Information Sheet

 

 

R         Ferguson, H. N.

971                  Booklet, 1920.

                                    One folder.

 

 

 

This is a real-estate promotional booklet by H. N. Ferguson of Warsaw in Benton County, Missouri.  Ferguson was a representative of the E. A. Strout Farm Agency.  The brochure extols the virtues of Benton County’s agricultural economy and describes specific farms that are for sale.

 

This 12-page illustrated booklet was printed in March 1920.  Included are glowing descrip­tions of Warsaw and Benton County as progressive and prosperous communities.  Warsaw, the county seat, has an accredited high school, three churches, and “supports a high-class Chautau­qua.”  Benton County is free of bonded debt and has a “two-crop climate” in which the “summers are quite delightful.”  Corn is the “king crop,” but pasturage, fruit-culture, livestock, poultry, and tobacco are also successful agricultural pursuits.  There are descriptions of thirteen available prop­erties.

 

 

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