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Title
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Ike and Mike Katz
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Description
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Newspaper clippings with photos and information on Isaac Katz (1879-1956) and his younger brother Michael Katz, or Ike and Mike Katz, founders and operators of the Katz Drugstore chain in Kansas City for almost 50 years after emigrating here from Poland.
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Katz Drug Store
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Description
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File contains photos, illustrations, and information on the Katz Drug Stores or Katz Drugstores established by Polish natives Isaac Katz (1879-1956), or Ike Katz, and his brother Michael Katz, or Mike Katz (dying in 1969). Business started as a fruit stand near Union Depot in the 1890s before changing into a confectionery (and general store) and moving in 1914 to 12th and McGee Streets with an additional store at 8th and Grand Avenues. Becoming a drugstore during World War I due to a city law on business hours and becoming known for its catchy advertising slogans and cut-rate prices, etc., and opening several other store locations around town and in other cities before being sold to Skaggs drugstores in 1970 by Earl Katz (in turn bought out by Osco Drugs in 1984).
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Is Time Running Out For Famous Building?
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Description
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There is now concern about preserving the old Katz drugstore at 3948 Main Street which may be sold by CVS Drugstores. The Historic Kansas City Foundation would like to see it on the Kansas City Register of Historic Places. Article gives the history of the Katz brothers and the beginning of the drugstore chain. The building was designed by Clarence Kivett, a nephew of the Katz brothers.
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Date
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2006-07-28
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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May We Present Isaac Katz
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Description
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Photo and biographical article about Isaac Katz, "owner of a newly purchased cigar and confectionery store at the corner of 12th and McGee" in 1917, changing it to the Katz Drug Store that year due to a business law of the Herbert Hoover administration. Description of his life and career, emigrating to Kansas City from Poland and called "the David Belasco of the retail drug business."
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Date
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1935-03-15
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Leonine Katz
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Description
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Photo and bio of Leonine Isaac Katz, or Isaac Katz, chairman of the executive committee of the Katz Drug Company at 10th and Main Streets, born in Poland and emigrating to Kansas City as a fruitstand operator in front of the old Union Depot in about the early 1910s. Description of his later career, buying the Empress Theater at about 12th and McGee Streets and then a cigar store at 8th and Grand Avenues before starting his drugstore at 12th and McGee just after World War I, and later becoming a major contributor to the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra, Menorah Hospital, and the Kansas City Art Institute.
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Date
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1905-05-05
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Object Type
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Book
