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Dorri Partain Contributor Pocket-sized sports schedules are a handy way to keep track of when the hometown team is playing and how to buy tickets, as well as an advertising…
Dorri Partain Contributor Pocket-sized sports schedules are a handy way to keep track of when the hometown team is playing and how to buy tickets, as well as an advertising…
Michael Bushnell Publisher While William J. Lemp Brewing Company did not have a brewing presence in Kansas City, the Romanesque and Gothic-styled, one-story Lemp Depot at 215 E. 20th Street…
Dorri Partain Contributor Whether you use it under your beer glass to collect moisture or on top to keep your beverage fresh, these practical mats have evolved into collector’s items.…
Michael Bushnell Publisher Royal Brewing Company of Weston, Mo., was founded in 1842 by John Georgian. Upon his death in 1857, the operation was purchased by August Kunz of Leavenworth,…
Michael Bushnell Publisher This week we continue our summer postcard series featuring early local brewery operations and their families. No local brewing history would be complete without a focus on…
Dorri Partain Contributor Centuries before the bottling and canning process improved the sanitation of beverages, German laws stipulated that drinking vessels should have a cover over the top. As the…
Dorri Partain Contributor The opener that is most often known as a “church key” was developed to easily open beer bottles and has taken many forms since its invention in…
Michael Bushnell Publisher This summer The Northeast News will be spotlighting local beer history through our weekly historic postcard column. Kansas City has a rich brewing history through families like…
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…
By Dorri Partain Primetime television viewers were invited to, “Meet George Jetson, Jane his wife, daughter Judy, his boy Elroy,” as Hanna-Barbera debuted its second cartoon program aimed at adult…