Trade in the Dark and Public Utilities in Kansas City
Opinion argues that private corporations control city affairs through utilities contracts and a utilities commission is needed. It contends mayor and council should represent 300000 residents, criticizing utilities for selecting their own regulators and buyers.
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Kansas City
Electric Light Company
Beardsley
Utilities Commission
Coa
Steel Trust
St. Louis
Milwaukee
Detroit
Beef Trust
Prophetic Plant Flashes Political Winds in City Tale
A city visitor questions a real estate dealer in the Dwight building after a plant on the desk wilts, signaling a turn in local politics. The dealer had claimed the Democrats would win, and the wilted plant foreshadows a shifted outcome as the visitor exits.
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Dwight Building
Alderman Phelan
Funeral services for Dr G W Tindall at home near Evanston
Funeral services for Dr G W Tindall who died last night will be held at 3 oclock tomorrow afternoon at the home near Evanston conducted by Rev Robert Talbot of Trinity Episcopal church. Burial will be in Mount Washington cemetery with pallbearers listed. A separate notice reports the death of Mrs Nannie Harris 66, funeral at 3 oclock tomorrow at 121 Pendleton avenue and burial in Independence cemetery. The Kansas City Real Estate exchange offers a 25 reward for arrest of anyone stealing fixtures or damaging houses controlled by members. County Court adjourned after five weeks. the April term opens Monday morning in the city.
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G. W. Tindall
Evanston
Robert Talbot
Trinity Episcopal Church
Mount Washington Cemetery
C. F. Holmes
W. Gregory
W. C. Off
D.C. Prudden
W. H. Holmes
Charles B. Hardin
Mia
Nanniie Harris
Nannie Harris
James M. Harris
Meredith Masters
Independence
Veturah Harris
Orelock
Mary Long
Pendleton Avenue
Independence Cemetery
Kansas City Real Estate Exchange
City
Cambridge Wins Varsity Boat Race For Third Straight Year
Cambridge light blues defeated Oxford on April 4 in the varsity race by about two lengths. Oxford chose the Surrey side but Cambridge surged to the front from the start and stayed ahead. Official time 19 minutes 19 seconds. historical record 18 minutes 47 seconds set by Oxford in 1893 and equaled by Cambridge in 1900.
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Putney
Cambridge
Oxford
Railroads to avoid new 20 percent freight liability rule
Kansas City railroads plan to ignore the 20 per cent charge rule in the new freight classification set to take effect May 1. At least three lines the Chicago Rock Island Pacific, Chicago Burlington Quincy and Missouri Pacific say they will not enforce it and will carry freight under common law and statute liability at classification rates.
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Kansas City
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Missouri Pacific
H. G. Wilson
Police Shakeup Likely After Yegg Gunman Hearings
Pittsburg public safety director announces a major reorganization of the Northside police department as police trial board hearings probe alleged immunity for a gang of yegg burglars. Investigations reveal instructions given to avoid arresting them.
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Pittsburg
Public Safety
Lang
Northside
Police Trial Board
Million for Safe Schools in New York
New York city board of education votes one million dollars for immediate repair work on twenty schoolhouses deemed dangerous to pupil safety. The goal is to promptly bring these buildings up to condition to protect lives.
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New York
New York City
Postmaster General Ends Postal Card Marking
Washington April 4 The Postmaster General orders discontinuance of post marking on addressed postal cards after numerous complaints of defacement. The move ends a widespread fad and is expected to please thousands of collectors and postal officials.
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Washington
Rio Grande Strike Next Week
The executive council of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers in Kansas City will take up the strike of the Denver & Rio Grande boiler makers and helpers next week. Council actions today cover only minor brotherhood matters.
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The
Portsmouth Building
Kansas City
Kas
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
Street corner chatter on franchise and watered stock
A street exchange argues that franchise extension profits would aid widows and orphans, with claims that directors will issue stocks for ten million dollars of overcapitalized funds and that the practice harms needy families.
