Information Sheet
R Mitchener, Myrtle.
1136 Political flyer, 1914.
One folder.
This is a flyer dated 3 October 1914 by Myrtle
Mitchener of Fairdealing, Missouri,
who was the Republican candidate for Recorder of Ripley County. The flyer includes a photographic portrait of
Mitchener and her two young children.
Myrtle Mitchener was born in Illinois
on 5 August 1881 and died at Springfield in Greene County, Missouri,
on 15 December 1970. According to the Ripley County Democrat (30 October 1914)
she was a “young widow,” running against the Democratic incumbent, John W.
Young. The same newspaper reported that
Young defeated Mitchener by a vote of 1214 to 911.
According to Mitchener’s flyer, she had lived in Missouri for eleven
years and had a “common school education.
The flyer does not provide any political affiliation.
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