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Title: Shipwreck Kelly Is Down
Description: Story of daredevil "Shipwreck" Kelly's record 146 hours and 13 minutes of sitting atop the flagpole of the Westgate Hotel, finished on February 25, 1927. Announcement of his plan the next day to attempt a "loop-the-loop" on an airplane at Richards Field while tied to a flagpole attached to it.
Date: 1927-02-25
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Westgate Hotel
Description: The hotel was built around 1915 on the former site of the old Diamond Building that was built in 1870 and later bought by the Kansas City Times in 1883.
Date: 1925-09-06
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Who Remembers Mike Tuite?
Description: Photo and article about "Mike Tuite," the man stationed at the Junction of 9th, Main, and Delaware Streets in the 1880s-1890s to warn pedestrians and other traffic of approaching cable cars.
Date: 1968-04-01
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Lock Doors to Dornsife's
Description: Notice of the closing of the restaurant at 819 Main Street, in business for 40 years, previously at the Junction at 9th and Main Street.
Date: 1920-07-16
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: When the Junction Was a Cow Pasture
Description: Article featuring a copy of a water color painting of the Junction as it appeared in 1847 by Nellie Corum, from a description in a paper by Leanah Wheeler (also known as Mrs. G. B. Wheeler or Leanah Jackson), describing the later intersection of 9th, Main, and Delaware Streets (later yet only of 9th and Main Streets after urban renewal in the 1950s-1970s). Also depiction and description of the Jacob Ragan residence built at Gillham and Armour Boulevards before Ragan's arrival in Kansas City in 1836, etc.
Date: 1921-04-03
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Vaughan's Diamond Building
Description: Commonly called The Junction, the Vaughan's Diamond Building was built by Major Samuel D. Vaughan on lots 3 and 4 purchased in 1865 from Scarritt and lots 1 and 2 (for $500) in 1866. The building was completed in 1870 at a cost of $40,000. Vaughan's building was sold in 1872 to Howard M. Holden for $31,790 at a sheriff's sale. The Kansas City Times newspaper bought it in 1883 for $85,000. The Times put up another building on lots 5 and 6, that was occupied in November 1885. In June 1886 both buildings were sold to Nathaniel Thayer of Boston for $300,000 and torn down for the Westgate Hotel to open on May 15, 1916.
Date: 1954-03-28
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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