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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1908
Page
6
An informal ministerial gathering in London on April 6 discusses future appointments. Lewis Harcourt described as America friendly and Winston Churchill expected to take a portfolio. Herbert Asquith, chancellor, presided over discussions before Parliament’s sitting.
Premier-elect weighs cabinet reshuffle as elections spark reorganization to avoid contest risks. Lloyd George and Haldane seen as top candidates for chancellorship with Birrell possibly replaced by John Burns. Churchill and Lewis uncertain apps, Churchill facing possible Manchester election. Resignation of Campbell Bannerman raises questions about coalition unity amid Labor and Socialist loyalties.
The House of Commons signals growing strain with Irish Nationalists, threatening the fragile bond to the current administration as tensions loom over governance and policy alignment. The remark hints at a precarious parliamentary balance and potential shifts in Irish policy support.
J A Runyan secretary of the Manufacturers and Merchants Association said a Kansas City mattress factory will be built by a Dallas based firm. The builder claimed annual Kansas City sales of about 60000 dollars and potential savings of seventy five cents per mattress with local production plus expansion into new territory.
Walter Rogers of Memphis was fined $500 by Judge Sims in Kansas City police court for a failed confidence scheme on Samuel Barton, a negro farmer. Rogers and an apprentice found a purse with a $100 bill and planned to split with Barton after he obtained $35 in change. The bill was recovered by an officer.
Eighteen directors convene at Uncle Sam Oil in Kansas City to audit accounts and review reports. The main item is ratifying plans for a new paraffin plant to be built in Atchison, with work to start immediately if approved.
A discussion lauds Mayor Beardsley and his scientific staff for two years of reforms in city departments. They highlight chemists auditing food and gas, low pavement costs, strict food oversight, efficient legal work, and careful contract management. The piece warns against replacing skilled, proven administrators with untrained political appointees based on belief rather than knowledge.
The speaker argues Beardsley in Kansas City aligns with Roosevelts ideals of equal treatment and opposition to special privileges, while Republicans opposing Roosevelt back Beardsley.
The mayor assembled a cabinet of specialists who reformed debt management and finance, cut taxes, modernized the city hall as a disciplined business, and ensured efficient bidding. Departments for streets health and housing improved, with clean hospitals and organized services. The police court and workhouse reform aided many derelicts.
Coal operators from Western Pennsylvania Ohio Illinois and Indiana meet in Indianapolis to discuss reviving the interstate wage movement. They plan a joint convention to fix a wage scale for four districts and may resume mines in Illinois Ohio and Western Pennsylvania pending a settlement. The conference opens at 3 p.m. in the Claypool hotel assembly room.
Wyandotte county school district No. 7 will not accept the resignations of Ridgeley Sechrist and E. H. Guffey as president and secretary. The county superintendent H. G. Randall cited the third member J. W. Browne’s refusal to resign as the reason. The move came after a teachers strike over salary warrants signed at Browne’s home, which prompted the board’s requested resignation.
Mayor Cornell convokes the water committee in Kansas City Kansas for tonight to study plans to seize the Metropolitan Water company plant. The panel believes negotiations with company president Giles F. Taintor have failed and condemning the plant may be required.
A brief quip on streetwise men and thieves. The speaker recalls a man with “touch and go” in him and notes the last such fellow was in pain after “picking pockets.”
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