front: “Compliments of the Western Wheel Scraper company. Manufacturers, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.” in between the sentences is a large photo of two young Black children, a boy and a girl, in the snow. houses are in the background. The boy wears a tattered overcoat. They are both smiling.
Back in a variety of fonts: “Victorious! all competing machines Scooped! The Western Reversible Triumphant Everywhere. And teh People universally recommend it for Grading and Repairing the Public Roads. 105 Competitive Trials in 1889: The “Western” sold in all but five. thousands of testimonials in its favor; samples furnished on application. 43 Road Machines made by the Western Wheel Scraper Co., now in use in Henry County, Iowa; 42 in Jefferson County; 66 in four other Counties in Western Iowa.
The Western Wheeled Scraper or Self -Loading and Self-Dumping Cart, original“ly manufactured at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, but moved to Aurora, Ill. Was patented by an experienced contractor, whose only object was to cheapen the work of grading on his own contacts. The original patent has been re-issued, and many improvements made, which have been patented.