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Frank Carlson, Kansas Governor and United States Senator

This formal portrait shows Frank Carlson, 1893-1987, a World War I veteran and farmer from Concordia, Kansas. He is elected in 1928 as a Republican to the Kansas House of Representative. Following his tenure in the Kansas Legislature, Carlson runs for a seat, in 1934, to the United States House of Representatives where he serves from 1935-1947. He continues his career in politics by running for Kansas Governor. Carlson is elected the 30th Governor of Kansas serving from 1947 to 1950. After four years as governor, Carlson resigns in 1949 to fill a vacate seat in the United States Senate. He is reelected in 1956 and 1962 and serves for eighteen years. Carlson is the only Kansas Governor to serve both branches of Congress.

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Woman suffrage in Kansas: an account of the municipal elections in Kansas in 1888, as told by the newspapers of the state

Adams, F. G. (Franklin George), 1824-1899

This pamphlet includes information on women's suffrage from Kansas newspapers in over fifty counties. A brief history of the women's voting movement in Kansas and statistics concerning the women's vote in 1887 and 1888 municipal elections are also included.

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Joint Debate Between Mrs. M. E. Lease and J. M Brumbaugh

Lease, Mary Elizabeth, 1853-1933

This debate between Mary Elizabeth Lease and J. M. Brumbaugh occurred in Concordia, Kansas on July 20, 1891. They debated land, finance, and transportation questions though a formal question concerning national banks and issuing legal tender treasury notes is listed in the pamphlet. Mrs. Lease was allocated 70 minutes, Mr. Brumbaugh 90 minutes, and Mrs. Lease an additional 20 minutes at the end. A note at the end of the pamphlet indicated that the account of the debate had been recorded by a court stenographer so it was believed to be accurate. Mrs. Lease represented the Populist viewpoint and Mr. Brumbaugh the Republican perspective.

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Harry Umberger to Governor Alf Landon

Umberger, Harry

This letter from Harry Umberger, the Director of Extension at Kansas State Agricultural College (now Kansas State University), accompanied a map designating the drought relief counties as of July 1934. The map indicates the primary and secondary drought relief counties suffering the most through the Great Depression and Dust Bowl of the 1930s. The map includes a key to explain the highlighted portions.

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Earl M. Smith to Senator Arthur Capper

Smith, Earl M.

This is a telegram from Earl M. Smith, Concordia, Kansas, to Kansas Senator Arthur Capper, Washington D.C. With World War II taking much of the male labor force overseas, prisoners of war were brought in to do many of the jobs left behind. Smith, the president of the Cloud County Farm Bureau, requested that more prisoner of war workers from the Concordia camp be available to help with a labor shortage that the area was having.

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Public Welfare Service in Kansas

Kansas Emergency Relief Committee

This item contains 4 bulletins published by the Kansas Emergency Relief Committee (KERC) and the Civil Works Administration (CWA)in Topeka, Kansas. The bulletins numbers are #127 (1924-1933), #289 (1934), #355 (1935), and # 380 (1936). The year listed by the bulletin number is the year covered; though the bulletin generally had a publication date sometime the next year. Bulletin Number 127 covers a ten year period from 1924-1933. This report has an introduction, information on the KERC; special programs of the KERC; state statistical summaries; and 105 county reports. Bulletin 289 covers state organization; accomplishments under Work Relief and CWA, special programs in the state and county in 1934; case load and expenditures; state and county statistical summaries; 105 county reports; wage rates, labor relations, and complaints; economic conditions affecting relief load; grants and loans from State and Federal Agencies other than Relief; and maps and charts. Bulletin Number 355 covers the Relief Department, Accounting and Finance Department, Engineering Department; state and county statistical summary; 105 county statistical reports; relief obligations and case load, Homestead Rehabilitation Department; economic conditions affecting relief load; relief appropriations and relief laws; the coordination of public and private welfare service; grants and loans from federal state agencies other than relief. Bulletin Number 380 covers Legislation of 1936, social service development in 1936; case load and case work service and the cost of public assistance and administration; accounting procedures for funds, equipment, materials and commodities; production and distribution projects; Boards of County Commissioners and County Social Welfare Personnel; KERC publications, KERC Audit Reports, and KERC Personnel and Pay Rolls. Also, information on the State and Social Welfare Building, Trust Deed, and the Kansas Homestead Rehabilitation Corporation, State Charter and KHRC Audit Reports. Each of the first three bulletins has an index at the end.

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P. X. English to Senator Arthur Capper

English, Brigadier General P.X.

This letter is Brigadier General P.X. English's response to a letter sent to the Army Service Forces by Concordia resident Dr. G.W. Coffey.

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Farmers to Arthur Capper

Concerned about the possibility of a shortage of labor during the upcoming harvest season, several farmers in Concordia, Kansas, write to Senator Arthur Capper in the hope that he can ensure that German prisoners of war will be available to work during the harvest season.

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Donald Bolman to Senator Arthur Capper

This letter, from the head of the Concordia Mercantile Company in Concordia, Kansas, addresses the difficulties that the company has faced with regard to supplying the Post Exchange at Concordia with the necessary amount of goods. In particular, the Concordia Mercantile Company is having difficulty acquiring sufficient quantities of beer for the German POWs being held at the internment camp in Concordia.

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Gomer Davies to Senator Arthur Capper

Davies, Gomer T.

In this letter, Gomer T. Davies, proprietor of The Kansan Printing House in Concordia, Kansas, informs Senator Capper that the "business and professional interests" in the town of Concordia support the establishment of a POW camp near the town.

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