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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1994
Page
3
A humorous list recounts famous works and their improbable writing times. It cites The Grapes of Wrath taking five months, 1984 taking twenty seven months, Faust sixty years, Samuel Johnson's Dictionary eleven years, and Tennyson's Crossing the Bar fifteen minutes, attributing the facts to World Features Syndicate.
A retrospective from April 1894 recalls a baseball game at Ottawa University between OU and Baker University with umpire Harry Davis and 15 cent admission. It also recounts a harrowing 1864 Kansas justice scene near Ottawa, plus mid-20th century floods, a unique lodging house, a 1969 bowling state champs from Ottawa, and a famed marathon runner from Lawrence to Ottawa with health troubles.
Reader condemns the April 20 Far Side strip as insulting. They warn Satan is real and hell is not a joke, urging turning to Jesus for eternal life. The message references a near-miss involving their elderly mother and ends with a question about who removed a four way stop sign.
Residents near Casey's and Eisenhower urge City Hall to review nuisance rules after repeated dog barking and traffic concerns near a nursing home. Call 242-4700 to participate in the community forum between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. Mon–Thu and noon Saturday to 6 a.m. Monday.
The piece argues U.S. policy in the Balkan war is morally complicit and militarily ineffective. It laments the UN as a faulty peacemaker, calls for Congress to assert foreign policy authority, and cites Bosnian vice president Ejup Ganic on reversing ethnic cleansing and arming Bosnia to resist Serbian conquest.
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