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Title
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Eugene Rust
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Description
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Photo and bio of Eugene Rust, general manager of the Kansas City Stock Yards Company and vice-president of the American Royal Live Stock Show. Born in Maine in 1857 and coming to Kansas City around the turn of the century.
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Date
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1912
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Object Type
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Book Section
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George Collett
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Description
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Photo and bio of George Collett, president of the Kansas City Stock Yards Company since 1918 and involved in the Stockyards since his arrival in Kansas City in 1913. He was born in Michigan in 1872 and instrumental in the recovery of the Stockyards fire of 1917 and the building of the American Royal in 1922.
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Date
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1924
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Meatpacking in Kansas City, Kansas
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Description
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The index of this book has several references to Kansas City, Kansas, about various topics about the meatpacking industry and stockyards. The Armour Company, as well as many other companies associated with the industry, are also mentioned.
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Date
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2007
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Book Section
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Title
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Octave Chanute
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Description
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Photo and biographical description of Octave Chanute (1832-1910), "a civil engineer involved in bridge building, glider design, and flying machines," native to France and emigrating to Kansas City in 1867, designing the Hannibal Bridge and Stockyards here before experimenting with and writing about early aircrafts, including advising the Wright brothers before their invention of the airplane.
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Date
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1999
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Book Section
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Title
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The Autobiography of William Allen White
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Description
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Chapters of the book describe the journalism career in Kansas City of William Allen White, or William White, who came here in 1891 at the end of the 1880s boom. Description of the city in the early 1890s and of journalists such as Colonel Robert Van Horn, Charles Gleed, and William Rockhill Nelson, and their papers, the Kansas City Journal and the Kansas City Star, etc. Mention of several sites in the city, including the Kansas City Journal Building, the Centropolis Hotel, the Keith & Perry Building, the Midland Hotel, cable cars, Grand Avenue, and Main Street, etc. Also an obituary for White's daughter Mary White is on pages 217-221.
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1905-04-29
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