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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1908
Page
6
C J Schmelzer reports an Eastern firm will switch to roller skates, abandoning lawn furniture. He notes most factories now name skates the main product and fancy rinks rise nationwide, recalling a 25 year old skating craze and predicting this one may endure with better floors and facilities.
Corronwoon Farls, Kas., April 28. C C Smith near Cedar Point keeps 12,000 bushels of corn in cribs from his 1898 crop, a decade stored with sound grain. He also guards 6,000 to 7,000 bushels of wheat stored five years, though shrinkage lowers totals. Smith treats this as a longtime hobby with frequent large stockpiles.
British torpedo boat destroyer Gala was cut in two and sunk early today off Kentish Knock in the North Sea during night maneuvers with the Attentive. Engineer Lieutenant Frank A. Fletcher was aboard and perished. no other lives were lost. Ribble assisted and returned to Sheerness with water in two compartments.
William Rockefeller has leased the New York and Ottawa railroad right of way through his Adirondacks preserve and park properties and posted notices warning all to stay off. The action blocks access to $5 000 acres of prime hunting and fishing lands, previously used by trespassers to fish from the railroad.
Harry W. Knight, 60, a partner in Knight & Marshall wholesale hardware, died at his Sedalia home from heart disease. A Philadelphia native, Knight moved to Sedalia to expand the business and was active as a Mason and Elk. He had been in apparent good health and attended an Elks session the night before his death.
The body of Duke de Chaulnes, who wed Miss Theodora Shonts of New York, was brought from Paris to the Chaulnes chateau in Daupreent France for burial. Family members attended the chapel service.
A horse kick toppled a lantern in the Gallo livery stable in Perates Ohio last night, triggering a fire that destroyed fifteen buildings and caused about fifty thousand dollars in damage. Six men and a dozen helpers aiding the fire brigade were overcome by smoke. Insurance partially covers the loss.
Washington April 28 Republican leaders in Congress fear a late tariff speech from Wisconsin Senator Robert M. La Follette. Ill for weeks, La Follette has been largely absent from Senate debate, a situation seen as favorable to the oligarchy in control of the chamber.
The senator pushes a large non partisan tariff commission with proportional representations for business sectors and regions. He is expected to deliver a speech likely as sensational as his recent money speech attacking the tariff system for economic ills from trusts to corruption.
Naples April 28 Prince Helle de Sagan and Mme Anna Gould and her party will leave tomorrow morning for Rome where they live in apartments at the Grand hotel. One of Mme Goulds motor cars has been sent to Nice and it is believed she will spend several days on the Riviera.
A lit sign reading First Baptist Church hung above the entrance of a new Casino at 1023 Broadway last night. Inside the hall The Merry Widow was playing as laughing couples danced while Pastor Rev. Benjamin Otto explained the hall serves for Sunday and Wednesday church services since the old Twelfth Street/Baltimore Avenue church was abandoned. He stressed the sign is not meant for other events and no confusion with worldly entertainments is intended.
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