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If you break down, do it in Ellsworth
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Ignore Scrooge. Reject the Grinch. Believe. There really are Christmas miracles.
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“The year 1855 has passed away and 1856 has quietly stepped upon the platform. Quietly did we say?
Read moreResidents investing in community helps us all
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By late Dec. 1893, Topeka’s sporting crowd was all abuzz over the coming glove match between their hometown boy, Frank Bradshaw, and Kansas City’s Jack O’Keefe. A glove match was the term used to differentiate from the brutal sport of bare knuckle fighting, generally identified as a prize fight.
Read moreThere is a great divide between the voices of Kansans and the legislators who are shutting down their right to be heard.
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Thursday morning, Dec. 19, 1872, the citizens of Ellsworth, Kan., woke up to see the ground covered with snow. First thoughts on beholding the beautiful snow were that it might interfere with the Festival and Ball that evening at the brand new Grand Central Hotel.
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