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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1908
Page
3
William Wheeler Smith left 3 million to St Luke's hospital. His wife, Mrs. Smith, declined a large personal inheritance to fund a country sanitarium for poor convalescents, taking a life income of 8400 dollars and the residence at 17 West Seventy Seventh Street. The couple had no children.
Ruth I Eaton daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bradley L Eaton to wed Eltinger Warner Jr in May. Eaton is a leading member of the social set the 400 and the wedding will be a notable society event.
A Tokyo to London Daily Mail dispatch reports a San Francisco case involving Durham W. Mevens a supposed American agent in Seoul and cites Korea’s Righteous Army league as organized mainly to exterminate Japan agents. The piece notes Stevens departure to America and alleged destruction linked to the league with agents across the United States.
Students at St Marys College Kas rehearse a chorus girlless comic opera titled Mr Mikado to be staged in the college hall as part of the annual concert by the institution's musical groups. The libretto was written by a member of the glee club.
Philip Sheridan will play the Lord High Executioner in the college chorus operetta based on an American student in Japan. Francis Wiley voices Yankiman with Louis Senkert as the Mikado. director Remyden Haernyck trains a 30-voice chorus at St Marys. Other cast members include Cecchini Wilder Leacock Hussey Richmond Dockery Menten and Gross.
Echart of Independence writes a historical drama titled Ezra Meeker the Hero of the Oregon Trail and aims for a late June presentation. Profits would go to a monument fund at Independence for the trailhead. The play will include romance with Meeker and his wife and a committee plans to coordinate with the Independence Fair association for a possible performance at the fair’s end.
Providence man claims Augustus Saint Gaudens was born Michael Sweeney and renamed by New York legislature at marriage. Critics call the tale nonsense, noting Saint Gaudens was born in Dublin and raised by a shoemaker father in New York. records show no name change.
A voiced yarn describes ghosts hobgoblins and goblins in a barn luring a bad boy Bobby. It warns of gruesome fates in a cave far from home but concludes the tale is not true.
E M Clendening of the Commercial club proposes a Kansas City trade trip inspired by an Omaha Commercial club excursion. He notes reports of Omaha’s monthly local trade trips and says Kansas City business men would benefit from learning about the town’s resources and large industries.
William A. Meese of Moline Ill publishes a pamphlet linking Abraham Lincoln to river development. Lincoln ferryman boy and flatboat man. first speech on waterways. Sangamon river improvements. steamboat piloting. waterway advocacy in office. Also report on M B Gardner death in Boyd Ky. former Kansas City Harvester manager.
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