Notices
Dealer's notice
Appleton City Journal, Appleton City, Missouri · · page 5
The text
L. Hegnauer one of oldest settlers in Pleasant Gap neighborhood bought a fine Kimball Organ from our live music dealers Diven & Deffenbaugh. Get their prices. See their Pianos and Organs, and then enquire of any of twenty-six number-one farmers they have sold to, in regard to their honest way of dealing …
L. Hegnauer one of oldest settlers in Pleasant Gap neighborhood bought a fine Kimball Organ from our live music dealers Diven & Deffenbaugh. Get their prices. See their Pianos and Organs, and then enquire of any of twenty-six number-one farmers they have sold to, in regard to their honest way of dealing and they can prove to you that you can save money by buying of them.
The study’s reading
12. Appleton City Journal, Thu 22 Sep 1892, p. 5 (863190968).
Identity: probably Leonhard. As the Luzius review argues, "oldest settlers" means the earliest settlers. Leonhard was in the neighbourhood from 1869–70, and Luzius is not found there before 1884.
A5. The Appleton City Journal, Thursday 22 September 1892, p. 5 (image 863190968; newspapers.com/image/863190968). NEW; possible.
This is a dealer's puff: the paragraph is really an advertisement for the dealers.
Facts: in Sep 1892 an "L. Hegnauer", called "one of [the] oldest settlers in Pleasant Gap neighborhood", bought a Kimball organ at Appleton City.
Identity: possible for Luzius, who lived in Pleasant Gap Township in 1884 and 1890, and "oldest settlers" suits a man of 72. Leonhard had been in the township since 1869, was 49, and had daughters at home, so he is at least as likely. The item does not decide it.
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