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Joseph Harrington Trego to an unidentified recipient [probably his wife, Alice Trego]
Trego, Joseph H. (Joseph Harrington), 1823-1905
Trego was in St. Louis, Missouri awaiting a boat trip to Kansas City. He describes his trip to that point as well as the weather. Trego was a doctor and he wrote about trying to locate his medicine chest for the second part of the journey. He also described his activities as he waited. It is not clear whether he had been to Kansas Territory before but he knew he was going to Sugar Mound in Linn County, Kansas Territory.
previewDr. John R. Brinkley and friends
Photograph of Dr. John R. Brinkley and others identified, from left to right, as Dr. Horatio Osborn, his wife Margueute and baby Myrna Lea, and Minnie Brinkley.
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This sepia colored photograph shows Dr. John R. Brinkley, wife Minnie and son Johnnie Boy at their home in Del Rio, Texas.
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Moore, Henry
Dr. John R. Brinkley in a graduation gown, possibly taken upon graduation from the Eclectic Medical University of Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri.
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Lippe Studio Del Rio, TX
Dr. John Brinkley standing outside of ruins of log building, in Del Rio, Texas.
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John R. Brinkley participating in a ground breaking ceremony at Del Rio, Texas for a future radio station. Mrs. Minnie (John R.) Brinkley and son, Johnny Boy, are standing beside him.
previewAfter twenty-one years: the success story of Dr. John R. Brinkley
Brinkley Hospitals
This booklet was published by the Brinkley Hospitals of Little Rock, Arkansas. Brinkley moved his hospital operations to Little Rock from Milford, Kansas, after his Kansas medical license was revoked. He changed the name of his radio station to XERA and it was located in Villa Acuna, Mexico, just across the border from Del Rio, Texas, where the Brinkley's had a home. The pamphlet is a revised version of an earlier Brinkley hospital publication titled Your Health (Kansas Memory item 210693). It includes illustrations to accompany the medical information.
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Brinkley Hospitals
This booklet was published by the Brinkley Hospitals of Little Rock, Arkansas. Brinkley moved his hospital operations to Little Rock from Milford, Kansas, after his Kansas medical license was revoked. The cover of the booklet indicated that the Brinkley Hospitals are "for the treatment of enlarged and infected prostate glands, rectal and colonic diseases, varicose veins, hernia, or rupture." He changed the name of his radio station to XERA and it was located in Villa Acuna, Coahuila, Mexico, just across the border from Del Rio, Texas, where the Brinkley's had a home. This volume claims that XERA is the most powerful radio station in the world. The pamphlet is a revised version of an earlier Brinkley hospital publication titled Your Health (Kansas Memory item 210693). It includes illustrations to accompany the medical information. There are some editing marks so this copy may have been used to plan a revision. It is an expansion of the information contained in "After Twenty One Years" (Kansas Memory item 213226).
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Lippe Studio Del Rio, TX
This is a photo of Dr. & Mrs. John Brinkley and their son, Johnny Boy sitting at a table in front of the tile fireplace at their Del Rio, Texas, residence. The table is where he sat when he did his radio show for XER in Mexico.
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DaLee, Amon Gilbert
This black and white photograph shows John Doy and his rescue party. On January 25, 1859, Dr. John Doy and his son, Charles, left Lawrence, Kansas Territory for Nebraska with thirteen slaves. They were captured twelve miles outside of Lawrence and were taken to Weston, Missouri. The Doys were arraigned at Weston and were committed to jail at Platte City, Missouri, for the crime of abducting slaves. They remained in jail until March 20, 1859, when they were taken to St. Joseph, Missouri, where Dr. Doy was tried. After the trial, his son, Charles, was set free. The jury however could not agree on a verdict for Dr. Doy and he was tried a second time. At the second trial, he was convicted and sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. While being held in the St. Joseph jail, Doy was freed by friends from Kansas Territory on July 23, 1859. People in the photograph are: (l to r) Major James B. Abbott, Captain Joshua A. Pike, Jacob Senix, Joseph Gardner, Thomas Simmons, S. J. Willis, Captain John E. Stuart [Stewart], Charles Doy, Silas Soule, George R. Hay and Dr. John Doy (seated in front). The photograph was taken at Lawrence, Kansas Territory, in the summer of 1859.
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