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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1908
Page
6
Jap newspaper men Aishima Ny Okuboura and Jiro Abur tani visit New York to study American journalism and printing. They discuss government led physical culture in schools to fight too much sitting, noting two inches of growth in Japanese stature in recent years and potential two more in future generations.
John C. Nicholson state claim agent has secured a $97,000 war claim for the government and hopes to use it to erect a fireproof memorial hall near the statehouse grounds for the Kansas Historical Society. He plans to house records and relics, making Kansas records accessible much like the Congressional library. He also aims to push related legislation when elected to the state senate.
Mrs Isadore J Kusel kept a thief on the line by phone until police arrived and arrested Harry Mendoza for stealing 1000 dollars worth of jewelry during a paper hanging at the Kusel home. Jewelry recovered. Also note Panama burial details for Mrs Maud Talbott Attleberry with Lexington burial set Friday.
Phil Jacques long time agent for Mrs Minnie Maldern Fiske who visited Kansas City several times died last Saturday in New York after a brief illness from heart disease. He had many friends in the city.
Funeral services for Mrs Edna Earle Brown wife of B O Brown are set for 2 o clock tomorrow afternoon at the residence 650 Garfield Avenue Kansas City Kansas Burial will follow at Forest Hill Cemetery.
Grace Snell Love daughter of the late Chicago millionaire A J Snell has filed for divorce from Hugh M Love in Los Angeles County claiming extreme cruelty with non support and neglect. This marks her sixth appearance in divorce courts after multiple marriages and separations including to Francis Nixon Coffin and others. She is visiting her brother in Chicago.
Washington reports that St Cyr French School plans an historical account and requests U S Army data on ex students from 1863 to 1898. Names listed include Burthe Jones Slidell Harden Hickey Baror Crosby Charde. Submit information to Major General J Franklins Bell for biographies.
Zelie de Lussan once sang at the Metropolitan Opera House appears in New York vaudeville for the first time this week at the Colonial theater. Her act features operatic excerpts set to piano by her husband M Fronani.
Yesterday she seemed as much an operatic star as in England, after leaving Moody Manners English Opera for an American vaudeville tour. She plans to return to opera, saying vaudeville delighted her and she found success across the West and in New York. She avoids common songs and aims to please audiences rather than educate them.
La Crosse Wisconsin April 15 the lid order issued by Mayor Anderson went into effect at midnight closing every prohibited place in the city. Gambling houses had been shut two weeks earlier. Proprieties are moving to buildings outside the city limits while no district is abolished.
The county court appointed three road inspectors this morning. A. L. Stoughton will inspect the Raytown and Little Blue road. Charles R. Smith will inspect the Hickman Mills and Greenwood road. James A. Frazier will inspect the Atherton and Independence road.
This ad extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as a spring remedy to purify enrich and revitalize blood and cure tiredness headaches rheumatism catarrh and skin eruptions. It cites testimonials from Mrs E M DeLespernier and Mary J Baxer and asserts safety purity and compliance with the Pure Food and Drugs Act.
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