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* The Cawker City, Kansas ball of twine was the subject of Gary Trudeau's comic strip, Doonesbury, on July 16, 2012.
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Novelty attractions are oddities such as the " biggest ball of twine " in Cawker City, Kansas, the Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota, or Carhenge in Alliance, Nebraska where old cars serve in the place of stones in a replica of Stonehenge.
* Cawker City is one of several places claiming to be home of the largest ball of twine in the world.
His wife, Kathrine, born in Cawker City, Kansas was a New York sophisticate who had been a fact-checker for Time magazine and an original staff member for Life magazine.
Cawker City built an open-air gazebo over Stoeber's ball where every August a " Twine-a-thon " is held and more twine is added to the ball.
* In one episode of Beverly Hills, 90210, Susan Keats ( Emma Caulfield ) mentions the Cawker City Ball of Twine to her boyfriend, Brandon Walsh ( Jason Priestly ) while they are planning a cross-country trip for that summer.
Cawker City, Kansas is approximately 100 miles south of I-80, though is only 50 miles north of Interstate 70 in Kansas.
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* 1900 United States Census for Cawker, Mitchell County, Kansas, and 1910 United States Census for Kansas for Cawker, Mitchell County, Kansas
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Before he made that retreat, he telephoned Earl Blackman in Kansas City and asked him to come to Europe with him.
The Kansas City and the Topeka KCs are arranging that Juniors who win at their shows will be qualified to win points for Westminster.
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, Mo., has a do-it-yourself quiz game called `` Benefit Bafflers '', which it distributes to employees.
With the development of the Red Bridge Subdivision south of Kansas City, Missouri, the developer was faced with the problem of providing adequate sewage disposal.
Chandler had been commissioned in the Medical Service Corps and was serving as a personnel officer for the Kansas City Medical Depot when he decided that if he was going to make the Army his career, he wanted to be in the fighting part of it.
-- The president of the Kansas City local of the International Association of Fire Fighters was severly injured today when a bomb tore his car apart as he left home for work.
-- The Orioles tonight retained the distinction of being the only winless team among the eighteen Major-League clubs as they dropped their sixth straight spring exhibition decision, this one to the Kansas City Athletics by a score of 5 to 3.
Then Heywood Sullivan, Kansas City catcher, singled up the middle and Throneberry was across with what proved to be the winning run.
The Orioles once again performed at the plate in powderpuff fashion, gathering only seven blows off the offerings of three Kansas City pitchers.
The big, 22-year-old shortstop, the 1960 American league `` rookie-of-the-year '', flew here late this afternoon from Baltimore, signed his contract for an estimated $15,000 and was a spectator at tonight's 5-to-3 loss to Kansas City -- the winless Birds' sixth setback in a row.
Unfortunately, Brooks's teammates were not in such festive mood as the Orioles expired before the seven-hit pitching of three Kansas City rookie hurlers.
The sluggers get along so well in fact, that with their families at home for the summer ( Mantle's in Dallas, Maris's in Kansas City ), they are rooming together.
As roommates, teammates, and home-run mates, Mantle, 29, who broke in with the Yankees ten years ago, and Maris, 26, who came to the Yankees from Kansas City two years ago, have strikingly similar backgrounds.
Further improvements in earnings of the Kansas Turnpike are expected late in 1961, with the opening of a new bypass at Wichita, and still later when the turnpike gets downtown connections in both Kansas City, Kans., and Kansas City, Mo..
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