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Title
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Street Railway Progress
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Description
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The Metropolitan Street Railway Company spent nearly two million dollars in 1899 modernizing Kansas City's street railways. Expenditures are included in this article detailing the different work that was completed.
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Date
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1900-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Heim Road Completed
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Description
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The Heim Road, also referred to as the East Side Electric Railway, will near completion by October 15, 1899. The road, being 2.5 miles long, will run �??from Market Square to the intersection of the old county road, a point north of Heim�??s brewery in the East Bottoms.�?�
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Date
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1899-10
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Country Club Line Streetcar
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Description
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Route 56, Country Club line car crossing 62nd Terrace, between Brookside Plaza and Wornall Rd. The streetcar is heading south about to enter the Brookside Station. The building in the background is the Brookside Garage, on the site of the current Cosentino's Market.
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Date
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1955
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Dodson Line 65
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Description
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Image identified as 75th and Wornall, electric railway. On back of photograph, written in blue ink, "KCPS 1175 (Dodson), 75th @ Wornall, Summer 1950."
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Date
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1950
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Interurban Centers and Interurban Cars: Kansas City
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Description
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Article describes the interurban system of Kansas City, Missouri. It include specifications for cars and tracks, maps, and lists of towns served, and information about each company.
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Date
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1917-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Lackman Thompson Farm
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Description
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Article with photograph of the Lackman Thompson home, located at 11180 Lackman Road. This home was placed on the Register of Historic Kansas paces in 1992. In 1901 William Lackman started an interurban railway called the Kansas City and Olathe. His partner, Shawnee resident and former Johnson County Treasurer, David B. Johnson, ran off with the company funds.
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Date
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2008
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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William B. Strang, Jr.
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Description
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Photo and bio of William B. Strang, Jr., or William Strang, "dreamer, visionary, inventor, real estate and community developer, prometer, and entrepreneur-on-a-shoe string" coming to Kansas City from New York City around the turn of the 19th century. Description of his transportation career, establishing the Strang Line or the Missouri and Kansas Interurban Railway from Kansas City, Missouri, to Olathe, Kansas, and points in-between (ending in 1940 as obsolete because of automobile proliferation), leading to the development of Overland Park, Kansas, and establishing Strang Aviation Park there in 1909.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Book Section
