Opinion

Trivia Too

By Roy Roberts This month is Black History Month, and times have certainly changed since my first recollection of black people at age five, 95… Login to continue reading Login…

Beardstown Steam Laundry, circa 1903.   Photo courtesy of Donna McCoy

Looking Back

By Leigh Morris Ever since Adam and Eve were booted out of Eden, humans have had to wrestle with the problem of laundry. In the… Login to continue reading Login…

Trivia Too

By Roy Roberts You need to be old to remember when farmers farmed with horses and hired men came during thrashing time, sat at your… Login to continue reading Login…

Wyatt Earp

Looking Back

By Leigh Morris By mid-1869, railroad construction in and around Beardstown was in full swing and East Fourth Street was busy earning its colorful reputation.… Login to continue reading Login…

Roy Roberts

Trivia Too

  By Roy Roberts Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. There is hardly a way I can thank everyone for the many birthday greetings sent… Login to continue reading Login…

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain upon returning from the now infamous Munich Conference of 1938.

Looking Back

By Leigh Morris “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.” – Winston Churchill Appeasement. This again is much… Login to continue reading Login…

Trivia Too

By Roy Roberts I made it all the way to 100! When I think of everything that has happened during those years – inventions, activities,… Login to continue reading Login…

Editorial

By Bill Mitchell The Scholarship Institute has released the results of a survey showing the average mean SAT score by state. Pretty boring stuff, right?… Login to continue reading Login…

An example of cursive, aka longhand

Looking Back

By Leigh Morris Cursive: Adjective. Flowing; not disconnected; specif., designating writing in which the strokes of the letters are joined in each word. Noun. 1.… Login to continue reading Login…