Kansas

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34-35	June 2008 Readings/Article Go directly to jail By John Sebelius SEE ALSO: Board games; Creative ability; Family; Sebelius, K. Gary; Kansas; Sebelius, Kathleen; Parent and adult child PDF IMAGES
32-36	May 2006 Readings/Article Into the quotidian By John Burnside SEE ALSO: Kansas; Life skills; Lyric poetry; Rural roads; Travel in literature PDF IMAGES
23	March 2006 Readings/Article That's the matter with Kansas By Dennis Highberger SEE ALSO: Dadaism; Kansas; Lawrence; Lawrence (Kan.) PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
33-46	April 2004 Article Lie down for America: How the Republican Party sows ruin on the Great Plains By Thomas Frank SEE ALSO: Agriculture; Kansas; 2001-; Party affiliation; Regional disparities PDF IMAGES
26-28	May 2003 Readings/Article Paying through the nose SEE ALSO: Drug traffic; Kansas; Revenue stamps; Taxation PDF IMAGES
18	April 1997 Readings/Article Fodor's for the born-again SEE ALSO: AIDS (Disease); Baptists; Cuba; Gay marriage; Hawaii; Homophobia; Kansas; Legal status, laws, etc.; Patients PDF IMAGES
20	January 1994 Readings/Article Casualties of law By David V. Jackson SEE ALSO: Kansas; Workers' compensation; Wounds and injuries PDF IMAGES
35-39	May 1989 Readings/Article Harold and Louie By Tony Parker SEE ALSO: Aged; Kansas; Married people; Rich people PDF IMAGES
41	October 1984 Readings/Article Animal census By Ronald B. Parker SEE ALSO: Canada, Eastern; East (U.S.); Kansas PDF IMAGES
22-27	December 1970 The easy chair/Article Christmas list By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Campbell Soup Company; Career in politics; Clam chowder; Dowsing; Sanders, Elmer; Jewel thieves; Gage, John B. (John Bailey); Kansas; Left- and right-handedness; Montréal; Hubbard, Orville Liscum; Purification; Québec (Province); Refuse and refuse disposal; Saltzman, Sheldon; Strip mining; Palermo, Thomas; University of Kansas; Fox, W.J. “Red”; Water; Harvalik, Z.V. PDF IMAGES
56-69	December 1970 Article Kansas By Bill D. Moyers SEE ALSO: Moyers, Bill D.; Journeys—Kansas; Kansas; Lawrence; Lawrence (Kan.); Political violence; University of Kansas PDF IMAGES
40-44	December 1955 Article Ross of Kansas: The man who saved a President By John F. (John Fitzgerald) Kennedy SEE ALSO: Johnson, Andrew; Career as U.S. senator; Courage; Ross, Edmund G.(Edmund Gibson); Impeachment; Kansas; 1865-1869; 1865-1950; Political ethics; Trials (Impeachment) PDF IMAGES
63	July 1954 Article International poker: Kansas hand By Alfred M. (Alfred Mossman) Landon SEE ALSO: Cold War; Diplomacy; Kansas; 1949-1976; 1953-1961 PDF IMAGES
58-63	July 1945 Article The Leavenworth prison break By Mary Ann Jones SEE ALSO: Escapes; Fugitives from justice; Kansas; Leavenworth PDF IMAGES
571-572	October 1941 Personal and otherwise/Article More defense boom jitters SEE ALSO: Defense industries; Industrial mobilization; Kansas; Wichita PDF IMAGES
253-261	August 1938 Article When I was a young country doctor By Arthur E. (Arthur Emanuel) Hertzler SEE ALSO: Hertzler, Arthur E. (Arthur Emanuel); Career as physician; Kansas; Medicine, Rural; Physicians (General practice) PDF IMAGES
584-591	April 1936 Article The man from Kansas: A portrait By Avis D. Carlson SEE ALSO: Landon, Alfred M. (Alfred Mossman); Governors; Kansas; 1936; Political and social views; Republicans PDF IMAGES
507-515	September 1928 Article Not quite standardized yet By Duncan Aikman SEE ALSO: Conformity; Kansas; Regionalism PDF IMAGES
331-345	August 1920 Article America goes back to work: IV.—The great Southwest By Edward Hungerford SEE ALSO: Arizona; Career in Kansas politics; Coal mines and mining; Coal mining; Copper Miners' Strike, Bisbee, Ariz., 1917; Copper mines and mining; Allen, Henry Justin; Kansas; Kansas City; Kansas City (Kan.); Labor unions; Mexico, North; Railroads and state; Southwestern States; Stockyards; Strikes and lockouts PDF IMAGES
860-870	May 1916 Article Who feeds the nation? By Elizabeth Sears SEE ALSO: Farmers' spouses; Home economics, Rural; Kansas; Wheat farmers; Women's rights PDF IMAGES
