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Focused on Adair County, Missouri, including Kirksville and surrounding areas, this collection encompasses a wide variety of materials from businesses, churches, and organizations. It includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, maps, and more.

Scope and Contents Ledgers; correspondence; business, legal, and financial records; institutional histories of Central Wesleyan College and Orphan Asylum and merging institutions, Mt. Pleasant German College and Ozark Wesleyan College; student organizations' records; and college publications. Some of the documents as well as some records of the St. Louis German Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church. Many of the documents are in German. Early materials, before 1910, are sparse. The collection contains few...

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Seven small yearbooks containing membership rosters, programs and more for The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International, Missouri Delta Chapter, Kirksville, Missouri.

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Small collection of three early 20th century Chautauqua programs from northern Missouri communities - Hannibal, Unionville and Salisbury.

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Speeches, correspondence, and papers from alumnus Glenn Frank. Frank was managing editor of The Century Publishing Company (publisher of books and The Century Magazine) for several years, was later President of the University of Wisconsin and became active in Wisconsin and national politics.

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Financial records and board meeting minutes from the hospital in Kirksville, Missouri, from 1930-1945, as well as employee newsletters from 1985-1987 and 1989-1993.

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This collection contains a variety of materials related to the Kirksville Chapter of the Rotary Club. The bulk of the materials pertain to years 1989 – 2018 and include district directories, event planning materials, and chapter newsletters.

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Paper ephemera and memorabilia related to John F. Kennedy's presidency and family collected by Northeast Missouri State University (now Truman State University) alumna and professor Martha Spath.

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The vertical files consist of subject folders on people, places, and events related to Missouri history in Adair County, Kirksville and Northeast Missouri. Materials include articles, newspaper clippings, press releases, biographical information, fliers, and other ephemeral materials.

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This collection includes P. O. Selby's personal papers, research notes and writings and includes the files and records he gave during his lifetime as well as those found in his campus office after his death. The majority are concerned with Kirksville and Adair County history, genealogies of Adair County families, and Mark Twain.