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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1908
Page
6
The Kansas City Star offers Morning Evening and Sunday editions, thirteen papers weekly, delivered by carriers in Kansas City area at 10 cents weekly. By mail prepaid 15 cents weekly, yearly $7, all mail subscriptions payable in advance. Rates for different editions listed. single copy postage 1 to 3 cents depending on page count. Entry notes second class matter in Kansas City.
Saturday observations report rising spring business and bank clearings in Kansas City. Officials note strong regional control and money in circulation as household finances improve. Rain has boon winter wheat and planting conditions look favorable for spring.
The Upper House approved seventy two water department employees last night, all experienced with ten plus years in service. The vote reflected merit system protection rather than partisanship as half were Republicans and half Democrats, with focus on efficient city service. Stage Williams amused the chamber, while the Goulds faced matrimonial troubles and Miss Helen Gould’s stance is noted.
Bank raids proliferate across nearby states with fugitives seeking refuge in Oklahoma hills. Kansas robbers slip into Oklahoma and evade capture as Starr gang and Chautauqua criminals reportedly escape across the state line. Legislature urged to act, critics say focus on Jim Crow laws misses the need to crush bandits. Vree land’s currency bill praised amid corruption ties. Carson's at Concordia sold amid regional notoriety as Egglinger Brothers’ peace noted at Atchison.
Mr Bryan remains confident about securing the Democratic nomination after Denver. He advances with a firm hand, similar to 1900, and has prepared a platform now sent to Governor Haskell of Oklahoma for critique and possible edits.
The article notes that Bryan plans to base his campaign on the Oklahoma Constitution which he allegedly authored and which he touts as superior to Jefferson’s work. It suggests the guaranty bank deposit will be a key plank and cites Commoner references as supporting evidence. It also comments on Speaker Cannon’s misread humor toward Japanese visitors and Rockefeller’s Bible class leadership in New York.
A. B. Hart of Harvard University argues in a study in the Boston Transcript that Texas style commissions combine cabinet clarity with board discussion, giving faster, more intelligent dispatch than councils. He notes close commissioner contact with the mayor and warns a few directors can outperform large stockholder meetings. Additionally a Washington paper misquotes William Allen White about Speaker Cannon, clarifying White’s description as mossback not old mess.
Victor Smith recalls a young man who sought guidance, took it, and left a discontented job to become an independent canvasser. He built a thriving trade, earning far more and gaining independence, starting with little capital and an office in his hat.
Annie Topham surveys the Kaiser's royal stables at Potsdam, detailing the horses, trainers, and staff. It notes the mix of Irish and English hunters, the regimental chargers, and the famed Irene the red Arabian mare gifted to the Kaiser's daughter.
Poem fragment expressing desire for renewal through nature. Speaker seeks fuller life and penitence, asking April wind to move tears toward revival. Imagery of rain dew and budding growth leads to gratitude for storm and Easter sun. Emily Tloussnonp BR.
The Day Nursery, also known as the Industrial house, seeks new quarters with three parts a nursery an industrial laundry and a labor bureau. The project aims to aid mothers by offering day care employment training and job placement. Nearly 20000 has been raised with 4000 to 5000 more needed to complete the building foundations to begin early spring construction on a lot on Williams street between Main and Water.
A feature from Tarper's Weekly depicts the Pink Lemonade Man explaining how sparklers and diamonds project status in small towns. Sawdust erupts as two boys fight by the stand while the vendor orders a tub emptied and strained for customers.
Springfield plans show a red brick structure with Longmeadow stone, a front entrance under a porch, and brown ash interiors. The building will include a laundry yard and a rear playground, with a focus on practical, economical design and early occupancy targets by year’s start.
Emerson Hough writing in May Nobody’s in 1909 urges forest reserves across 17.5 square miles from Maryland to Alabama, including White Mountain acreage, to save industry and watersheds. Speaker Cannon blocks measure over fears of total expenditure. the plan envisions national purchase of public lands.
A Seattle man, intoxicated and lost, encounters an iron tree guard while returning home. He grasps the bats as they probe the obstacle, laments his fate, and finds himself "locked in" the strange entrapment in a tale framed as a moralist’s warning about civilization and intoxication.
A collection of brief notes on Kansas politics and editorial views. W. J. Bryan runs for sheriff in Deniphan county. Iola preacher ponders if there truly is a hell. Senator Tom Nofteger quits re-election bid. Lawrence Journal urges pledge against Speaker Cannon from Second district editors. Junction City Republic shifts from non-endorsement to county treasurer bid. Hutchinson News touts Long tenure in Senate. Newton Kansan parodies itself as Long Trouble. Onaga Republican advocates forest conservation with cottonwood planting. Leavenworth’s commission-era boom debated. Times hails steady growth. Sabetha Herald pledges business-focused coverage and favors Taft, Bristow, Stubbs with anti-machine leanings. space constraints noted. Ad for Allen’s Foot-Ease concludes the page.
The Bladensburg mineral spring near Washington has long served presidents from Adams to Buchanan. The spa, famed for rheumatic relief, sits in historic grounds near the old Washington hotel, with access free on public land and vendor kids offering samples for tips.
A description from Hamlin Garland in May Everybody's recounts a seance where a psychic sits bound by threads that cut into her wrists. After the session ends she asks for water as onlookers regard the restraint with concern and medical attention is briefly required to release the bindings.
The text urges clear definition of our aim and a guided path to reach it. It argues that progress must be measured daily along a steady direction, otherwise life is wasted by wandering amid conflicting voices and aimless effort.
A compilation from the Jefferson City Tribune and other Missouri papers covers a death notice phonetic headline about a physician saying tired feeling is inherited and possibly contagious. Livingston County must pay old warrants. St Charles readies a November centennial. Monett floods prompt postal cards. Koshkonong may shed its name to a shortened form. La Monte mayor Yankee faces tax collection. Italians arrested for peddling, one escapes. at Neosho farmers block a train demanding a Bell station. Rich Hill notes Missouri’s diverse crops and resources surpassing many regions.
The fragment presents a lyrical speaker addressing Molly Dear Brierly, expressing a split self and whimsical desire for unity to ease confusion. The lines reference a change, a shared identity, and the notion of becoming one to avoid bother. Samuel Lover is identified as the author.
A collage of witticisms and notes touch on self mastery, early newspaper ideas, weather glooming baseball season, church calls, theater lawsuits, Shubert era changes, and legal jests. Reports describe a Riverside elephant stampede, a Sulphur Ok capture by an Oklahoma posse, and remarks by Dr Lyman Abbott on helping the poor.
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