Word: towns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Atchison, Kan.). Story-teller White lately helped Collier's magazine into a million-dollar libel suit by flaying, old-style, the political monkey-business of Rentfro Banton Creager and other Texas Republicans in Hidalgo County (TIME, Sept. 16). Editor Howe has obtained publicity for his little cow-&-gas town of Amarillo by flaying, new style, such national figures as Mary Garden and Charles Augustus Lindbergh (TIME, April...
...Osceola, Ind., George Gulp and Harold Kirkpatrick each got 34 votes for town clerk & treasurer. They called upon a pair of dice to decide the will of the people. The dice chose Gulp...
Surviving settlers of Dodge City, Kan., met there last week in a "Last Roundup." Hoar and weazened pioneers spun yarns of the bad days, recalled the town's early importance as shipping point for buffalo hide, as "payoff centre" after the Santa Fe railroad went through (1872). A parade was held with a covered wagon, stage coach, "buffalo bones" float (displaying a famed pioneer commodity), oldtime "soddie...
...Dodge City. They had seen desperados run amuck, had joined in quick, relentless justice. Remembering, they climbed Dodge City's famed Boot Hill, burial place of many men and one woman* who died "with their boots on" (by violence). Although 32 of the bodies were removed to the town's cemetery in 1878, it is popularly supposed that several collections of bones still lie under Boot Hill sod. On this traditional spot the "Last Roundup" laid the cornerstone of a new city hall. Then a statue was unveiled of a cowboy, appropriately drawing his six-shooter, said...
CIVIC REPERTORY THEATRE?There are no better plays (Tchekov, Anet, the Quinteros) or better actors (Eva LeGallienne, Jacob Ben-Ami, Josephine Hutchinson) in town...