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#146 - A Strangle Here, A Strangle There in Hutchinson, Kansas

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Temperance City, Kansas

It was founded in 1871 when an Indian agent named Clinton C.C. Hutchinson contracted with the Santa Fe Railroad to make a town at the railroads crossing over the Arkansas River. The nickname of the city was Temperance City because of the prohibition of alcohol set by Hutchinson, the founder. "I don't know what this means, but as a third class city, which is fucking great," he says about his new home. 'There isn't as no professional baseball or anything'

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