Southwestern Missouri. Cowden started young in the cooperative business by working for the Missouri Farmers Association (MFA). However; in October of 1927, he had resigned from the position of secretary for the MFA and started out on his own. Immediately following, Cowden received the MFA oil contract that previously had been held with Standard Oil Company, and Cowden was now in the wholesale oil business. On January 27, 1928, Cowden Oil Company was founded. This business was moved to Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City is a large city, a major city in one of the largest metropolitan areas of more than two million people on both sides of the Missouri–Kansas border. Kansas City was founded in 1838 at the meeting of the Missouri and Kansas rivers and was incorporated in its present form in 1853. Kansas City, Kansas, is the location of several important battles during the Civil War. The city is well known for its diverse offerings to the musical styles of jazz and blues as well as to its two most noted
The Kansas City Royals are a Major League Baseball team. The Royals are not as old as some of the other major league teams out there. The Royals are young teams that is making things happen in the majors in the past few years but this season is still young so we don’t know as their fan base what to expect from the Kansas City Royals this year. The Royals play in a stadium called Kauffman Stadium. The Royals have won 2 World Series in the franchise history. The Kansas City Royals came to the City
Harry S. Truman was born on May 8, 1884, he lived in a farm community in Missouri. His father was John Truman and he worked as a livestock trader, he died in 1914. His mother was Martha Young Truman who died in 1947. He received his middle initial “S” in order to honor his grandfather's, it did not stand for any specific name. Truman and his family moved to Independence, Missouri in order for Truman to attend school in 1890, he became a strong student. When Truman got older he had long thrived to
Harry S. Truman Library Review Today was a nice day to go outside, the temperature was perfect and the wind was not too harsh, so I decided to go visit the Harry S. Truman Library with my mom who has not drove to Independence before, so this was a very entertaining trip. The Harry S. Truman Library is located in Independence, MO and the building was huge in comparison to any other museum I have seen before. When I looked at the museum on a website before we went I noticed that the front of the building
The outside speaker that I saw took place on Monday November eleventh two thousand and thirteen, in the Saint Ignatius Science Center room one hundred and fifteen. The speaker of this presentation was Tom McDonnell elected CEO of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. Throughout McDonnell’s speech he talked about his experience attending Rockhurst University when it was an all boys school and his life after he graduated form Rockhurst and started his career. I thought that the speech was very well
The articles "Freedom of Speech: Missouri Knights of the Ku Klux Klan v. Kansas City" and "Freedom of Religion: Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association" both engage in conflicts pertaining to the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights. "Freedom of Speech: Missouri Knights of the Ku Klux Klan v. Kansas City" is an article about the KKK's attempt to spread their beliefs through a public access cable television channel. Dennis Mahon and Allan Moran, both of the KKK, asked to be
The cultural event that I attended was the Paseo First Friday Art Walk. I chose this event opposed to others because of the unique environment. This was located in downtown Oklahoma City as a strip mall known as The Paseo Arts District. There were art galleries, art demonstrations, live music, pottery, and food. This was all very fascinating to me and I enjoyed my time there. I took a friend with me to experience it as well. When we first arrived around 7 p.m., which the event started at 6p
The First Super Bowl Many football fans may not know that the first super bowl in 1967, was not officially named Super Bowl I. The third super bowl game, played in 1969, became the first officially titled “Super Bowl” game. In the previous two years the championship game was titled “AFL-NFL World Championship Game”.(Packers Beat) Many fans would ultimately agree that the title “Super Bowl” is a much more riveting name to the game then its previous title. During the middle 60’s, the game had grown
Robin Yount and George Brett Achieve 3000 Hits Robin Yount and George Brett both began thier careers in 1974, Yount as a 18 year old rookie with the Milwaukee Brewers, and Brett as a 20 year old rookie with the Kansas City Royals. Little did anyone know how good of players they would become, and the milestones they would achieve in thier astonishing careers. The one achievement which makes both of these players a cinch for the Hall of Fame is the feet that they both reached in the 1992 season
