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Title
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Armour Boulevard
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Description
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Postcard of early automobiles on Armour Boulevard.
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Object Type
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Postcard
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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 crime rate for auto theft and parts stripping in Kansas City compared to Saint Louis and description of its inaccurate measurements by the Kansas City Police Department not accepted by the FBI, with photo of a stripped car and a portrait of J. Edgar Hoover. Other featured articles include: “One Year Ago This Week” (p. 2), with descriptions of incidents in Kansas City on March 12-13, 1934, involving the blockage of registered voters from the polls and bringing in of paid voters by the Pendergast machine for "[t]wo bits a vote," and mention of mistreated and beaten Fusion voters Mrs Mary Brown (1208 East 14th Street), Miss Bessie Morgan (3030 McGee Street), and Tommy Jackson (a black man) and police officer Tom Farley and "Eddie Collins, Pendergast precinct captain"; “Is Your Insurance Costing Too Much?” (p. 3), an article and portrait of Cliff Jones, "Chairman of the Committee Against Fake Claim Racket" in an article about fraudulent insurance claims in Kansas City; and “May We Present Otto P. Higgins” (p. 5), photo and biographical article about Otto Higgins, the 45-year-old director of the police department (replacing Eugene Reppert) and former "police reporter of the Kansas City Star," with description of his life and career as a native of Illinois coming to Kansas City before World War I and becoming a lawyer; 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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1935-03-08
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Object Type
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Newspaper
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Title
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Coca-Cola Building and Vicinity
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Description
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Promotional drawing produced by the Ennis-Edwards Realty Company and included within a booklet promoting the advantages of the Coca-Cola Building. The illustration highlights the building's close proximity to the Liberty Memorial, Union Station, rail lines, major streets, the downtown hotel district, the retail district, the office building district, and the headquarters of the Kansas City Star and Times newspapers.
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Date
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1927
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Object Type
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Artwork
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Title
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Baltimore Hotel
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Description
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Postcard of the Baltimore Hotel
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Kupper Hotel
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Description
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Postcard of the Kupper Hotel
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Date
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1907~
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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"Petticoat Lane"
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Description
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Postcard of Petticoat Lane, West from Grand
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Date
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1913~
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Colonnade at the Paseo
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Description
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Postcard of the Colonnade on the Paseo between 10th Street and 11th Street
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Date
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1908~
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Park Central Hotel
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Description
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Street level view of the Park Central Hotel located at 300-02 E. Armour Boulevard. The main entrance to the building is in view. A car parked on Armour Boulevard can be seen. The structure was built in 1929 and is part of the Armour/Gillham Historic Apartment-Hotel District.
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Date
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1940~
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Object Type
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Negative
