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Two escape unhurt from explosion at Mine No. 3
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Excerpted stories in Crawford County newspaper archives
100 Years Ago
Dec. 12, 1923
About 200 persons attended the football banquet for the Manual squad, held at the cafeteria of the …
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Compiled by Phil Burgert
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12/12/23
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Christmas programs
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This is a busy time of year and school Christmas programs are on every school calendar. As I attend public school programs I am somewhat saddened at how rules and regulations have changed them. …
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By Lois Carlson
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12/12/23
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The Grinch strikes in Pittsburg
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Excerpted stories in Crawford County newspaper archives
100 Years Ago
Dec. 9-11, 1923
Plans to rob a filling station on South Broadway at Kansas Avenue may have been foiled yesterday …
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Compiled by Phil Burgert
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12/9/23
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County cracking down on hit-and-run drivers
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Excerpted stories in Crawford County newspaper archives
100 Years Ago
Dec. 8, 1923
County officers are investigating the striking of two pedestrians on the hard surface roads by …
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Compiled by Phil Burgert
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12/8/23
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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 …
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By J.T. Knoll
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12/7/23
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Shopping complex proposed at 20th and US-69 bypass
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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 …
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Compiled by Phil Burgert
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12/7/23
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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 …
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Compiled by Phil Burgert
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12/6/23
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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 …
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By Lois Carlson
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12/5/23
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Gas prices continue to rise; up to 24.3 cents per gallon
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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 …
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Compiled by Phil Burgert
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12/5/23
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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 …
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By Bobby Neal Winters
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12/2/23
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According to parents, USD 246 dress code is unfair
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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 …
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Compiled by Phil Burgert
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12/2/23
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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 …
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By J.T. Knoll
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12/2/23
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50 gallons of wine seized in Frontenac smokehouse
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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 …
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Compiled by Phil Burgert
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12/1/23
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Winter battle ends in tie at Brandenburg Field
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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 …
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Compiled by Phil Burgert
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11/30/23
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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 …
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By J.T. Knoll
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11/30/23
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KSCP faculty’s sculpture featured in French art show
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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 …
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Compiled by Phil Burgert
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11/29/23
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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 …
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By Lois Carlson
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11/28/23
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Man would rather drink good wine than bad water
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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 …
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Compiled by Phil Burgert
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11/28/23
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Gov. Davis says Pitt hasn’t lived up to reputation, but surpassed it
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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 …
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Compiled by Phil Burgert
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11/25/23
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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 …
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By J.T. Knoll
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11/25/23
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