Missouri Memories

John A. Sanborn, Diaries, 1899-1908

John Sanborn was a farmer in Mound City, Missouri, until 1902 when he moved to Corning, Kansas. Sanborn later settled on a farm outside of Macon, Missouri.

Thursday, October 4, 1899

Picking apples

W Thomas came and moved his separator out of my road and I paid him $4.60 for threshing oats

A lightning rod man Mr. Dodd came along and showed us how lightning struck a house by an invention he had

A very nice thing to see also some X Ray photographs which he has a machine for taking