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State colleges and universities face big changes in state funding under the $50.3 billion budget for state operations in the coming fiscal year. The budget also includes $60 million for an expanded private-school voucher program
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![A portion of the application for a post office for Punjaub/Lawrenceton, dated October 3, 1865. Punjaub is marked through and the notation, “ch[anged] na[me] to ‘Lawrenceton’ Apr. 9/77” added. Post Office Department Records of Site Locations, 1837-1955, National Archives and Records Administration, microfilm M1126, Roll 344, Missouri, St. Francois – St. Louis Counties, image 349.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/8880cbb/2147483647/strip/true/crop/504x284+0+26/resize/1220x688!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F70%2F5a%2Fb13189db4fddbe31417274fddc86%2Fpunjaub.png)
The present-day community of Lawrenceton is about 15 miles west of Ste. Genevieve. It is unincorporated, but in its heyday, it had a post office between 1867 and 1941. The initial town, Punjaub, officially changed to Lawrenceton in 1877. So how did an Ozark border community receive the name of a region in India, then later become Lawrenceton?
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