Michael BushnellMichael BushnellPublisher “Cliff Drive, Kansas City, Missouri.” So reads the description on the front of this postcard published by the Fred Harvey Company. The cliffs, located in Historic Northeast Kansas…
Dorri PartainDorri PartainContributor Baby’s first shoes and first steps can be remembered and displayed using a process that will preserve them forever, while also creating a useful object. Preserving tiny shoes…
Michael BushnellMichael BushnellPublisher Building the imposing new City Hall at Fifth and Main streets required the installation of roughly 60 circular caissons, five feet across, to support the massive structure. The…
Dorri PartainDorri PartainContributor Which came first- the deviled egg or the deviled egg plate? The versatile egg has been boiled, sliced, diced, chopped and shredded since ancient times, but the popular…
Michael BushnellMichael BushnellPublisher Dr. Aretas S. McCleary arrived in Kansas City in 1893 from Montgomery County, MO., to practice medicine. Specializing in rectal and gastro-intestinal diseases, McCleary owned and operated the…
Dorri PartainDorri PartainContributor Hey, shoppers! Save 15 cents off the price of the cereal that is “a glowing part of a good breakfast.”As developed by General Mills, “ET” cereal was a…
Michael BushnellMichael BushnellPublisher Every spring between the years 1841 to 1857, immigrants gathered in towns along Missouri’s western border to begin their long westward journey toward Oregon Territory. The road was…
Dorri PartainDecades prior to being officially renamed by the City Council, a two block section of 11th Street had earned the nickname, “Petticoat Lane.” As 11th Street heads east from Grand…
Michael BushnellThis real photo postcard spotlights Mr. Roy Powell, former Publisher of the Holt Rustler and the Gower Rustler, two weekly newspapers that served the southern rural portions of Buchannan and…
Dorri PartainDorri PartainContributor America’s largest cookie sale began with one Girl Scout troop in 1917. The “Mistletoe” troop of Muskogee, Okla., had a successful cookie sale as a service project, and…
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