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Title
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Ready-Mixed Whiskey
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Description
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Discussion on the supposed price-fixing of alcohol in Kansas City and its relation to the ownership of T. J. Pendergast Wholesale Liquor Company at 2101 Central Street, "the largest distributor of liquor in Kansas City," by Tom Pendergast, "Kansas City political boss." Pendergast also the owner of the Ready Mixed Concrete company.
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Date
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1935-03-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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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, describing the inequality of property tax assessments throughout Jackson County and other costs of homeownership. Other featured articles include: “He Beats the Rap but You Take It” (p. 3), photo and article about the murder trial of Charles Gargotta, "rat-faced Pendergast political lieutenant and gangster" reportedly interrupted by Sheriff Thomas Bash in "a killing party on Armour boulevard and Forest avenue" on August 12, 1933, including details about the case and information about other Kansas Citians involved, including the following: "Ferris Anthon, a rival Fifteenth street bootlegger" allegedly killed in the shooting by Gargotta; Sammy Scola and Gus Fasone, "friends of Gargotta and fellow workers in the North Side Democratic club" killed by Bash; John Lazia, "North Side gangster king" and owner of the Gargotta Buick; and presiding judge Merrill Otis, et al; “His Country Needs Him” (p. 4), article about Matthew Murray, "director of public works and a city hall protegee of Henry McElroy," recommended "to direct the expenditure of Missouri's share of the president's $4,880,000, 000 work relief fund" by "Senators Truman (Pendergast) and Clark of St. Louis"; and “May We Present George O. Pratt” (p. 5), photo and article about Pratt, local lawyer and associate director of the Regional Labor Relations Board; also included in the newspaper are advertisements for local businesses and articles on fashion, finance, cooking, music, art, and national and international news.
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Date
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1935-05-17
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Object Type
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Newspaper
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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 pages 3 and 8, about the selling of merchandise stolen from Kansas merchants in Kansas City pawn shops, and description of the subsequent closing of small shops not tied to the Pendergast machine and sentencing of a black man to 40 years in jail in lieu of convicting the proprietor of a guilty shop at 9th and Main Streets, and other issues. Other featured articles include: “Fame!” (p. 2) is a reprint of a New York Herald-Tribune article about Future and its anti-machine stance; “Move Over, Girls, the Machine’s Moving In” (p. 3), a column about the forced relocation of prostitutes from their usual place between 12th, Cherry, Locust, and 13th Streets to "only two blocks over toward Troost" by the Pendergast machine, mainly due to their poor image presented in front of the new Jackson County Courthouse; “Ready-Mixed Whiskey” (p. 3), a discussion on the supposed price-fixing of alcohol in Kansas City and its relation to the ownership of T. J. Pendergast Wholesale Liquor Company at 2101 Central Street, "the largest distributor of liquor in Kansas City," by Tom Pendergast, "Kansas City political boss." Pendergast also the owner of the Ready Mixed Concrete company; and “May We Present Belle Edwards” (p. 5), photo and biographical article about Belle Edwards, a 72-year-old black woman, "good citizen," and widow of "Edwards, a colored member of the police force" of Kansas City, and who was born in Paris, Missouri, in 1863 into slavery and coming to Kansas City "to work in the laundry connected with the old Blossom House," with residence at 24th and Woodland Avenues; 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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1935-03-01
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Object Type
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Newspaper
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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 a notice that Future’s publishers plan to temporarily suspend publication to reorganize the paper, and also note that “youth is interested and youth is organizing,” and “FUTURE is their paper.” Other featured articles include: “Why Charge a Cover?” (p. 2), about the plans for a high-class night club at 79th and Holmes Roads called Mayfair, "advertised as 'the most elaborate night club in the Middle West" with "elaborate furnishings, art, statuary, paintings, roomy booths in blue leather, dance bands of the best steak dinners and what have you"; “The Fireworks Are Coming” (p. 3), describes efforts by St. Louis politicians “fighting the Kansas City boss for control of the state,” and naming numerous scandals they could use to weaken Pendergast’s hold on state politics, including the insurance scandal involving state superintendent of insurance, R. Emmet O’Malley, and the control machine-aligned Matthew S. Murray wields over federal relief funding in the state; and “May We Present Mabelle Glenn” (p. 5), a photo and profile of Mabelle Glenn, "director of music for the public schools" of Kansas City since about 1921 and a native of Illinois, "elected national president of the Music Supervisors' Conference, the first woman in many years to hold the office"; also included in the newspaper are advertisements for local businesses and articles on fashion, finance, cooking, music, art, and national and international news.
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Date
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1935-07-19
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Object Type
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Newspaper
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Title
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T. J. Pendergast Caricature
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Description
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Drawing of Thomas J. Pendergast. Tom Pendergast is shown running his wholsale liquors business.
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Date
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1912
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Object Type
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Artwork
