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Title
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George Laurence Mailliard, Sr. Obituary
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Description
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George L. Mailliard, Sr., known as Mr. M., died on December 9, 2008. He owned Mailliard's Incorporated, a men and boys clothing store which began in the Prairie Village Shopping Center in 1954. Eventually there were several stores located in the Kansas City area. Mr. Mailliard was born on October 31, 1915. He leaves his second wife Viva and four children. Includes his picture.
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Date
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2008-12-10
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Burton Oscar Lisman
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Obituary for Burton O. Lisman who died May 3, 2007 at age 87. He was born in Cincinnati on October 15, 1919. "Mr. Lisman started working at Kaplan's Fabrics, which led to a career in ladies fashions and ready-to-war stores. In 1951 he opened 'Lisman's,' his first in a chain of seven women's clothing stores located in every major shopping center in the Kansas City metro area." Lisman later began All Pro Advertising and was an original founder of the Red Coaters and Chiefs Club. In 2006 he received the Life Time Achievement Award from Lamar Hunt and the Kansas City Chiefs.
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2007-05-11
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Hammerslough & Co.
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Description
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Advertisement of Hammerslough clothing company. Below portrait drawing of Hammerslough is, "This is not General grant, but it is the Famous Kansas City Clotheir, Hammerslough. Spring Orders filled from all over the American Continent."
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Date
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1882-03-20
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Downtown Storefront: Slabotsky & Son Fine Menswear
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Description
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Slabotsky & Son, a men's clothing store, has stood in its current location at 1102 Grand since 1935. Bruce Jerwick purchased the store from Gordon Slabotsky, whose father founded it in 1914.
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Date
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2007-12-07
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Blacks in Kansas City, Part III--Business and Industry
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Description
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Third in a series of four articles about the history of African Americans in Kansas City. It provides an overview of black business and industry, from the period before emancipation in 1865 to the present (1986). Starting in the late 1800s, African Americans were mostly "limited to household labor and unskilled jobs," but by 1913 "were securing jobs as barbers, cooks, railroad workers, and waitresses" in Kansas City. The growth of job opportunities and black-owned businesses and business organizations in the 20th century are then discussed, with many examples such as Alpha Minor Smith, Reuben Street, Reverend James Wesley Hurse, T.B. Watkins, Felix Payne ("investment broker and bondsman"), Guy Davis ("Public Accountant and Auditor"), J.A. Wilson ("Kansas City's pioneer negro jeweler"), John Burns ("manager and former police officer"), Eureka Casket and Coffin Company, the Kansas City Urban League, the Kansas City Council of Employees, the Kansas City Nebro Directory, and Associated Negro Grocers."In 1870, Mrs. Alpha Minor Smith opened a dressmaking and notions shop in Kansas City. The Alpha Minor Smith Dress Shop was the first shop in the city to carry ready-to-wear clothing for ladies. Another successful businessman of the black community was Reuben S. Street. Mr. Street, owner of Street Enterprises, was one of K.C.'s leading businessmen. Street's Blue Room was known throughout the country as a popular meeting place."
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Date
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1986-02-21
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
