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Title
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The "Dummy" Line from Westport to Waldo
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Description
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Anecdotes about the "way one got back and forth from Westport to Waldo at the turn of the century," on the "dummy" line to Dodson ("the present 85th and Prospect"), where it connected with the Missouri Pacific Railroad. "Dummy" meaning a type of condensing engine quieter than "the usual kind."
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Date
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1993
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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John T. Frazier, Daguerreotypist of Westport, Missouri
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Description
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Photo and biographical article about Judge John Thornton Frazier, an early photographer in Westport starting in the 1850s. He was born in Saint Charles, Missouri, in 1819. Description of his career, moving from Jefferson City to Westport after 1850, and becoming "one of fifteen daguerreotypists [an early type of photography] in Missouri," working also as an artist, carpenter, mayor of Westport, police judge, and town marshal.
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Date
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1993
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Street Railroads of the City
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Description
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Reprint of an article from the August 10, 1873, Kansas City Times about the "extension of tracks [and] additions to the street railroads of the city," including new connections to Westport and Kansas City, Kansas.
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Date
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1993
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Memorial Honors World War I Hero
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Description
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Article about Major Murray Davis, a Kansas City lawyer killed in World War I, describing his life and the memorial dedicated in 1928 to him and his comrades, at 40th and Main Streets, and designed by Wight and Wight architects.
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Date
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1993
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
