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Newspaper

Kansas City Star

Location

Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Date

Apr 13, 1908

Page

5

Riis Attack Highlights Settlements and Slum Work

Riis praised as Roosevelt’s useful citizen faces attack from Rev. Curry who questions settlement aims and authority. The piece notes slum workers unjustly charged with proselytizing while Riis’s settlement work is discussed amid church tensions.

New York Jacob A. Riis Roosevelt Mather James R. Curry Church of St. James James Street Father Curry Rila Riis Russally Lucas

Dippel to Oversee New Theaters Opera Season

Andreas Dippel will arrange the first season operatic program at the New theater with M Gatti-Casazza collaborators. productions will be in the school of opera comique and staged twice weekly featuring some Lortzing works not seen here in years. Daniel Frohman advised on a director and endorsed Heinrich Conried as a candidate. Earlier, John D Rockefeller walked to church with his grandchildren, appearing thinner and older, followed by a private detective and observed by onlookers.

North Central South America George Flex Hamburg Germany Frankforte-the-Main New York Alex Walter Raleigh North Carolina New World Bven Andreas Dippel M. Gatti-Casazza Metropolitan School of Opera Comique Dippel Lortzing Daniel Frohman New Theater Heinrich Conried Rockefeller John DD. Rockefeller

Sword presentation of 63 Kansas volunteers scene at dress parade

The Kansas Eighth volunteers held an impromptu sword presentation to Colonel John A. Martin and Major E. Schneider after raising over 250 dollars in two hours for gifts. Martin and Schneider expressed deep gratitude and urged continued faithful service and courage.

Atchison Globe Nashville Tenn.) Union John A. Martin FE. Schneider William Richardson E.*. Schneider Kansas Volunteers Martin Schneider

Trainmen Favor Girl Telegraphers at Erie Offices

Erie company experiments with woman operators at Nankin and Polk stations. Miss Helen Jordan and Miss Nina Gwinner oversee posts as male workers linger past shifts, sometimes missing meals. Crowds claim kinship to a late miser Lavergne as thirty relatives arrive in Mirabel Dordogne.

Cincinnati Enquirer Axrox Nankin Polk Erie Erie Company Helen Jordan Nina Gwinnerr Nankin and New York Herald Paris Lavergne Mirabel Department of the Dordogne

Ex-ball star John K Tener seeks Congress in 24th district

The former diamond player and All American of 188% retired into business and became a millionaire. In Primrose Pennsylvania on April 13 the Republican convention nominated John K Tener for Congress to succeed Ernest F Acheson who has held the seat fourteen years.

the Rix Primssuro John K. Tener Twenty-fourth Congress Ernest F. Acheson

Prosene Recipe advertised to aid resting stomach

An advertisement promotes the Prosene Recipe as a stomach rest aid for dyspepsia. It describes distress signals from the stomach and prescribes Compound Tincture of Cinchona Prosene Compound and Sherry Wine with a teaspoonful dose before meals and at night. Prepared by Cooper Pharmacal Company Chicago.

W. M. Federmann Cooper Pharmacal Company Chicago

From Pitcher to Banker Tener's Rise to Wealth

The article traces Tener's career from a National League pitcher for Pittsburg and Chicago between 1885 and 1889 to joining A G Spaulding's world tour. He later left baseball for real estate on the Monongahela river, built houses, bought coal lands, started a bank, and became a man of great wealth. his epithet as garret philosopher is noted.

Tener The Elks Pittsburg Chicago A. G. Spaulding Charleroi Monongahela River

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