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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1908
Page
8
The Kansas City Star lists subscription options with morning evening and Sunday delivery at 10 cents weekly for carriers and 15 cents weekly by mail, one year seven dollars. It reports average paid circulation figures for Morning Evening Sunday and Weekly, and notes postage and mail classifications.
The Star confesses no elation at the result yet accepts the verdict with cheerfulness. It notes the campaign focused on principles and public policies, avoiding personalities despite provocation from opponents. The Star believes its enlightenment campaign will benefit Kansas City and welcomes the new city administration.
The Missourian, a Kansas City native now set to lead, inherits vast municipal tasks and fiscal advantages at City Hall. He pledged to serve all citizens, while Kansas City pursues water plant acquisition, seeking an adequate supply through negotiation rather than litigation.
Election results show six councilmen—three Democrats and three Republicans—re elected in Kansas City Kas despite partisan leanings. Voters backed incumbents who opposed water and electric franchise grants, signaling support for a municipal water plant and rejection of a thirty-year light company contract.
The article notes the public service commissions regulate franchise contracts as essential under the government system. It also states Tom Watson refuses to discuss the Populist presidential nomination until official committee notification.
The piece lauds former mayor Beardsley for his public service and fight against special privilege, noting his defeat as mayor is temporary while his legacy as a civic leader endures. It contrasts his stand for openness in campaign funding with ongoing partisan debates on publicity.
Governor Folk and his Election Commissioners oversaw a clean election in Kansas City with votes aligning to the majority of legal ballots. The piece notes possible but not excessive purchased votes, praises the vigilance against fraud, and suggests Hoch’s political standing remains strong as he was elected a lay delegate to a Methodist church meeting in Baltimore next month.
The election reduced decisions to the public, yet votes were lumped and voters could not voting as they wished. The Beardsley clash with Sunday closing hurt Republicans while unresolved Public Utilities questions lingered. The piece argues for Kansas City charter reforms to empower initiative and referendum on major issues.
A Kansas evangelist argues against referendum as confusing voters. He states on election night that every man bears his share of hell, signaling a stark moral framing of the ballot issue.
Rep Hitchcock of Nebraska urged the House to seek from the Department of Commerce and Labor any information on why meat prices rise while livestock prices fall, questioning beef trust profits and urging steps to curb oppression and extortion. The piece also notes the loss of Mr Thomas S Ridge in city treasurer race and its impact on language debates.
Poem fragments by A B Housman reflect on spring arriving late in Wenlock town and hedgerows laden with May. The speaker laments gold unseen, snow lingering, and the shift of seasons near Wenlock Edge with imagery of broom and hawthorn.
A Boston Transcript report details George Carroll Curtis’s coral island model of Bora Bora created after a voyage to the Society Islands. The lifelike display at Harvard’s Agassiz Museum emphasizes accurate land water forms and vivid color, based on data gathered during five months of fieldwork and extensive photography.
The article contrasts old raised maps with a new movement in museums to present geography as living, truthful representation. It cites New York American Museum’s living buffalo exhibit and cranes in habitat as exemplars, arguing maps should express knowledge with art, research, and realism.
New York Times reports Paris plans a straight 150 foot wide boulevard from the Tuileries to the forest of St. Germain. Cost estimated at 400000 dollars with tram lines and auto speedways. Strong backing by Automobile and Touring clubs.
The Metropolitan Coal company builds a reinforced concrete elevator in Cambridge on Fitchburg line to move coal from cars to storage. The plant handles 4000 tons, with 115 buckets hoisting a car in about 30 minutes, and room for seven grades of coal with future expansion.
In a Paris dispatch, Anna Gould is described as likely to claim the title of Most Serene Highness through feudal ties to Sagan. The De Sagan fortune has vanished, with creditors taking nearly all. The old duke’s income was slashed to 5,000 marks, then stopped. the tailor’s claim looms. The Duchy of Sagan passed via marriage to the Talleyrand Perigord line, and Anna Gould’s status would place her near royalty. The old duke’s decline and a rumored engagement to Mme du Gast are noted, with Mme du Gast denying prior interest.
A courtroom exchange echoes in old-time wit as Judge asks about numbers in church and Hinnessy counters with a sharp compare to the min in the parchment. The dialogue hints at social roles and gendered humor of the period in a dry, legal frame.
Reports from Trenton Chautauqua mark homecoming days for former Grundyites. Local newspapers discuss campaigns and political satire, a gun-sleuth image, a $1 fine, and golf talk in Maryville. Excelsior Springs fights a hotel site near Siloam spring while Clyde Times jokes about doctors.
A Columbia Herald piece extols walking as a solo or shared act that softens sorrow and boosts health. It praises nature, sun, and fresh air, notes walking’s value in any mood, and quotes Walter Williams on walking’s unique, personal engagement.
A humor essay from the Kansas pages sketches quirky local notes. Miss Riddle on busybodies. 86 year old Mrs. Wolf canvassing for pin money. Vinland Vine cites Bill Simcaller on a trotting foe. Oklahoma bank robbery talk. a tailor buys a Scotch collie in three figures. reform in Haiti via prisoners’ beheadings. oysters and diet jokes from Mississippi. Emma Goldman’s nervous collapse in Chicago. Memorial Day address slated for McPherson. Gould College history reread. humorous mishearings about oil measures. a Hills couple and a runaway horse encounter. a Republican editor on party and independent stance.
A fragmentary verse note by Richard Broma celebrates spring’s awakening. The merry pair invite birds like the nightingale to roam fields and groves, declaring they owe no debts and own the world as their court. The cuckoo and the birds chime “Jug, jug” as they travel from bush to tree.
A collage of quotes and anecdotes spans politicians and observers. Notes on Cannon and tariff talk orbit amid social satire, with the Vanderbilts’ seven-year marriage highlighted and musings on Lincoln, Nebraska versus St. Peters Minnesota. Reports touch on Castro, Johnson of Minnesota, and postal drivers amid March winds. A New York dinner quotes and beggar depictions from Moscow to Trieste conclude with Serajevo theater unrest.
A company is formed to manufacture reinforced cement shingles including plain and ornamental types hip coverings and ridges. The plan includes a large factory to be built in the city and operations to start soon.
Bobby protests his supper slice saying it looks bigger through grandma's glasses. An ad offers new pianos for rent at 3.50 and 4.00 per month from Jenkins at 1018 Walnut Ady.
Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler of Chicago writes to Steinway & Sons dated January 5 1907 praising Steinway pianos as artistically unmatched. She endorses the Steinway Miniature Grand priced at 800 dollars and the Steinway Vertegrand at 550 dollars.
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