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The Marion and McPherson Railroad was a short-line railroad in central Kansas.
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- ↑ "Browse Full Member Database | Kansas Press Association". kspress.com. Retrieved 2023-04-10.
- ↑ "Official Website" . Retrieved February 5, 2014.
- ↑ A History of Kansas Newspapers; Kansas State Historical Society; 1916.
- ↑ Oscar Stauffer Obituatary.
- ↑ Peabody : The First 100 Years; Peabody Historical Society; Peabody Gazette-Herald in Peabody, KS; 123 pages; 1971.
