Atchison's day book notes many local items
Monrovia road news and a wide row of notes from Atchison and nearby areas. Weddings births and illnesses mix with local business moves, court actions, and civic chatter, including a plan for a congressman, farm sales, a hospital report, life saving lessons, and civic improvement critiques.
Atchison's Seaton foundry and era of progress
Fifty years ago this month the Sea ton foundry moved from Alton Illinois to Atchison and grew into the Locomotive Finished Material Co headed by Harry Muchnic. The plant specialized in railroad castings iron store fronts and windmills including the Eclipse. Atchison thrived with 40 workers and a web of notable residents and events, from ex governor Scott to local business and daily life anecdotes.
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Seaton
John Seaton
Atchison
Alton
Til
Great
Locomotive Finished Material Co
Harry Muchnic
Muchnic
Seaton Foundry
Scott
South Carolina
E. W. Howe
Emil Meter
Upper Commercial Street
George Brenner
Doniphan
Dick Antlt
Medford
Ore
Oregon
California
Antle
Ernest Seybold
Emil Schreiber
Globe’s
France
Francis Marre
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Monrovia
Sammy
Kansas City
Ed Williams
Atchison County
Central Branch
Frank Antle
Santa Fe Street
Homer Armstrong
Duuth
F. P. Barrett
J. W. Loutham
Concordia
Er&st Atchison Boosters
St. Joe Team
C. A. Oxley
Horton
Frank Regan
John Delaney
J. W. Bryning
E. C. Sherer
Curley Bliss
Clay Metz
Kansas Power & Light Co
Ethel Bufford
L. P. Palmer
L. A. Palmer
South Fourth Street
Marion Kohler
Gus Dilgort
Marion
Gus
D. L. Harnard
Atchison Hospital
Louie Erickson
Colorado
Fred Evans
Joe Lorenz
N. Z Jagger
Walker Franklin
Lela Jones
John Leath
Harcuff
Oak Hill
Homer Bostwick
Eugene Martin
Ash Street
Farrell
Farrell Martin Eugene Martin
Pillsbury Mill
Ella Olson
North Fifth Street
Globe Advertising
George Hunt
Atchison Insurance
Will Bisel
Shannon
Bisel
Missouri
Hunt
Tunney
John Griffis
Henry Klein
Henry
Klein
Wilson
House of Representatives
Senate
Phillips
Fourth Street
Kansas Avenue
Globe
India
Burma
United States
Miss Webb
Cotton O'Neill
John Buckley
Abe Tonsing
Berty Baumener
Iowa
Fort Riley
National Guard
Camp Whitside
John
Buckley
Pawnee Flats
Manhattan
Republican River
Fort Riley Les
The
Soldiers’ and Sailors
Legion
Tom Prather
Prather
Lawrence F. Day
W. H. Tucker
Mr. Tucker
Emmett Faulconer
Rhode Island
Faulconer Farm
Emmett
Ed Ham
Los Angeles
Lin Ham
Missouri Pacific Freight Office
Southern Pacific
John Frommer
Fannie Frommer
Frommers
Arlington
W. B. DeDual
W. A. Jackson
District Court
John Flint
American Red Cross Life Saving Corps
Lions Municipal Pool
Robert Skilton
St. Louis
Kansas
James M. Challiss
Ed Zelfer
Corker
Louis Brockett
William Aldrich
Corder
Burlington Herd
Roy Barrett
Norfolk
Frank Roche
Joe Robb
Herb Ham
E. B. Chaney
Lukens Mill
Charlie Higdon
Grover Allison
John Shea
Commercial Street
H. H. Hackney
Hoover
America
Joe Connor
Sugar Lake
Clarence McHerry
Chanute
Atchison Optical Co
Roy Martin
