(From June 13, 1985) Somewhere I read that the average pharmacy stocks 3,000 prescription and non-prescription drugs. The pharmacy is an important part of our lives, and it garners a considerable part…
Photo Memories from The Regional News Archives
From May 2, 196350 Years Ago This Week Mike Ditka (center), burly Chicago Bears end, takes the first shovelful of earth as formal ground-breaking ceremonies were held Saturday for Mike Ditka’s Willo…
Virginia Richards: What a disaster
(From Nov. 14, 1985) “Who are you rooting for, Mom?” The World Series was about to start, and that was a good question. Who would it be, the Cardinals or the Royals? I grew up 90 miles south of Kansas…
High technology is beyond me
This is the age of the computer. They are putting computers into the schools and teaching kids in the primary grades to use them. I wouldn’t know a silicon chip if I met one and “software” means fla…
Spring migration
(From May 2, 1985) Comes now the time for our spring migration from Texas back to Wisconsin. These last two weeks in Texas, with temperatures in the mid to high 80s, have been a hint of what is to c…
Virginia Richards
A teacher remembers (From April 25, 1985) A school teacher forgets most of the children she teaches. She remembers only the very good and the very bad ones, the very bright and the very dull ones an…
Paragraphs From This Old Stump
(From Nov. 13, 1980) If y’all hear people talking like this, you are “shore” in southwest Texas: “He’s a good ole boy.” “The price is tin cents.” “It’s smackdab in the middle.” “That dude is sm…
Paragraphs From This Old Stump
A Whitetail Deer stood still and posed in an early morning encounter last week. She seemed to have no fear of photographers, Viola Palo, editor of the Iron River, (Wis.) newspaper reported recently.…