-
-
Title
-
Future: The Newsweekly for Today
-
Description
-
Issue of the anti-corruption, Kansas City-based newspaper, Future: The Newsweekly for Today. The front page includes an article, continued on page 8, about the escape from federal police in Kansas City of Sam Randazzo, "a St. Louis gangster" being released from Leavenworth, with the help of police officials Otto Higgins and Jeff Rayen. Other featured articles include: “Patriots Go to Riverside” (p. 2), about the gambling on horse racing in Riverside, Missouri, "(owned by Pendergast associates)" and its effects on gambling salons or saloons in Kansas City such as "the Bowery and the King Kong"; “The Eagle Hovers” (p. 2), about the meeting of the Fraternal Order of Eagles (led by Conrad Mann) in honor of Thomas J. Pendergast to initiate 1,000 new members affiliated with the local Democratic Party including Charles Carrollo ("companion of John Lazia when the North End Democratic leader was machine-gunned to death"), Dominick Binaggio ("political gambling king here"), et al.; “New Pussys” (p. 3), about the "Pusateris" operating gambling machines, prostitutes, bootleg liquors, and "juicy steak dinners" "about a block east of police headquarters" during the Prohibition era, moving in 1935 to a new building near 79th and Holmes Streets "outside the city limits" and projected to be "one of the swankiest night clubs and casinos in the Middle West"; “Pathetic Case of Leonard Claiborne” (p. 3), photo and article about Leonard Claiborne, "for fifteen years a city detective" for the Kansas City Police Department and sentenced to "a four-year term for a lie he told to save the neck of Charles Gargotta, North Side gangster" under John Lazia in 1933; and “May We Present Mrs. George H. Hoxie” (p. 5), photo and profile of Ida S. Hoxie, who worked with the Consumers’ League to ensure that local dairies were hygienic and was also active with the Red Cross and League of Women Voters; also included in the newspaper are advertisements for local businesses and articles on fashion, finance, cooking, music, art, and national and international news.
-
Date
-
1935-05-24
-
Object Type
-
Newspaper
-
-
Title
-
Future: The Newsweekly for Today
-
Description
-
Issue of the anti-corruption, Kansas City-based newspaper, Future: The Newsweekly for Today. The front page includes an article, continued on page 8, about the mismanagement and financing of garbage removal in Kansas City, rating the city the worst among its other cities of its size for annual garbage production, from statistics garnered by the Civil Research Institute. Other featured articles include: “Only a Bootlegger” (p. 2), biographical article about "Mr. Joe," a 60-year-old bootlegger, "a power in the Kansas City North Side neighborhood in which he lives," coming to Kansas City at the age of 18 from his native Sicily and becoming a street paver connected with John Lazia; “New Hall—And those Cruel Federal Men” (p. 3), about the soon-to-open new Municipal Auditorium and its federal funding; “May We Present Sig Harzfeld” (p. 5), a photo and biographical article about Siegmund Harzfeld, a clothing store owner and former "President of Kansas City's first Symphony Orchestra," arriving here in 1890 from Chicago; also included in the newspaper are advertisements for local businesses and articles on fashion, finance, cooking, music, art, and national and international news.
-
Date
-
1935-04-12
-
Object Type
-
Newspaper
-
-
Title
-
Future: The Newsweekly for Today
-
Description
-
Issue of the anti-corruption, Kansas City-based newspaper, Future: The Newsweekly for Today. The front page includes a photo and article, continued on page 8, about "Dr. Schorer," a 54-year old pediatric physician appointed by Henry McElroy as the city's Director of Health, born in Wisconsin in 1881 and coming to Kansas City in 1913. Other featured articles include: “Politics and Hogs” (p. 2), about local hotels and restaurants selling their garbage to be used as hog feed and interference by the Kansas City Collection Company; “’S Not ‘N Eagle—‘S ‘N Owl” (p. 3), about of Conrad Mann, Chief beneficiary from membership drives by the Eages" club, or the Fraternal Order of Eagles in Kansas City, in an article about the club's drive to add 3,000 members from the Pendergast machine, including a photo of Mann; “May We Present M. K. P.” (p. 5), a photo and biographical article about Minna Kennedy Powell, or Minna Powell, an art and music critic for the Kansas City Star since 1914 writing under her initials, "M. K. P."; also included in the newspaper are advertisements for local businesses and articles on fashion, finance, cooking, music, art, and national and international news.
-
Date
-
1935-04-19
-
Object Type
-
Newspaper
-
-
Title
-
Future: The Newsweekly for Today
-
Description
-
Issue of the anti-corruption, Kansas City-based newspaper, Future: The Newsweekly for Today. The front page includes an article, continued on page 8, about crime in Kansas City, the lack of accurate, trustworthy records about its frequency and location, and the city’s “inefficient, politically-controlled police department.” Other featured articles include: “Mister Welching” (p. 3), a photo and article about "Judge Casimir John Joseph Aloysius Welch," or Casimir Welch, "the florid Fifteenth street political boss" fighting "his way up from a journeyman plumber to the judgeship of a justice court and the baronage of Fifteenth street”; and “May We Present Paul Gardner” (p. 5), a photo and profile of Paul Gardner, "director of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum" and an architect "in Kansas City advising with the architects and contractors during the building of the Nelson Gallery," born in Boston and raised in San Francisco; also included in the newspaper are advertisements for local businesses and articles on fashion, finance, cooking, music, art, and national and international news.
-
Date
-
1935-07-05
-
Object Type
-
Newspaper
-
-
Title
-
Future: The Newsweekly for Today
-
Description
-
Issue of the anti-corruption, Kansas City-based newspaper, Future: The Newsweekly for Today. The front page includes an article, continued on page 8, about the high number of night clubs in Kansas City (“more … per capita than in any other city in the United States”) and their status as jazz music venues as well as fire hazards, and including photos of Dante's Inferno, the Harlem Nite Club, the Red & Dutch club, the Hey-Hay Club, the Wiggle Inn, the King Kong, the Dump, and the DeLuxe Night Club, etc., with brief descriptions of others including the Sportsman Club and the Chesterfield Club. Other featured articles include: “One Place the Machine Failed” (p. 2), photo and article about C. Whit Pfeiffer, "secretary of the charity bureau" and "[p]erhaps the man most responsible for the high level that relief work has been carried on in Kansas City and Jackson county," and describing lack of influence by the Pendergast machine in the favorable "distribution of Federal Emergency Relief Administrations funds" to Kansas City during the Great Depression; “May We Present Henry D. Ashley” (p. 5), portrait and biographical article about Henry Ashley, a prominent local lawyer and former "president of the Park Board," as well as co-founder of the "Country Day School" with A. Ross Hill and facilitator of the location of the Kansas City Art Institute on "A. R. Meyer's estate"; also included in the newspaper are advertisements for local businesses and articles on fashion, finance, cooking, music, art, letters to the editor, and national and international news.
-
Date
-
1935-03-29
-
Object Type
-
Newspaper