Old Hometown Snapshots From Historic Kansas Papers
A collage of brief notes from 19th and early 20th century Lawrence and nearby papers describe a new post office lamp and green paint, Eli Perkins lectures, a novel automatic car coupler, a 1899 curfew ordinance and city water issues, Cuban chickenpox quarantines, and a 1924 Santa arrival via airplane or train with holiday lights and a toy electric town window display in Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eli Perkins
Blake
Fowler
Cahill
Lawrence
Santa Claus
Kansas Electric Power Company
Media Myth and Power in Modern News Culture
Jonah Goldberg argues the media inflates its own power and influence across the political spectrum. He compares press confidence to the bootlegger Baptist dynamic, notes shrinking industry size, and urges truth telling over narrative control.
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Bruce Yandle
Donald Trump
Trump
Michael Shellenberger
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Jonah Goldberg
Tribune Content Agency
Three Januarys and a Kennedy in a tense America
Jamie Stiehm reflects on American history and current politics through poetry from Kennedy and Whitman to Langston Hughes. He contrasts past presidents with Donald Trump and critiques a fragile democracy, citing Frost and Keats as moral barometers.
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John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
New England
Robert Frost
Frost
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Barack Obama
Bill
Clinton
Harry Truman
Dwight Eisenhower
Lyndon Johnson
Walt Whitman
America
North
South
Langston Hughes
Donald Trump
Washington Post
Trump
Pete Hegseth
Fox
Pentagon
John Keats
London
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Jamie Stiehm
Creators
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Daily 15
Kansas Tribune
Lawrence Daily Journal
ACO
Lawrence Daily Journal-World
Sarah Parsons
Walter Lippmann
Noam Chomsky
GVIDE
Journal-World
SHEN
The
Lawrence Journal-World
Chad Lawhorn
Kim Callahan
Allison Tait
Canada
Mexico
Kash Patel
FBI
Elon Musk
Musk
Twitter
Senate
Paul Revere
JamieStiehm.com
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!