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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1957
Page
5
An excerpt discusses Dr George Crane and Robert Raikes as early English publishers urging literacy. It argues reading fluency drives learning, including math and history, urging parents to tutor at home and mail a 20c stamped reply envelope for a booklet on guiding children to read.
In Topeka a landlord and tenant father of nine were involved in a fatal argument over a $5 dispute. William Gatewood, 47, a former courthouse janitor, was killed. Landlord Howard Haynes, 47, was detained after Roy L. Bulkley, Shawnee County attorney, stated the money had been taken from Gatewood’s room and the dispute escalated. Haynes claimed Gatewood advanced on him, prompting a warning shot and another fatal shot.
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