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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1908
Page
4
In Kansas City the YWCA faced limited night school options for working girls. They organized an Old World Markets exhibition in a casino setting to raise funds for self run schools to educate night students, finding schools could not be held in school buildings after hours.
Mrs Russell Sage proposes a $4 million permanent endowment fund for the American Bible Society with a condition that an additional $14 million be raised by year end to fulfill the endowment plan. The announcement comes from New York on May 9.
Washington data shows Radnor Hunt club of Bryn Mawr faces scrutiny after two young fishermen, Charles Allen and Robert Cuffe, were brought to the United States by William Davis, an employee, in a likely breach of the alien contract labor law. The incident highlights tensions around immigration and elite social circles.
A Paris cafe show features vaudeville acts and flirtatious waitresses recounting adventures as patrons buy programs and drinks. Meanwhile a Radnor Hunt club faces immigration warrants for imports of Allen and Cuffe to staff fox hunting events, with Secretary Straus pursuing deportation.
The fifteenth annual Scarritt Bible and Training school commencement will be held Monday night at Central M E church on Eleventh street and the Paseo. Seventeen nurses will graduate. The event includes an alumnae reunion this afternoon, class day exercises, and the commencement sermon by Bishop Seth Ward Tex at Melrose M E.
Fragmentary OCR reads as a medication ad promoting ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE with scattered phrases about curing foot distress and inviting readers to buy from druggists. The text is garbled but centers on a topical foot remedy. It includes loose quotes and misplaced newspaper-like fragments from multiple sources.
New Haven May 9 The will of Miss Alice T Booth of New York a settlement worker at Strose s settlement was filed for probate It includes an unusual clause requiring one legatee an Episcopalian clergyman in Illinois to join the Catholic church Miss Booth a niece of Henry W Dawson previously Congregationalist and later a Roman Catholic donor leaves 500 to Strose s settlement and 1000 to Rev Henry S Dawson Canton IL if he adopts the Catholic faith otherwise the legacy goes to Mrs Sophie Dawson the aunt
Miss Ethel Barrymore called a telegram claiming she is engaged to a Harriman relative ridiculous and tiresome. She said Harriman millions or relatives do not tempt her, she remains devoted to her profession and has no intention of marrying anyone now.
Panama canal zone officials ban rats and mice to curb bubonic plague spread. Plague travels by fleas from rodents to humans. exterminating rodents is aimed to remove flea bites as a transmission route. Canal employees are instructed to kill rats and mice.
New York May 9 The Independence party announced it will hold its national convention in Chicago on July 27 and 28 to nominate a presidential and vice presidential slate. The party also confirmed that a state convention at Carnegie Hall Friday night granted resolutive delegates to vote for the ticket.
Orville and Wilbur Wright of Ohio demonstrated their war aeroplane by flying from Killdeville Nag's Head North Carolina and returning, reports say eight miles out to sea at peak altitude around 3000 feet. They control all turns and maneuvers, plan to prove aerial navigation to the U S government, with France offering 14 million dollars not swayed by foreign bids.
Washington May 9 Strong efforts aim to adjourn Congress within two weeks. Rep Tawney announces the House committee will begin work on the deficiency bill today and report by Thursday. The public buildings bill will be rushed after right of way secured. A Senate leader foresees adjournment by May 23 with only a few measures likely.
Swarthmore College will suspend intercollegiate football and basketball for at least one year. President Swain announced the move, following a faculty committee recommendation after the college refused Anna T. Jeanes bequest conditions requiring an athletics ban. The decision, made months ago by the board of managers, is unalterable though athletics will be curtailed.
Five thousand Chicago Railways workers vote today on striking the North and West Side lines over union members suspended for non payment of dues. President John M Roach disputes union interference and refuses to act. The ballot follows union pressure for delinquent dues or discharge.
Paul Gilmore recalls a Phoenix melodrama mishap with stage cartridges that used wax tips instead of lead. A shooting scene produced real blood and a leg injury. Gilmore was later operated on in New York. He notes the risk and the push for realism in theater.
Seldon P. Clemmons died at the Central Hospital for the Insane in Jacksonville aged 70. He was blind and died from complications after a prior stroke. He lived in Milton, Alabama and was the father of Kathryn Clemmons Gould wife of Howard Gould. His first wife was a daughter of Colonel Thomas M. Kirkpatrick of Winchester. He had two daughters Ella and Kathryn. Ella married and left for California, Kathryn later married Howard Gould.
Mrs Garrett A Hobart widow of the late Vice President had a narrow escape when her Stevens-Duryea motor car collided with a westbound Erie train at Van Houten street crossing Paterson on May 9. The chauffeur John Haskell could not stop on the slippery grades as gates were down. the car struck the rear coach and broke the steps but the occupants escaped unharmed though the car was driven from service.
Jabez Cross, president of the Thirteen club in Omaha, bought a costly casket and sent it to his home. He intends to be cremated at a Davenport, Iowa crematory and has deposited funds to cover the expenses.
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