adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News This Halloween, we depart from our traditional jack-o-lantern or witching-style postcard and offer this literary postcard published by the Webb Freyschlag Company of Kansas City. The…
adminDorri Partain Northeast News The Dial-A-Matic Automatic Adding Machine needs no batteries or solar power to calculate the answer. A series of connected rotary wheels and gears could be dialed…
adminDorri Partain Northeast News The aroma of fresh-roasted coffee wafting around Kansas City is not a recent trend. In 1899, Frank Ennis (1866-1962) became Kansas City’s first coffee roaster. As…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News The roots of today’s American Royal can be traced to 1899 when the fledgling event was referred to as the National Hereford Show. Billed as the…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News Advertising postcards such as these were used widely by automobile dealers from the early 1920s through the golden age of picture postcards, the late 1950s. These…
adminDorri Partain Northeast News How many miles can you drive between fuel-ups? This handy mileage meter, compliments of your local Skelly dealer, makes it easy to calculate. Just line up…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News Print advertisements placed by the Oldsmobile Company in 1939 tout the new Olds “60” as the “car that tamed the Belgian Block,” referring to how well…
adminDorri Partain Northeast News Can’t find your car keys? The earliest models of automobiles had neither doors, roofs, nor keys. Many resembled carriages, so the term ”horseless carriage” was quite…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News William H. “Dad” Martin of Ottawa, Kansas, is considered to be the father of the exaggerated postcard. Some of his better work featured huge ears of…
adminDorri Partain Northeast News Saving a summer’s bountiful garden harvest for later in the year was essential for homemakers decades ago and the invention of the reusable glass jar made…
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