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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1908
Page
5
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Editorial from The Star in December 1907 criticizes Judge Wallace for presses toward closed Sundays and warns the public against overreach by church and reform groups. It notes Beardsley’s defeat linked to the movement, questions feasibility of closing theaters barber shops and cigar stands, and cites Roosevelt Taft dynamics and naval dispatches.
The piece argues for stronger interpretation of existing laws over enacting new ones. It cites Kansas City schools using property at night and medical inspection as needing clear authority, criticizing courts that prefer safety over social progress, and urging laws adapt to current costs and social needs rather than old precedents.
Representative Perkins argues the trust would not form without higher protective duties. The proposed remedy is to free both print paper and wood pulp to combat trusts and protect forests. Secretary Tarr supports revising the tariff promptly and intelligently.
A reform push favors full public disclosure of campaign donations tied to national elections. The debate centers on constitutionality and the likelihood of passage, with calls for money to come only from legitimate sources. The piece notes aldermen and a railway executive in Excelsior Springs and mentions Heinze's Western trip to gain influence.
Cyrus Leland selects Buck Dawes of Leavenworth to deliver the ancient Kansas campaign oration on tour. Dawes, famed for silencing Populist rivals in the 1890s, was renowned for his crowd command and tough campaign style.
The Ladies Four-in-Hand Driving Club will not hold its usual spring meet due to expected absence of men from the Coaching Club. Last year nine members attended. Vanderbilt is abroad, Haven Loew and Loew mourn. Parades may be dropped if Colonel Rives cannot keep the hilltop parade going.
A reflective birthday poem blessing Mrs. M. B. with long health and virtue. The verse envies a life well spent, seeks calm conscience and daily joy, and ends with peaceful sleep and a future blissful beyond death.
Marie Manning performs a period piece monologue about high society millinery. The scene features a Paris hat, refined banter with a shopgirl, and society ladies debating prices, style, and propriety amid elaborate fashion talk.
A Paris edition excerpt from the N Y Herald highlights Emerson on noble acts in beautiful scenes and recalls Leonidas and Winkelried as heroes. It notes the Duchesse d Arensberg pushing her son toward riding, with girls and boys seen on horseback in Bois de la Cambre and on the boulevards.
The piece notes New York remains a dutieless town for spring garments with London Smoke cloth leading trends. Tailors offer 600 designs in tans grays and striped patterns while coats shorten and spikes fade. Hats and ventilated headwear gain emphasis as neckwear options stay limited.
The Paris edition reports the royal hat ceremony for new grandees including Duque Medina de Rioseco and Theo of Wellington with royal witnesses Queen Victoria and the queen mother. Mecca Shrine in Madison Square Garden endows a baby in a mock ceremony as 3000 members attend a Barnum & Bailey show.
Miss Ethel C. Griffin of Wheaton plans to join the Dominican Sisters in Natal South Africa. She is invited by Mother M Joseph to prepare as prior provincial of the Natal order. The Dominican Sisters, active missionaries among Zulu peoples, are led from Oakford near Chicago.
Verulam Natal residents honor Mother M Joseph Ryan O S D prioress provincial of the Dominican order. Born in Queenstown forty one years ago she led Oakford mission spanning 2000 acres with a day school for Kaffirs and a boarding school for European children. Oakford near Verulam lies five miles from town with rail access from Durham and requires native language training for teachers.
Kansas notes reveal candidates across counties including Conquest for county commissioner in Decatur, Broom for county superintendent in Pottawatomie, and Fairbanks targeted by Stafford County Republicans. Satirical lines reference Indiana statesman and a Sabetha reader seeking marriage license terms, while local editors urge clarity from candidates and condemn party bosses.
An Arthur D Gleason piece from Collier s extols simple walking as a healthful pleasure. It urges early morning strolls of six miles, then a dip in a natural swimming hole, and notes walking requires no special training or luxuries. It contrasts walking with costly trips and stresses renewal found in rural scenes and family farms.
A compilation of brief Missouri items noting the Trenton News goes daily, Bowling Green political argument, no vacant houses in Bowling Green, a Kansas City man dies raking his lawn, Joplin election surprise prohibition vote, Mexico Ledger editorials on Judge Evans, satirical saloons, Missouri gubernatorial bid hints, Jefferson birthday banquet cost, Champ Clark praise in Pike County, Louisiana Times serials on “The Lion and the Mouse” then “The Man of the Hour,” St Joseph councilman elect Grosser to marry in office with a humorous criteria list for his wife.
Felger McKinsey in Baltimore Sun offers a hopeful meditation on finding beauty and blessings in a cold world. The piece urges laughter and contentment, noting hidden joys in valleys and hills that lead to light and golden shores of dreaming.
A mosaic of brief items and opinions from a diverse set of topics. It references George Gould and Mme Gould, the Democratic convention, Mrs. Russell Sage’s Princeton gift, Anarchists, Japanese immigration in Kansas City, the Earles in Monroe, and Roosevelt’s congressional negotiations. It also covers chess, canals, early European waterway schemes, John Henry Barrows and a house fire insurance anecdote, and rental listings at Jenkins.
A fragmentary OCR item shows scattered monetary values and symbols including 230 negative and various quoted sums. The text lacks clear context, dates, or entities, preventing determination of the report event or involved organizations.
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