by Darren McMannis | May 1, 1930 | Accident, Harvey
Cadet Ray Rowe and Pal Killed Newton Youth Is Victim of Army Plane Crash Near Kelly Field Son of S. C. Rowe Instantly Killed When Big Bomber Fell – Will Be Brought Home NEWTON, KS – Associated Press dispatches from San Antonio, telling the shocking news of...
by Darren McMannis | Feb 6, 1928 | Accident, Butler
Augusta Man and 3 Children Are Trapped by Flames AUGUSTA, KS – Jan. 7 – A father and three children were burned to death, the mother is lying at the point of death in a local hospital, and two other children escaped without injury early this morning when...
by Darren McMannis | Nov 24, 1927 | Biography, Sedgwick
PLAYMATES ARE REUNITED AFTER HALF A CENTURY Pioneer Women Find Each Other at Church Reunion WICHITA, KS – After 50 years separation, Mrs. F D Hughes of 1007 South Water, and Mrs. Ellen Winchel of Newkirk Okla., childhood playmates, met at the home of Mrs. G W...
by Darren McMannis | Oct 4, 1926 | Russell, Suicide
RUSSELL – Fred Heard, 22, manager of an oil company, shot and killed himself here late Saturday night after having been rejected by Hilda Nuss, a Russell high school girl. Heard has threatened to take his life for several weeks, but no one had taken him seriously. The...
by Darren McMannis | Jul 10, 1924 | Alcohol, Reno
Patrolman Took His Liquor and Left Him Dry HUTCHINSON, KS – John Seed, a harvester, who claims North Dakota as his home, is the victim of hard luck. He arrived in Hutchinson penniless last night. Going into a South Main street pool hall he noticed a pint of...
