Name/Title
Meteor Journal for Boys & Girls, 1885Entry/Object ID
AM2014.26.459Scope and Content
The Meteor Journal for Boys & Girls, March, 1885, Vol. 1. No. 1. St. Joseph, Mo. subscription rate 10 cents for six months. P.B. Shelley Peters, Publisher.
"It was a 4½ x 5½, 2 column, 4 page journal printed by a boy printer & appealing to boys and girls. The back page contained small ads. The lead article told about the Pony Express and Jesse James who had been killed just 3 years before. P.B. was on the scene of some early St. Joe History" (according to Charles L. Bush, below 14.26.462)
14.26.459: Newspaper
14.25.460: "Special Request to You. We send you this paper, hoping that you will send yours, in exchange thereby encourage us to improve and enlarge."
14.25.461: Envelope with note explaining The Meteor. addressed to Marshall White from Charlie Bush. 1986
14.26.462: Reprint notice by Charles L. Bush in "Ink Cahoots", 8/1992.Collection
Marshall & Melanie WhiteLexicon
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P.B. Shelley PetersPerson or Organization
Bush, Charles L.
