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Many an able man has spent years thinking up ways of selling insurance. Up to last week few people ever expected anyone to sell it in slot machines. The In-surograph Agency of America, incorporated in Kansas for that surprising purpose, is the notion of a small group of Wichita businessmen. In about two weeks Standard Register Co. of Dayton will begin manufacturing machines for them to put in railway and bus stations...
...Wichita Police Have Clinic...
...Wichita, Kansas, Police Department now uses one of these clinics developed by the Traffic Bureau. Chief of Police O. W. Wilson, who last year taught a course here in Police Traffic Administration, reports that every Wichita driver who has an accident is made to take the tests...
Government-owned ships in Far Eastern trade are the 13 vessels of the American Pioneer Line, currently being operated by the Roosevelt Steamship Co. for the account of the Maritime Commission. First ship to which the statement applied was the Pioneer Line's freighter Wichita en route from Baltimore to China with a cargo which consisted partly of barbed wire and 19 Bellanca planes for the Chinese Government. Day after the statement was released, the Wichita put in at San Pedro, Calif., for supplies. Before she proceeded to Manila, her war cargo was unloaded...
...economy-minded Senate considered the $571,000,000 Department of Agriculture appropriation bill last week, Idaho's conscientious Borah spotted an item of $1,000 for care of a herd of cattle in Oklahoma's Wichita Mountains. It had been recommended not by the Department of Agriculture but by the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Senator Borah rose to question it. Up stood the item's sponsor, Oklahoma's handsome white-crested Elmer Thomas, to explain that the cattle were one of the last herds of longhorns left in the U. S. "These cattle are friends...