Deaths On Pleasant Street

Author : Giles Fowler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1734260181

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Deaths on Pleasant Street by Giles Fowler Pdf

Book of the Year Award, 2009 ForeWord Magazine, True Crime category ; Jackson County Historical Society's 2009 Outstanding Achievement Award for the Historic Book of the Year The 1909 murder case surrounding the wealthy Swope family of Independence, Missouri, gripped newspaper readers throughout the nation. This book gathers the facts behind the suspicious fates of three Swope family members: the eccentric Colonel, millionaire donor of Kansas City, Missouri's Swope Park, his affable cousin, and a young nephew and heir. The mystery pits the Swope matriarch against her disfavored son-in-law, Dr. Bennett Clark Hyde. Charged with poisoning the Colonel and suspected of multiple other attempted murders, Dr. Hyde endures national media attention for this crime of the century. The series of trials and appeals that followed explores the question: Was he a diabolical villain bent on inheriting Swope's millions or the unfortunate victim of a family grudge? This account of gothic-era America follows streetcar tracks from the courtrooms of Kansas City to the typhoid-plagued Swope mansion in nearby Independence. The author delivers an engaging and accurate retelling of these 100-year-old events in the literary journalism tradition by analyzing court transcripts, newspaper coverage, and personal memoirs. Readers also get a new scenario based on modern science for what may have happened in the dark hallways of the mansion on Pleasant Street.

Author : J. Michael Cronan
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781532043758

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James A. Reed: Legendary Lawyer; Marplot in the United States Senate by J. Michael Cronan Pdf

This is a biography of little-known Missouri senator James A. Reed, who was in the running for the Democratic Partys presidential nomination in 1928 and 1932. While in the United States Senate, Reed was the leading opponent to president Woodrow Wilsons effort to have the United States join the League of Nations. During the administrations of Franklin Roosevelt, Reed was a critic of Roosevelts Neal Deal policies and gave his support to Republican presidential candidates in 1936 and 1940. The book also presents the story of Reed, the outstanding trial lawyer in cases where he obtains remarkable results in civil damage claims, as well as various criminal cases in which he acted as prosecuting attorney or defense counsel.

Author : David W. Jackson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614232025

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Kansas City Chronicles by David W. Jackson Pdf

From guerilla warfare and martial law to the elegant dresses of the Harzfeld Parisian Cloak Company, discover how everything became up-to-date in Kansas City (including the phrase "up-to-date"? itself, which predates the song in Oklahoma!). Watch as the Jackson County Poor Farm became the state-of-the-art Truman Medical Center and learn why Old Westport is the real McCoy. Meet the resident mouse of the Laugh-O-Gram studio on Thirteenth and Forest, which took food from Walt Disney's hand as Mortimer before taking shape on Disney's drawing board as Mickey. In this collection of his best historical columns, David Jackson delivers a vivid portrait of the people, places and events that continue to shape this fascinating town.

Author : William Bentley
Publisher : Peabody Essex Museum
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Reference
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010445893

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Record of the Parish List of Deaths. 1785-1819 by William Bentley Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:24504178078

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Annual report of the registrar-general of births, deaths, and marriages in England. v. 29 suppl., 1866 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Margie Kay
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780998855844

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Haunted Independence Missouri by Margie Kay Pdf

Paranormal researcher and psychic medium Margie Kay presents many of the most haunted locations in the city of Independence, Missouri. She and the Quest Investigation Group team investigated these sites over a period of 20 years. In this second edition of Haunted Independence, Missouri Margie discusses cases involving businesses, parks, cemeteries, and houses that are haunted by loved ones, poltergeists, shadow people and even aliens. Be sure to visit Independence sometime - it is very haunted!

Author : Margaret R. O’Leary MD,Dennis S. O’Leary MD
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781532062308

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The Kansas City Meningitis Epidemic, 1911–1913 by Margaret R. O’Leary MD,Dennis S. O’Leary MD Pdf

In The Kansas City Meningitis Epidemic, 1911–1913: Violent and Not Imagined, two physician authors present the dramatic medical history of a monstrous midwestern disease epidemic. The authors bring the events to startling life by skillfully drawing on original texts that evoke the resolute efforts of the Kansas City medical, nursing, and health department communities to care for the horribly stricken while inoculating the still well to prevent spread of the epidemic.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:24504132925

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Report of births, marriages, and deaths in Massachusetts. 1850-54 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Fall River (Mass.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Fall River (Mass.)
ISBN : HARVARD:LI2Y2P

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City Document by Fall River (Mass.) Pdf

Author : Boston (Mass.). Board of Health (1872-1914)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924070531987

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Annual Report by Boston (Mass.). Board of Health (1872-1914) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11522672

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Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Cohasset (Mass.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:LI1B96

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Annual Report by Cohasset (Mass.) Pdf

Author : Woburn (Mass.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Registers of births, etc
ISBN : HARVARD:LI381H

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Deaths; from 1640 to 1873 by Woburn (Mass.) Pdf

Author : Michael Symmons Roberts,Paul Farley
Publisher : Random House
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781448155637

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Deaths of the Poets by Michael Symmons Roberts,Paul Farley Pdf

From Dylan Thomas’s eighteen straight whiskies to Sylvia Plath’s desperate suicide in the gas oven of her Primrose Hill kitchen; from Chatterton’s Pre-Raphaelite demise to Keats’ death warrant in a smudge of arterial blood, the deaths of poets have often cast a backward shadow on their work. The post-Romantic lore of the dissolute drunken poet has fatally skewed the image of poets in our culture. Novelists can be stable, savvy, politically adept and in control, but poets should be melancholic, doomed and self-destructive. Is this just an illusion , or is there some essential truth behind it? What is the price of poetry? In this book, two contemporary poets embark on a series of journeys to the death places of poets of the past, in part as pilgrims, but also as investigators, interrogating the myth.

Author : Woburn (Mass.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Registers of births, etc
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004974684

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Woburn Records of Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Marriage Intentions, from 1640 to 1900 by Woburn (Mass.) Pdf