Strawberry Hill Ethnic Heritage Lives Today
The Strawberry Hill district in Kansas City Kansas preserves a Slavic heritage with Croatian inscriptions, church spires, and local businesses like Skradski's Funeral Home and Grisnik's sausage shop. Immigrants from Yugoslavia arrived in the 1890s, fearing dangerous packing-house work and meager pay, first settling near the Fowler and Armour plants in the Kaw River Bottoms.
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Strawberry Hill
Kansas City
Kansas
St. John the Baptist Catholic Church
Skradski
Grisnik
Yugoslavia
America
Croatia
Cunard Line
Austria
Bill March
University of Kansas
Fowler & Armour Packing
Kaw River
The Kansas Immigrant Story of Strawberry Hill Community
The narrative traces Croatian and Yugoslav immigration to Strawberry Hill Kansas City Kansas, highlighting church life at St John the Baptist, the 1903 flood-driven relocation, 1908 Zagreb frescoes, 1932 church fire damage, and the St Johns Catholic Club’s role in youth athletics and Croatian heritage. It notes 1920s prosperity in meat packing and immigrant entrepreneurship, and credits the University of Kansas series and supporters for documenting the history.
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Strawberry Hill Bluffs
Strawberry Hill
March
Martin Krmpetich
Croatia
Kan
Zagreb
St. John the Baptist Catholic Church
St. John's Catholic Club
St. John's Catholic
Kansas City
Kansas
Dear Ann Landers readers offer guidance on teen distress and dinner plans
A Tennessee mother seeks help about her 16-year-old son and a 15-year-old girl who writes frequent, strange letters. Ann Landers urges contacting the girl's mother, suggests possible counseling, and hopes the girl gets help. Additional letters discuss a stepdaughter’s unreliable dinner RSVPs and raffle prize confusion, with practical advice to set firm boundaries and acceptable outcomes.
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Ann Landers
Jack
Tennessee
Fading Garments and Caffeine Warnings Across Everyday Life
Consumers face more fading garments due to cheaper dyes and labelling gaps while guidance on washing limits fading. Kansas State experts urge testing new fabrics, sorting laundry, and watching for vat dyed labels. Separately FDA cautions pregnant women about caffeine with ongoing studies and industry notes on human variability.
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Howe
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Mary Clarke
Kansas State University Extension
Clarke
National Coffee Association
Ottawa community clubs and meetings schedule
Thursday events include Eagles Auxiliary at 8 p.m. and Social Hour at 1 30 p.m. Older groups meet at Trinity United Methodist Church and Youth Center. Friday listings feature Retta Conclave True Kindred Naomi Club Baxter Community Club potluck at 7 30 p.m. and Senior Club at 1 30 p.m. at the Youth Center.
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Eagles
Baxter
Social Order of Beauceant
Ottawa Amateur Radio Association
Trinity United Methodist Church
Ottawa Jaycee Jaynes
Ottawa Motorcycle Club
RETTA
True Kindred
Naomi Club
Baxter Community Club
RMH Auxiliary Volunteers Meet for Tray Favors
Ransom Memorial Hospital Auxiliary members met on Monday and learned to operate the microwave in the gift shop. They announced local groups may donate between 457 and 60 tray favors for patient meals, with Judy Scott or Louise Dietz handling donations.
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Ransom Memorial Hospital Auxiliary
Judy Scott
Louise Dietz
Tulip potholders set pattern 7108 and craft catalog sale
Pattern 7108 with transfers pieces and directions for tulip holders and a decorative basket. Catalog offers 3 free patterns inside and lists numerous craft books and patterns with prices and mailing details. Send name address size and style number to Alice Brooks at The Ottawa Herald Needlecraft Dept.
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Alice Brooks
Ottawa Herald
Needlecraft Dept
Old Chelsea Station
New York
N.Y
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University of Kansas Division of Continuing Education
Kanu Radio
Kansas Committee For the Humanities
National Public Radio
National Endowment For the Humanities
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Dear Ann
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Monticello
Mont
Dan
Cherry Kinsinger
Jereldine Howe
Kansas State University
Shade
Walnut
Ottawa
H.H. Goods & Misc
Sears F.F
Wards
Majesty
Singer
Nice
Duncan Phyfe
B&w
Margaret Hager
Claude
Harold Myers
Clerks
Wanda Kirkland
Elaine Roberts
W. 19Th
H.H
Kenmore
Ea. Am
Chrysler
Wm, A. Story
Claude Myers
Prudential
Meone
Call Loren Middlebusher
New Jersey
Prudeal
RMH Auxiliary
Pveice Brookes
Andy Siding Oi
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!