Month: March 2010
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Telephony Liked Liberal’s Telephone Directory in 1910
The July 2 1910 “Telephony”, the American Telephone Journal, liked Liberal’s telephone directory a lot. As if you needed or desired to know this. * * * * Co-operation Between Public and Company Urged in Directory Advertising. There arc only fourteen inside pages in the directory of the Liberal Mutual Telephone Company of Liberal, Missouri.…
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Emma Viola Noyes Harmon
Emma, daughter of James Allen Noyes and Caroline Atwell, was born Dec 15 1860 in Wakeshma, Kalamazoo, Michigan. On June 9 1878 in Anna, Union, Illinois, Emma married Orrin Ellie Harmon who would one day write a slim book on the history of the freethought town of Liberal, Missouri, where her family settled and where…
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Baldwin v. Walser–Trouble at the Bank
There was trouble in Liberal. George W. Baldwin brought charges of libel against Walser for Walser distributing this in January of 1889: ” ‘ To all whom this may concern : ‘”Notice is hereby given that the copartnership heretofore existing by and between G. W. Baldwin, G. H. Walser, J. G. Pitgen, J. A. Noyes,…
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Index of Names for The Story of Liberal Missouri
I’ve compiled an idex of names that appear in Orrin Harmon’s The Story of Liberal Missouri: Early Settlements John M. Minor Marsh Minor William H. Curless Tom Stark A. Delissa W. A. DeLissa J. M. Wilson E. A. Wilson John Rhines William I. Stacy C. M. Cameron J. M. Coles Charles Brown John and Marion…
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“Founding of Liberal, Missouri”, article from Sikeston Herald, 1938
Founding of Liberal, Missouri Sikeston (Missouri) Herald, December 1, 1938. Liberal, Missouri, called by the Christians “the Godless town of Infidelity,” was incorporated fifty-seven years ago it was founded as a town for free-thinkers—but churches and saloons were banned. The founder of this unique community experiment, George H. Walser, was born in Indiana in 1834.…
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A Debate Over “Free Love” at Liberal Ended in Expulsion of Some Free Love Proponents
Sexual promiscuity is the first thing that springs to the minds of some regarding the term “free love”, but the Free Love movement of the 19th century was closely tied with feminism, having everything to do with individualism and the rights of women and children (for instance, those born out of wedlock). One needs to…
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Article on Liberal by the Workers of the Writers Program of the Work Projects Administration, 1941
Back when writers were considered as being worthwhile individuals, I guess, and given jobs in which they got to write, or compile, whatever. * * * * * MISSOURI A Guide to the “Show Me” State Compiled by Workers of the Writers Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Missouri Copyright 1941…
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Cora Rachel Noyes Greene
Original photo of Cora Rethouched Tinted Cora, daughter of James Allen Noyes and Caroline Atwell, was born 19 April 1863, at “1 and 1/4 oclock” in Wakishma, Michigan. She married Frank GREEN, 30 March 1886, at the age of 23, in Junction, Kansas. She died in childbirth, 16 Oct 1887. Cora died in childbirth. Her…
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Centennial History of Missouri (The Center State), One Hundred Years in the Union, 1820-1921, By Walter B. Stevens
To no avail, I’ve attempted to discover what community of freethinkers had been living in the below mentioned Paris, Illinois. * * * * * Centennial History of Missouri (The Center State), One Hundred Years in the Union, 1820-1921, By Walter B. Stevens Community Experiments Missouri has had its share of community experiments. Perhaps the…
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Noyes Family Constitution
Being Free-thinkers who had been associated with socialist experiments and who had moved to Liberal, Missouri, which was expressly for liberals, it’s not surprising that the Noyes family would form their own family constitution. The document displays the year as being 283. The Dictionary of Missouri Biography notes that Liberal was utilizing a different dating…