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October 2, 2012
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A royal treat since 1899

October 3, 2012 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 first…

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September 25, 2012
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Playgound image long gone from banks of the Blue River

By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News September 26, 2012 What is now nothing more than a re-routed, re-manufactured drainage ditch north of 63rd Street was once home to thousands of boat…

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September 18, 2012
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Park a respite from city life

By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News September 19, 2012 This 3-acre lake shown on this real photo postcard published by the North American Postcard Company of Kansas City was once part…

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September 11, 2012
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Love on the Swift and Far RY Co.

September 12, 2012 “One smile from you in Kansas City would transfer me to heaven.” So indicates the message on the front of this card designed to resemble a railroad…

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September 5, 2012
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August R. Meyer leaves legacy as parks pioneer

September 5, 2012 Dedicated on June 2, 1909, the August R. Meyer Memorial at 10th and The Paseo is the first memorial to be placed in a Kansas City park.…

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August 28, 2012
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The Blue Valley Creamery wants your cows!

By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News August 29, 2012 “Churners of the celebrated Blue Valley Butter. The largest exclusive manufacturers of pure cream in the world!” Those hearty boasts border the…

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August 21, 2012
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Ruskin Heights tornado still haunts

By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News August 22, 2012 This real photo postcard spotlights the damage from the May 20, 1957, Ruskin Heights tornado that carved a 71-mile path of devastation…

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August 14, 2012
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“The cure for what ails ya”

By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News August 15, 2012 Published by and for the Thornton & Minor Sanitarium, this week’s card shows the second location of the hospital originally started by…

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August 7, 2012
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Scarritt Building’s opulence personified

Built in 1907 by the Scarritt Estate Company (formed in 1903 by the children of the prominent early-day Kansas Citian, Nathan Scarritt, who migrated to Western Missouri in 1848 as…

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July 31, 2012
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Pastoral scene belies bloody siege

By Michael Bushnell Northeast News August 1, 2012 In 1888 when the Forest Hill Cemetery was incorporated, it lay outside the Kansas City city limits at 69th and Troost Avenue.…