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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1908
Page
6
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Public service note honors Mr Beardsley after retirement stating his administration raised municipal standards. He is praised as a civic factor with practical experience and clean motives. The piece also mentions Prince Herene SacAN and Paris shopkeepers supporting him.
The Boston Transcript urges Chelsea to form a rebuilding commission to manage post fire recovery. It argues emergency action is needed to restore order, with appointees chosen for fitness, and notes Congress adjourns May 9 with new elections in November.
The piece contrasts Lady Cook with modern media figures, noting changing attitudes toward authority and submissive majorities. It recalls her austere rhetoric during a U.S. visit and compares her to Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly editor Tennie C. Tennessee and Mrs. Cook’s widow status frame the commentary on tradition and public influence.
The article explains how city commissioners oversee departments, with bonds and accountability varying by city. It urges Congress to require public disclosure of campaign contributions. It notes FairMount Park's ongoing effort for a liquor license, recalling last year's rules on sale months.
Miss Jane Addams speaks in Kansas City today for the Franklin Institute. Her Hull House experience in Chicago informs her views on municipal improvements and industrial regulation shaping American public policy.
Three flying machines have been accepted by the War Department for testing at Fort Myer Virginia near Washington. The Wright Brothers bid $25 000 to build a machine, A M Herring of New York bid $20 009, and James F Scott of Chicago bids $1 000. Models are kept confidential and tests may begin in June or July.
A city court on sentence day hears a two year larceny term prisoner cry softly while a seven year bigamy inmate jeers and mentions leaving his family as they sob and mutter through their confinement.
Poem celebrates spring with orchard bloom and awakening life. Images of wind, sunlit fields, and growing hope tied to labor and nature. mentions warding themes of love, joy, and virtue as enduring rewards.
The article argues today’s moral and religious state is better than in the past and defends Jefferson’s integrity amid Burr’s rival bid. It recounts Hamilton’s pivotal role in Jefferson’s official House victory and the ensuing duel that cost Hamilton his life, noting Federalist maneuvers and party tensions.
A historical reflection on presidential courtesy from Adams to Cleveland, noting how successors received rivals at the White House and the evolving norms. It contrasts past acts of hospitality with modern expectations and cites incidents of election fraud and political maneuvering. It also discusses speculation on Taft and Roosevelt as presidential nominees and touches on Addison and Canning on discretion versus cunning.
Geneva prepares to honor John Calvin with a 1909 monument as an international competition for artists is launched. The association led by Roosevelt as honorary president seeks a lasting, popular tribute reflecting Calvin’s influence on modern society and spurring committees abroad, especially in the United States.
Ernest Poole reports in May Everybodys on a Chicago municipal lodging house for industrial hoboes. The dingy outside hides a bare but clean receiving room then basement registration, a loaf of bread and hot coffee, and a fumigation process with garments bagged for disinfection.
The facility cleans and screens the homeless men, providing soap, towels, and beds as a city physician watches for disease. It acts as a sieve guiding 5 500 men to jobs in the new year, including 1 081 under twenty, many eager to work and return to regular life despite winter hardship.
A central committee seeks 100000 in subscriptions to fund a monument on Geneva promenade des Bastions near the old ramparts and Calvin founded university. Plans include Calvin figure with Parel Knox Beze and depictions of Bible diffusion and Calvinist protectors, plus early New England founders. A jury has 6000 for best designs.
A survey of Kansas notes reports a mix of local incidents and society chatter. Items include sheriff candidates, county accidents with injuries, editorial alignments, political retirements, state appointments, legal quips, vintage household recalls, and fashion anecdotes from Atchison and neighboring towns.
The passage asserts Steinway pianos are the ultimate benchmark in quality, noting three generations of renowned musicians have endorsed them by purchase. It contrasts Steinway with products praised as merely "just as good" and urges buyers to seek genuine excellence.
A collection of short items from Missouri papers includes remarks on productivity and prosperity, a Prohibition party convention set for May in Joplin, and local quips about gardens, pets, bookstores, and common sense. Headlines reflect small-town humor on work, luck, and everyday life.
Norah Perry drafts a lyric vision of May’s warmth reviving youth and joy. She imagines bright reunion, refrain from sorrow, and eyes meeting across time as fear and tears fade in a single hopeful moment.
A collage of notes on theater and society, including Strongheart in Kansas City, the Gil liss venue, and rumblings about Mrs Grace Snell Coffin Walker Love. Remarks on public life feature figures like Josephine Moffett and Ruth Bryan Leavitt, plus aviation pioneer Henry Farman.
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