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Caption from this 1950 Lawrence Journal-World picture reads:

WIN TITLE AGAIN—For the second year the Tonganoxie baseball team captured the C. C. Carl league championship. They finished the season with 15 wins against one defeat. They are (top row…

LaVerne Spears is sitting in a stock tank fully clothed with nice shoes on after getting dunked. It was part of the Tall Corn Festival in Rossville, Kansas.

Mr. LaVerne H. Spears was born on a farm near Wamego, Kansas, on September 20, 1906. He married Edna Vilven in 1927. They moved to Rossville, Kansas, in 1928. He was mayor from 1955-1965. He was elected to the Kansas State Legislature in 1964 and…

Mr. LaVerne H. Spears was born on a farm near Wamego, Kansas, on September 20, 1906. He married Edna Vilven in 1927. They moved to Rossville, Kansas, in 1928. He was mayor from 1955-1965. He was elected to the Kansas State Legislature in 1964 and…

This photo of J. Laverne Zlatnik and his wife, Velma F. Zlatnik, was taken at the Kansas Day Celebration at the Delia Grade School in 2001.

Larry Kokenge, an employee of Continental Grain, Rossville, took a moisture sample from a truckload of corn Friday. The corn harvest is nearly complete and the bean harvest is starting.

Photo by Brandon Magette

Commercial building in row, rectangle, one story, three front bays, recessed side entrance, stuccoed stone sidewall and brick front, gable roof and parapet. Storefront altered with modern metal screen.

Corner commercial building in row, rectangle, one story, three front bays with oblique entrance, one side bay, brick, flat roof, triple display windows in wood frame between cast iron posts, paired glazed wooden entrance doors with overhead transom. …

Commercial building in row, rectangle, one story, three front bays, recessed side entrance, brick and stone walls, gable roof and parapet. Ornament consists of a projecting metal cornice with brackets. Store-front altered with modern brick and…

Photo of lumber yard at southwest corner of 3rd and Delaware Streets