problems, homelessness is often in the news (http://www.ebooks.com/ ). Many seek shelters for the first time. The Homeless Coalition of Greater Kansas City reports that on any given night as many as 3,000 adults are homeless and more than 7,500 children are homeless on these Kansas City streets. Since 2011 more than 7% people who live in the state of Kansas City has become homeless. We are not actually sure why this rate has risen over the last 2 years. Maybe because of a bad economy and loses of jobs
One day, a fourteen-year-old boy named Jonathan Price found himself lying down in the grass and suddenly thought, where are mom and dad? Where am I? He did not realize that he had walked one hundred and fifty miles east of his home in Wichita, Kansas and blacked out the previous day, October 19th, and blacked out. As he got up out of the grass, he felt a strange desire for food. He started wandering in the direction he thought was home. He started to go through a forest when he saw a beautiful
Super Bowl has gotten more and more popular because of the more and more people wanting to watch the game both in person at the stadiums or at home on their televisions with friends and family. Because more people want to attend games, the owners and cities ar emaking stadiums bigger than ever before. The average stadium size nowadays sets somewhere around 70,000 whereas in the 60’s it was only around 50,000-60,000. According to a site called “Sportology” “American Football is the most popular sport
The game is tied, there are only three seconds left on the clock, and they have a mere ten yards left to score. The players look to the quarterback as he runs onto the field with the final play of the game. It is times like these that most people look for a leader to lead them to victory. However not all leaders are on the field. Throughout history there have been many leaders and they all share some of the same qualities. Those qualities are bravery, experienced, and dedicated. Without these qualities
What you do not understand is that the Patriots have gone to eight Super Bowls in the past 20 years, and have won 5 out of the 8. In 2002 “The Greatest Show on Turf” was beaten by the Patriots with an Adam Vinatieri kick with 4 seconds left on the clock to win Super Bowl 36. Another record the Patriots have set is winning two Super Bowls with a game winning kick. The Pats game plan going through the game was hit Marshal Faulk on every single play, which made him exhausted, and not as good as he
The Super Bowl and the World Series The World Series and the Super Bowl are the games that happen at the end of the year between the best teams in their leagues. The Super Bowl comes from football and the World Series comes from baseball. “The first Super Bowl was played on January 15, 1967. “ (superbowl) The winner of the Super Bowl receives the Vince Lombardi Trophy. The reason it was called the Lombardi Trophy was because of his great success as a NFL coach. Lombardi won the first ever Super
On February 7th the 50th anniversary of the NFL Super Bowl was presented with the Carolina Panthers vs. the Denver Broncos, with the final score being 10-24 leaving the Broncos champions of this historic sports event. For all football super fans and Americans in general the Super Bowl is deemed a national holiday of beer, pizza, chips, jerseys and sports fandom. Throughout the four hours of the Super Bowl I paid particular attention of the mannerism, talk, comments and commercials that were presented
Solomon B. The Packers fought back after a disastrous first half which saw them down 26-3 at halftime and somehow completed a comeback win that kept their playoff hopes alive. In an unbelievable rally, the visiting Packers stormed back from a 23-point halftime deficit to stun the Cowboys 37-36 on a Sunday afternoon.The victory kept the Packers a half game behind the Bears with two games left to play. This game has gone down as one of the best comebacks ever Since it was the Packers playing, it is
Joe Montana (Football Star) Joe Montana was born on June 11th, 1956. (Channel) He was born in New Eagle, Pennsylvania. He was an only child and showed unsurpassed physical attributes. His mother once said “He nearly destroyed his crib by rocking it back and forth and managed to get out of it from time to time and ran to Joe’s and I bed”. Joe started playing sports all year long when he was only 10 years old. Even though he was a Multi- Sports Star, football was his main sport. He lived in a port
in a selfish manner completely oblivious to the diseases that could be transmitted. Drugs were also selfishly abused and shared among Americans during this era, this also contributed to the spread of the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. This greedy behavior proved fatal for thousands of people and left the survivors infected with the disease. Greed proved to be a big problem within this era as people were enjoying drugs, money, sex and fame excessively and created negative effects for future