Strawberry Hill Immigrant Community Faces Struggles in Kansas City
Yugoslavian workers who settled in Strawberry Hill after joining Kansas City meat packing plants endured hard times in the 1920s. Unemployment rose, wages were slashed by up to two-thirds, yet community ties and social clubs helped residents endure through picnics, dances, and frugal living as families scavenged driftwood and chipped ice to stretch pennies.
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Kansas City
Strawberry Hill
United States
The Kansas Immigrants of Strawberry Hill
The Kansas Immigrant Series explores Strawberry Hill's Yugoslavian community from postwar prosperity to suburban shifts. It chronicles wartime losses, 1957 viaduct demolitions, enduring church ties at St John the Baptist, and the Tamburitzans cultural group preserving heritage amid migration and zoning pressures.
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Strawberry Hill
St. John the Baptist Catholic Church
Hill
St. John's Church
March
Cozy Crochet Coat Pattern 7129 and Needlecraft Catalog
1982 Needlecraft Catalog offers crochet and knit patterns including Coat Sizes 4-10 with hat pattern 7129. Catalog lists numerous fashion and home sewing titles, prices per book or pattern, postage charges, and mail-in ordering to Alice Hrooks, Needlecraft Dept., Box 169, Old Chelsea Station, New York 10011.
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Patten
Needlecraft
Alice Hrooks
Ottawa Herald
Needlecraft Dept
Old Chelsea Station
New York
Hidden Jerusalem Passage Unearthed After Crusader Gate
Report from Jerusalem describes a buried underground passage beneath the Old City uncovered after Crusader era construction. Officials say the tunnel, sealed for about nine centuries, was filled in when a gate was added, with locals including Arabs selling goods and pilgrims nearby. Magen notes prior knowledge of the find was absent.
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Jerusalem
Old City
Magen
Ancient Jerusalem’s Hidden Vaults Reveal Roman and Byzantine Past
Archaeologists and city engineers uncover underground rooms, guardrooms, and passageways in Jerusalem. The discoveries, aged from Roman to Byzantine eras, emerge during roadwork and sewage upgrades. Notable finds include a Roman guardpost near Damascus Gate and the thirteen century walls rebuilt in 1541.
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Christ
Yitzhak Yaacobi
East Jerusalem
Pilate
Via Dolorosa
Israel
Old City
Jordan
Damascus Gate
Menahem Magen
Hadrian
Bar Kochba
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Kansas
St. John's
St. John's Catholic Club
St. John’s Parish
Yugoslavia
Matt Skradski
University of Kansas Division of Continuing Education
Kanu Radio
Kansas Committee For the Humanities
National Public Radio
National Endowment For the Humanities
University of Kansas
Lawrence
Alice Brookes
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Ee & “Ave
Requisi Coon
Delsey
Sue Otal
Sia
Kleenex Boutique
Calan
Ottawa
Solomon’s Stables
al Aqsa
Suleiman
Theii
Kidron
Yaacobi
White
Sears
Kenmore
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