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This is one issue of The Star, a weekly newspaper published in Stratford, Garvin County, Oklahoma. This issue contains information about the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad's "Greater Farm Profit Special Train Coming to Stratford" on May 25, 1927. The front page article about the train lists the following special cars: livestock with dairy cattle, poultry, crops and soils, and one with home demonstration and farm club work. The Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College and the Oklahoma State Board of Agriculture are cooperating with AT&SF on making this train available. Ads in the paper also reference the appearance of the train. The newspaper also contains local news and has columns for various small communities around Stratford.
Date: May 19, 1927
Item Number: 226748
Call Number: Demonstration train - oversize
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 226748
Agriculture - Agricultural methods and practices
Agriculture - Crops
Agriculture - Family farming
Agriculture - Livestock - Cattle - Dairy
Agriculture - Livestock - Poultry
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Business and Industry - Railroad - Special and excursion trains
Collections - Manuscript
Date - 1920s - 1927
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Newspaper
Places - Other States - Oklahoma
Transportation - Railroads - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Transportation - Railroads - Special & excursion trains
Type of Material - Newspapers
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