887-891	May 1916 Article The country newspaper By William Allen White SEE ALSO: Community newspapers; Journalism, Rural; Kansas; Middle class families PDF IMAGES
456-461	February 1916 Article A graduate school of war By Robert Welles Ritchie SEE ALSO: Drill and tactics; Kansas; Military education PDF IMAGES
486	August 1908 Editor's drawer/Article A more fruitful subject SEE ALSO: Eulogies; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Kansas PDF IMAGES
161	December 1907 Editor's drawer/Article He took the liberty SEE ALSO: Courtesy; Escapes; Kansas; Prison wardens PDF IMAGES
108-111	June 1907 Article A night with the butterflies By Jennie Brooks SEE ALSO: Butterfly watching; Kansas; Migration PDF IMAGES
966-970	May 1901 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: Evolution (Biology); Kansas; Lynching; Military education; Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate; Philosophy; Revenge; The individual; a study of life and death (Book); Wealth PDF IMAGES
492	February 1900 The drawer/Article An unimportant point SEE ALSO: Bootleggers; Kansas; Prohibition PDF IMAGES
126-135	June 1899 Article Quivira and the Wichitas By James Mooney SEE ALSO: Career as chief of Wichita Indians; Explorers; First contact with Europeans; Coronado, Francisco Vásquez de; High Plains (U.S.); Journeys—High Plains (U.S.); Kansas; 16th century; Portraits; Tawaconi Jim PDF IMAGES
276-282	July 1898 Article New era in the Middle West By Charles Moreau Harger SEE ALSO: Agriculture; Debts, Public; Financial crises; Kansas; Middle West; Nebraska PDF IMAGES
696-713	April 1893 Article Kansas.—1541-1891 By John James Ingalls SEE ALSO: Agriculture; American newspapers; Career in Kansas politics; Robinson, Charles; Ross, Edmund G.(Edmund Gibson); Lane, James Henry; Ingalls, John James; Kansas; Conway, M.F. (Martin Franklin); Parrott, Marcus J.(Marcus Junius); Migration, Internal; 1854-1861; Portraits; Plumb, Preston B.; Swindlers and swindling PDF IMAGES
644	September 1891 Editor's drawer/Article Reasonable SEE ALSO: Butler County; Kansas; Law examinations; Truthfulness and falsehood PDF IMAGES
232-245	July 1888 Article The great American desert By Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman SEE ALSO: Crops and climate; Emigration and immigration; Farm mortgages; Frontier and pioneer life; Great Plains; Homestead law; Kansas; Nebraska; Sod houses PDF IMAGES
39-51	June 1888 Article The central state. Its physical features and resources By Robert Hay SEE ALSO: Kansas PDF IMAGES
777-792	April 1888 Article The Leavenworth school By Charles King SEE ALSO: McCook, Alexander McDowell; Career in military; Kansas; Leavenworth; Military education; United States. Army. Cavalry; United States. Army. Infantry PDF IMAGES
683-695	October 1886 Article The national home for disabled volunteer soldiers By Maria Barrett Butler SEE ALSO: Smith, Andrew J.; Augusta; Bazaars (Charities); Career in philanthropy; Career in soldiers' home administration; Casualties; Dayton; Hampton; Ward, Horatio; Sharpe, Jacob; Kansas; Leavenworth; Stephenson, Luther; Patrick, Marsena Rudolph; Milwaukee; National cemeteries; Woodfin, P.T.; Portraits; Soldiers' homes; Veterans, Disabled PDF IMAGES
3-17	June 1885 Article Ladies' day at the ranch By Alice Wellington Rollins SEE ALSO: Kansas; Ranch life; Wild flowers PDF IMAGES
800	October 1881 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Card games; Corporal punishment; Kansas PDF IMAGES
317	July 1881 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Kansas PDF IMAGES
958	November 1879 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Kansas PDF IMAGES
799	October 1879 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Dance parties; Kansas; Lawrence PDF IMAGES
796	April 1879 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Kansas; Titles of honor and nobility PDF IMAGES
158	December 1878 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Church fund raising; Mitchell, Daniel Patrick; El Dorado; Kansas; Methodist Church PDF IMAGES
799	October 1878 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Kansas PDF IMAGES
828-835	November 1875 Article Air towns and their inhabitants By W.E. Webb SEE ALSO: Colorado; Frontier and pioneer life; Ghost towns; Kansas; Union Pacific Railroad Company PDF IMAGES
