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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1908
Page
10
A long reader letter column offers guidance on marital money disputes and the desire for social outings, urging shared trips, improved communication, and mutual support. It also answers questions on handling ex-husband etiquette, travel yearnings, salary questions, and trust in romance with practical, non sensational advice.
Readers share etiquette concerns and beauty remedies ranging from returning a scarf pin to adjusting manners at table. A columnist offers guidance on personal conduct, hair bleaching, and practical at home remedies for complexion, hands, and lip care, with notes on romance, engagements, and wedding expenses.
Guidance on resolving engagements with the fianc es family consent etiquette for announcing an engagement. Advice covers timing for a conference with the parents, proper dinner and ball invitations, and how a woman should sign checks or notes, emphasizing family announcing the engagement through the prospective groom s family.
Thomas A Edison adopts a mostly fish and vegetables diet after a bout with mastoiditis. He believes overeating causes most stomach diseases and cites his Florida recuperation at Fort Myers. His 9-year-old son Harold also underwent a similar operation but is recovering at their West Orange home.
In Kalamazoo river Miss Sarah Carder, 45, was found drowned after an unsettled period following Etta Dickinson's suicide two months earlier in Dowagiac. Carder had argued that death by one’s own action could be justifiable. She had moved to Otsego to live with her brother-in-law, George Bardeen. A letter to a friend remained unfinished before she walked to the river.
Washington April 27 candidates for the infantry and cavalry rifle teams to represent at Camp Perry O are provisionally selected for preliminary practice. Philippines and Cuba may send contenders. Capt William H Hay Tenth Infantry at Pennsylvania State College will lead the cavalry. Capt Fred L Musson Ninth Infantry at Fort Sam Houston will lead the infantry. Lt Col B K Evans Fifth Infantry on general staff will be the executive officer of the meet.
In Sanp waaxy Ohio on April 27 wild ducks are dying by the hundreds daily along marshes on Lake Erie from Huron to the Maumee river near Toledo. Blue bills canvas backs and red heads are affected. Inspectors find a flea like insect in head feathers, but it is not yet proven as the cause of the mass deaths.
A farmer, Bertram Daly of Aurora, and a colt were killed after a colt pulled Daly in front of an Elgin and Aurora inter urban car yesterday. Daly was breaking the colt at the time of the accident and died almost instantly along with the animal.
In an exchange from the Washington Evening Star a man insists work never harms, while Plodd Pete cautions that fear can be nearly as damaging as injury. The quip underscores a local humorous contrast between industrious optimism and cautious restraint.
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