Here is his add in The Economist, May 6, 1936.
Love the 3-digit phone number.
From the Rotarian in the Hobbies section, May 1940:
Photo of Raymond Victor Alquist, Clay Center HS yearbook 1927
Two and a half years before his passing at age 40, he and his father Verner were pictured side by side in the 7-47 issue of The Rotarian, featuring father and son pairs of Rotary Club Members.
Lived with his wife Delphia at 411 Frederick St, Clay Center KS
Raymond Victor Alquist (1909-1950) - Find A Grave Memorial
An article in the October 16, 1936 Dispatch discusses the displays at the first Piotique Day, celebrating the new Highway 24 bridge over the Republican River. The Town of Clay Center has made it an annual event ever since.
Dr. Alquist's display is mentioned:
"Gambles is displaying Dr. Raymond Alquist's guns, many of them with a fascinating history and background, and the exhibit has attracted lots of attention all day long. Dr. Warren Kerby's collection is on display there too, including French and English bayonets, horse pistols, and flint-locks. Several unusual and wicked looking knives are there, also; and some German army equipment is a feature. Munitions picked up on Custer's Battle Field, gun relics from the Spanish, Civil, World, and other wars are included in the display, some of them more years old that can be easily realized. Old weapons that have had their day in warfare are contrasted with the "later models." It is said this collection is one of the finest in Kansas."
