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Date: September 02, 1880
M.J. Morse of Lyons, Kansas, congratulates Kansas Governor St. John on winning a recent nomination and hopes for the same results in November. He also invites the Governor to speak…
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Date: September 01, 1880
A letter to Kansas Governor St. John from George Leaming of Carthage, Missouri, praising the Governor for his efforts on behalf of the temperance movement and expressing the support of…
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Date: August 31, 1880
This letter expresses the need for passage of the temperance amendment. A. W. Dahlsten follows up on a promise made earlier by Kansas Governor St. John, to deliver a temperance…
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Date: August 26, 1880
this letter from John Eastwood of Carlyle, Allen County, Kansas, invites Kansas Governor St. John to attend and address a scheduled temperance rally in September.
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Date: 1912
Members of the Austin Senators minor league team are pictured in this photograph. Seated in the front row, on the far left, is Wiley Taylor, a right-handed pitcher from Louisville,…
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Date: August 20, 1880
A letter from Attorney Lorenzo Westover to Kansas Governor St. John, apparently denouncing the church’s interpretations of the intended legal consequences of the proposed prohibition amendment. He accuses temperance preachers…
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Date: August 20, 1880
This letter from Mrs. C.M. Wilson thanks Kansas Governor St. John, who has authorized her to speak on behalf of the temperance cause.
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Date: August 18, 1880
In this letter from Mound City, Kansas, Governor St. John is invited to be among the speakers at a grand temperance rally to be held September 5, in Linn County,…
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Date: 1876
The Kansas Supreme Court case file of Mary Page Wright vs. Julius H. Noell. Noell contested the election of Wright to the office of Superintendent of Public Instruction in Coffey…
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Date: August 17, 1880
This letter from Ed Secrest invites Kansas Governor St. John to address a Temperance Rally at a grove near Randolph, on September 11th. He promises a brass band, singers and…
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Date: August 12, 1880
A letter to Kansas Governor St. John from a tireless and much-traveled temperance worker, E.B. Reynolds, who refers to the intemperance cause as “rumocracy”. Reynolds summarizes his travels and progress…
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Date: August 11, 1880
A letter to Kansas Governor St. John from attorney W.D. Wyatt of Clinton, Illinois. Wyatt asks the Governor to visit and speak to the temperance faithful in his community on…
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Date: August 12, 1880
In this letter, Mary Shields, president of the Colorado Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, expresses her regret that Kansas Governor St. John cannot address the state union of Colorado and invites…
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Date: August 11, 1880
In this letter, Attorney E.C. Foster of Clinton, Iowa, informs Kansas Governor St. John that his wife, Mrs. Foster, an apparent temperance worker, plans to travel and speak to temperance…
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Date: August 10, 1880
In this letter, J. B. Swart, Cherryvale, Kansas, invites Kansas Governor St. John to speak at a September 16th temperance rally, to be held 10 miles west of Parsons.
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Date: August 07, 1880
A letter from temperance advocate Mary Shields requesting Kansas Governor John St. John speak to her Colorado community in September if convenient. She states “we think that Gov. St. John…
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Date: August 03, 1880
In this letter, Frank Smith of Clay Center wants Kansas Governor St. John to attend a gathering at his grove on August 10th and asks what the expense will be.…
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Date: July 26, 1880
In this letter, Frank Smith of Clay Center is embarrassed to write Kansas Governor St. John that plans for the Governor’s visit have been altered, due to lack of an…
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Date: August 04, 1880
In this letter, Captain W. D. Matthews of Leavenworth urges Kansas Governor St. John to come speak to the Colored people of Leavenworth, who are being persuaded by the “whiskey…
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Date: Between July 01, 1914 and 1915
This black and white photograph shows a group of students and their teachers from the Parkdale Kindergarten class in Topeka, Kansas. The students are dressed in costumes for a Halloween…
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Date: June 30, 1910
This photograph shows a group of students from the Parkdale kindergarten class in Topeka, Kansas.
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Date: August 02, 1880
This is a letter from J.S. Reynolds of Solomon City, Kansas. He believes the temperance workers in his area are not working hard enough to gain support for Kansas Governor…
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Date: July 31, 1880
A letter to Kansas Governor St. John from Mrs. Augustus Wilson, seeking an interview with the Governor and expounding the virtues and work ethics of temperance supporters Misses’ Lang and…
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Date: July 26, 1880
In this letter, David Tatum, a Quaker minister and strong temperance supporter from Ohio, requests from Kansas Governor St. John a signed endorsement, which he intends to use during his…
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Date: July 30, 1880
Kansas Governor St. John receives a letter from a financially destitute temperance supporter from Michigan, who offers his help with the cause in Kansas, if the Governor will finance his…
