Kansas City Star Subscription Rates and Circulation
The Kansas City Star lists subscription options for morning evening and Sunday editions with weekly prices of 10 cents per week by carrier and 15 cents by mail, annual rate 7 dollars. It reports average paid circulation across Morning 149792, Evening 143137, Sunday 143137, Weekly 256151 and notes post office classification and single copy pricing by page count.
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Kansas City
Kanaan City
Maila
Miller Seems Ready to Announce Governor Candidacy
On Thursday April 16 H. B. Miller of Kansas may declare his run for governor. The report notes the decision will be final unless he changes his mind tomorrow. Regardless of the timing, Miller appears set to be a candidate or not based on weeks of his actions.
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H. B. Miller
Kansas
North End Playground Delayed by City Disagreement
Kansas City groups hold $5,000 in reserves for a North end playground and pool but delay persists as Park Board and Council fail to agree on a site. Money was raised by the Epperson Megaphone Minstrels and remains idle while children miss a promised summer facility. Also notes absence of gubernatorial candidates on ballots.
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Kansas City Playground Association
Park Board
Epperson
North End
Republicans Need Internal Harmony Not Faction Smarts
A historical analysis argues that Democratic hopes rest on GOP factional strife, noting 1884 Blaine defeat from personal enmities and Grant Conkling influence, while taft era faces better unity. It contrasts with a New York Central public hearing where commuters demand ten minute headways and five minute roval intervals.
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Blaine
New York
New Jersey
Connecticut
Cleveland
Grant
Conkling
Maine
Taft
Foraker
Turan
New York Central Railroad
Public Service Commission
New Yar
York
Utilities law and naval aid efforts stir public pages
The 1907 utilities law took effect July 1 six weeks before a Missouri act followed. Tay W CTU plans hundreds of comfort bags for sailors in Miral Evans's fleet, including needles, char cotton and a hymn book, with a twenty cent plug of tobacco to win jackies. Mr Vorys shifts Taft headquarters from Columbus to Chicago, moving the political fight toward Cannon.
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Missouri
Tay W. C.T. U
Miral Evans
Mr. Vorys
Taft
Columbus
Chicago
Political Crosscurrents in Congress and Presidential Clash
Speaker Cannon faces a failing session with no major admin total reform laws enacted as adjournment nears. The president promotes urgent measures and gains public support while Taft aligns with Roosevelt’s agenda. Democratic gains loom if voters hold lawmakers accountable. Senator Warner of Missouri replies to Foraker on Brownsville, with Old Glory cited.
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Cannon
Congress
House
Taft
Roosevelt
Senator Warner
Missouri
Foraker
Brownsville
Warner
Jackson County Plans Bond Financing for Pauper Home
Two years after recognizing poor relief issues in Jackson County a citizens group urged a bond funded pauper home project. Plans projected a 14 million dollar cost with the county court voting to issue bonds. now the question is whether to fund the Home via bonds or current revenues while considering better use of county funds.
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Jackson County
C. W. Moore
United States
New York
Shall We Have a Sane Fourth 1908 Kansas City Opinion
A public call argues for stricter Fourth of July laws in Kansas City to protect the sick elderly infirm infants and hospitals from noisy explosives and roughneck conduct. It criticizes the council for inaction and urges enforcement of reasonable limits. The piece condemns the excuse that boys must have fun and stresses humane restraint.
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Kansas City
Edwin Markham
Ross
Wall Street From Life Ex Dividend Meaning
In a Wall Street From Life column a reader asks what ex dividend means and notes money coming in that you've already earned. The piece explains the ex dividend status and its effect on stock prices and investor payouts.
Moonlit Night With Voices Of The Dead
A lyrical scene under elm trees and cypress sighs. The speaker recalls childhood friends and past sorrows while listening to distant farm sounds and the voices of the dead in a quiet moonlit night. Poet William Wetmore Story appears as the attributed source.
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William Wetmore
El Paso Commission Government A Model For Cities
El Paso adopts the commission form under Mayor Joseph A. Sweeney. The new system trims the council to four at large members, creates four departments, and empowers each alderman to head a department. The city fights the Bell Telephone for better service and lower rates, wins concessions, and secures underground wiring costs. Railroads see major reassessments lifting city valuations, with Galveston Harris & San Antonio and El Paso & Southwestern among those boosted. New water works improvements and a bold paving plan are also outlined as part of the city’s growth.
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el Paso
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Sep
Servne
Tom L. Johnson
Cleveland
Joseph A. Sweeney
Fort Worth
Los Angeles
Sweeney
Might
Fl Paso
James I. Hewitt
Charles DeGroff
Samuel Blumenthal
William F. Robinson
Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone Company
The
Bell
Ciiizens
International Water Company
Commission
Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railroad
el Paso & Southwestern
Texas & Pacific
Age
Galveston, Harris& Son
Greenway of Yale Exiled to Iron Range Leadership
The article profiles Greenway a Yale star famed for football and baseball who became a mining executive in Minnesota. As Coleraine’s superintendent for United States Steel he built a major camp, hospitals, schools, libraries, parks, housing, utilities, and strict liquor controls, while earning Roosevelt’s praise for bravery in the Rough Riders.
