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Crime & Combustion. In Newark,N.J., county prisoners finally left all that behind them-the rock pile was abandoned because of a continual lack of gas to run the stone-crusher. In Topeka, the county rationing board granted William Jake Wortham's application for emergency gas coupons-he had to travel to Bisbee, Ariz., to face a murder charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 26, 1943 | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

...Hungry Topeka Rotarians wondered what had happened to the speaker of the evening. The speaker, Governor Andrew F. Schoeppel, was stalled between floors in an elevator. After 20 stalled minutes he boosted his fellow passengers out through an opening between the elevator ceiling and the shaft door, human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 17, 1943 | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

Time for All Things. In Topeka, R. C. Leinbach, who said he had been engaged to the late Anna Belle Sage since 1914, sued her estate for the return of the engagement ring he said he had finally given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 7, 1942 | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

Millennium. In Topeka, the Community Christmas Tree Committee decided not to erect the annual tree for the city's underprivileged children because there were practically no underprivileged children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 7, 1942 | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

...Spirit, The Flesh. In Topeka, Kans., Patrolmen David Hummer and William Miller searched a woman prisoner, found in her purse: a Bible, a pint of whiskey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 5, 1942 | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

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