{"id":349,"date":"2010-12-18T07:29:04","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T13:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=349"},"modified":"2010-12-18T07:29:04","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T13:29:04","slug":"joplin-union-depot-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=349","title":{"rendered":"Joplin Union Depot Franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, we brought you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=346\">the heated debate that surrounded the passage of the Union Depot franchise<\/a>, also known as the Scullin franchise.\u00a0\u00a0 For those of you who&#8217;d like to see the elephant, rather than hear about its parts, we now provide you scans of the original franchise.\u00a0\u00a0 Click on the images to be taken to a flickr page where you can read them far more comfortably! [Then click &#8220;back&#8221; on your browser to return here.]\u00a0 Thank you to those who helped us in getting a copy!<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 369px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5249\/5270340790_c98a004d58_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Joplin Union Depot Franchise\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5249\/5270340790_c98a004d58.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"359\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Page 1<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 343px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5282\/5269732925_4255ba49c9_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Joplin Union Depot Franchise\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5282\/5269732925_4255ba49c9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Page Two<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 323px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5042\/5269733047_1d39f82c2d_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Joplin Union Depot Franchise\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5042\/5269733047_1d39f82c2d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"313\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Page 3 - contains the perpetuity clause, the 2 year construction clause, and the controversial facilities clause. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 343px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5246\/5270341070_cff138cb1a_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Joplin Union Depot Franchise\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5246\/5270341070_cff138cb1a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Page 4<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5201\/5269733201_c669e0aa94_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Joplin Union Depot Franchise\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5201\/5269733201_c669e0aa94.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Page 5<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 331px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5086\/5269733305_9002312df6_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Joplin Union Depot Franchise\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5086\/5269733305_9002312df6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"321\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Page 6 - concerns the demand that the Depot company help with 1\/3 the cost of constructing viaducts<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 343px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5248\/5270341288_e8bab47275_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Joplin Union Depot Franchise\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5248\/5270341288_e8bab47275.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Page 7 - Note Mayor Jesse Osborne&#39;s signature<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Source: City of Joplin City Archives<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, we brought you the heated debate that surrounded the passage of the Union Depot franchise, also known as the Scullin franchise.\u00a0\u00a0 For those of you who&#8217;d like to see the elephant, rather than hear about its parts, we now provide you scans of the original franchise.\u00a0\u00a0 Click on the images to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,245],"tags":[673,328,1302,907,31,8,342,1317,1042,908,1166,1318,663,664],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}