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Title
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No Overflow Depot Site
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Description
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Mention that the flood of 1903 and the devastation to the Union Depot site is good reason to put the new railroad station on higher ground. The North side or 22nd Street location are mentioned.
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Date
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1903-06
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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How Two Towns Became One
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Description
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Description of the State Line House hotel on the state line, established around the time of the Civil War and managed by "a Colonel Greene," along with photos of the flooded West Bottoms during the 1903 flood. Description also of the development of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, headed by E. A. Gould into and across the Kansas City area.
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Date
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1903-06
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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How the Bridge Was Saved
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Description
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Description of the work of W. S. Carson, "superintendent of terminals," to prevent damage from the flood of 1903 to the Missouri Pacific Bridge, "the only bridge communicating between the two Kansas Citys," using experience as "a veteran railroad man" in Saint Louis with his brother at the Saint Louis Union Station. Mention also of E. A. Gould, "general superintendent of the Missouri Pacific railroad."
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Date
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1903-06
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
