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1860s Printed Political Broadside - Liberty, MO., CANDIDATE FOR THE STATE SENATE

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1860s Printed Political Broadside - Liberty, MO., CANDIDATE FOR THE STATE SENATE
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1860s Printed Political Broadside From Liberty, Missouri
c. 1860s, Printed Political Broadside,“CANDIDATE FOR THE STATE SENATE. J.T.V. THOMPSON’S appointments to speak in Platte and Clay Counties...,” (Liberty, Missouri), measuring 8.5” x 10.5”, Very Fine.
This vintage, undated, important Western Political Broadside, measures 8.5” x 10.5” and announces the speaking schedule of Judge T.V. Thompson’s Political Appointees across two key Missouri counties. It is printed in black on white wove period paper with one small central hole likely made when posted, unevenly printed yet generally nice and clear. Here Thompson states that he “is desirous particularly to have those who are opposed to him present.”

Excerpt Taken From: The History of Atchison and Holt County Missour reads, “Judge J. T. V. Thompson, of Liberty, Missouri, had, among his cattle on these rushes, twelve buffaloes. They were sent there in 1842. Long after he had removed the rest of the herd, there remained one cow buffalo which boldly attacked people whom it chanced to encounter. It was finally shot and killed. This bottom land has all long been entered, and a vast acreage cleared and in cultivation...”

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Title: Examination of J.T.V. Thompson

Alternate title: Oath of Loyalty

Description: This is an unsigned Oath of Loyalty to the United States, No. 5 in a bound volume of oaths taken in 1866-1888 by Clay County, Missouri voters. The document bears the name of J.T.V. Thompson, a resident of Liberty, Missouri.

Date original: 1866

Place: Liberty, Missouri; Clay County, Missouri

Topic: Surviving a Guerrilla War
Judge J. T. V. Thompson, of Liberty, Missouri, had, among his cattle on these rushes, twelve buffaloes. They were sent there in 1842. Long after he had removed the rest of the herd, there remained one cow buffalo which boldly attacked people whom it chanced to encounter. It was finally shot and killed. This bottom land has all long been entered, and a vast acreage cleared and in cultivation. The rushes which once grew here in such boundless profusion, from the action of fire and other causes, have nearly entirely disappeared. At present (1882) not above one-half the area of the bottom is timbered. This is included chiefly in the southern and western parts of the township. In point of fertility, there is no more excellent country on the continent, the products of this latitude growing, with slight attention, in vast profusion. We state, on the authority of Mr. John C. Hinkle, a representative farmer and reliable resident of this section, whose farm, the southwest quarter of section 7, extends to the southern limits of this township, that within half a mile of the Bigelow line, in Lewis Township, on this bottom land, he raised in 1879, a crop of wheat which averaged upwards of forty-five bushels of wheat to the acre.

Excerpt Taken From: The History of Atchison and Holt County Missouri