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Title: Inter-State Fairgrounds
Description: One paragraph about the Kansas City Inter-State Fairgrounds of the 1880s and its racetrack for horse racing and other features. Description of its location "[o]n the west side [of Hyde Park]" in "the beautiful tract of Roanoke Addition, to us boys known as McGee's pasture," on 38th Street between Pennsylvania and Summit Streets.
Date: 1905-04-16
Object Type: Book

Title: Hash! Stories of Old Westport
Description: Descriptions of wine gardens in the Westport area in the late 1800s, all in the Roanoke and Valentine residential districts west of Broadway, including that of "Fred Esslinger" at 39th and Roanoke Roads and of Peter Muehlebach at 41st and State Line Roads. Description also of the murder or assassination of Westport's Marshal Samuel Bucher by a William Gossett or William Gossard, supposedly associated with the wine gardens (no longer present in the 1930s), and mention of the largest wine gardens, owned by Peter Muehlebach and Fred Esslinger.
Date: 1933
Object Type: Book

Title: Hash! Stories of Old Westport
Description: Chronological list of the postmasters of the Westport area from beginning to end as a distinct political unit, 1832 to 1899, starting with Johnston Lykins, then John C. McCoy, and then William M. Chick.
Date: 1933
Object Type: Book

Title: Hash! Stories of Old Westport
Description: Story about the author as a child with his mother "on one of the old mule cars that carried the folks from Westport to Kansas City," also mentioning its routes.
Date: 1933
Object Type: Book

Title: Hash! Stories of Old Westport
Description: One long paragraph about Central Baptist Church, built in 1861 "on Westport Avenue east of where Fortieth Street intersects."
Date: 1933
Object Type: Book

Title: Hash! Stories of Old Westport
Description: Description of Lowell Goodman and his wife, residents of Westport at 40th and Warwick Boulevards, Lowell being the "superintendent of the Cumberland Presybterian Sunday-school at where 706 Westport Avenue is now [1933]," from 1879 until his death in 1914 in Goodman, Missouri, "a town named for him in the southern part of the state."
Date: 1933
Object Type: Book

Title: Hash! Stories of Old Westport
Description: One paragraph about the "first public house for the sole worship of God in Westport. ..built in 1850. ..called 'The Union Church'. ..at what is now 310 Westport avenue, or near there."
Date: 1933
Object Type: Book

Title: Hash! Stories of Old Westport
Description: One paragraph about the "metropolitan airs" of Westport during the introduction of gas street lights and the "telephone, the only one in town," "in front of Doctor Saalborn's Drug store [no date given]."
Date: 1933
Object Type: Book

Title: Hash! Stories of Old Westport
Description: Description of the Westport jail or "calaboose," including its size, locks, etc.
Date: 1933
Object Type: Book

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