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It started as a weekly, The Kansas City Enterprise, on September 23, 1854, a year after the city's founding and shortly after The Public Ledger went out of business. Kansas City's first mayor, William S. Gregory, and future mayors Milton J. Payne and Elijah M. McGee, along with city fathers William Gillis, Benoist Troost, Thompson McDaniel, Robert Campbell and Kansas City's first bank and ...
Zona Rosa is an approximately 1,000,000 square feet (93,000 m 2), mixed-use lifestyle center located in Kansas City, Platte County, Missouri. [1] The project opened in 2004 and was expanded by an additional 500,000 square feet (46,000 m 2) starting in 2008, including the addition of Dillard's, which moved from Metro North Mall.
Kansas City crime family. Charles Binaggio (1909–1950), killed along with Charles Gargotta at the First Ward Democratic Club in downtown Kansas City; Anthony Brancato (1913–1951) William "Willie Rat" Cammisano (1914–1995), enforcer for the K.C. mob; Charles Carrollo (1902–1979), led the Kansas City mob after Johnny Lazia's assassination
William Rockhill Nelson. The paper, originally called The Kansas City Evening Star, was founded September 18, 1880, by William Rockhill Nelson and Samuel E. Morss. [3] The two moved to Missouri after selling the newspaper that became the Fort Wayne News Sentinel (and earlier owned by Nelson's father) in Nelson's Indiana hometown, where Nelson was campaign manager in the unsuccessful ...
November 15, 1985, Manitou, Oklahoma: Forrest Albert Reffner, 39, was at the Manitou post office to check his elderly mother's mail when 74-year-old Arvell "Pete" Conner, armed with a .38-caliber, began arguing with Reffner before shooting and killing him inside the main post office. August 20, 1986, Edmond, Oklahoma: Patrick Sherrill, a part ...
Chester Arthur Franklin, or "C.A." [2] (1880–1955), founded The Call newspaper in May 1919 in Kansas City, Missouri. He owned and operated it until his death on May 7, 1955, establishing an office also in Kansas City, Kansas.
Leo Fabian Fahey (July 21, 1898 – March 31, 1950) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Baker City, Oregon from 1948 until his death in 1950.
Bus driver defied by Rosa Parks after he ordered her to give up her seat – eventually leading to the Montgomery bus boycott James Frederick Blake (April 14, 1912 – March 21, 2002) was an American bus driver in Montgomery, Alabama , whom Rosa Parks defied in 1955, prompting the Montgomery bus boycott .