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Title
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Russell Stover Residence
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Description
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Home location: 5805 Mission Drive, located in Mission Hills.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Russell Stover
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Description
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Photos and information on Russell Stover (1888-1954), founder of Russell Stover Candies in 1922. Headquarters in Kansas City at 1201 East Linwood Boulevard opened in 1931. Native of Alton, Kansas, Stover had his posthumous company buy out the last competitor in "mid-priced gift-boxed chocolates" in 1993 (Whitman Chocolates).
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Russell Stover
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Description
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Photo and bio of Russell Stover, founding partner of the Russell Stover Candies company. Born in northwestern Kansas in 1888 and starting his own candy company in Omaha in 1921 with the invention of the Eskimo Pie before coming to Kansas City in 1931 (as the new company headquarters) with residence at 5805 Mission Drive.
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Date
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1905-05-05
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Russell Stover
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Description
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Photo and bio of Russell Stover (1888-1954), a prominent candy manufacturer of Kansas City. Native of Alton, Kansas starting out in the candy business in the Midwest before coming to Kansas City in 1925 with a second factory for "the confection widely known as the Eskimo Pie." Company called Russell Stover Candies with boxes and stores for the candy designed by him.
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Date
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1905-05-14
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Deaths: Galen V. R. Gloyd Dies
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Description
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Photo and obituary for Galen Gloyd, "78, of 16 East [68th Street]," a retired United States Army Corps of Engineer architect. Native of Illinois coming to Kansas City about 1909 and designing "the home of the late A. R. Jones, the Blessed Sacrament Catholic church, Lakeside hospital, the home now occupied by Mrs. Russell Stover and the George Breon building."
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Date
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1962-06-28
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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South Central Business Association Luncheon
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Description
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Attendees at South Central Business Association luncheon honoring Governor Frank Carlson. Those standing from left to right include: Mrs. Clara Stover, Russell Stover, Harry Darby, Frank Carlson, President Cutting, Dr. G. Chales Gray, Irby J. Head, Representative Albert Reeves, Dr. Arthur B. Chalmers and Irl T. Oliver. N. Emerson Paton is shown seated.
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Date
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1947-09-16
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Russell and Clara Stover
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Description
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Biography of Russell (1888-1954) and Clara (1893-1975) Stover and the Russell Stover Candies company, tracing their candy careers from the 1910s and the start of their own Kansas City-based company in 1920s.
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Date
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1905-06-21
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Object Type
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Book
