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Noah Anderson to Governor John St. John

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A letter from Noah Anderson and John Moore asking Kansas Governor St. John to superintend a grand temperance excursion, from Newton to Washington City, on March 4, 1881.

H. A. Clifford to Governor John St. John

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A letter to Kansas Governor St. John from H. A. Clifford requesting that the Governor speak before the Galena Lodge of Good Templars.

H. A. Thompson to Governor John St. John

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A letter from Reverend H.A. Thompson of Ohio in which he expresses interest in the temperance amendment of Kansas, and invites Kansas Governor St. John to address a mass meeting in January, 1881.

J. J. Elmendorf to Governor John St. John

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A letter from J. J. Elmendorf to Kansas Governor St. John requesting he stop and deliver a temperance speech in Chicago as he travels to New York.

G. W. Arbuckle to Governor John St. John

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A letter from G.W. Arbuckle requesting that Kansas Governor St. John renew his railroad pass for another sixty days.

Thomas Burrows to Governor John St. John

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A letter from Thomas Burrows, a cleric from Emporia, to Kansas Governor St. John showing support for the temperance amendment.

Neely Thompson to Governor John St. John

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A letter in which Kansas Free Press editor, Neely Thompson, calls Kansas Governor St. John's attention to a wording discrepancy in the voting tickets mailed to the State Central Committee.

Eli Johnson to Governor John St. John

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A letter from Eli Johnson of New York to Kansas Governor St. John which outlines the Governor's planned speaking engagements while visiting New York in early December.

Eli Johnson to Governor John St. John

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A letter from Eli Johnson of New York requesting Kansas Governor St. John stop off in Chicago on his way to or from New York.

J. F. Drake to Governor John St. John

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A letter from J. F. Drake asking Kansas Governor St. John for assistance in convincing the citizens of Emporia of the need for the prohibition amendment.

Miles Brown to Governor John St. John

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A telegram from Miles Brown to Kansas Governor St. John, asking him to address the mass temperance convention in Columbus on October 28th.

Eli Johnson to Governor John St. John

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A letter from Eli Johnson acknowledging his receipt of Kansas Governor St John's request for a railroad pass to New York.

A. H. Dahlston to Governor John St. John

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A letter from A. H. Dahlston in which he laments that Kansas Governor St. John could not speak at Salemsburg's recent temperance meeting due to ill health.

E. B. Reynolds to Governor John St. John

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A letter to Kansas Governor St. John from E.B. Reynolds acknowledging receipt of a railroad pass, and requesting another for the C & A RR to Chicago.

Rich Chute to Governor John St. John

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In this letter, Kansas Governor St. John receives a congratulatory letter from Minnesota Board of Trade President Rich Chute, who is also interested in details of the prohibition amendment.

Baseball team in Newton, Kansas

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This photograph from the early 1920s features the Newton, Kansas semi-pro baseball team. The only individual identified in the photo is Ross Kirkpatrick, the team's first baseman (standing, third from the left). Kirkpatrick is known to have played with the town team between 1920 and 1923. The photographer was W.R. Murphy of Newton.

Frank Pitts MacLennan

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These four photographs show newspaper editor and publisher Frank Pitts MacLennan, 1855-1933, a native of Springfield, Ohio. Frank moved with his family to Emporia, Kansas in 1870 and began his newspaper career by working for the Emporia Daily News in 1877. He worked in the "mechanical, reportorial, business, and editorial" departments before becoming an equal partner in the Emporia Daily News in 1880. He later sold his interest in the paper in 1885. On October 30,1885, MacLennan purchased the Topeka State Journal, the official state paper of Kansas and the city of Topeka, Kansas. He served as the editor and publisher until he passed away at the age of seventy-eight on November 18, 1933. In 1955 MacLennan's widow Margaret "Madge" Overstreet MacLennan bequeathed their home, Cedar Crest, and the surrounding land to the state of Kansas to be used as the executive residence for the governor of Kansas.

George H. Vibbert to Governor John St. John

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A letter from George H. Vibbert from St. Johns congratulating Kansas Governor St. John on passage of the Prohibition Amendment and requesting details of the vote.

John T. Price to Governor John St. John

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A letter from John Price inviting Kansas Governor St. John to a "rousing" temperance camp meeting in Crawford, County on August 22.
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