757	October 1874 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Justices of the peace; Kansas; Marriage service; Real estate agents PDF IMAGES
147	June 1874 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Cities and towns; Inflation (Finance); Kansas PDF IMAGES
614-615	March 1874 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Gambling; Imprisonment; Kansas; Military life; 1854-1861; Pomeroy, S.C. (Samuel Clarke) PDF IMAGES
639	March 1873 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Frontier and pioneer life; Kansas; Pioneers; Violent deaths PDF IMAGES
160	December 1872 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Advertising, Classified; Kansas; Topeka PDF IMAGES
795	October 1872 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Cosmetics; Kansas; Malapropisms; Topeka PDF IMAGES
637-638	September 1872 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Kansas; Legal briefs PDF IMAGES
319	July 1872 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Hard-Shell Baptists; Kansas; Ottawa; Right of way PDF IMAGES
796	October 1871 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Billiards; Kansas PDF IMAGES
474	February 1871 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Card players; Kansas; Malpractice; Methodist Church PDF IMAGES
478	February 1871 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Death notices; Kansas PDF IMAGES
315	July 1870 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Atchison; Kansas PDF IMAGES
157	December 1869 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Atchison; Kansas; Mothers PDF IMAGES
620	September 1869 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Justices of the peace; Kansas; Lawrence; Subpoena PDF IMAGES
572-573	March 1869 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Farmers' spouses; Kansas PDF IMAGES
283	July 1868 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Kansas; Wyandotte PDF IMAGES
270-271	July 1867 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: City planning; Kansas; Wyandotte PDF IMAGES
271	July 1867 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Absent-mindedness; Husbands; Kansas PDF IMAGES
811	May 1867 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Kansas PDF IMAGES
538	March 1867 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Kansas; Latin language; Law students; Leavenworth; Terms and phrases PDF IMAGES
269	January 1867 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: French Americans; Kansas PDF IMAGES
407	August 1866 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Kansas PDF IMAGES
271	July 1866 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Irish American soldiers; Kansas PDF IMAGES
537	March 1866 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Career in Confederate Army—Humor; Kansas; Leavenworth; Price, Sterling PDF IMAGES
537	March 1866 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Fire extinction; Kansas; Leavenworth PDF IMAGES
132-133	December 1865 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Kansas PDF IMAGES
133	December 1865 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Death notices; Kansas PDF IMAGES
541	March 1865 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Kansas PDF IMAGES
137	June 1863 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Kansas; Topeka PDF IMAGES
138	June 1863 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Alcoholics; Kansas PDF IMAGES
858	May 1863 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Kansas PDF IMAGES
712	October 1862 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Food relief; Kansas; Swindlers and swindling PDF IMAGES
140	June 1862 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Alcoholics; Kansas PDF IMAGES
138	June 1861 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Kansas; Whiskey PDF IMAGES
135	June 1860 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Kansas; Theft PDF IMAGES
860	May 1859 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Justices of the peace; Kansas PDF IMAGES
139	June 1858 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Kansas; 1854-1861 PDF IMAGES

