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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1908
Page
7
An item detailing William R. Nelson Korronawa Owara and addresses in Kansas City Missouri. It lists daily morning and evening and Sunday edition names and service to carriers, with weekly and annual mail subscription costs and postage rates for single copies.
The Metropolitan Water Company failed to revive the old franchise but won a committee recommendation to vote bonds for a new water plant. Critics warn the plan delays relief and invites prolonged litigation, while supporters say it offers public improvement and addresses street and alley rights. City leaders face a choice between immediate condemnation relief or endorsing the committee’s route.
The Star treats Prof. E A Ross's Sin and Society as a critique of Roosevelt era principles. A President message urges legislation aligned with Ross, arguing new rules curb abuses as industry modernizes. Safeguards like child labor laws tariff revision injunction oversight are urged to prevent class clashes.
A seven year civic struggle in Cleveland over streetcar fares ends as residents secure a fixed three cent tariff. Mayor Johnson hails the victory as a victory for public opinion over corporate resistance and asserts the city has set a precedent for future street control disputes.
The article argues Cleveland’s triumph in street railway franchise disputes benefits all cities by establishing a fair framework. It credits prolonged civic effort and lower transit costs for population growth, labor influx, and a stronger municipal future, while dismissing sensational claims from the paper trust.
The piece warns that initiatives referendums and recalls may breed more elections and disrupt municipal government. It cites limited use of recall and notes a speaker comparing recall to a revolver kept for deterrence. The text also touches Shakespeare, battleship fleet imagery, and the peach crop.
A compact reflection on strength, health, and duty from Thomas a Kempis. It warns that illness impedes good works and that extensive travel does not guarantee holiness. The passage emphasizes perseverance in virtue while well.
The New York Herald notes a disappointing spring book output with few standout titles. Publishers expect the summer season to redeem the trend as prominent works from Castiglione to Amundsen and Bjornson appear, including a fashion Kaleidoscope and exploration tales.
Poem fragment notes the season with recurring lines about spring. The speaker mentions violets, rivulets, robins, swallows, and grasses, asking what time of year it is. The piece culminates with a question about April and whether it is truly here.
The excerpt recounts a Savannah hotel dinner scene where a Southern woman rebukes a Union lieutenant over a pickle shared at table, illustrating postwar tensions. It describes southern suffering after the Civil War, bread and salt shortages, property loss, and the burden on women as they faced poverty and blame toward the Yankee.
The piece recalls early Wall Street in 1734 showing a ragged east end with a Meal market and slave stalls, then displays four notable structures on the north side including Gabriel Thompson’s tavern, a Bayard sugar refinery barn, the 1699 city hall, and Trinity church. It notes the street’s social ascent tied to the city hall site and New York’s aristocratic rule.
New York Times reports Paris Montmartre faces a model shortage as chorus fame pulls women from studios. Artists say affordable models have become scarce with many turning to music halls. Agencies scout cafes and brasseries, ending studio work for many aspiring models.
The Near East practice cited showsMoslems in India follow a long sequence of ceremonies. The bride moves between her father's house and her husband's over about a year with stays of four days ten days twenty days and six months.
Washington letter notes Mrs. Belle Case LaFollette aided her husband Senator Robert M. LaFollette of Wisconsin in choosing law and politics. The couple met at the University of Wisconsin where she also excelled in oratory and later pursued study at George Washington University. She is described as domestic and active in charity and education, with possible future campaign help mentioned.
William Allen White reviews Taft in the American Magazine noting he will be a hard working president with a steady hand and generous heart. The piece portrays Taft as a reformer who finishes what is begun, cleans the desk, and leads with honesty and resolve.
Kansas notes survey shifting politics in Colby and Ottawa areas, with mentions of Henry Allen leaning to Leland, county attorney races in Miami and Johnson counties, and debates over journalism at Washburn. Other items note drug stores in Collareville, grazing land bills, Ida Tarbell’s editors meeting, and signs on jail walls amid local governance chatter.
Excerpt discusses causes of psychic phenomena, Zollner's fourth dimension, and the uncertainty of belief. It quotes Richet and Maxwell on doubt and natural explanations, and ends with Emerson urging confidence in the divine Providence and human destiny against chaos.
The Rev Thomas Lord of Horncastle, England s oldest minister of Art Gospel, celebrates his hundredth birthday while still preaching each Sunday. King Edward sent a congratulatory telegram. Lord was born two years after Pitt and Fox died and was grown when George IV ruled.
The column collects humorous and regional notes from Missouri papers. It riffs on baseball metaphors, a birth notice, a judge’s bootblack tale, and political quips about farmers and road taxes. It cites Springfield Republican and Memphis Democrat voices, plus Gallatin and Rolla School of Mines mentions.
A lyrical piece depicts a tall birch tree bending in spring wind with a speaker entwined by its trunk. Emotive imagery of affection and nature blends human longing with the hillside setting. The poem ends with an exclamation of the passionate season and isolation.
A breathless collage of quips and questions on politics, theater, suffrage, and society. References include Taft in Panama, Tarbell in New York, Mrs. Roby saluting policemen, and a Paris theater directors meeting. Jokes about Gladstone, the New York Four Hundred, and a “new planos for rent” close the column.
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