Remember This? Dial-A-Matic Adding Machine
Dorri Partain Northeast News The Dial-A-Matic Automatic Adding Machine needs no batteries or solar power to calculate the answer. A series of connected rotary wheels and gears could be dialed…
Dorri Partain Northeast News The Dial-A-Matic Automatic Adding Machine needs no batteries or solar power to calculate the answer. A series of connected rotary wheels and gears could be dialed…
Dorri Partain Northeast News The aroma of fresh-roasted coffee wafting around Kansas City is not a recent trend. In 1899, Frank Ennis (1866-1962) became Kansas City’s first coffee roaster. As…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News 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…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News Advertising postcards such as these were used widely by automobile dealers from the early 1920s through the golden age of picture postcards, the late 1950s. These…
Dorri Partain Northeast News How many miles can you drive between fuel-ups? This handy mileage meter, compliments of your local Skelly dealer, makes it easy to calculate. Just line up…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News Print advertisements placed by the Oldsmobile Company in 1939 tout the new Olds “60” as the “car that tamed the Belgian Block,” referring to how well…
Dorri Partain Northeast News Can’t find your car keys? The earliest models of automobiles had neither doors, roofs, nor keys. Many resembled carriages, so the term ”horseless carriage” was quite…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News William H. “Dad” Martin of Ottawa, Kansas, is considered to be the father of the exaggerated postcard. Some of his better work featured huge ears of…
Dorri Partain Northeast News Saving a summer’s bountiful garden harvest for later in the year was essential for homemakers decades ago and the invention of the reusable glass jar made…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News Today is National Cheeseburger Day! With that, we acknowledge that some of the best burgers can be found in the most interesting places. For example, St.…