This is kind of related and certainly odd. In 1909 you could get a 20 foot city lot as a prize if you subscribed to the Farm Journal. Here is the documentation from a local note:
Wichita Eagle
Tuesday, November 18, 1980
page 3Z.
Feature article on demise of the “shanty town” Sheridan Park neighborhood in southwest
Wichita, bounded by Pawnee, 27th South, Meridian, and Custer. The 80 acres of
farmland was subdivided in 1909 into 20 by 100 foot lots, and for three dollars customers
could get a lot thrown in with a subscription to the Farm Journal. The area was then
known as Orienta Park. The area was two miles from the city limits, streets were never
paved, and a shanty town was built. In late 1950s and early 1960s city annexed the land.
The shacks were eventually torn down and the land re-platted.
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