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Supper, the saints and sentiment
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Here’s the fifth excerpt from “A Year and a Day: July 11, 1964 - July 12, 1965”. In the world beyond the sequestered St. Paul novices, Sonny and Cher were wed, Martin Luther King … more
Excerpted stories in Crawford County newspaper archives 100 Years Ago Dec. 7, 1923 A verdict in favor of the Missouri Pacific Railway, defendant in the $150,000 damage suit brought by … more
Two KCS crews avoid injury in derailment
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Excerpted stories in Crawford County newspaper archives 100 Years Ago Dec. 6, 1923 “Buster” Burlingame, formerly of Pittsburg, and now in Rapid City, S. D., remembered an … more
The Season of Christmas
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Thanksgiving is over and so is Black Friday and the Monday that followed with all those special “deals”.  With so much advertising in the media and reports that Americans will spend … more
Excerpted stories in Crawford County newspaper archives 100 Years Ago Dec. 5, 1923 With many coming in over roads made virtually impassable by recent snow and rain, more than 100 … more
The Bois d’Arc Shibboleth
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We are separated by differences that are small to everyone else, but big to us.  We work hard to make ourselves different, to be a part of a special group. A shibboleth is a test of whether … more
Excerpted stories in Crawford County newspaper archives 100 Years Ago Dec. 2-4, 1923 Chief of Police Ross Armstrong has spent two days in Kansas City viewing persons of questionable … more
Spotting serendipity and grace
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On Wednesday afternoon I was driving south on Broadway with the Labradorian lamenting the loss of our old downtown Christmas decorations — as much for their silver tinsel that flashed in the … more
Excerpted stories in Crawford County newspaper archives 100 Years Ago Dec. 1, 1923 “Athletics for everyone” is the new slogan at the Teachers’ College, it was … more
Excerpted stories in Crawford County newspaper archives 100 Years Ago Nov. 30, 1923 Running without orders in a blinding snowstorm, two inter-urban cars of the Southwest Missouri … more
Where did that hour go?
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Here’s the fourth excerpt from “A Year and a Day: July 11, 1964 - July 12, 1965”. In the world beyond the sequestered novices, “Bewitched” and “Gilligan’s … more
Excerpted stories in Crawford County newspaper archives 100 Years Ago Nov. 29, 1923 “The Birth of a Nation,” after 10 years of disbarment from exhibition in Kansas today … more
Music
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Have you ever stopped to think about what our world would be like without music?  It is central to our well being, setting moods from joy to sorrow and many graduations of sound in … more
Excerpted stories in Crawford County newspaper archives 100 Years Ago Nov. 28, 1923 Sam Dearing, 601 E. Tenth St., who yesterday afternoon surrendered to the Pittsburg police after … more
Excerpted stories in Crawford County newspaper archives 100 Years Ago Nov. 25-27, 1923 Impressive ceremonies this afternoon marked the cornerstone laying at the new mosque of Mirza … more
Circling the horizon
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Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough. — Thornton Wilder, “Our Town” I ran out of Pallucca’s sausage last week, so I drove my … more
The Chapter of Faults 
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Here’s the third excerpt from “A Year and a Day: July 11, 1964 - July 12, 1965”. In the world beyond the sequestered novices, “Mary Poppins’ was released, Arthur Ashe … more
Best-selling author returns to his hometown
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Excerpted stories in Crawford County newspaper archives 100 Years Ago Nov. 24, 1923 Miss Arlene Scott, a Linn County School teacher, was arrested at La Cygne last night and charged … more
PITTSBURG, Kan. — Collectors of automotive memorabilia will be able to add their current license plates to their collections as Gov. Laura Kelly revealed a new design on Wednesday that will be … more
Comet to pass by after 50,000 years
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Excerpted stories in Crawford County newspaper archives 100 Years Ago Nov. 22-23, 1923 A gas fire in Central mine No. 45 at Ringo caused a shutdown of the mine for two days. The shot … more
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