Checking with the copyright catalogue, I find copyright was made in 1963 by J. P. Moore but was never renewed, which means the book has entered the public domain. The author is long since deceased.
THIS STRANGE TOWN–LIBERAL MISSOURI
A HISTORY OF THE EARLY YEARS
1880 – 1910
BY J. P. MOORE
COPYRIGHT J. P. MOORE, LIBERAL, MISSOURI, 1963
Image of the author, J. P. Moore
Copyright page
The Beginning
View of Main Street (image)
Waggoner’s Addition and the Barbed Wire Fence
The Neutral Strip or No Man’s Land
Denison, or Pedro
Hotel Denison (image)
The Crusaders and the Columnists
Mr. Walser’s Residence in Liberal
The Incorporation of Liberal
Original Plat of Liberal (image)
The Liberal City Cemetery
The Churches Came
The Methodist Church (image)
Christian Church (image)
The Spiritualist Movement
Spiritualist Hoax Exposed
Catalpa Park
Walser Residence at Catalpa Park (image)
Lake at Catalpa Park (image)
City Park and the Old Fire Bell
Early Public Buildings
The Spiritual Science Association and the Old Spook Hall
Spook Hall (image)
Recollections of an Early Resident
Mr. Walser’s Marital Life
A Midnight Burial
The Big Fire of 1897
Civil Liberal at Turn of Century
Industrially — Early
Liberal Brick Yard (image)
Rock Quarry (image)
The Cranks Came
The Town Pump and the Old Watering Trough
Mrs. Burgess-Oster and the Burgess Tomb
Bitter Creek
Some Early Day Eccentrics
Briefs of Other Persons and Facts
Liberal’s Early Schools
Old Liberal School Building (image)
Mr. Walser, the Man
G. H. Walser, Founder of Liberal (image)
Words of a Grandson
Freelove and the Common-Law Marriage
O. E. Harmon’s Story of Liberal
In Conclusion
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