Kansas State University - Royal Purple Yearbook (Manhattan, KS)

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i LF.A ' KN VORTH. I.ca c-nworth Countv. of which Leaven Ip worth is the county seat with a populati n ' i% of 25,000, is the oldest countv in the state i I and occupies an important and advantage! u J I position both as to commerce and agricultuic i% The countv is rich in resources; the aericul ■ tviraUands are not excelled in fertility, and i . a live stock producing section, it offers un • p limited advantages. 1 nworth has not grown to her size | i |§ and prominence by eras of boom, but, on ihc Ml i% other hand, has had a natural and stead i4, growth, the result and effort of her own ' i people. In quality of homes, schools an I % ji churches, no city of her size outranks h r IP . ' , Leavenworth is the home of the larg t ilitary post in the United States; of th i M NatioanI Soldiers Home, and a Fedeill 11 :. .• i • J penitentiary.

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II Topcka, the beautiful and cultured cnpi I i of the great state of Kansas, is the coui i 1 seat of Shawnee Count -. It is impossil I y I to do her justice in the few words tliat c n f i% he demoted to her here. IP 1 opcka offers every reward of tlie husln ' - 1 world. She has every advantage desii i A f ' one seeldng a home. She is rich in ed 1 cationa! facilities. She is often said to 1 11 the political, the social, the educational, 1 1 4Mi, industrial center of the great state ..f Kans ' ' ■Ai Y% A citv of iO.OOn liand-picked livel i prosperous, and contented citizens; v || more churches and schools in proportion || its population than any other cin in ll || United States, and being the capital of tl 1 grealesl state in t liel ' nion, ' ropeka has cm Jl reason 1,, be proud. Kansas is pr,,ud I

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111 :| -q i m i i! WICHITA. IP 1 •■Wauh Wichita Win is the slogan that 1 has inspired the people of Wichita to mal e 1 1 (jf their cit - one of tlie most enterprising J I commercial centers of the entire Southwest. % - s a distributing point, Wichita is without a ' rival in this vast territory. 1 1 Located as she is in the midst of the great i! | farming and stock raising country, sur- i| rounded by a territory rich in all of the m natural resources, equipped witli the best pl transportation facilities, pro ided with a « climate that has no equal, and backed by 4| citizenship that believes in licr future, ■ || Wichita is destined to become one of the Ip greatest of our inland cities. 1 In her marvelous commercial growth, 1 Wichita has not neglected the social and II educational features that are so necessary 1 1 for an enlightened people. Her schools, 1 churclies, hospitals, libraries, parks and 1 1 clubs are not excelled by cities of mucli 1 1 larger population. Hut Wichita must be ' ' , seen to be ipprcciittd