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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1908
Page
7
A 1907 proposal outlines placing the city hospital under a nonpartisan board with a visiting staff of physicians and surgeons, resident interns, and medical students. It details staffing by beds, terms of service, and a model daily rounds procedure to improve patient care and medical education.
Traveling salesmen report that the late financial stringency in the East is delaying major changes in fall lines for shoes clothing and furnishings. They note cautious manufacturers and muted new offerings while conceding the era’s restraint may please spring suit fans.
E. E. McClellan, chairman, calls Seventh district Prohibitionists to meet May 8 in Sedalia to nominate a candidate for Congress for the August state primaries. A county convention is set for the same date to pick a candidate for representative and county offices.
An advertisement touts Pyramid Pile Cure as a home remedy for chronic piles. It claims rapid relief from swelling congestion ulcers and fissures with no surgery and offers a free trial pack before purchasing a50 remedy.
John McCarty of Fort Worth was shot at the Oxford hotel in Claremore. William Howell is held on murder charges. An inquest crowd fled as jail prisoners escaped, triggering a courthouse panic. A deputy sheriff fired a shotgun through a wall. One escapee was captured by a man with a cork leg using an unloaded gun.
The court martial of Private Paul S. Grubinski of Troop K Thirteenth Cavalry at Fort Leavenworth sentenced him to hard labor for six months and forfeiture of 10 percent pay monthly for disrespect toward Captain A L Dade by thrusting hands in pockets and complaining during duty.
William Smith, English born Civil War veteran and long time Galena postmaster since 1898, died of Bright's disease at 64. He served as one of Galena’s early mayors and was Wichita marshal in 1873, later Sedgwick County sheriff and U S marshal for the Wichita district.
Daniel Chester French to craft a statue of Samuel Spencer president of the Southern railway killed in a Virginia wreck. The sculpture will stand in an Atlanta park as French travels from Kansas City to hear design suggestions for the work.
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