108-114	February 1966 The new books/Review A grave and reverend book By Rebecca, Dame West SEE ALSO: In cold blood (Book); Kansas; Murder; Capote, Truman PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 487-488	August 1892 Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: Robinson, Charles; Extension to the territories; Governors; Kansas; 1854-1861; Slavery; The Kansas conflict (Book) PDF IMAGES
807-809	April 1890 Editor's study/Review — (IV) By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: American poetry; Ware, Eugene Fitch; Humorists, American; Kansas; Rhymes of Ironquill (Book) PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 649-650	September 1889 Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: A history of the Kansas crusade, its friends and its foes (Book); Hale, Edward Everett; Thayer, Eli; Kansas; Migration, Internal; 1854-1861 PDF IMAGES

Apr 2000	Rank of Dodge City, Kansas among the windiest U.S. cities: 1	Harper's Index Source: National Climatic Data Center (Asheville, N.C.)
Nov 1999	Margin by which the ten-member Kansas Board of Education voted to drop human evolution from the curriculum this year: 2	Harper's Index Source: Kansas State Department of Education (Topeka, Kans.)
Nov 1999	Number of presidential candidates besides Bill Bradley who have publicly criticized the Kansas board's decision: 0	Harper's Index Source: Bill Bradley for President/Harper's Research

May 22, 2007	An area of Topeka, Kansas, was shut down after a robot in a headdress was spotted near the Capitol.	Weekly Review By Miriam Markowitz Source: KWCH
April 29, 2007	A man with a rifle opened fire in a Kansas City Target, killing at least two people before police killed him.	Weekly Review By Christian Lorentzen Source: Los Angeles Times
May 5, 2006	Kansas raised its minimum marriage age to 15.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: MSNBC
December 20, 2005	In Lawrence, Kansas, three women quit their gym because there was a Christmas tree decorated with plastic fetuses in its lobby.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: WPXI.com
December 11, 2005	A religious studies professor at the University of Kansas was beaten up on a roadside after he mocked creationism in an email.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: CantonRep.com
November 21, 2005	The Kansas Board of Education had redefined “science” so that it is “no longer limited to the search for natural explanations of phenomena.”	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: The Independent
August 14, 2005	In Kansas Dennis Rader, the B.T.K. serial killer, was sentenced to ten consecutive life sentences; he will be eligible for parole in 2180. Rader believed that his victims would serve as his slaves in the afterlife, performing roles like "sex toy and boy servant."	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: The Wichita Eagle
July 26, 2005	A Nebraska man was charged with having sex with the thirteen-year-old girl whom he had wed legally in Kansas.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: AP
July 26, 2005	Kansas police took away, then returned, the left foot of an amputee named Ezekiel Rubottom, who had been keeping his foot in a bucket on a friend's porch. “It's all good,” said Rubottom.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Lawrence Journal-World
June 30, 2005	Lightning struck a sleeping child's mattress in Kansas, sparked a wildfire in Alaska's interior, shocked a boy in New Hampshire through his video-game controller, killed both a golfer and a prisoner in Ohio, and struck the offices of the National Weather Service in Iowa.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source 1: Source 2: KTUU.com Source 3: The Boston Channel Source 4: WBNSTV Source 5: TheIowaChannel.com
June 14, 2005	A Kansas teenager was in trouble for vomiting on his Spanish teacher.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Boston.com
May 6, 2005	The Kansas state school board began four days of hearings on how to teach the origin of life; all of the witnesses in the hearing were opposed to teaching evolution.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: BBC News
February 26, 2005	Dennis Rader, an active Lutheran and a Cub Scout leader in Wichita, Kansas, confessed to six killings as the BTK (“bind, torture, and kill”) serial killer, wanted for thirty-one years.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford
February 25, 2005	The attorney general of Kansas demanded that clinics in his state turn over the medical records of girls who have received abortions and women who have had late-term abortions.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: CNN
February 11, 2005	A Kansas woman left mute by a 1984 head injury began to speak again. “Okay,” she said, “okay.”	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: KansasCity.com
December 17, 2004	The supreme court of Kansas declared that the state's death penalty is unconstitutional but then issued a stay of its own ruling.	Weekly Review By Theodore Ross and Arno Kopecky Source: Associated Press
April 10, 2004	The USDA rejected a request from a Kansas beef company that asked for permission to test all its cattle for mad cow disease; the decision was announced by the department's undersecretary for marketing and regulation.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: New York Times
February 27, 2004	A large beef producer in Kansas applied to test all its cattle for mad cow disease so that it can resume exporting its beef to Japan. "The problem we're having now is that the U.S.D.A. is not wanting to do this," said the company's president. "They don't want to test. They don't want to recognize BSE is a problem. They are not going to allow anyone to test until they decide how or when. We believe that may be never."	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: New York Times
July 0, 2000	A Kansas man who attained notoriety because his girlfriend lived in their bathroom for two years and became stuck to a toilet seat won $20,000 in the state lottery for the second time.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: AP via SFGate.com

