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Title
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Western Auto Sign
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Description
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Sign atop the Western Auto Building, located at 2107 Grand Avenue.
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Date
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1991
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Telephone Traveler
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Description
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Promotional postcard for the American Telephone & Telegraph Company depicting a telephone using traveler.
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Date
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1900~
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Future: The Newsweekly for Today
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Description
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Issue of the anti-corruption, Kansas City-based newspaper, Future: The Newsweekly for Today. The front page includes an article, continued on page 8, with a photo and brief history of the Kansas City Municipal Airport (later called the Downtown Airport) "between North Kansas City and Kansas City proper," dedicated in 1927 and opened in 1929 with four airlines and reorganization after "cancellation of government mail contracts" in 1934. Other featured articles include: “Snapshots of the Week” (p. 1), with quips including “An iron box in old Convention Hall contains letters written by locally prominent people of 1899 to their successors of 2001. Let's see, that ought to be along about the tail-end of the reign of Pendergast the Third”; “First Ward to Ward Parkway” (pp. 3 & 4), photo and description of the new Jackson County Courthouse and plans for two more "Pendergast Pyramids"--a municipal auditorium and city hall, all constructed with Tom Pendergast's Ready Mixed Concrete company--in an article about the Pendergast machine's rule starting in the First Ward in the late 1800s and running to the present with Boss Tom's mansion on Ward Parkway; and “May We Present Isaac Katz” (p. 5), photo and biographical article about Isaac Katz, "owner of a newly purchased cigar and confectionery store at the corner of 12th and McGee" in 1917, changing it to the Katz Drug Store that year due to a business law of the Herbert Hoover administration and including a description of his life and career, emigrating to Kansas City from Poland and called "the David Belasco of the retail drug business"; also included in the newspaper are advertisements for local businesses and articles on fashion, finance, cooking, music, art, letters to the editor, and national and international news.
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Date
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1935-03-15
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Object Type
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Newspaper
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Title
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Future: The Newsweekly for Today
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Description
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Issue of the anti-corruption, Kansas City-based newspaper, Future: The Newsweekly for Today. The front page includes an article, continued on page 8, about drugstores, such as the Katz chain, that now sell other goods such as groceries, liquor, and general merchandise, and how they evade laws limiting the days traditional grocery and liquor stores can remain open. Other featured articles include: “We’ve Got the Equipment” (p. 2), regarding new forensic investigation techniques touted by J. Edgar Hoover that are employed by the Kansas City Police Department, including ballistics tools and black lights, and references the investigation into the mysterious death of Roland T. Owen at the President Hotel; “Kansas City—The New Newport” (pp. 3 & 8), about semi-legal gambling saloons or "salons" at 39th and Main Street, including the Fortune Skill Ball Salon and the 2925 Club, as well as another near 31st and Troost Avenue; “Gag” (p. 4), photo and article about Joseph Shannon, federal representative from Missouri and former Jackson County machine politician for the Democratic Party, regarding gag rules; and “May We Present Margaret Hillias” (p. 5), a photo and biographical article about Margaret Hillias, an actress at the Little Theater and other local theater groups ("Blackfriars, the Provincials, the Resident, as well as some lesser organizations"), leaving Kansas City for New York City to follow in the footsteps of Jean Harlow, Joan Crawford, and Wallace Beery; also included in the newspaper are advertisements for local businesses and articles on fashion, finance, cooking, music, letters to the editor, and national and international news.
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Date
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1935-02-15
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Object Type
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Newspaper
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Title
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Future: The Newsweekly for Today
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Description
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Issue of the anti-corruption, Kansas City-based newspaper, Future: The Newsweekly for Today. The front page includes an article, continued on pages 3 and 8, about the selling of merchandise stolen from Kansas merchants in Kansas City pawn shops, and description of the subsequent closing of small shops not tied to the Pendergast machine and sentencing of a black man to 40 years in jail in lieu of convicting the proprietor of a guilty shop at 9th and Main Streets, and other issues. Other featured articles include: “Fame!” (p. 2) is a reprint of a New York Herald-Tribune article about Future and its anti-machine stance; “Move Over, Girls, the Machine’s Moving In” (p. 3), a column about the forced relocation of prostitutes from their usual place between 12th, Cherry, Locust, and 13th Streets to "only two blocks over toward Troost" by the Pendergast machine, mainly due to their poor image presented in front of the new Jackson County Courthouse; “Ready-Mixed Whiskey” (p. 3), a discussion on the supposed price-fixing of alcohol in Kansas City and its relation to the ownership of T. J. Pendergast Wholesale Liquor Company at 2101 Central Street, "the largest distributor of liquor in Kansas City," by Tom Pendergast, "Kansas City political boss." Pendergast also the owner of the Ready Mixed Concrete company; and “May We Present Belle Edwards” (p. 5), photo and biographical article about Belle Edwards, a 72-year-old black woman, "good citizen," and widow of "Edwards, a colored member of the police force" of Kansas City, and who was born in Paris, Missouri, in 1863 into slavery and coming to Kansas City "to work in the laundry connected with the old Blossom House," with residence at 24th and Woodland Avenues; also included in the newspaper are advertisements for local businesses and articles on fashion, finance, cooking, music, art, letters to the editor, and national and international news.
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Date
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1935-03-01
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Object Type
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Newspaper