Stars and Stripes lore
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News July 3, 2013 During the American Revolution, a number of patriots made flags for our new nation. Among them were Cornelia Bridges, Elizabeth (Betsy) Ross…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News July 3, 2013 During the American Revolution, a number of patriots made flags for our new nation. Among them were Cornelia Bridges, Elizabeth (Betsy) Ross…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News June 26, 2013 From a statistical standpoint, the 1908 flood in Kansas City was not as disastrous as the 1903 or 1951 floods. In June…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News June 19, 2013 Making the floods of 1903 and 1908 seem insignificant in comparison, is the flood of 1951, which was dubbed “The Great Flood”…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News June 12, 2013 Seems fitting with the spring rains we’re experiencing that we run a photo postcard showing a scene in the West Bottoms during…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News June 5, 2013 Just in time for Sugar Creek’s annual Slavic Festival this weekend, we bring you this postcard published by the…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News May 29, 2013 Published by the Missouri Pacific & Iron Mountain Railroad by Buxton & Skinner Litho, St. Louis. This promotional postcard bears…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News May 22, 2013 William H. “Dad” Martin of Ottawa, Kan., is considered to be the father of the exaggerated postcard. Some of…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News May 15, 2013 The great Kansas City real estate developer J.C. Nichols is not known to blunder often, especially in matters of real estate.…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News May 1, 2013 Wednesday, May 7, a regular day: The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Philadelphia Phillies 6-4, the Chicago Cubs beat the Brooklyn…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News May 1, 2013 This 1942 Max Bernstein linen postcard depicts the Aircraft Assembly Plant, Fairfax Industrial District, Kansas City, Kan. Sent on Feb. 11, 1942,…