Editor, Mike Fannin, explains how the printed newspaper, The Kansas City Star, will be reorganized to adapt to the difficult economic time. The main news section will be combined with the local and…

Obituary for Dr. Druery Thorn, a physician on the staff of Saint Luke's Hospital since 1928, dying at the age of 64 in 1956.

Biographical sketch of Dr. William Strother, a physician born in Kentucky in 1827 and moving to Lee's Summit, Missouri in 1882.

Biographical sketch of homeopathic physician John Thomas Boland, or John Boland taking part in the Civil War at the age of 13 and later practicing medicine in Saint Louis after graduating from the…

Portrait and information on Joseph Reddeford Walker, or Joseph Walker (1798-1876), an early fur trader and pioneer resident of Jackson County. Native of Tennessee coming to Fort Osage about 1818…

Photo and biographical article about Dr. Charles Wainwright, a physician born in Lewis County, Missouri in 1858 and becoming county coroner for Shelby County, Missouri before coming to Kansas City in…

Article about the history of the Kansas City Star and Times newspapers and their unique perspectives offered about Kansas City, with photos and biographical descriptions of several of its prominent…

Biographical sketch of Dr. Damon Orian Walthall, or Damon Walthall, a physician at 315 Alameda Road. Born in Paola, Kansas in 1890 and coming to Kansas City in 1920, "specializing in pediatrics…

Biographical sketch of Dr. Joseph Horigan, a physician "born in Georgetown, District of Columbia, [or Washington, D. C.], January 16, 1864," and coming to Kansas City in 1888, opening an…

One reference and an entire chapter of the book, including photos, about the White Church and its neighborhood in Wyandotte County, Kansas, the first church in Kansas as part of the Methodist Indian…

Group portrait of newsboys and an adult posing behind stacks of newspapers and in front of a newspaper truck in Chillicothe, Missouri.

Photo and bio of Dr. Samuel Anderson, " popular physician of the homeopathic school of medicine," moving from Lawrence, Kansas, to Kansas City in 1881 as a professor of surgery and…

Tells about the stagecoach lines that carried passengers and mail over the Santa Fe Trail from 1850 to 1879, until railroads took over their traffic.

Dr. J. W. Parker was called John as well as James and settled in Westport, Missouri, in 1851 where he practiced medicine among the white settlers and the Shawnee, Wyandotte, and Delaware Indians.…

Obituary for Dr. Frank Hurwitt, a physician here for many years, dying at the age of 92.

Joseph Hoffman seated at piano.

Obituary for August J. Haner from the "Kansas City Times," August 16, 1898. States that he opened the first grocery store in Kansas City, Kansas. He was also a freighter across the plains…

Histories of Kansas City area medical specialty societies, including the American Academy of General Practice, the Greater Kansas City, Missouri, Academy of General Practice, the Industrial Medical…

Photo and caption for the supposedly first brick house in the city built before the 1850s.

Head and shoulders portrait of Joe McGuff, Sports Editor for the Kansas City Star.

Photo and bio of John Barrons, "[a]dvertising manager of the Kansas City Star."

Photo and bio of Dr. John Punton, a neurology physician born in England in 1855 and emigrating to Kansas City about 1889, establishing in 1890 "a private sanitarium for the treatment of nervous…

Biographical sketch of Dr. William Hall, a Saint Joseph physician and native of Pennsylvania.

Biographical sketch of Dr. William Coe, a physician arriving in Kansas City in 1878, born in Georgia in 1849 and formerly the "city physician of Atlanta."

Photo and bio of Dr. Thomas Beattie, a physician from Cass County and the professor of "the diseases of women in the Kansas City Medical College."