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laughingsquid:

Hand-Cranked Cocktail Shaking Machine by Benjamin Cowden

ilovecharts:

As demonstrated by the “rat line”, business goes down as infestation goes up.  If your city or home or office looks like this chart, you may need professional help—just don’t forget to pay the Piper.

-Annie 

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Camden yards (Taken with instagram)

Egrets-Battling-it-Out by Judylynn M. http://flic.kr/p/bETSzn

lewgalloway:

NEWSPAPER:  1912 Presidential Election

WaKeeney has always been a city with a strong political heartbeat.  You were either a Democrat, a Republican, or a populist, a political ideal that took the form of many different parties - the People’s Party in 1888 or the Bull Moose Party in 1912 are examples.  For the last 65 years In WaKeeney if you did the lunch counter at Cleland’s you were a Democrat, and if you flirted with the girls at Gibson’s you were a Republican.  It’s the same today.

“The story goes, that when your Great Grandfather Lew was in the hospital, and knowing that he was at the end of his life, said to someone, ‘Here Lies Lew Galloway, Democrat.”  Well he knew that Lew was a lifelong Republican, and would never call himself a Democrat.  The man asked Lew to clarify what he had just said and asked Lew, ‘Well why on earth would you want to do that, Lew?”, and Lew replied, “Because that would mean that there is one more of those   S-O-Bs in the ground.”

That story was told to me by Mike Dreiling of WaKeeney 20 years ago.  He told me this story more than once, and Don Dietz  retold it to me, though with much more colorful language.  I don’t know if the story is true, but I’ve probably told it 100 times or more.  

The Presidential election was different, and every week in all three papers there were article regarding all of the elections occurring in November 1912.  Races for Governor of the State of Kansas, United States Senate (Kansas has 2 districts now, in 1912 there was only one), and of course the election for the President of the United States.  

There were 4 men on the ballot in 1912:  A Republican, A Democrat, a Progressive, ans a Socialist.  There was a Presidential Preference Primary that year, meaning that after Taft’s first term he ran to basically run against Roosevelt and LaFolette, a Senator from Wisconsin, for the opportunity to have a second term.  

Presidents have come through WaKeeney (FDR, Truman - on trains) on their campaign trails during election years.  Candidates for Senator spoke in WaKeeney and Hays in 1912.  in 1912 WaKeeney was still expanding in population, it was a center of industry.  

The US Land Office, one of the furthest West this side of the Rocky Mountains, was in WaKeeney Kansas during the largest westward expansion in US history.  It was practically on the 100th Meridian, which was Voda Road (literally), which was the edge of the GREAT AMERICAN DESERT.  WaKeeney, a development project by two men living in Chicago, exactly half-way between Kansas City and Denver (365 miles each way), is and was then an important place.  

Local politics however, took center stage in Trego County in 1912.  

This is a graphic from the 3rd page of the paper this week in 1912.  The Western Kansas World at the time is a paper catering to Republican readers in Trego County, and in this issue the Democratic contenders vying for the nomination of their party are highlighted:  Polk, Thomas Marshall, Champ Clark of Missouri, Oscar Underwood, and eventual nominee and President Woodrow Wilson are profiled.

(Image:  Western Kansas World, March 1912.  Kansas State Historical Society, Copy and Reuse Restrictions Apply.)

13 February, 12.24 by Ti.mo http://flic.kr/p/buwcRp

rogerwilkerson:

Detroit Windsor Tunnel - 1959

laughingsquid:

The Coffee Cycle

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