Plentiful farm bargains in sunny southeast Kansas sale
Advertises multiple large farms in southeastern Kansas near Oswego and Galesburg. Notes owners selling for old age or distance, promising good roads, proximity to railways, ample water and timber, and substantial improvements. Highlights two farms No. 1062 near Oswego with 10 acres and No. 1017 Stringfellow at 475 acres near Galesburg with timber and pasture, urging quick sale.
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Galesburg
MLA. &T. Ry
Neosho County
Parsons
Kansas
Kansas Leads Nation in Corn and Wheat Output
Kansas ranked as a premier farming state with the largest five year crop total through 1900. Illinois followed, trailing Kansas by about nineteen million dollars. A 1902 corn harvest from a fraction of Kansas surpassed the cost of the Louisiana Purchase many times over, and far exceeded Alaska’s purchase price. The twenty year value of Kansas corn surpassed eight hundred billion dollars.
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Kansas
Union
Illinois
Louisiana Purchase
United States
Alaska
Home Farm in Labette County Described With Rich Resources
A vintage notice details a farm in Labette County on the road between Utopia and Oswego. It notes an eight room two story house, front trees, in—ground improvements, horse barn, and land of blue erasure and clover. It touts abundant mineral wealth including salt, zinc, natural gas, oil wells, coal, brick clay, cement and other underground riches.
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Noid
Silver Lew
LaBette County
Utopia
Oswego
Ransaa
Barret
Farms in Southeast Kansas Offer Bright Prospects
The text touts Southeast Kansas farms as superior and affordable with climate advantages, milder winters, cooler summers, pure water, and fine soil. It claims farms are worth more than asking now and will reach $100 per acre soon due to growing manufacturing activity, urging immediate purchase.
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Kansas
Iowa
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Orebraska
Sunshine
Jensmore
Oswerro
M. Kode ‘Td. Ry
Walestine
Evisco
Moenes
Towa
P. L. Schoep
Sioux Center
Sioux County
General Land Merchants
Omaha, Nebr
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