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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1908
Page
4
About 140 pupils study hat making in a millinery class at the high school. Miss Josephine Casey explains that designs express student personalities with thirty five hats completed in a previous season. Finished hats are shown on stands in the classroom display.
A class trades hats and ribbons as Miss Casey explains hats express students' personalities and humor. Teachers stress design theory and creative effort as 140 girls must make three hats each, some achieving notable profits and dress purchases from sales.
A rough fragment mentions fines and masses, dialogue and masses, vows, rhetoric classes, and various topics. It hints at themes of variety unity economy and order included in the discussion. No clear event or persons are specified.
A four masted German oil ship, Peter Rickmers, ran aground off Long Island during a gale after leaving New York for Rangoon. Lifesaving crews could not board the vessel amid heavy seas and rain, rockets signaling for aid, while attempts to launch a rescue boat failed.
Sheriff W N Simmons of Johnson County Oklahoma reported two women robbed him on Bluff Street near Sixth Street. He lost a gold watch and seventeen dollars, notified police, then left for Oklahoma.
Armour Grain company pressed wheat markets in Curia co on May 1 sending May wheat up about 5 cents to 1.04 as traders faced distress. George Marcey, president, forecasts scarce wheat before the new crop and further gains. May corn rose 1 cent to 68.5 cents and oats held firm as deliveries on May contracts neared completion.
Farmers in Leavenworth county predict the wheat crop will be the largest ever with higher yields per acre. Karl F. Schweizer of the state free employment bureau says harvest may start around June 10, earlier than last year, after visiting Northeastern Kansas.
Dr. Alban Koehler of Wiesbaden Germany will present a moving X ray picture display showing heart lungs diaphragm and chest bones during respiration at the Jackson County Medical Society meeting at the Kupper hotel Tuesday night. The 150 picture film, created after five years of work, is unique in existence and was last shown in Cincinnati at the American Roentgen Ray society meeting.
Ohio authorities weigh declaring martial law in the burley tobacco districts to shield the public from Night Riders. If lawmakers do not authorize the adjutant general to deploy a secret service guard, the plan will be used as a precaution to curb violence from Kentucky-based riders.
County funds in the custody of A. C. Warner as county treasurer in Independence stood at 454176.89 this morning with 195658.54 in the general revenue fund and 60998.48 in the special road fund.
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