. The Street railway journal . sof rail trans-portation havereduced this toa small factor. KANSAS city club Some views of the early period of the citys history are given on a precedingpage. The middle view is of the first street car operated; the leftand right hand views, the homes of Jesse James, father and growth since that time has been remarkably rapid, subjectonly to the usual ups and downs of good and bad times in theWest. In 1885 and 1886 the city underwent a phenomenally vig-orous boom. It was then jocularly said of Kansas City that itwas advisable to build residences on wheels
. The Street railway journal . sof rail trans-portation havereduced this toa small factor. KANSAS city club Some views of the early period of the citys history are given on a precedingpage. The middle view is of the first street car operated; the leftand right hand views, the homes of Jesse James, father and growth since that time has been remarkably rapid, subjectonly to the usual ups and downs of good and bad times in theWest. In 1885 and 1886 the city underwent a phenomenally vig-orous boom. It was then jocularly said of Kansas City that itwas advisable to build residences on wheels in order that theymight be easily moved from time to time out of the way of the ad-vancing business section. In 1893 and following years the indus-trial depression gener-ally felt throughout thiscountry, and especiallyin the West, fell partic-ularly heavy upon Kan-sas City, but the im-proved industrial con-ditions of the last fewyears with the goodcrops raised in the ter-ritory tributary toKansas City havebrought a revival of.
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