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Title
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Local Pipe Dreams: That of the Hon.
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Description
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Poem about James Francis Pendergast, or Jim Pendergast, older brother of Tom Pendergast and political boss of the "North End" of Kansas City.
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Date
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1904-06-18
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Object Type
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Magazine
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Title
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Notes and Events: Kansas City Wins Police Home Rule
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Description
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News of the legal control of the city police department being shifted to the Kansas City government, by decree of the Missouri Supreme Court, and the change's ramifications.
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Date
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1932-05
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Object Type
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Magazine
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Title
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Renaissance in Kansas City
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Description
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Report on the "outstanding progress" in reform of Kansas City's government (following the imprisonment of former boss Tom Pendergast), with financial statistics.
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Date
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1946-07
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Object Type
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Magazine
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Title
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Getting Taxes Equalized
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Description
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Story about the sweeping real estate tax reassessments across Jackson County, Missouri, in 1941 and in the wake of political reform after the ousting of the corrupt Pendergast machine. Description of the completeness of the records for every parcel of land to be taxed in the county, both of farms in rural areas and of buildings in urban areas.
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Date
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1941-06
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Object Type
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Magazine
