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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1908
Page
9
The Kansas City Star lists subscription options for Morning Evening and Sunday editions with carrier and mail rates. Prices include 10 cents weekly by carrier and 15 cents weekly by mail, $7 yearly, with prepayment required. Also notes post office class and single-copy postage scales.
The Blues have won two and lost five games. experts say this trend could spur discussions of municipal ownership of the team. Local officials consider options as performance concerns rise.
The piece argues that a free independent newspaper is essential to democracy, warning against media tied to party or corporate interests. It cites Taft’s campaign, allies' hopes before June 7, and critiques financial spending aimed at suppressing rivals, urging scrutiny of election funding.
Residents await council action on purchasing the water plant and finalizing a city water supply plan. Mayor Cornell pledges no franchise to the old company and expects legal steps to be taken at the next meeting while out of court negotiations continue. The piece also notes the president's veto threat on naval appropriations and critique of the Goulds’ management.
The article notes Kansas City real estate valued at about 93 million dollars with over 200 million in cash market value and suggests land value exceeding 100 million dollars. It argues that public improvements raise land values and that real estate owners should be civic leaders, as wealth here stems from growth rather than direct creation.
The text argues against using vacant lots for billboards that harm neighborhoods and insists real property must bear the costs of street, park, and boulevard improvements. It cites Leavenworth’s two week Commission government and its new anti-saloon ordinance as an example of rapid reform aided by government structure.
Turopore Roosevert Jr took a trip in a war balloon yesterday. The report suggests he should emulate his father and stay closer to grassroots concerns.
The Roosevelt plan calls a national convention with the President, Vice President, Cabinet, Supreme Court Justices, Congress members, state governors, and five citizens to forge federal conservation policy. Editors of the American Newspaper Publishers Association oppose Speaker Cannon and the paper trust probe, urging truthful reporting. Kansas editors in Emporia refuse to discuss politics signaling political trouble ahead.
The Allies urge the Roosevelt myth to divert the rising Taft movement. Representative Payne in New York City argues that if Chicago fails to nominate Hughes or Fairbanks, Taft, Cannon, or Roosevelt could be invoked to rally the people. He notes Taft is strongly placed on the first ballot.
A poem in praise of Shakespeare and the expansive scope of the human mind. The speaker cites the soul larger than the sky and ocean, and notes how Shakespeare’s art reveals the seeds of every world within a single mind. Coleridge admires the poet’s serene, unwavering gaze amid fire and fate.
A local plea argues for beauty at home as a path to national greatness. It cites art education, a new school for creative development, and four historic artists as models, urging citizens to invest in the community’s cultural growth and urban beauty.
A Berlin professor visiting the US recalls a travel mishap on a sleeping car. The porter asks for his berth ticket and passport as a matter of course, leading to a joke about birth status. The anecdote ends with a quip about fire procedures and village fire departments.
J Pierpont Morgan offers to buy a 300 year old parish chalice in Churchill England to fund re flooring the church. The vicar and churchwardens await the diocese chancellor's sanction before proceeding. The chalice matches local designs and stands five and a quarter inches high with hammered silver and a floral bow design.
A chalice dated 1571 aligns with Pius V’s Bull ex communicate Queen Elizabeth and suggests a pattern may reflect royal disdain, though locals debate whether Queen Elizabeth or Bishop Sandys imposed the uniform design by altering older vessels.
Outing May highlights New York City efforts to redeem street urchins through the Public Schools Athletic League formed in 1903. The program enrolls 600000 children, prizes athletic competition, teaches discipline and decency, and garners national and international attention including praise from Theodore Roosevelt and a study visit from England.
In Paris a magistrate questioned a widow witness who attended in a top hat and frock coat with short hair and a walking stick. She defended the attire saying she had worn masculine dress for thirty seven years as a privilege for her service as an emissary to Metz in 1870 and her role in the Bazine trial.
The piece argues that average stage work yields little money and poor prospects. It recounts women who earned at most $50 a week, faced high living costs, and eventually left the stage for other careers or became writers and seamstresses. It warns readers to avoid pursuing acting unless strongly destined.
A collage of odd quotes and local notes from Kansas papers. Jests about weather and dining, jokes on headlines, stock tips, and gossip about editors. Highlights include Lawrence trail bonds, Ouida style weddings, and a mock folderol on orchid bouquets from Tonekar Kansas.
The sketch contrasts French views of English dowager loneliness with the social constraints of Britain, noting widowed peers rely on society or solitude. It then profiles William Howard Taft's boyhood in Auburn, describing a rough, affectionate but decisive youth that shaped the future secretary of war as “old Bill” to peers.
A divorce petitioner testifies to an attorney about her husband’s behavior. She laughs at his supposed cruelty and describes how he smiles and agrees whenever she tries to argue, prompting a sharp reaction in court.
A compilation of Missouri notes from various towns sharing rural wisdom and local chatter. Topics include draft horses, truth-telling, potential familial ties to a senator, a girl’s accidental poisoning, summer dreams, a quilt maker’s platform skills, horseman friendships, soil fertility, and Missouri poultry gains vs mules. The piece blends commentary from multiple papers and voices across the state.
A poet narrates a night vision where a woman threads a sacred gold weave across the world revealing a life’s story. Tears fall as the weaver crafts the narrator’s last tomorrow and ties the tale to a namable glory and enduring love. Jean Ingelow.
A string of brief items covers Easter notes in Lilley and Norway, hats sold in Kansas City, Rockefeller payment habits, tiger diaries in India, Tolstoian birthday plans, Fifth Avenue auction lore, and a bones and letters oddity. Also mentions new piano rental options at Jenkins in Walnut-Ady.
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