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Title
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Cowtown Chronicles: The Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month--Armistice
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Description
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Photo, illustration, and history of the Liberty Memorial, dedicated in 1921 as a World War I monument across from Union Station on the former "ugly old Vinegar Hill, shanty-clad, dirty and with many of those derelict elements that often crowd about railroad stations." Description of its plans starting just after Armistice Day in 1918 by Robert Long, or R. A. Long, William Kemper, James Kemper, Nelson Kirkland, H. Van Buren McGonigle (the architect), et al.
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Date
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2000-11
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Cowtown Chronicles: K. C.'s 150 Years Old--How's Your Local History I. Q.?
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Description
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Photo and information about local history of the Kansas City metropolitan area in the form of a quiz, with "questions and locations" regarding the following: (1) the Archibald Rice home at 66th and Blue Ridge; (2) the cemetery on 63rd Street between Euclid and Brooklyn Avenues; (3) the Wornall Home at 61st Terrace and Wornall Road; (4) the Alexander Majors home at 8201 State Line Road; (5) the Shawnee Methodist Mission at 58th and Mission Roads; (6) the J. C. Nichols Fountain at 47th and Main Streets; (7) Kelly's Westport Inn at Westport and Pennsylvania Avenues; (8) the brick home at 40th and Baltimore Avenues; (9) Liberty Memorial across from Union Station; and (10) Union Cemetery at 28th and Warwick Trafficways.
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Date
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2000-05
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Object Type
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Magazine Article