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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1908
Page
24
The Kansas City Star outlines mail subscriptions with options for morning evening and Sunday editions. Rates include 10 cents weekly in cash and 15 cents weekly by mail prepaid, with annual $7 payments in advance. Circulation figures are listed for Morning Evening Sunday and Weekly.
Easter sermon highlights the immortality of the soul and the Christian hope in resurrection. The piece then shifts to a historical note on British governance, describing how cabinet leadership emerged under the queen and Gladstone, with Lord Rosebery and others shaping the role.
The text argues against opposing reform and for moderate reform, urging that delaying the square deal harms progress. It defends nucleating forces and warns against destructive opposition, urging optimism and practical improvement of bad facts rather than despair and stagnation.
The text discusses how the British prime ministership often passes without a direct electoral mandate. It notes Asquith’s rise after Campbell-Bannerman and mentions the ambiguity of the succession and the Chancellor’s imagined role. The passage reflects on the non-electoral nature of leadership selection.
The piece argues that true happiness for the very rich hinges on purposeful work and public-spirited use of wealth. It cites Frank J. Gould’s misfortune as an example and warns that aimlessness fuels discontent and public resentment toward fortunes earned and displayed without meaningful labor or contribution.
The piece recalls Bishop Hogan of Kansas City as a young priest in the 1860s, his zeal to spread Catholicism in sparsely settled Missouri, and his ministry from St Louis to centers like Center Point, where Mass was first celebrated in a crude one-room shed.
Bishop Hogan recounts wild frontier hospitality in Missouri. He describes banquets with squash and watermelon served on a cabin floor, a raid by a hog, and a temporary retreat to the woods. Laborers later built his log shanty where he read mass and taught catechism, founding the Kansas City and St. Joseph dioceses.
Garden philosophy extols small plots for intimate plant care and yearly color goals, likening gardening to life with patient progress and subtle discipline. The piece notes Countess Caroline Story de Buissert, now in Washington with her mother, and recounts her marriage to Count Conrad de Buissert and tales from Tangier during Moroccan tensions.
In a shabby drawing room on Easter morning the Ascension lilies fill two tables and a Sheraton cabinet. Pelleas and I receive sheaves of the white flowers as sunlight casts them like candles, hinting at spring and a quiet renewal.
Rottins Bingham muses on why the catfish bears its name contrasting it with a cat. He describes catfish habits and regional Missouri fishing lore then recounts frying two sizes, guidance for catching yellow mudcats, and baking a whole catfish with lemon and gravy.
Lieutenant Commander Philip Andrews reports for Harper's Weekly on a squadron passing Magellan Straits in summer calm and winter storm myths. The fleet faced no notable danger, covering two hundred miles from Sandy Point to Cape Pillar in twenty hours, challenging old tales of peril.
In Washington during a crowded session a young man rushing through a door nearly collides with Senator Pettus of Alabama. Pettus offers a wry lesson on door navigation advising to keep right to avoid awkward apologies and awkward bumps.
The new Duke of Devonshire Vic Cavendish has just inherited the title and vast estates after his uncle’s death. He is slated for a strong role in the Lords, shares a calm, reserved demeanor with the late duke, and wields about 200000 acres and nearly a million dollars annually.
The New York Sun offers a joke through letters about a fly spreading sleeping sickness and a pun filled exchange about crossing it with a wakeful morning insect. The dialogue touches on ease of finding such a solution and a clever line about keeping a suitor at arm or hat width.
A hymn style excerpt describes the savior's royal march to die on Passion Day. It portrays his coming from above in power and love, bearing the cross as a sign of divine love, with thorn crown and burdened road. The text emphasizes mercy, forgiveness, and the ultimate sacrifice.
The poem recalls a homeward journey of soldiers and the cherishing of home after travel. It describes a day of brave, earnest miles along a sunlit road, with love, hope, and a shadow of loss as the day ends at home. Emery Pottle in Success Magazine.
A collage of humorous quips covers politics and court talk, railway tariffs, court cases, world events, and peculiar customs. It mentions Senator Aldrich and Taft, Prince Helie de Sagan, Raisuli, Norwegian rail rules, a Missouri murder trial, and a Chinese funeral rite described by the London Saturday Journal.
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