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adminMichael Bushnell Publisher This week we begin a two-card Historic Postcard series that centers on the dedication of the Liberty Memorial site 100 years ago during the American Legion Convention.…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News This week we offer a circa 1913 Detroit Publishing Phost-Tint postcard showing the original Hannibal Bridge over the Missouri River, taken during a period of high…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher General Hospital, or City Hospital as it was originally referred to, got its start in 1870 on a hill overlooking OK Creek near 22nd Street and McCoy…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher This week’s historic postcard is a companion piece to our Remember This column that features Reddy Kilowatt, the advertising mascot for the Kansas City Power and Light…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher Trans World Airlines launched its first jet service on January 25, 1959, between New York-Idlewild and San Francisco. The route was chosen by TWA’s then-President Howard Hughes…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher When Isaac “Ike” Katz was 13 years old, he quit school and went to work for the Great Northern Railway selling newspapers to help support his family…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher Who’s always smiling, never sad? It’s Whizzo! Who makes the boys and girls so glad, Whizzo. He’s a merry fellow with a big red shiny nose, dressed…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher The congregation of the Independence Boulevard Christian Church (IBCC) was established in 1886 and by the turn of the 20th century, its expanding membership was quickly outgrowing…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher Gateway Arch National Park is a roughly 91-acre national park located on the original site of what were some of St. Louis’s oldest buildings, including the Old…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher Nestled in a valley just to the north of Colorado’s Sangre de Cristo mountain range in Southern Colorado on the eastern edge of the San Luis Valley…
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