emphasize that "God has just as much of the mother nature as the father nature," said the Rev. M. Madeline Southard of Topeka, Kans. at the 36th annual assembly of the American Association of Women Ministers. "Jesus, God incarnate, is so different from others who told of God and explain God because he brought forth not the masculine traits of divinity but . . . the feminine traits . . . What the world needs is an understanding of ... the feminine element...
ATCHISON, TOPEKA & SANTA FE, which lopped off all passenger trains to Santa Fe, N. Mex. in the '30s, will take coaches off the run to Atchison, Kans. (pop. 12,792) if the Kansas Corporation Commission gives its O.K. Then Topeka will be the last city in the company title to be a passenger stop...
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Opening the West. The first man to do things in the lazy Santa Fe style was a Topeka lawyer named Cyrus Holliday, who dreamed of running a railroad into the great Southwest to replace the prairie schooner. By 1890 he and a succession of strong-willed presidents had battled Indians, buffalo and rival railroaders to build or buy 9,000 miles of track. In 1894 the overextended Santa Fe went bankrupt and was picked up by Railroader Edward Ripley, who added 2,000 more miles of track by 1920, quadrupled the gross and put the company in a strong financial...