Information Sheet

 

 

R         Phelps County (Mo.).

678                                    Booklet, 1925.

One folder, photocopies.

 

 

 

This is “A Message to the Homeseeker,” advertising the towns and principal businesses of Newburg, Rolla, and Saint James in Phelps County, and Salem in Dent County, Missouri.  The booklet contains brief descriptions of businesses and illustrations of commercial establishments and public buildings.

 

This is another example of the illustrated promotional booklets bearing the title “A Message to the Homeseeker” published in slightly varying formats during the 1920s-1930s for many com­munities in southern Missouri  (for example, see WHMC-R248 for Saint Francois and Madison counties and WHMC-R679 for Scott, Dunklin, Stoddard, New Madrid, and Mississippi counties.).  Nei­ther author nor publisher is named in this booklet.  Like other publications of this type, the booklet seems to have been a cooperative effort by the principal businessmen of Phelps and Dent counties.  Rolla receives the greatest amount of coverage, followed by Salem, Newburg, and Saint James.  The text reflects the booklet’s subtitle: “Describing Their Resources Enterprises and Opportunities and the Men Behind Them.”  There are general descriptions of the advantages of the respective towns, followed by brief statements profiling one hundred and eleven of the leading businesses and businessmen in each.  There are sixty-one illustrations of commercial buildings, churches and schools, and public buildings.

 

 

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