St. Joseph Loses Relics to Jefferson City: re: Harry L. George and Mary Alicia Owen Collections, St. Joseph Observer 1929

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St. Joseph Loses Relics to Jefferson City: re: Harry L. George and Mary Alicia Owen Collections, 1929 Owen, Mary Alicia Collection Regarded as Best of Its Kind. This article was in the St. Joseph Observer February 21, 1929. Temporary loss by St. Joseph of two of the country's outstanding collections of Indian relics threatens to become permanent for the community owing to the city's failure to provide a modern civic museum to house these and other historical objects, it was learned here this week. The two collections, each of which has been offered to the city if provided an adequate museum building is furnished, but which promise to become the property of the Missouri Resources Museum in the state Capitol at Jefferson City, where they are now on exhibition, are the Harry L. George collection of American and Alaskan Indians objects and the Mary Alice Owen collection of Musquakie ceremonial relics. The Harry L. George collection is virtually lost so far as St. Joseph is concerned since February 1929, when the George heirs and the trustees renewed their loan agreement made in 1924. The collection has more than 3,000 items. Miss Owen's collection is one of the most unusual of its kind in this country. Miss Owen is the author of "Folk Lore of the Musquakie Indians" published in 1904 and was intimately acquainted with this Algonquin tribe, who under the name of Sacs and Foxes, played an important part in the struggle against the white race and its civilization. There are pictures of Indian relics shown in the Missouri Resources Museum in the Capitol at Jefferson City. Both Mr. George and Miss Owen were residents of St. Joseph, Missouri. On the other side of the article is a story about R. L. McDonald Dry Goods Company. They retired from that business and took over the old Patee Hotel on South 11th and added to it and established the big shirt and overall factory. John L. McDonald of the city park was the head of the business. Other houses followed the McDonald building. Tootle-Wheeler, A. N. Schuster, McKinley and Walker and John S. Brittain followed with immense buildings. This was done during the eighties. This article continues with other growth and factors of the city.

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