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Dated April 30, 1858, and executed in Leavenworth, Kansas Territory, this handwritten document is an "agreement made and entered into" by John Adams Halderman and Hugh Ewing, representing the "Leavenworth Journal," with C. H. McLaughlin and William B. Hutchison, to lease all the newspaper equipment for $25 per month. Among other more technically-oriented conditions of the lease pertaining to the upkeep of the business, McLaughlin and Hutchison agreed "to make it a free-state Democratic paper, sustaining the ___ ___ course of Senator Douglas . . ."
Creator: Halderman, John Adams
Date: April 30, 1858
Item Number: 90150
Call Number: John A. Halderman Coll. #370 Box 1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 90150
Business and Industry - Media/Communications - Newspaper
Collections - Manuscript - Halderman, John A.
Community Life - Town development
Date - 1854-1860 - 1858
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Contract
People - Notable Kansans - Haldeman, John A.
People - Notable People - Douglas, Stephen A., 1813-1861
Places - Cities and towns - Leavenworth
Places - Counties - Leavenworth
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Legal documents
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