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After the funeral of Senate Minority Leader Kenneth Wherry in Pawnee City, Neb., eleven top Republican Senators drove back to Omaha to discuss Wherry's successor. Ten of the Senators* were quickly in agreement: the new leader should be the eleventh man present-New Hampshire's solid Republican, Styles Bridges...
...trained for the Senate as a salesman and small businessman in Pawnee City, Neb. (pop. 1,595). There, "Lightning Ken" Wherry parlayed his family's furniture business into a bigger furniture store, an automobile agency, a law office, a real-estate firm and an undertaking parlor. (Washington reporters, to his intense irritation, later dubbed him "The Merry Mortician.") When he shifted to politics as a protégé of liberal Senator George Norris, Wherry hustled up votes for the Republican state committee with the same zeal and the same methods he had used to open new selling territories...
...weekly Clarks, Neb. News, the story on Myrtle Mace's wedding told more about the groom than the bride. Said the News: "He wore a bluish business suit consisting of coat, vest and pants. The suit had been recently cleaned and pressed . . . Beneath was a freshly laundered white shirt. [His] hair had been recently trimmed by Fred Gilliard, Clarks's barber, and was brushed flat with a part on the left side." The reporter: Editor John Carter. The groom: Editor Carter...
Caston has also invaded the hinterland. This winter the orchestra will brave snow & ice on bus trips to such cities as Cheyenne, Wyo., Fort Morgan, Colo, and Scottsbluff, Neb. As usual, Caston & Co. will play matinees for the children. After all, he and his musicians expect to be in the Rocky Mountains a long time...
Segregation. In Palmyra, Neb., Grocer A. H. Weatherhogger printed "Democrat" on one of the benches in front of his store, "Republican" on the other...