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Title
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George Muehlebach
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Description
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Photo and bio of George Muehlebach, Jr., "President of the Muehlebach Brewing Company and other large interests" such as the Muehlebach Estate Company" operating the Hotel Muehlebach, born in Kansas City in 1881 and residing at 2718 Tracy Avenue.
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Date
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1925
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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John Brock's Flying Record
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Description
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Photos and description of John Brock, an optometrist and "President of the Specialty Optical Company, 1009 McGee Street," honored in 1930 at the Hotel Muehlebach for his record-setting 365 days of consecutive flying, going on to set another record, still unbroken in the year 2000, of flying every day for 10 years, from 1929 to 1939.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Municipal/Downtown Airport
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Description
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Photos and history of Kansas City's second principal airport established in 1927 known under various names until settling on "Municipal Airport" and "renamed Kansas City Downtown Airport" in 1972 with the establishment of Kansas City International Airport to the north in Platte County. Includes the full text of the dedication speech by pilot Charles Lindbergh at the Hotel President August 17, 1927.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Frank Nowland
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Description
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Biographical sketch of Frank Nowland Daniels, president of Dascomb-Daniels Lumber Company at 5201 East 9th Street, growing up in Lathrop, Missouri, and working at the Pacific House hotel in Kansas City after graduating from Spalding's Commercial College. Description of his subsequent career with the Long-Bell Lumber Company, and other lumber companies until establishing his own business in 1904 with George A. Dascomb in Kansas City, with a branch lumberyard at 4811 Troost Avenue.
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Date
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1938
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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J. M. Baptiste
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Description
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Biographical sketch of J. M. Baptiste, the founder of the United Chemical Company in Kansas City, and his wife, Dr. Mary I. Steele Baptiste, the succeeding president of the company, with photo and history of the company started in 1913 at 13th and Main Streets, later moving into the former Pacific House Hotel at 4th and Delaware Streets.
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Date
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1950
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Object Type
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Book Section
