100 years ago, Colonial theater became the brightest spot on Broadway with new electric lights
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3/29/23
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Nearly 1,200 city and school district voters signed petitions to recall school board members
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3/28/23
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Cockerill high school girls’ basketball team closed successful season, defeated every team in SEK
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3/25/23
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Pittsburg Wholesale Grocery Co. lost $28.63 to bad check artist apprehended in Joplin
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3/24/23
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Cane poles, trot lines, snapping turtles and seines, Pt. 2
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This is the second excerpt from Arma native Frank Jeler Jr.’s memories of fishing in S.E. Kansas. — J.T.K
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3/23/23
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Site of the proposed new high school picked for the Pittsburg Unified District 50 years ago
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3/23/23
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Second man died after explosion at T. R. & G. mine No. 1
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3/22/23
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Cherokee schools named winner after zig-zag basketball game against Pittsburg
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3/21/23
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Car salesman with a bullet wound to the head was charged with first-degree murder
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3/18/23
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Pittsburg, Frontenac eliminated in first round of state high school basketball tournament 100 years ago
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3/17/23
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Cane poles, trot lines, snapping turtles and seines
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As spring returns to SE Kansas, this excerpt from “Frogdancer,” Arma native Frank Jeler Jr.’s memoir, brings warm memories of seining for bait and fishing strip pits, ponds, and rivers with dad and grandpa. — J.T.K
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3/16/23
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Another robbery hit the Degen clothing store, $1,500 worth of merchandise taken
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3/16/23
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Singer Amelita Galli-Curci visited Pittsburg for Carney Hall performance
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3/15/23
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Southeast High School robbed, loss amounted to $930
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3/14/23
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Ku Klux Klan members visited a church in Mineral to gift $25
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3/11/23
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85 gallons of whiskey, operational still seized from Angelo Williams’ home
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3/10/23
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Quaint customs in Pittsburg in the 1950s and 60s
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Here’s a recollection by 1964 PHS graduate Nancy Keller Kincaid that, for me, brought both joy and heartbreak. Experiencing Pittsburg, on both the whole length of Broadway and the downtown side streets, was really something back before the mall, big box stores and Amazon arrived.
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3/9/23
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A tornado ripped the roof off St. Patrick’s school in Walnut
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3/9/23
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A warrant was issued for the arrest of a pool hall operator who let boys under 18 play pool without a permit
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3/8/23
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R. W. Williams was arrested after three quarts of whiskey were found in his suitcase
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3/7/23
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