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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1908
Page
3
The crew of the battleship Minnesota presented a vaudeville entertainment last night on a regulation stage in Macparena Bay Mexico via San Diego. King Neptune and his court presided over the festivities. The event marked the first social function described in this report.
Abraham Lincoln Brick, representative for Indiana's Thirteenth district, died suddenly in a sanitarium in Indianapolis. Born on a Warren township farm, he grew up in St. Joseph County and later studied at Cornell and Yale before his career in Congress.
In Oceana County the spectacle of Drank en High School Boys won for prohibition saloon men driven out to start a new town. Detroit Michigan April 7 nine counties were added to the prohibition list in Michigan as the result of yesterday's election Van Buren county already was
A gun crew stands before canvas targets aboard the Minnesota during a weeks long stage show directed by Captain S K Erans attended by nearly 1000 fleet officers. The article then shifts to biographical notes on a law graduate and Republican political career, followed by county election results showing varied anti liquor outcomes in Michigan counties with Kalamazoo and Gratiot among dry and wet divisions and a Hart high school intoxication incident cited as temperance momentum.
A grand stage show used a canvas roof, draped curtains, and wings with sea monster paintings. Two giant American flags formed the drop curtain while a ship forecastle backdrop framed blue seas. King Neptune led the ceremony with electric lights and a ship’s light. the era featured a university faculty member now long in Congress since 1899.
Requisition papers were issued today for the extradition of A. Fulkerson, a wealthy Tennessee resident, and Miss Ada Templeton, in a case described as involving a bigamous marriage. Sacramento report lists the warrant and interstate legal action.
The report highlights a program of diverse performances including songs dances and skits by sailors. Rear Admiral Charles M. Thomas discusses public access to naval information and signals intent to keep essential secrets while stressing the people's navy. A separate note covers a Tennessee bigamy case after a couple elopes and is later found in Riverside with the man arrested.
Actress Lillie Langtry learns her California land yields silver after buying forty acres for 1 per acre. She bought the strip as a joke while in Nevada City and Carson City and planned irrigation development as a well was begun. A power-of-attorney representative sails to New York.
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