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Missouri Democracy: A History of the Party and Its Representative Members--Past and Present
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Description
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One paragraph of biography about William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925), "a representative from Nebraska," moving there from Illinois in 1887 as a lawyer, becoming an unsuccessful presidential candidate in 1896, 1900, and 1908 as a populist, establishing "The Commoner" newspaper in Lincoln, Nebraska, engaged in speaking tours, and becoming "secretary of state of the United States in the Cabinet of President Wilson" in the 1910s, moving to Miami, Florida, in 1921.
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Date
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1935
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Book
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Hughes' Kansas City Views
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Photo of the building at 102-106 West 9th Street, referred to as the "Lyceum Building" and "Lyceum Hall."
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Date
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1896
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Book
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M. J. Pendergast Dies Following 4 Years' Illness: Brother of Democratic Leader Inactive Politically since 1925
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Photo and obituary articles for Michael Pendergast (ca. 1867-1929), "lieutenant of the 'big boss'" Tom Pendergast in his Kansas City political machine, dying at the age of 62 on September 2, 1929. Native of Saint Joseph, Missouri and older brother of Tom Pendergast coming to Kansas City about 1886 and serving in the Pendergast machine as county license inspector (for saloons), city clerk, and president of the Eureka Petroleum Company with residence at 4138 Campbell Street.
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Date
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1929-09-02
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Newspaper Article
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Girls' Parental Home School
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Description
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File includes a short history of the school up to about 1922 as well as other items.
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Vertical File
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Cave Spring Park
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Description
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Illustration, map, and information on Cave Spring Park, a park established in the 1970s on the site of "Big Cave spring, two and a half miles southwest of Raytown, for many years used by the plainsmen as the only watering place between Independence and Hickman Mills" (near Gregory and Blue Ridge Boulevards).
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Vertical File
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Joseph Loeffler and Charles Raber
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Description
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Images of Joseph Loeffler and Charles Raber, proprietors of the Armory Hall saloon at 15th Street and Grand Avenues, established in 1870 and built in 1880. Description of Loeffler as being born in Germany in 1836 and coming to Kansas City in 1865. Description of Raber as being born in Switzerland in 1841 and coming to Kansas City in 1855.
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Date
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1890
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Neevel Manufacturing Company Was a "Depression Baby"
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Description
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History of the Neevel Manufacturing Company, the "largest luggage unit producing factory in the United States," located at 1401-1427 Chestnut Street, incorporated in 1934. Includes two small photos and one of H. E. Turpin, president in 1950.
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Date
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1950
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Book Section
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Thomas J. Goforth
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Description
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Information about Thomas Goforth (1804-1882), the first mayor of Westport upon its incorporation in 1857. He was born in Cincinnati and moved to Missouri in 1837, becoming a sign painter in Independence before coming to Westport around 1853 as a lawyer, residing next to the Boone's Trading Post, with photos and illustrations.
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Vertical File
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Citizens Historical Association: Biographical Data of Kansas Citians Index
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Description
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Biographical sketch of Carlton Benton, a public administrator of Jackson County, Missouri, since 1936, moving to Kansas City in 1901, working for the Alton Railroad Company during World War I, and later a partner in several businesses in central and western Missouri.
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Date
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1938
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Object Type
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Book
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Columbia Toy Company
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Description
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File contains miscellaneous documents pertaining to the Columbia Toy Company, including product catalogs and a short manuscript titled "History of Columbia Toy Company, Kansas City, MO. Part 1-2" by Polly Hackett-Morey.
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Vertical File
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Missouri: Special Limited Supplement
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Description
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Photo and bio of Benjamin Franklin Bush, or Benjamin Bush, and his wife, Catherine Idelia Hawkins Bush, or Catherine Bush. Description of his life and career as a native of Pennsylvania becoming a railroad worker and engineer by the 1880s, coal mining in the 1890s, and associated fields mostly in the Far West, and starting with the Missouri Pacific Railroad in 1903, becoming its president in Saint Louis in the 1910s. Also a national advisor and consultant between 1900 and 1920 on matters of transportation, mining, railroads, fuels, geology, etc.
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Date
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1930
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Object Type
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Book
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Parks in Jackson County, Missouri
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Description
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Information on Jackson County parks, including Missouri Town 1855 and Jacomo Park at Lake Jacomo.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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