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adminBy Michael Bushnell Northeast News Jan. 26, 2011 “I won’t be reconstructed, I’m better now than then. And for a Carpetbagger I do not give a damn. So it’s forward…
adminBy Michael Bushnell Northeast News Jan. 19, 2011 Published by Hall Bros. in the early 1920s, this color postcard with Art Deco side accents shows the National Cloak and Suit…
adminBy Michael Bushnell Northeast News Nov. 3, 2010 Titled “Elm Ridge Driving Park,” this week’s card shows the Elm Ridge Race Track. Only in operation from April 28, 1904 through…
adminBy Michael Bushnell Northeast News Oct. 27, 2010 Marked by old greeting postcards like these, the tradition of Halloween traces its origins to the ancient Celtic holiday “Samhain” (pronounced “sow-in”),…
adminBy Michael Bushnell Northeast News Oct. 20, 2010 In the late 1880s, Kansas City was awash with excitement that it, too, would soon have its own Harvest Festival. An up-and-coming…
adminBy Michael Bushnell Northeast News Oct. 13, 2010 Construction of the Hannibal Bridge almost didn’t happen in Kansas City in 1867. Leavenworth, Kan., and Kansas City were in a race…
adminBy Michael Bushnell Northeast News Oct. 6, 2010 The roots of today’s American Royal can be traced to 1899 when the fledgling event was referred to as the National Hereford…
adminBy Michael Bushnell Northeast News Feb. 24, 2010 The headwaters of what is known as the Big Blue River start in southern Johnson County, Kan., where Wolf Creek and Coffee…
adminBy Michael Bushnell Northeast News Feb. 17, 2010 Often called enigmatic and eccentric and known by his friends as a horrible driver, architect Louis Singleton Curtiss darted about the Kansas…
adminBy Michael Bushnell Northeast News Feb. 10, 2010 Around the year 200, the Roman Emporer Claudius was busy conquering various parts of Europe and Asia, making a general nuisance of…
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