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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1908
Page
34
The Galveston model turns governance into a single decisive body of commissioners led by a mayor with specialized departments. It contrasts with Kansas City’s multi‑house system, arguing faster work, clearer responsibility, and steady tax relief. Houston and Galveston demonstrate adaptable, effective city management through commission government.
Civic experts urge all classes to serve city interests and back franchise referendums. Houston and Galveston show support for the plan, which requires voter ratification for franchise grants or public property rights. Proponents say it empowers people and proves American democracy can work efficiently.
Four musicians including violinist Max Bendix and pianist Rudolph Ganz announce a joint recital. The program features classical works across era periods with emphasis on chamber richness and refined technical mastery.
The Kansas City Musical club sponsors a joint recital by Max Bendix and Rudolph Ganz at Westminster Congregational Church next Tuesday evening. Ganz, a rising Swiss pianist, has won honors in this country and abroad and impressed audiences previously at the Auditorium and Casino. Bendix, long prominent as concert master and conductor, has recently pursued solo and quartet work.
The 1899 recital at the Auditorium Theater lists performers including Mr. Ganz and Mr. Bendix. The program features works by Kreutzer, Tartini, Chopin, Saint Saens, with pieces such as Ballade in G minor and Scherzo in B flat minor.
Jasper County Missouri famed for lead and zinc mines and mules prepares its first big music festival to be held in Joplin on May 6 and 7. The article notes county wealth and regional interest as the event approaches.
The festival gathers the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Carl Busch in Joplin and Carthage with choruses in rehearsal. Notable soloists include Mme Adelaide Norwood and Mrs Genevieve Wilson, plus concertmaster Jan Van Oordt. A three day program features Wagner, Beethoven, Tschaikowsky and Busch cantata The Four Winds, with strong city and regional support.
The Santa Fe railroad has established twenty reading rooms for workers along the line from Chillicothe Illinois to Needles California. The program aims to promote moral uplift and provide leisure education, with transportation workers benefiting as part of a broader industrial education effort. An incident shared by S. E. Busser highlights the rooms' impact on staff.
The Santa Fe railroad uses free employee reading rooms as cultural centers with libraries of over 18 000 volumes, baths, billiards, and lectures. A touring quartet led by Charles Farwell Edson entertains 350 performers across 150 plus events, funded entirely by the railroad with no employee contributions.
A New York Mail piece recounts animal mischief at a menagerie with elephants camels and monkeys stealing items from pockets and rooms. Bertha the bull steals tobacco and sugar while Singer the giraffe plunders crackers lemonade and candy.
The chapel of the Conception in Mexico City, erected in 1541, is described as the oldest house of worship on the continent. It has served daily devotions for centuries and remains well preserved in Concepcion square, once near a large adjacent convent now vanished due to city growth. Wealthy and high social status worshippers frequented it in early history.
Dr. Thomas Darlington, New York commissioner of health, lauds Cuban sanitation under American governance. He cites clean streets in Havana and camps at Camp Columbia, Guanahaye, and emphasizes mosquito control, pasteurized milk, and open-air cattle as factors. He notes no yellow fever or malaria and urges maintenance of the high standards after U.S. guidance ends.
An Ohio note reports Leavenworth driver J. E. Olvis praising road conditions in Kansas City after rain. It cites Prussia's 1907 counts of 25 000 passenger and 1 112 freight motor cars, with 1 303 injuries in half 1907 and 1 070 property losses. Talks of stricter chauffeur exams and license revocation.
A conversation at a house door reveals a resident named Frans who uses a rear entrance and a sign reading Out. The timid man notes Frans is independent, comes and goes as she pleases, and avoids interference. The scene ends with the judge noting her mysterious habits.
Letters from patients in six states praise G Gordon Martin Inc Alveolar Method noting full sets without plates after losing many teeth. Testimonies from Rockwell City Iowa Ypsilanti Michigan and others claim perfect satisfaction and comfort, with travelers many miles to receive care in 1908.
Deerfield Wisconsin February 15 A A Briston expresses sincere thanks to G Gordon Martin Inc for treating Pyorrhea restoring teeth and improving health over the course of his dental work He offers to show other patients the results and signs off with best wishes.
Des Plaines Illinois February 18 Des Bland praises the Alveolar Method after replacing all lower teeth without a plate and without pain. The new teeth are solid and admired by friends. She would recommend the method to others in need of artificial teeth.
GeO. P. Washburn, a Kansas official, thanks GEO. P. WASHBURN & SON architects for dental work that cured his pyorrhea. He notes teeth supplied and mouth treatment proved highly satisfactory after about three months, allowing him to chew food better than before.
A Mr M J Smith of Grand Forks writes in 1906 about four upper teeth fitted without plates or bridges, calling the result perfect and natural looking. He plans further work in two years and urges others to seek the same care, touting the Alveolar Dentistry method and a free mouth examination offer.
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