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Title
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Guests at the Hotel Snapp
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Description
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Vertical file contains a biographical article about Lincoln Johnson, a 60-year-old hat checker at the Hotel Snapp in Excelsior Springs, Missouri with an remarkable memory for hat owners. He was born in Palmyra, Missouri in 1863 and moved to Excelsior Springs with his mother in 1889 before graduating as valedictorian from Western University in 1897. He then became a teacher in Excelsior Springs and then principal at Lincoln High School while also speaking at Republican political conventions around the state. Later he bought his own farm and began hat-checking at the Elms Hotel in Excelsior Springs.
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
