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adminBy MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News July 17, 2013 What became known as “The Junction” was actually the intersection of three primary streets in early downtown Kansas City with Vaughn’s Diamond…
adminBy MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News July 10, 2013 If you’re a fan of Lake Ozark, Mo., and everything that is the Lake of the Ozarks, then remember seeing the Larry-Don…
adminBy MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News July 3, 2013 During the American Revolution, a number of patriots made flags for our new nation. Among them were Cornelia Bridges, Elizabeth (Betsy) Ross…
adminBy MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News June 26, 2013 From a statistical standpoint, the 1908 flood in Kansas City was not as disastrous as the 1903 or 1951 floods. In June…
adminBy MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News June 19, 2013 Making the floods of 1903 and 1908 seem insignificant in comparison, is the flood of 1951, which was dubbed “The Great Flood”…
adminBy MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News June 12, 2013 Seems fitting with the spring rains we’re experiencing that we run a photo postcard showing a scene in the West Bottoms during…
adminBy MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News June 5, 2013 Just in time for Sugar Creek’s annual Slavic Festival this weekend, we bring you this postcard published by the…
adminBy MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News May 29, 2013 Published by the Missouri Pacific & Iron Mountain Railroad by Buxton & Skinner Litho, St. Louis. This promotional postcard bears…
adminBy MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News May 22, 2013 William H. “Dad” Martin of Ottawa, Kan., is considered to be the father of the exaggerated postcard. Some of…
adminBy MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News May 15, 2013 The great Kansas City real estate developer J.C. Nichols is not known to blunder often, especially in matters of real estate.…
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