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adminBy Michael Bushnell Northeast News April 13, 2011 Every spring between the years 1841 to 1857 emigrants gathered in towns along the Missouri River and began their long trek westward…
adminBy Michael Bushnell Northeast News April 6, 2011 In 1920, Missouri cattleman began to develop the area around the Hialeah racetrack by donating land for community use while helping to…
adminBy Michael Bushnell Northeast News March 30, 2011 Mention the town Trading Post, Kan., and you’ll more than likely get blank stares from whoever you are talking to at the…
adminBy Michael Bushnell Northeast News March 23, 2011 This week’s postcard gives us a look at Fairmount Park from Independence Avenue. This view would have been from where the old…
adminBy Michael Bushnell Northeast News March 16, 2011 Greeting postcards, such as this, have long been used to convey greetings conveniently to friends and relatives afar. The man who became…
adminBy Michael Bushnell Northeast News March 9, 2011 These days all you’ll find near the intersection of Delaware Avenue and 8th Street is some green space and a few surface…
adminBy Michael Bushnell Northeast News March 2, 2011 The Northeast News print advertisements placed by the Oldsmobile Company in 1939 tout the new Olds “60” as the “car that tamed…
adminBy Michael Bushnell Northeast News Feb. 23, 2011 “An idea to create the largest zoological garden in the United States. There will be nothing better in the world. Swope Park…
adminBy Michael Bushnell Northeast News Feb. 16, 2011 This chrome-style postcard showcases one of the new service areas along the newly completed Kansas Turnpike. The Kansas Turnpike was the brainchild…
adminBy Michael Bushnell Northeast News Feb. 2, 2011 Around the turn of the 20th Century, it was not uncommon for local photo-postcard companies to go door-to-door in Kansas City’s more…
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