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Title
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SC3 Advertising Cards Vertical File List
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Description
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These business or company name vertical files for the advertising cards from the late nineteenth century (circa 1880s-1900) have information about the company or business or people involved.
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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The Plaza Perception
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Description
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Cover story about the Country Club Plaza and some of its locally owned businesses. Includes a map, "Who Is Local at the Plaza?" identifying not only the locally owned business but all the stores on the Plaza.
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Date
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2011-03-20
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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KC's Top 10 Companies
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Description
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Photos and short profiles of 10 companies selected as KC's top 10 companies. They include: University of Missouri-Kansas City ( community award); B.B.'s Lawnside Bar-B-Q (lifestyle award); HMS Beagle (cool award); Locton Companies (growth award); Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics (non-profit award); DLR Group (originality award); Botwin Commercial Development & Property Management (Phoenix award); Barkley (employee empowerment award); Perceptive Software Inc. (innovator award); and Magic Touch Cleaning (reinvention award).
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Date
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2008-08
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Start-Ups on Silicon Prairie
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Description
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Article on the increasing amount of area technology-based start-up companies. Organizations such as the Kauffman Foundation and the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce encourage and promote entrepreneurs, as do events like One Week KC, which allows entrepreneurs to pitch ideas, refine business plans, and network. The article also provides profiles on 10 local start-up companies.
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Date
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2012-07-31
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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The Green Machine
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Description
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Review of Magic Touch Cleaning and its CEO and Chairman Gary Walker and how he became "knowledgeable and [an] enthusiastic proponent of green technology in the commercial and residential cleaning industry...." The company has over 170 accounts. It opened in 1992 in Lee's Summit, Missouri. "An offshoot of the Walkers' green cleaning business is the marketing of more than 40 earth friendly green cleaning products." Walker, called the "King of Green," recently began his own weekly radio show entitled "Going Green with the King."
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Date
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2009-12
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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SC142 Barnes and Smith Papers
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Description
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The Barnes and Smith Papers consist of the partnership agreement to establish Barnes and Smith Manufacturing Company.
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Date
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1891
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
