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to nave a new notei. hut as a citizen I am here to protest againstthe destruction of this historic old building-, (the Eldridge House.“If we were appreciative of our history as Kansas men and womer. we would say toiMr Hutson: “Go over on the other corner sr.d buiidthis% * « * m3-Mayor HollidasVddressents99your hotel. Kansas v:H n building and keep it forever, r. memorial of the days when Kansaswas nursed within its walls. “Kansas Began in Lawrence**“Kansas began about a st tic's throw /Y:m this corner, one day ;r.“The p Fog re s. dm of evert community has some outstanding ov-which mark its evolution into cycles. From the founding of our historic city down to the presentday we may with a glance backwards divide the years into periodsout-standing ev-*1355, when some covered wagons drove ;p to an md mg ca!u:. thv-stood there, and began to unload women and children and household01 progression; ents. a policy adopted, a vision expressed, a reform outlined, a public building erected, a University orated, an Indian school made possible, a far-seeing plan outlined, beautiful park* provided, busy andpr*' h table industries established, paving begun, a wonderful spirit'ofam! made ready to stay, he beginning of Law-*goods,That wasrence, the beginningrence was the beginning of Kansas. “Kansas was Lawrence in—and Lawrence was Kansas. Ifcommunitydemort-co-opera'tion s*rated. all of these essentially different developments mark our radual growth from our humbler*11 litd a \La wForwould have been no Kansas, until the coming of the Emigrant Aid party to establish Lawrence,and, • incidentally, to openfor freedom, there was no p ;rp -. e out here. There was nothin that time ex-u n th efightr~upto Kansas ccpt the name, a broad expanse ofprairie grass, some sage brush andbeginnings to our prosperous present.And yet it is not .the’ outstanding, we;!-rernerr.hered events th vw •are fundamentally responsible for our present. Each family who h isbuiit a h me. each citizen who Y .*sines?, lt;ach singtr*ounded awho hassung a song, each preacher. Hvver, d c^or wh *. has done 1duty, ear'.- carplt; nter M ho has driven a nail, each bricklayer who hoslaid a brick, each and every one lt;(Continued on Page 2)*
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Lawrence Daily Journal World
Lawrence, Kansas, US
Sat, Aug 22, 1925
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