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From the Bottom Up: The Story of the Irish in Kansas City
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References to the Pendergast family, very influential in the city government of Kansas City, starting with James in the 1870s and continuing with Tom until 1940 and on, responsible for the wide-open vice atmosphere and intense Downtown construction period in the city in the late 1920s-1930s.
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2000
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Book
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The Dress of the First Voyageurs, 1650-1715
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Article summarizes the typical dress and appearance of French-Canadian explorers of New France during the years 1650-1715. The following topics are covered: body ornamentation (beards and tattoos), summer dress (shirts, breechclouts, leggings, moccasins), winter dress (headgear, camisoles, chemisettes, breeches, drawers, stockings, socks, winter moccasins, mittens, capotes, sashes), and contracts. The descriptions of these items are based upon notarial and judiciary records from the period. Included in the article's appendix are four transcriptions of such records.
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2000
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Magazine Article
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Getting the Most Out of Life
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This article is actually Chapter 6 of the book Evangelism's First Modern Media Star: The Life of Reverend Bill Stidger by his grandson. This chapter details the time period of the mid 1920s when Stidger was at Linwood Boulevard Methodist Episcopal Church. Sinclair Lewis was a friend of his and visited Kansas City and the Stidgers in preparation for writing his book Elmer Gantry.
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2000
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Magazine Article
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Journeys through Time: A Young Traveler's Guide to Kansas City's History
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A Kansas City history book written for children and young adult readers. From the introduction: Using words, pictures, maps, and activities, this book will take you - along with your friends and imagination - into the history of this place we call Kansas City. You will understand how the place we live affects the patterns of our daily lives. Sometimes, history can seem like a chore - or even a bore. The writers of this book have tried hard to keep from drowning you in details … Each chapter of this book presents the story of an era, or period of time, in our past. Along the way, you will learn the stories that make our city a unique and important place to all our lives. And you will discover how to time travel on your own.
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2000
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Book
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Joseph Adair: Jackson County Pioneer
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Story about the Jackson County Parks Department's dedication of Adair Park, "a new park to the community in honor of Joseph Adair [1828-1905] on June 24, 1931," the site of a former rock quarry. Biographical description of Joseph Adair, "the first child born in Independence," a Forty-niner, and Santa Fe Trail freighter.
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2000
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Magazine Article
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Reading the Past: The Admiral
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Photos and article about the Steamboat "Admiral" built in 1907 as a Mississippi River ferry and renovated in Art Deco style in 1937 for its first trip down the river in 1940 from Saint Louis. Reincarnated in the 1980s by Six Flags "as a family entertainment center" in Saint Louis and again there "as the President Casino."
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2000
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Magazine Article
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Gone But Not Forgotten: Carl Betz 1854-1898
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First paragraph of article states that part of the article was prepared in 1962 by Mr. Betz's 3 daughters. Carl Betz was a pioneer for his time in the field of physical education and worked for the Kansas City School District. He also was a musician, born in 1854 and dying at the age of 43 in 1898. Article details his life and includes picture of him.
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2000
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Magazine Article
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Making a Unique Heritage: Celebrating Pike's Pawnee Village and the Santa Fe Trail, 1900-1918
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Photos and article about the movement starting about 1900 toward marking places of historical significance in Kansas, starting with explorer Zebulon Pike's Pawnee Village site in 1901 and 1906, honoring his 1806 claims of Spanish rule for America in Kansas, and continuing in the early 1900s with Santa Fe Trail markers.
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2000
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Magazine Article
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The Irrepressible Urge to Manipulate: Election Fraud in Rural Missouri, 1940s-1970s
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Article about voting frauds in rural Missouri elections from the 1940s to the 1970s, especially about Sullivan County and Wright County, Missouri, with photos, map, and copies of letters and newspaper headlines, and including cases reaching the Missouri State Supreme Court.
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2000
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Magazine Article
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Gillis House Hotel Was a Prison in 1864
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Article about a Civil War experience of a soldier, George M. Noland of Kansas City, at the Gillis House Hotel in 1864 as a prisoner of war, sentenced to death.
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2000
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Magazine Article
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Announcements: Native American Heritage Museum
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Photo and description about the Native American Heritage Museum "located at the Highland Mission State Historic Site, Highland, Kansas," and "administered by the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka," Kansas. Brief history of Native Americans or American Indians in Kansas, including early tribes present before white settlement, their removal beginning in 1825, and "Indian missions built in Kansas between 1820 and 1862," including the Highland Mission, "established in 1837 by Reverend Samuel Irvin and his wife Eliza, and Reverend William Hamilton and his wife Julia."
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2000
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Magazine Article
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More on the Battle at Blue Mills
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Addendum to the article "written on Fannie Fristoe Twyman's account of the battle of Blue Mills in Jackson County in 1861," in the form of excerpts from an official report in 1861 of the battle, mentioning Colonel Chiles and Colonel Patton, written by Union Colonel J. P. Saunders.
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2000
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Magazine Article
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Elmwood Cemetery
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Photo and article about the history of Elmwood Cemetery, established in 1872 as a private cemetery at 4900 Truman Road and with graves dating "as early as 1840," with landscaping designed by George Kessler. Includes interments of many famous Kansas Citians, such as Jacob and Ella Loose, Annie Chambers, Kersey Coates, Louis Hammerslough, eleven mayors, and George Nettleton, "who also played a major role in the railroads and contributed the Nettleton Home."
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2000
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Magazine Article
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