Looking Back - The Morning Sun

Interest in first aid and rescue contest grows

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Excerpted stories in Crawford County newspaper archives 100 years ago May 3-5, 1925 Interest is growing apace in the state first aid and mine rescue meet to be held on … more

Compiled by Joshua Smith | 5/3/25

To ban … or not to ban?

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“Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.” — William Shakespeare Our Talking Heads group that meets weekly at the Pittsburg Public … more

By J.T. Knoll | 5/2/25

Saturn on the job tonight

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Excerpted stories in Crawford County newspaper archives 100 years ago May 2, 1925 The Kansas City Southern has obtained control of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas but does not intend … more

Compiled by Joshua Smith | 5/2/25

A group of girl scouts from Troop 100 were treated to a flight around the city Wednesday afternoon as a final lesson in a four-week course in meteorology and aviation. The instruction in the course was provided by Jim Goodson, owner of the Pittsburg Flying Service. Mrs. John McNay, leader of the Girl Scout group, said the girls would be interviewed over the material in the course before receiving their badges.

Gasoline sales tax goes into effect

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Excerpted stories in Crawford County newspaper archives 100 years ago May 1, 1925 Carney Hall and the entire College campus was a beehive of activities today. The fifth annual … more

Compiled by Joshua Smith | 5/1/25

The Midland Theater

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The Crawford County Cancer Unit invited all women of Crawford County to attend a free movie at the Midland Theater in Pittsburg on April 30, 1958. Although the movie the Midland was advertising was … more

By J.T. Knoll | 5/1/25

A crew of about 15 volunteers worked all day Saturday to paint, repair trim and replace a porch on Carolyn Scholes’ house at 210 W. First St. as part of Hearts and Hammers. Sholes said it was a “blessing from God that so many people could be so generous.” At right, Jenny Lord, a volunteer from Circle K at Pittsburg State University puts a coat of paint on Scholes’ house. Nearly 300 volunteers pitched in to work on about two dozen houses in Pittsburg.

Antique PO boxes replaced

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Excerpted stories in Crawford County newspaper archives 100 years ago Apr. 30, 1925 Oscar Ward, Pittsburg clothier, was today appointed county commissioner for the third … more

Compiled by Joshua Smith | 4/30/25

ASK Award

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Excerpted stories in Crawford County newspaper archives 100 years ago Apr. 29, 1925 The Labette County commissioners brought suit in the supreme court today in an attempt to … more

Compiled by Joshua Smith | 4/29/25

Dog helped save life

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Excerpted stories in Crawford County newspaper archives 100 years ago Apr. 26-28, 1925 Matt Walters, president of District 14, United Mine Workers, announced today that the … more

Compiled by Joshua Smith | 4/26/25

Musings on poets and Poetry Month

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April is the cruelest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Memory and desire, stirring / Dull roots with spring rain. — T.S. Eliot I may have mentioned … more

By J.T. Knoll | 4/25/25

Pity the poor movie censor

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Excerpted stories in Crawford County newspaper archives 100 years ago Apr. 25, 1925 Preparations are completed for the eleventh annual spring music festival at the … more

Compiled by Joshua Smith | 4/25/25

Frontenac man becomes deputy state oil inspector

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Excerpted stories in Crawford County newspaper archives 100 years ago Apr. 24, 1925 Between 200 and 300 miners in the north field held a mass meeting in the baseball park at … more

Compiled by Joshua Smith | 4/23/25

Robert W. Hart, KSTC professor of mathematics, enjoyed being the disc jockey for a musical recollections program that aired in the summer of 1950. It’s unclear whether this was a campus program or went out by radio to the general public. At the time broadcasting students worked both on campus and in the studio of KSEK radio in Pittsburg.

Keeping the tables turning

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Professor Hart is getting ready to cue up on the turntable one of the new, longer-playing, 12-inch, 33 1/3 RPM records introduced by Columbia that replaced the 78 RPMs in 1948. Hit songs in 1950 … more

By J.T. Knoll | 4/23/25

Styrofoam’s not a log raft, nor is the creek in Lincoln Park anything like the Mississippi River, but both were close enough to the real thing for Eddie and Donald Miller of 604 E. Elm to enjoy Tuesday. Eddie, 8, in front, and Donald, 10 being up the creek without a paddle, stuck around long enough for the photographer to get their names, but the girl in the background got away.

Kansas is only state getting lunch funding

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Excerpted stories in Crawford County newspaper archives 100 years ago Apr. 23, 1925 Mrs. Oscar Lofgren of Lindsborg was unanimously elected president of the Kansas Federation of … more

Compiled by Joshua Smith | 4/23/25

Dragons rebound with sweep

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Excerpted stories in Crawford County newspaper archives 100 years ago Apr. 22, 1925 Temperature a month in advance of the season sped the growth of Kansas crops during the past … more

Compiled by Joshua Smith | 4/22/25

We got it all worked out

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‘Me and Jesus got our own thing goin’. Me and Jesus got it all worked out. Me and Jesus got our own thing goin’. We don’t need anybody to tell us what it’s all … more

J.T. Knoll | 4/19/25

Architect David Fish, center, discusses art center needs with David Merano, gallery director at the Wichita Center for the Arts. Fish and several other representatives of the Pittsburg Arts Council toured the Wichita center on a fact-finding mission Monday.

Shocker received shock

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Excerpted stories in Crawford County newspaper archives 100 years ago Apr. 19-21, 1925 Tony Desota put a couple of sticks of dynamite in the Elk River at Ginger Blue last week … more

Compiled by Joshua Smith | 4/19/25

If these walls could talk

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PITTSBURG, Kan. — Many long-time residents of Pittsburg and the surrounding area have fond memories of Ramsay’s Department Store on the 600 block of North Broadway. Some of the most … more

By Dustin R. Strong / [email protected] | 4/19/25

Grenadiers, in the foreground wearing bearskin caps, provide covering fire as a Light Company prepares to drive off colonial militia drawn up in the trees.

Consequences through the Ages

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Author’s Note: In this installment, Albert “Alby” Louder bears witness to what he has feared most — open conflict with the Crown. DRS April 19, 1775 … more

By Dustin R. Strong / [email protected] | 4/19/25

The “Keep Out” sign posted at the back of the lot next to First State Bank, in the 400 block of North Broadway, will soon be taken down and customers will be welcome to park in the parking lot being constructed. Wrecking crews tore down the structure between the bank and the new Ragon’s store in the past several weeks to make way for the new bank parking lot.

Fake money real problems

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Excerpted stories in Crawford County newspaper archives 100 years ago Apr. 18, 1925 Pittsburgers are warned again to be on the lookout for worthless $10 bills, the spurious … more

Compiled by Joshua Smith | 4/18/25

Getting decked out on Easter

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It used to be that getting dressed up for Mass on Easter was a must. Often it involved buying (or making) new dresses, hats and accessories for women and girls; and buying new shirts, ties, and … more

By J.T. Knoll | 4/17/25