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Title
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Kansas City Mayors
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Description
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File includes a welcome scroll featuring the seal of Kansas City made out and given to Mr. Walter Rosner of New York City, signed by Mayor Bryce B. Smith, and dated March 19, 1935. A sketch of the Liberty Memorial is at the top of the scroll.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Kansas City and Its One Hundred Foremost Men
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Description
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Photo and bio of Bryce Smith, "President of the Consumers Bread Company." Born in Indianapolis in 1878 and raised in Kansas City before taking over his father's bakery at 18th and Cherry Streets.
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Date
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1925
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Real Estate Tactics Unite Calumet Neighborhood
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Description
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Map and article about "the Calumet subdivision--a small enclave of homes northeast of Red Bridge and Blue River roads" in southeast Kansas City with conflict over selling homes to minority ethnic groups, including "20 black families in the subdivision plus some Chinese, East Indians, and Mexican-Americans." Subdivision adjacent to the farm of former mayor Bryce Smith.
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Date
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1977-09-29
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Ben Bernie, Frank Cromwell, Bryce Smith
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Description
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Ben Bernie, radio star and musician, with Frank Cromwell and Mayor Bryce Smith and other unidentified men at unidentified location with a racing form in hand.
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Date
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1930~
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Object Type
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Negative
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Title
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Future: The Newsweekly for Today
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1935-04-19
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Object Type
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Newspaper
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Title
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Future: The Newsweekly for Today
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Description
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Issue of the anti-corruption, Kansas City-based newspaper, Future: The Newsweekly for Today. The front page includes an article, continued on pages 3 and 8, about the selling of merchandise stolen from Kansas merchants in Kansas City pawn shops, and description of the subsequent closing of small shops not tied to the Pendergast machine and sentencing of a black man to 40 years in jail in lieu of convicting the proprietor of a guilty shop at 9th and Main Streets, and other issues. Other featured articles include: “Fame!” (p. 2) is a reprint of a New York Herald-Tribune article about Future and its anti-machine stance; “Move Over, Girls, the Machine’s Moving In” (p. 3), a column about the forced relocation of prostitutes from their usual place between 12th, Cherry, Locust, and 13th Streets to "only two blocks over toward Troost" by the Pendergast machine, mainly due to their poor image presented in front of the new Jackson County Courthouse; “Ready-Mixed Whiskey” (p. 3), a discussion on the supposed price-fixing of alcohol in Kansas City and its relation to the ownership of T. J. Pendergast Wholesale Liquor Company at 2101 Central Street, "the largest distributor of liquor in Kansas City," by Tom Pendergast, "Kansas City political boss." Pendergast also the owner of the Ready Mixed Concrete company; and “May We Present Belle Edwards” (p. 5), photo and biographical article about Belle Edwards, a 72-year-old black woman, "good citizen," and widow of "Edwards, a colored member of the police force" of Kansas City, and who was born in Paris, Missouri, in 1863 into slavery and coming to Kansas City "to work in the laundry connected with the old Blossom House," with residence at 24th and Woodland Avenues; 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.
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Date
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1935-03-01
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Object Type
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Newspaper
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Title
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Future: The Newsweekly for Today
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Description
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Issue of the anti-corruption, Kansas City-based newspaper, Future: The Newsweekly for Today. This issue includes a supplemental section coming out against a proposed permanent registration bill they argue “will only saddle us with vote fraud conditions even worse than in the past,” and reporting past voter fraud. Other featured articles include: “He Must Have Worried Terribly” (pp. 1 & 8), photo and article about the alleged murder of Lloyd Billings by John Mangiaricina (a nightclub operator and Pendergast "machine worker") at Mangiaricina's "Silver Moon night club" at 15th and Cherry Streets on June 24, 1934; “Justice Week in Kansas City” (p. 3), a review of events in the Kansas City courts making "front-page news for Kansas Citians the last ten days," including (1) the death penalty for Walter McGee, "one of the kidnapers of Miss Mary McElroy, daughter of the city manager"; (2) five years of prison for Myron Fanning, "youthful policeman who ran amuck and killed a brother motorcycle officer"; and (3) acquittal of John Mangaricina for the alleged murderer of Lloyd Billings; and “May We Present Mrs. Marvin Gates” (p. 5), a photo and biographical article about Mrs. Marvin Gates, or Medill Gates, a Kansas City actress starting in the early 20th century as one of the original members of the Comedy Club (called the Kansas City Theater after World War I) and the Pretenders theater group "at Barstow's ever since 1922"; also included in the newspaper are advertisements for local businesses and articles on fashion, finance, cooking, music, art, and national and international news.