31	September 1992 Readings/Photography Grass fire near Cassoday, Kansas By Larry Schwarm (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Grassland fires; Kansas PDF IMAGES

35-38	July 1990 Readings/Fiction Kansas By Padgett Powell SEE ALSO: Kansas PDF IMAGES
807	October 1896 Editor's drawer/Fiction An economist of nature SEE ALSO: Chickens; Kansas; Tall tales; Windstorms PDF IMAGES
652-653	March 1895 Editor's drawer/Fiction The colonel's disappointment SEE ALSO: Debtor and creditor; Disappointment; Gambling; Kansas PDF IMAGES
156	June 1893 Editor's drawer/Fiction Lamentable lack of enterprise By William Henry Siviter SEE ALSO: Emergency medicine; Kansas; Prohibition; Rattlesnakes PDF IMAGES
646	March 1892 Editor's drawer/Fiction Too realistic SEE ALSO: Kansas; Lynching; Participatory theater; Realism in literature PDF IMAGES

606	March 1917 Editor's drawer/Joke It sounds well SEE ALSO: Equator; Geographical perception in children; Geography; Kansas; Malapropisms; Wichita PDF IMAGES
152	December 1916 Editor's drawer/Joke Half a loaf SEE ALSO: African American clergy; Diploma mills; Kansas PDF IMAGES
157	December 1914 Editor's drawer/Joke Forgot Grandma SEE ALSO: Grandmothers; Kansas; Prayer PDF IMAGES
971	May 1910 Editor's drawer/Joke Why not? SEE ALSO: Kansas; Onions; Potatoes; United States. Dept. of Agriculture PDF IMAGES
167	December 1908 Editor's drawer/Joke Not his SEE ALSO: Kansas; Kansas City; New Yorkers PDF IMAGES

161	June 1885 Editor's drawer/Poetry Mother's doughnuts By Charles Follen Adams SEE ALSO: Doughnuts; El Dorado; Homesickness; Kansas PDF IMAGES
315	July 1873 Editor's drawer/Poetry Editor's drawer By J. Goodin SEE ALSO: Jury selection; Kansas PDF IMAGES

646	March 1908 Editor's drawer/Cartoon In Kansas SEE ALSO: Kansas; Tornadoes PDF IMAGES

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