Souvenir of the City of Emporia, Lyon County and the State of Kansas [wrapper title]

Emporia, Ks: Gazette Print, 1905. [16]pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Illustrated. Minor wear and soiling. Soft vertical crease throughout. Internally clean. Very good. An unrecorded promotional pamphlet touting the advantages of the small city of Emporia, Kansas, as well as larger Lyon County near the turn of the 20th century. The work opens with a poem titled, "Opportunity" by notable Kansas Senator John J. Ingalls (who died in 1900) and a passage about the state of Kansas itself. This is followed by three pages on Lyon County, promoting the county's production of alfalfa, wheat, corn, poultry, butter, and milk, along with its railroads, churches, schools, and the mule and horse market. The remainder of the work focuses on Emporia, reprinting an article from the local newspaper heralding the town as the "Capital of Steerdom" and "Center of the Kingdom of the Big Fat Steer." The text also trumpets the town's churches, the College of Emporia, Sacred Heart School, the Business College, libraries, secret societies, and telegraph and telephone companies. The text is supplemented with photographs of the Kansas State Normal School (now Emporia State University), the College of Emporia, the Lyon County Court House, the Federal Building, the Peters Hardware Company's Building, the Emporia National Bank Building, and the Mit-Way Hotel. As of 2020, the population of Emporia was just over 24,000. We could locate no other copies of this pamphlet anywhere.