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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1908
Page
4
Mr and Mrs Joel Bennett and daughter Susie report a remarkable incident at 2616 Holmes street. A Leghorn hen named Peggy died after her companion duck Dicky died, leaving neighbors convinced the event proves a true tale amid scepticism toward nature fakers.
W H H Platt recalls J B Shannon's speech from eighteen months ago in which he praised lower car fares and told how a motorman could earn enough to pay for a cottage in eight years. Platt argues Shannon is rarely heard now and criticizes Metropolitan campaign managers.
Cities offer cheap fares to attract employers and Kansas City weighs whether to match such inducements for local employers and labor markets. The inquiry considers the viability and impact of similar incentives.
An old tale tells how a crippled duck nicknamed Ducky formed an inseparable attachment to a hen named Peggy. After Peggy dies, Ducky dies at her roost. Onlookers wonder if a broken heart claimed him, while a wooden tombstone bears a cryptic verse about fate and memory.
J F Oldham arrived from Washington to report transfer of assets from George T Cutts receiver to officers of reorganized National Bank of Commerce. Stockholders say $2 780 000 in cash moved. reopening set for Monday with about 160 employees. Dr W S Woods exits with cattle ranch and coffee plantation assets valued at 600 000. Syndicate paid over 400 000 to remove real estate from bank.
J A Runyan purchased a sack of eggs from a Northend commission house. Upon opening the eggs at home the cook found inked messages on two shells asking about a person named P Reed Trimble. The eggs were boiled for display at Runyan's office as a local curiosity. A gale in Kansas City toppled a thirty foot veranda on South Tenth Street, shattering windows and scattering timber along the street.
Berlin reports dancer La Loie Fuller is negotiating publishers for a German edition of her reminiscences to be published in English German and French. The work will cover her European and American career and may reveal new details about prominent figures in London Paris Berlin Vienna St Petersburg Budapest Constantinople New York Chicago and Philadelphia.
The porch climber robbed the home of Philip Schier secretary treasurer of Levy Schier & Co wholesale liquor dealers at 2849 Troost Avenue. A window was opened in the sleeping room and a suit of clothes with two checks for 175 and 100 were taken along with other papers. Payment on the checks has been stopped.
A thief broke a rear door panel at C. E. Hartaugh’s grocery on Independence Avenue and stole two sacks of cheap smoking tobacco. The cash register and other merchandise were untouched.
Alma Owens aged 75 died this morning at his home south of Lake So He came to Jackson county from Illinois in 1866 and had an active role in local politics. He leaves a widow and several children.
The Republican convention endorsed Joseph G. Cannon for President and called for immediate collection of information to revise the tariff. It urges Congress to pass resolutions directing committees to begin gathering data, hear all stakeholders, and frame a protective tariff without disrupting industry or finances.
Missouri editor H W Scott quits the Gifford Comet to farm eighty acres south of Anabel in Macon county. He will move with his family next week and begin farming, leaving a newspaper plant and goodwill valued in the thousands. He cites expediency and family duties as his reason, noting farmers generally meet their obligations.
In Tulsa Oklahoma on March 26 a theater on East Second Street and the residence of Joseph Evans on South Denver Avenue burned, causing about 20000 in losses insured. A lumber yard on East Second Street also caught fire but was saved by the fire department. Police investigate possible incendiary causes after recent fires.
We pay $2.10 for our beans sourced from Michigan soil that yields the whitest plumpest beans. They are hand selected and baked in ovens at 245 degrees to make them digestible, which adds to the weight and cost. We pay $3.45.
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