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This 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…
This 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…
By Michael Bushnell This early hand-colored postcard shows the Sugar Creek Refinery, Standard Oil Co., near Kansas City, Mo. The Missouri River and the operations of the refinery can easily…
This week’s historic postcard is a Chrome era Tetricolor postcard published by James Teterick of Kansas City, Mo. The written description on the back reads, “The old and the new”.…
By Michael Bushnell The Hotel Victoria, located at the northeast corner of Ninth and McGee streets, was a fine, substantial hotel when it originally opened in 1888. It was especially…