Old Home Town – 100 years ago

From the Lawrence Daily World for Dec. 1, 1907: “Fire which was discovered at 3:45 this morning destroyed a large part of the $40,000 stock of the Boston Store in Ottawa and did $1,500 in damage to the building in which the store was located. Rumors are afloat about the cause but no official word has come. : The managing editor of the Kansas City Post who was shot last week by a disgruntled employee has died. H.J. Groves is dead and Richard Horne, the editorial writer who shot him, is charged with assault with intent to kill. This is quite a newspaper scandal in this area.”