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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Oct. 3, 1963
--arm and took her down to the Capital office. The staff was so excited that they stopped the press and tore up the edition. A photographer set up a picture of Carrie holding a hatchet in one hand and the Bible in the other which later became famous.
THE PRINT SALE IS COMING SOON!
--arm and took her down to the Capital office. The staff was so excited that they stopped the press and tore up the edition. A photographer set up a picture of Carrie holding a hatchet in one hand and the Bible in the other which later became famous.
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'97 Grad Recalls Carrie Nation, Campus
Bv Don Black
A KU alumnus of 1897 who was a friend of Carrie Nation returned yesterday to visit the campus for the first time in 35 years.
Will Thomas Reed, 88, of Seattle, Wash., was elected assistant manager of the football team of 1897 and manager in 1898 for two weeks. He had to quit working on his master's degree program and returned to work as a reporter on the Topeka Journal-Capital.
Reed met Carrie coming down the street in Topeka and she asked him where she could find a reporter. He told her she was in luck — "you are talking to one," Reed said.
IT WAS as a reporter that he met Carrie Nation, hatchet-wielding temperance reformer of the late 1800's. He told the story vividly, recalling names of streets and minute details.
She told him she was Carrie Nation and Reed grabbed her by the
"There were only five buildings when I was here on campus." Reed said. He could only remember three buildings, old Spooner library, Fraser Hall, and a building located where Corbin Hall now stands.
**REED IS** enroute to visit relatives in Topeka for a few weeks and stopped to see Lawrence friends and the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He looked over the campus yesterday and had dinner with the men.
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REED SAID that he showed Carrie around the town and pointed out all the "joints" that she asked to see. He restrained her from doing any damage that evening but he said, with a twinkle in his eye, "she hit all the joints the next day."
Reed added that Kansas Citians put up a sign shortly after the Topeka incident that read: "All nations welcome except Carrie."
Reed, who resembles slightly the late poet Robert Frost, is now doing some independent writing after 20 years of periodical newspaper work all over the nation. One of his books, "Do You Know God," gave an indication of the material he
One of the fraternity men asked Reed what he thought of the modern college women. Reed replied, "Well, short skirts don't leave much to the imagination."
Reed moved about the dinner table and received visitors with a strong grip and a vigorous manner. He used no artificial aids but frequently asked for questions to be repeated louder. Proudly Reed pointed out that he had been sick but one day of his life.
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