Old Hometown Snippets From Lawrence and Topeka
Compiled notes from the Daily 5 Kansas Tribune and Lawrence Daily Journal on May 9 1874 and May 9 1899. Items include weather and crop prospects hail threats canning factory ideas fishing trips University events hoboes being rounded up and routine city duties such as street repairs and new soda water fountains.
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Kansas Tribune
Lawrence
Kansas University
Topeka
Biological Club
Wagner
Nebraska
Missouri
Massachusetts
Absent Voter Turnout Reflections From a Political Moment
George Will argues that 2024’s abnormal elections prompt reconsideration of voting as civic duty. He notes rational ignorance, media shifts, and the possibility that principled abstention could signal demand for better choices beyond a two party Edsel-like dynamic.
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Soviet Union
NATO
Financial Times
Simon Kuper
U.S
Kuper
Ford Motor Co
Edsel
United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Bill Clinton
Robert Dole
George Will
Washington Post News Service & Syndicate
Tragedy, Trump, and a Congress at War with Itself
Jamie Stiehm argues that Trump pulled out the worst in America, likening current strife in Congress to King Lear. He notes 44 representatives quitting in disgust, cites Marjorie Taylor Greene’s clashes with Speaker Mike Johnson, and warns of the long lasting damage to national unity and civics.
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America
Trump
Gloucester
Congress
House of Representatives
Representatives
Georgia
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Senate
Greene
House
Mike Johnson
R-La
Johnson
Ukraine
Hakeem Jeffries
N-Y
Kevin McCarthy
Freedom Caucus
Jack Smith
Tim Scott
J.D. Vance
Joe Biden
Republic
Departments of Justice and
Environmental Protection
King Lear
Capitol
United Daughters of the Confederacy
William Faulkner
Pickett
Gettysburg
Union
Jamie Stiehm
Creators Syndicate
Local Letters to the Editor Submission Details
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