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Several years ago, the Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter staged an annual retail promotion that ended the Saturday before Christmas with drawings for $1,000 in cash. With the help of several businesses
Read more“Make America Great Again” was not original with this administration. President Reagan used it in his 1979 campaign. And it resonated with many Americans then. A sense that America is
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By mid-October 1868, Gen. Philip Sheridan’s plan for an unconventional winter campaign against the Cheyenne and affiliated tribes was complete. Sheridan reasoned that a winter attack in Indian Territory would
Read moreIn order to get the I-R to our printer on time, we prepared two front pages for the Nov. 21 edition. This was necessary because the Ellsworth City Council scheduled
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As 2019 nears an end and we say goodbye to a decade, 2020 affords us an opportunity as a U.S. citizen to make a difference to our state and to
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Some of our best memories of growing up was taking the passenger train from Fort Wayne, Ind.to Chicago to shop for Christmas. It was something my friends and I looked
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The rush was on with the opening of Kansas Territory in 1854. The Kansas River was a natural thoroughfare leading to the west. Its wide valley and deep, fertile soil
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