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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1995
Page
3
Editorial excerpts praise Baker University Kansas oldest private liberal arts college. They reflect on its charter in 1858 and aim to emulate its faith based education. The piece questions modern higher education emphasis on faith and values amid KU's shadow.
A reader questions why The Herald did not include city and county paper carriers in a Christmas greeting. An editor notes a Dec 23 full page ad thanked friends and neighbors and says the omission was a mistake. Readers are invited to share thoughts by phone.
From the 1895 Ottawa Daily Republican, W W Fraser & Co at 107 109 Main advertised deep discounts on hose and yarns with prices for ladies and children and assorted fabrics. the same issue carried a satire about a Sycamore street incident.
The author argues against U S and NATO involvement in Bosnia, calling for political change in 1996. They claim no strategic or tactical U S interest exists, condemn sending peacekeepers, and accuse Clinton and political elites of using troops for re election. They urge support for troops while opposing the mission and its leaders.
A memoir recounts an 8 and 10 year old’s hidden childhood paradise named Narnia near Grant Street in Topeka. What began as a forested dirt road with wildboard scenery became a modern Ottawa Industrial Complex, turning streams into drainage ditches and the beloved culvert sign into a sea of concrete.
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