Lawrence
W. H. Strawport
Park Street
Will Wolff
Centralia
R. D. Lewis
Stockton
Lewis
Missouri Pacific
Sam Young
Barber
Tommy Loughran
Milton Johnson
Steinite
Kansas University
Lou Davenport
Harry Turner
Louie Leff
Bill Crume
Bill Burbank
Walter Lawrence
George Kadow
Robert
Dunavant
Kas
Parr Armstrong
Chicago University
Henry J. Linn
Atchison Jeweler
Les Bishop
Alva Clapp
Clarence Little
East Atchison
J. R. Hammer
L. A. Blackburn
Ed Batty
Falls City
H. H. Heldbere
Sophia Haid
Sacred Heart Church
Mt. Calvary Cemetery
George Harcuff
White Dewey
Chestnut Street
Bailor Cultivator Co
White
Mary Collett
W. B. Collett
Columbia
New England
Western Reserve University
Cleveland
Richards Manufacturing Co
Judge Day Seid
Joe Kulbrook
Topeka
Memorial Hall
Curtis
the Globe
Walter Thompson
Fred Barrett
Eighth and
Fred
Charles Curtis
Emil Ebner
North Tenth Street
Herbert Hoover
Mr. Ebner
Baden
Bavaria
Germany
Ebner
Grant
Woolworth
Montgomery Ward & Co
Crown Drug Stores
Gunnison Valley
Guy Berridge
John Curtis
Ed Iverson
Gardner
Houston
al Smith
Jefferson
Jackson
Kenneth Wallace
Mooney Creek
R. E. Cahill
Charlie Curtis
Condon & Lott
Joe Gibson
Vincent Ashton
Harmony Gar den
Jim Burns
Oo Ensight
Tom Horner
Minnesota
Tom Keenan
Ed Iverson, Jr
Exchange State Bank
Jack Weatherford
Pete Barnett
Charles Robinson
Western Union
Bill Beeh
Jack McAdow
DeKalb
Forest Latenser
A. H. Langworth
Eeternity
Bertha Bruel
Lions
Russell Drake
Anna van Liew
South Seventh Street
Misses McDuff
Violet Randolph
Fairview
Randolph
Northwestern University
Evanston
Ill
Joe Kuhlbrook
Mud Lake
Emil Ebner, Jr
Ann Arbor
Mich
Oil City
Jim Challiss
Ewing Herbert
Congress
Oklahoma Wheat Belt
Oklahoma
Kuhlbrook
Red Cross Life Savings Corps
Flint
Rotary Club
Corps
Y. Pool
Lions Pool
Chicago
Brotherhood of Railway
Interstate Commerce Commission
Atchison and Associated Cities
Chamber of Commerce
St. Joe
Omaha
Missouri River
McDuff
Fort Worth
E. A
S. R. Tunlap
Roy W. Dunlap
Tulsa
Ada Dunlap
G. W. Allaman
Court House
Switzerland
Saturday Evening Post
Kansas City Times
Times
Maurice P. O'Keefe
Col
Ed Post
Corning
Post
Will Coleman
Cow Island
H.*skolnick
Russia
R. G. Walters
George Boggs
Ebbrecht
Spring Grove
John Woods
Sam Wyncoop
Potter
Leavenworth
Mary Anderson
Charles Anderson
Irwin Fugate
Steinite’s
Wisconsin
Illinois
Tom Newburn
Yellowstone National Park
Wathena
Pat Price
Nebraska
George Ehretts
the Elliott
Elliott Kin
Laird Grove
Cummings
Archibald Elliott
Russell Harrison
Arensberg’s
Mary Law
Jess Bohannon
Express Office
James O'Brien
North Fourteenth Street
Pete Lau
Mount Vernon
Sarah Gleason
Lincoln
Eas
Floyd Willette
Rickard
Bob Wyncoop
Charles Kennedy
John Rummans
D. Peter A. Brown
Joe Seibel
Claude Meyer
Bud Langan
Atchison Guard Company
Arthur Atterbury
South Tenth Street
State Agricultural College
Aggie
W. D. Carleton
Frank Huntzinger
Sgn
Clarence
New Life Cafe
Toledo
John Tabor
Missouri Pacific Hospital
North Third Street
Jerome van Dyke
Tabor
Board of Religious Education of the Christian Church
W. S. Pulliam
W. C. O'Brien