Booth Hotel (Independence, Kansas), 1938-04-09

Item

Identifier: MS 014- series MS 014-3- Container MS 014-3-01- item 306

Staff Only

Dates

Other: 1938-04-09

Extent

From the Collection: 10 Cubic Feet

Additional Description

General

Front: Booth Hotel, Independence, Kans. Air Conditioned - Lobby - Coffee Shop - Dining Room

Back: Hotel Booth, Modern and Fireproof. One of Kansas' better hotels, "Ask Any Traveling Man." Popular priced dining room and coffee shop. Rates $1.25 and up. Independence, Kansas. Handwritten: Sat 4/9/38 Dear Mother: snow bound here. Came up from Coffeyville but couldn't get to Wichita so we will stay here Sunday & go on to Bartlesville & Enid, Okla. Monday & to Wichita Tues. It drifted 8 to 10 ft. Nice & clear & warm today so it is melting. Hope you are all O.K. Love & best wishes. As ever, Milt | Mrs. G. H. Schelp, 21 Ridgemore Dr., St. Louis, Mo.

General Postmarked date from Independence, Kansas