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Javoney Eomie
Alfred Henry Lewis
Greenway
Yale
Eli
Battle of Life
Mesaba Range
Minnesota
United States Steel Corporation
Coleraine
Duquesne
Carnegie Steel Company
Rough Riders
San Juan Hill
Roosevelt
Omaha Doctor Claims Electric Anesthesia Discovery
An Omaha physician Dr. Frederick Millener reports a new electric anesthesia method yielding sleep without pain, nausea, or heart effects. He demonstrated the technique before the Douglas County Medical Society, outlining the brain as the target and a two minute total anesthesia with a 10 volt current.
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Omaha
Des Moines Register
Frederick Millener
Millener
Douglas County Medical Society
Wheatstone Bridge
Society Lags in Lent with Merry Widow Dinner
The New York American notes a society dinner last Saturday modeled on the Merry Widow. Dressmakers, costumers, and guests attended with opera glasses to mimic the characters, including the tilted hats, while the menu echoed the theme with Merry Widow cocktails and related phrases.
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New York American
New Amsterdam
Bill
Barkeep
The Theaterium Adds Moving Pictures to Stage Drama
A new device called the Theaterium will present full plays and operas with synchronized sound and visuals. It uses a large gramophone behind the curtain with three interchangeable discs, allowing uninterrupted sound as productions move to the stage.
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New York
Theaterium
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Mr. Perry
Shuberts
Lew Fields
Herald Square Theater
Local headlines mix city notices and editorials across Kansas
A collage of short items from Wichita to Salina and Topeka covers council moves on firecracker rules, vacant lots filled by baseball diamonds, a breach of promise suit in Topeka, editorial debates, a bank alarm in Chanute, and graft warnings for Coffeyville. Various remarks on campaigns, editors, and local characters conclude this roundup.
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Iola Council
Old Tetanus
Wichita Beacon
Topeka
Stubbs
Mulvane
Hautaugqua
Hutchinson News
W. Y. Morgan
First National Bank of Chanute
Starr Gang
Daltons
James Boys
Salina Journal
Clyde Miller
Samuel Lightcap
Russell
Union Pacific
Atchison
Globe
Missourian
Coffeyville
Journal
Chamber of Commerce
Union Valley
Clarence Albro
Kansas
Cyrus Leland
Buck” Dawes
Dawes
Missouri River
Clifton
Wichita Eagle
Tom Watson
Wichita
Uncle Sam
Americas
Fairview
Coffer as a Wedding Gift in Brazilian Coffee Culture
The Brazilian ambassador explains a custom where a newborn receives a sack of premium coffee as inheritance to age for future use. The gift opens at marriage, with coffee then served at the feast. Older beans gain value like wine, and green beans are exchanged as presents for newborns.
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New York
Senor Joaquim Nabuco
United States
Hypnotism Cures Doper Says McClure's Profile
Prof Hugo Muenderberg argues hypnosis can cure morphinism in a hospital patient. He notes society wrongly condemns addicts, urges prevention before injection, and frames addiction as a disease of life failing minds rather than criminal birth. He recalls Sioux poetry and naval life as context.
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Hugo Muenderberg
McClure's
Diease
Bridge and politics pop up in Buffalo and beyond
The column mix notes bridge focus in Buffalo, a Boonville merchant Jeff Davis denying Arkansas senator kinship, poems about the Collinwood disaster, fears of night riders in Platte county, and tobacco exports over 400000 pounds. It also items quips from the Trenton Republican Tribune and Sedalia Democrat Sentinel while mocking spelling in memoriam and Henry county tales.
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Buffalo
Jeff Davis
Boonville
Arkansas
California
Collinwood
Platte County
Trenton Republican Tribune
Orient
Sedalia Dmocrat-Sentinel
Henry County
Hennery
Clinton Republican
Clinton
Houwstonia
Easy to Drift to Open Van and Dark Fate
The poem reflects on ease turning to danger as fascination with power and creation leads to control loss. Quoted lines invoke drift from restraint to catastrophe, with a closing note on late wisdom attributed to Oliver Huckle.
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Oliver Huckle
Starbeams and Sage Says From Across The Nation
A parade of brief observations, squabbles, and stats on politics, economics, and culture. Notes on Roosevelt abroad, the Kansas City Blues opening, tariff and taxation chatter, a matrimonial agency case, and a New York subway porter’s streetwise reflections. Also a piano rental ad to close.
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South America
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Philadelphia Ledger
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McCarren
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Philippines
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Smith
Toyo Keizai
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J. W. Jenkins’ Sons Music Co
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