There are two buttons in this file. One button reads "H of R, S. Baringer, Coffey County, 1943." The other button reads "House of Representatives, Sylvester Baringer, Coffey Co., 1949."
Three photographs.
This poster contains samples of several news advertisements about the Harvest Brigade. It's Big News! announces "The Massey-Harris Self-Propelled Harvest Brigade is now well on its way towards harvesting a million acres of America's victory grain crop..."
Road Map of Kansas, circa 1940; Road Map of Oklahoma, circa 1940; County of Coffey, State of Kansas, undated.
Included in the magazine (page 14) is an article written by Minnie Davisson Baringer titled, "A Kansas Rural School During the 1890s."
In this article, Donald Wendt takes a reader through buying an M-H 21 combine and working with the harvest brigade in 1944. This article also includes a photo of Joseph M. Tucker who was Massey-Harris vice president and United States Sales Manager who masterminded the Massey-Harris Harvest Brigade. It also includes a photograph of Judy Horsch and Lenwood Holo on the Brigade trail; re-living the operation conceived and planned by her father, Joseph M. Tucker.
“The Price That Russia is Paying,” The Readers Digest, 1943 April
“The Russian Slogan: ‘Work, Study, and Learn’” The Readers Digest, 1944 February