Jefferson monument plans loom large in Louisiana Purchase Exposition
The St Louis Louisiana Purchase Exposition celebrates Louisiana Purchase Day with unveiling of a Jefferson monument plan. The design, approved by directors, centers a $400000 living monument under a grand arch with wings, Jefferson Hall, historical collections, and a vast archaeological and manuscript library.
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Louisiana Purchase
Jefferson
Territory of
Louisiana
Jefferson Hall
Louisiana Territory
Missouri Historical Society
Itagrees
St. Louis
United States
Missouri
Colorado vacation invitation promises mountain refreshment
A travel pitch encourages a summer trip to Colorado promising the Rockies, forests, and mountain air as a tonic for the body. It offers Burlington Colorado handbooks via Agent LYON with hotel and ranch listings, rates, and dates to plan a visit through a local travel representative.
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Sire
Rockies
Colorado
Burlington
Historical Society exhibits bounty of early Missouri items
The article notes the state’s early printing presses near St. Louis and on the Mississippi, including the first west of the river and the 1819 Missouri Intelligencer. It mentions 80,000 Indian specimens, a sun dial Jefferson used at Monticello, and a late obituary for Orsemus Harry Parks. It also covers local social notes about Lena Melson, James Greeves, and others, plus a curious apple storage method by Charles Pennewell offering two-year shelf life.
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St. Louis
Purchase
Thomas Jefferson
David R. Francis
Francis
University of Missouri
Columbia
Jefferson
University of Virginia
Monticello
Nhurserymen’s
Stark Nursery
Stark Delicious
Stark
David
Stark Philip
California
Stark Bro’s Nurseries and Orcharde Co
Louisiana
Missouri
Cuinnkuuris Uclore
Mississippi
Franklin
Missouri Intelligencer
American Fur Company
Louisiana Purchase
The
Historical Society
Virginia
P. L. Bowen
Quincy
George Bowen
Linotype
Charles W. Pennewell
Palmyra
Pennewell
Quincy Herald
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Jefferson Memorial
Irs
Congress
James G. Blaine
Merchants’ Exchange
Mr. Blaine
Republic
Trans-Mississippi Department
IBAAC
Taylor
del Lyon
She Starkyear
Parks
Orsemus Harry Parks
Sohm, Ricker & Weisenhorn
Territoy
Tiffin
Iowa
Macon
Harry
Grace Baptist Church
Lena Melson
W. S. McClintic
James Greeves
Perry
Monroe
W. R. P. Jackson
Robert Meriwether
C.G. Hampton
Lucy Virginia
Mrs. Hampton
Ira Bond
Ely
Wm. Shaw
Rensselaer
Thomas Parsons
Nevada
H. Clayew
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