Augustus Storrs and the Santa Fe Trail Pioneer
Augustus Storrs, long overlooked in Missouri history, helped open the Santa Fe Trail by guiding early journeys, urging Congress to establish trails and consuls, and inspiring traders with visions of cross continental commerce. His travels and writings impressed Senator Benton and boosted U S trade plans, though his later life remains largely speculative.
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Mexico
William Beckness
Augustus Storrs
Franklin
Missouri
New Bampshire
Dartmouth College
Howard County
New Mexico
Storrs
United States
Atlantic
Pacific
Thomas Hart Benton
Senate
Fort Osage
Arkansas
Chihuahua
Santa Fe
Congress
Indian Territory
Missouri House of Representatives
Franklin Missouri Intelligencer
Ten years of popular Oldsmobile Hydra-Matic Drive
S. E. Skinner announces the tenth anniversary of Hydra-Matic Drive since its 1940 introduction. He notes its early optional availability across Oldsmobile’s three series and the wartime production shift, with about 189 049 Hydra-Matic equipped cars on the road by January, a figure representing roughly half of prewar Oldsmobile output.
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Oldsmobile
S. E. Skinner
General Motors Corporation
Skinner
Amensas
Jansinmy
Mien
Detroit
General Motors
Oldsmiobile Division
Mr. Skinner
Minstrel Show an Attraction for Jackson Homecoming
Jackson MO plans its 25th Anniversary Home-Comers from Aug 30 to Sept 3 featuring an all colored minstrel show. A giant parade kicks off the event with entertainment by Prairie Pioneers from Illinois and acts by Little Kaye Ditch and Babe Maystedt. Prizes for oldest attendee, farthest traveler, and largest family augment the celebration.
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Jackson, Mo
Jackson
Short
Festus
Poplar Bluff
Prairie Pioneers
Ilinois
Kaye Ditch
Babe Maystedt
Cape Girardeau
Maystedt
Special Days for Young Stock Feeders at National Stock Yards
National Stock Yards IL hosts three special Marketing Day events for 4-H youth and future farmers. On Sept 1 a Vocational Agriculture Marketing Day awards $5 to each cattle grading choice and $1 to each hog or sheep in top class, with tours of Armour and Swift plants, radio recordings, and plaques at 3 pm. Sept 14 features a Baby Beef event for 1-H Club youths, Sept 15 a Hog Sale. Frank H Maynard leads beef events. Robert S Clough leads hog events.
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National Stock Yards
Future Farmers of America
Armour & Co
Swift & Co
Producers Live Stock Marketing Association
Frank H. Maynard
Song of Norway at St Louis Muny Opera Aug 22 to Sept 5
St Louis Municipal Opera presents Song of Norway from August 22 to September 5, fifteen outdoor performances at 8 30 p m. Grieg music adapted by Robert Wright and George Forrest with lyrics by Lazarus. features solo numbers from classical pieces and a Norwegia n story about Rikard Nordvaak urging Grieg to interpret Norway’s warmth musically.
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Norway
ST. Louis Muny Opera
St. Louis
Edward Grieg
Municipal Opera
Robert Wright
George Forrest
Grieg
Hill of Dreams
Freddy
Troldhagen
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Father of
The
State Historical Society of Missouri At
Columbia
Floyd Shoemaker
Jackson Homecoming
N. Burton Short
W. V. Hill
Detroit Transmission Division
Oldsmobile Division
All America
Newspaper Bhiyre
Seiya
Matic
Cyrineel
Semo Motor Company
Highway 61
North
Deale
Herald
E. Kathleen
Sikeston, Missouri
Scott County
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