Bryan withdraws acceptance of Jefferson Day dinner
W J Bryan telegram to Representative Sulzer states it is unwise to attend the Jefferson Day banquet in New York. He withdraws acceptance and notes he would prefer to be the last speaker on the topic The Art of Government. Sulzer regrets the conflicting statements surrounding the invitation.
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Wasurincton
Sulzer
New York
W. J. Bryan
Newark
National Democratic Club
Bryan
Washington
Committee On
John Fox
Johnson
Minnesota
Harmon
Gray
Organization Faction Competes in Delaware GOP Primary
In Wilmington on April 4 at the Delaware Republican primaries for delegates to the state convention, a tug between organization and administration factions arose over whether the Chicago delegation should be instructed. Organization leaders deny hostility to Taft or Roosevelt while backing an uninstructed slate. administration leaders push for an instructed Taft delegation.
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Wilminston
Dex
Dover
Delaware
T. Coleman Dupont
Republican State Committee
Administration
Anthony Higgins
J. Frank Allee
Caleb R. Layton
State Department
Washington
Chicago
Taft
Roosevelt
Railroad Board Hears Shippers On Car Rental Charges
John R. Knott and Rube Oglesby of the state board announce in Kansas City that a decision on the shippers complaint against railroad car rental charges will be issued next. The commission previously barred the double charge last fall, then suspended it for a hearing. Shippers await a favorable ruling.
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John R. Knott
Rube” Oglesby
State Board of Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners
Kansas City
Nce
Police Padlock to Close Suspected Liquor House
Maggie Marshall, a negro, was fined 900 and jailed nine months for selling liquor at 1811 First street in Kansas City Kansas. Del la Hobson and Antha Harris were fined 900 each. Gar field Dickey and Eva Dickey received 500 fines and three months for vAREE NY. Judge Sims ordered the police chief to padlock Mrs Marshall's house. A woman's body found near Park Avenue and Belt Line remains unidentified at New Comer’s undertaking rooms.
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Maggie Marshall
Sims
Kansas City, Kas
First Street
Della Hobson
Antha Harris
Park Avenue
Newcomer’s Undertaking Rooms
Young Foreigner Dies in Kansas City
Lawrence Frankvitch aged 19 died last night at 410 Sandusky avenue Kansas City Kas. His parents reside in Croatia. Funeral services will be at 2 30 tomorrow afternoon in St. John's church.
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Lawrence Frankvitch
Sandusky Avenue
Kansas City
Kas
Croatia
St. John’s Church
Beardsley’s Reforms Push Kansas City Toward Progress
Beardsley highlights city achievements including street cleaning and stricter sanitary enforcement, 25 cent gas with potential city purchase or rate regulation, saloon licenses raised to 500 dollars boosting revenue, 1 am closing of saloons, inventories of city property, debt reduction from 1900 to 1904, and over 1 million spent on permanent improvements. Also noted are food and milk inspection, lower street paving costs, water system upgrades, humane housing for consumptives, water rate cuts, new building laws, traffic plans for West Twelfth, Union Station work, drainage reconstruction, tenement improvements, public utilities oversight, Bell Telephone concessions, $4 million fire department upgrades, and insurance rate drops.
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Department of Food and Milk Inspection
House of Correction
Leeds
Kansas City
West Twelfth Street
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Union Station
Public Utilities Commission
Missouri and Kansas
the Bell) Telephone Company
King
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Ccambridge
OREW
Rock Island
Burlington
Rio Grande
State Railroad Board
Robinson
Main Street
GEO. B. Peck Dry Goods CO
Keere Bros. & Garvey YY Tall Paper CO
McGee
Metropolitan
Kansas City Electric Light Company
Stearns
Electric Paste CO
Buffalo, &.Y
U.S
Jaccard Jewelry CO
Walnut St
Pacific
Oregon
Idaho
Union Pacific
H. G. Kaill
Ass’t Gen
Walnut Street
Main
Bailey - Reynolds Gas Fixture Co
Main St
John Nevins
Mala St
Consult
Tr. Meyers
N. W
Walnut Kansas City, Mo
Board of Election Commissioners
J. M. Lowe
D. B. Holmes
U. S. Epperson
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