Irene Franklin Leads New York Vaudeville Vote
The popularity contest for women vaudeville singers ends with Irene Franklin winning by a wide margin. Alice Lloyd and England's Vesta Victoria place second and fourth as Eva Tanguay trails. Other entrants include Gertrude Hoffman and Marie Dressler. SIEGFRIED WAGNER mulls an American tour with a Berlin Philharmonic program. Dr. William T. Manning likely to succeed the late Dr. Morgan Dix as Trinity rector.
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Siegfried Wagner
Kansas City
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Trinity
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Berrian
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Manning Declines Harrisburg Bishopric Amid Advisory Plans
The late Dr. Dix may be succeeded by PR. WILLIAM T. MANNING who declined the Harrisburg bishopric after forty years without filled posts. The Educational Alliance on the Lower East Side proposes a domestic relations court to easeFamily troubles and reduce divorces. The Children’s Theater led by Miss A Minnie Herts treats stage striking as a chance for education and character building with 530 participants to date.
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Plot to murder Europeans in Calcutta alarms authorities
Police investigate a native bomb plot aimed at Europeans in Calcutta. Officials fear a broader revolutionary attempt with several prominent Bengalis implicated and sensational arrests anticipated.
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Heavyweight Motor Cars Begin Month Long France Tour
Fifty heavyweight motor cars of all classes left Paris this morning for a month long tour of France. They engage in an industrial competition under the patronage of the ministry of war.
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France
Ministry of War
Miss Vesta Victoria at the Orpheum This Week
Miss Vesta Victoria stars at the Orpheum this week showcasing magnetism in vaudeville with four songs twice daily earning 2500 dollars weekly. The bill includes DeWitt Burns and Terrance pantomime The Awakening of Toys and other acts. Also at Auditor ium Fifth act Five act Napoleon play More Than Queen features Eva Lang and Frank Beamish.
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Roustan
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Means Aid for All the Jews Defeated by Court Ruling
A London court dismissed a petition by the Jewish Colonial Trust seeking to limit its work to Palestine. The trust, capitalized at 100 million dollars, faced opposition from Israel Zangwill and others who argued restricting it would harm Jews worldwide. Justice Eve refused the change, noting Zionist aims alone would not ease global persecution. May Manton Patterns 10 cents.
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Kansas City Franchise Veto Powers Debate
In Kansas City Kansas an ordinance may survive a mayoral veto under a commission form of government. The plan shifts veto power to the people after a 60 day lead time and three readings plus weekly publication. A petition by 10 percent can trigger a special popular vote on any franchise ordinance. advocates plan meetings this week while opponents organize tonight.
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Kansas City
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Board of Commissioners
Linwood Plaza in Westport Park District Defined
Property owners in the Westport park district receive notices to pay assessments for Linwood plaza two blocks near Linwood boulevard between Brooklyn and Park avenues. The ground cost is 48000 dollars. Special benefits from Thirty first to Thirty third streets and from Wabe Avenue to Euclid avenue vary from fifty cents to 3 dollars per front foot. The rest of the cost is taxed on land value only at sixty cents per 100 valuation. Deadline to pay is June 19 with optional installments at 7 percent interest starting May 1909.
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Prince zu Eulenburg Under Police Watch at Liebenberg Castle
Police guard the Liebenberg castle as a precaution while Crown prosecutors probe Prince Philip zu Eulenburg over alleged false testimony in the Harden trial. The prince, ill with neuritis, cannot travel, yet plainclothes officers monitor the grounds day and night during the investigation.
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Liebenberg
Prince Philip Zu Eulenburg
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