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Date
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1935-04-01
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Object Type
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Newspaper
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Title
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Future: The Newsweekly for Today
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Description
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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 “lug,” “an involuntary or forced contribution to something a luckless employee isn’t nearly as interested in” as his and his family’s own welfare. Other featured articles include “T. J. and W. T.” (page 2), about patching up of differences between William Kemper, Sr. ("Democratic national committeeman for Missouri") and Tom Pendergast (Democratic No. 1 man in Missouri"), "concerning an outgrowth of the Lazia case here"; “May We Present Mrs. A. Ross Hill” (p. 5), a photo and profile of Vassie Hill, or Mrs. A. Ross Hill, "Missouri chairman of the National Women's Committee for Mobilization for Human Need," describing her life and career as the daughter of J. Crawford James and former wife of Hugh Ward, starting out "in charge of enlisting women for foreign work in the Red Cross" during World War I and "organizing the Jefferson Democratic Club, an independent organization of women" in 1923; also included in the newspaper are advertisements for local businesses and articles on fashion, finance, cooking, music, art, and national and international news.
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Date
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1935-07-12
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Object Type
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Newspaper
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Title
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Bryce Smith
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Description
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Photo and bio of Bryce Smith (1878-1962), mayor of Kansas City from 1930 to 1938. Native of Indianapolis raised in Kansas City and joining his father's Smith Bakery before organizing his own Smith Great West Baking Company in 1923 and in 1926 the General Baking Corporation with a farm on Red Bridge Road near the farm of Harry Truman.
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Date
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1968
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Hugh M. Dougherty Scrapbook #1, p.110
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Description
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Page 110 of the Hugh M. Dougherty Scrapbook #1. Clippings related to the appointment of Lear B. Reed as Kansas City police chief are attached to the page.
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Date
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1939-07-11
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Object Type
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Archival Material
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Title
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Hugh M. Dougherty Scrapbook #1, p.109
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Description
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Page 109 of the Hugh M. Dougherty Scrapbook #1. A clipping related to the additions of Edgar Shook, Russell F. Greiner, George Fiske, and Milton B. Schweiger to the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners is attached to the page.
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Date
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1939-07
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Object Type
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Archival Material
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Title
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Hugh M. Dougherty Scrapbook #1, p.107
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Description
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Page 107 of the Hugh M. Dougherty Scrapbook #1. Clippings related to the additions of Edgar Shook, Russell F. Greiner, George Fiske, and Milton B. Schweiger to the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners are attached to the page.
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Date
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1939-07
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Object Type
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Archival Material
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Title
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Hugh M. Dougherty Scrapbook #1, p.125
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Description
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Page 125 of the Hugh M. Dougherty Scrapbook #1. A clipping with images of City Manager Henry F. McElroy, Mayor Bryce B. Smith, Chief Robert J. Coffey, Police Director Otto P. Higgins, Thomas J. Higgins, John J. Regan, John L. Ghent, Michael J. Kennedy, Thomas J. Sullivan, Henry W. Johnson, and Hugh M. Dougherty is attached to the page.
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Date
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1938
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Object Type
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Archival Material
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Title
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Kansas City Headliners
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Description
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Photo and bio of Bryce Smith, "former mayor and close friend of President Truman" as well as a "top man in the Continental Baking Company" residing "at his Red Bridge Farm south of the city."
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Date
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1949-11-15
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Old Tricks
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Description
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Article about the probable continued corruption in City Hall without bringing in outsiders, for example, a city manager from outside Kansas City, and thus not from the Pendergast "clique."
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Date
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1940-03-16
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
