St. Joseph Observer: the Flynns, 1918-1921

The weekly St. Joseph Observer, read through the Library of Congress text in the Flynn research pass (research/dwyer/Flynn_Family_Connections.md, October 2026); the quotations below were checked against it.

• 2 Feb 1918: “Wm. C. Flynn’s parcel post automobile was struck by a Burlington switch engine, at Fifth and Hickory Wednesday morning and demolished. Flynn was not seriously hurt.” The same accident as the undated clipping in the Gallery (source), so Wednesday 30 January 1918 (https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn90061457/1918-02-02/ed-1/?sp=5).
• 13 July - 3 Aug 1918: the County Clerk’s notice of the Democratic primary of 6 Aug 1918 lists “James M. Flynn, 1115 Powell St., St. Joseph, Mo.” among the candidates for justice of the peace, Washington Township. Paid items of 27 July: “The ladies say ‘encourage the young soldiers by taking care of the old soldiers for the young soldier will one day be the old soldier.’ Therefore cast your vote for James M. Flynn for Justice of the peace”; and “What became of the boy whose mother ‘did not raise her boy to be a soldier’? He will be twenty-one years old Aug. 6th when he will vote for James M. Flynn for Justice of the peace, then he will enlist to help swat the Kaiser” (https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn90061457/1918-07-27/ed-1/?sp=5).
• 10 July 1920: “W. C. Flynn, a parcel post carrier at the St. Joseph office, left Wednesday with his family of nine for Portland, Oregon, on a pleasure trip. The party went in two Ford flivvers” (https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn90061457/1920-07-10/ed-1/?sp=5).
• 19 Mar 1921: “The funeral of the late Judge James M. Flynn occurred from the Cathedral at 9 a. m. Thursday, and was very largely attended.” The Thursday after his death on 11 March was 17 March.