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Dorri PartainDorri Partain Contributor What type of sweets will you get in your trick-or-treat bag? Once you’ve gobbled your favorites, there are always those that sit at the bottom of the…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher For the month of October, since Halloween everywhere else seems to be cancelled, we here at the House of News will be exploring some really cool locations…
adminOn October 5, 1910, 110 years ago today, Oregon Trail pioneer Ezra Meeker was in Kansas City with his team and led the Industrial Club Parade. The description on the…
Dorri PartainDorri Partain Contributor Ruler fight? Touché! Many school supplies inside the grade school desk provided options for the creative-minded student. When the teacher wasn’t looking, that bottle of glue could…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher The description on the back of this linen-style postcard published by the Curt Teich Company of Chicago, Ill. reads: “The Great Mound is as perfect today as…
Dorri PartainCool tools for school, useful for math class and art class too. The protractor was first used by mariners to create or read maps and navigational charts as early as…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher Continuing our History series of famous Indian Mounds, this week we travel north to St. Paul, Minnesota to Indian Mounds Regional Park, home to six prehistoric Native…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher On the heels of last week’s profile of the Indian Mound located in Historic Northeast Kansas City, we’re traveling to Collinsville, Ill., just on the other side…
Dorri PartainDorri Partain Contributor When the “father of the American Christmas card” needed art supplies for his young daughter, he started a campaign to bring art instruction to all American school…
Dorri PartainDorri Partain Contributor Can you fit all your school supplies inside a cigar box? Elementary school students in the 1960’s often used empty cigar boxes to corral the array of…
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