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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1908
Page
8
The Kansas City Star lists delivery options for Morning Evening and Sunday editions at 40 cents weekly via carriage and 15 cents weekly by mail, with annual prepay rates. It shows average paid circulation for Morning Evening Sunday Weekly totals and notes post office second class status and single copy postage rates.
The Cleveland Leader comments on municipal ownership victory, warning that the traction system with thousands of employees could be exploited to build a political machine under any future private operation. The piece notes private street railway companies are commonly thought to avoid politics.
A Senate faction blocks President Roosevelt's conservation agenda, resisting a permanent Waterways commission and timber and land safeguards. The President demands protected waterways, reforestation, efficient fuel use, and regulated water power. Vice President Fairbanks denounces both Socialists and Anarchists as a cautionary note.
An editorial urges higher city appropriations for Swope Park to fund a zoological garden and free music concerts. It recommends increasing park spending from 5 000 to 8 000 10 000 and adds 15 000 for enclosures and animal houses to attract private contributions, benefiting children and residents.
The text critiques moneyed influence in legislation and public office. It cites George Bernard Shaw insulting critics and labels Jefferson Davis as a hyperbolic figure. It notes a Chicago speech by Mr. Fairbanks claiming the millionaire is more touched than ever.
The piece depicts Methodist leaders and Governor of Kansas urging prayer for House Speaker Cannon amid tariff debates and liquor interest influence. It jokes about Kansas students favoring a correspondence school if the state college name offends them, mocking rural views.
A historical critique notes the Nelson Morris Packing Co plan in Kansas City and a public playground promise blocked by fragmented city authorities. It argues the charter board and council split authority hinder essential civic projects like baths and playgrounds while private interests push ahead. It also references Tolstoi education ideas and remarks on discretion and cunning from Addison.
In Chicago a woman doctor reports two cases where she observed the soul depart a patient at death, likening it to blue cigar smoke and noting it may distress aesthetes who fear such souls resemble tobacco.
A collection of terse Scottish proverbs offering cautions and observations. The verses urge prudence with wealth and speech, note moonlit mischief, mock the vanity of fools, and advise wives and maidens in social wit.
Eyewitness cowpuncher recalls multiple stampede triggers from odd noises to night rambler cattle. He explains restless steers and lone bulls waking the herd, cattle reacting to scent, light, or unseen threats, and how singin or silence affects herd movement.
A Polytechnic Institute student builds a wooden tree house in a walnut tree on Mrs. W. T Lees's Flatbush lawn. A stairway encircles the trunk to a single chamber above, designed by the young resident who plans to sleep there when summer weather begins.
Seth Borden of Fall River, now wealthy, owns a renowned flower garden and extensive private aviary in Boston. His estate houses birds and flowers from around the world, recently importing seventy four valuable English songbirds to enrich the collection.
A pair of Dartmouth freshmen, Lees and Vail Applegate, built a treehouse nicknamed the crow's nest, later adding a piazza and glass panels for open air sleeping. They plan to sleep al fresco in warm weather as birds and canaries fill Mr. Borden's famed estate, famed for its vast aviary gardens and orchids.
Two sisters calling themselves bachelor girls argued over bed widths in a large department store. One insisted on a bed three feet six inches wide while the other demanded forty two inches. They refused to compromise, rejected matching options, and walked out after the salesman suggested the common widths.
An 1880s moralizing note extols cold shower exercise nude as invigorating and healthful. It advocates routines before dressing, praising skin stimulation and freedom of movement. A separate verse passage humorously references Daniel, Noah, and constitutional ideas, with an attribution line to McLandburch Wilson in New York Sum.
The article compiles quirky items from Kansas towns: a train bulletin board note, a man treated for colic caused by pickled pig feet, W L Brown studying for ministry, a Salina veteran’s leg break, and various party line remarks about Secretary Long and Senator La Follette. It also mentions an Ellinwood thirst parlor plan, a Wakefield editor’s injury, and lively quotes on Kansas views.
The New York Telegram notes the long friendship between Senators Nelson of Minnesota and Stephenson of Wisconsin. They began in the Wisconsin assembly forty years ago, later served in the U S Congress, and were finally united in the Senate when Stephenson joined Nelson forty years after their first meeting.
A woman in a hat with purple geraniums talks with her companion about visiting a doctor. She jokes that she is healthy yet observes patients venting loud complaints, noting how amusing or foolish others sound while waiting. She vows not to talk loudly when she finally goes in.
A 300 year old custom in a secluded parish near Chudleigh sees the rector and church warden place coins on a tomb in the churchyard. Recipients approach the opposite end of the tomb to collect the alms in a silent, orderly ritual.
A collage of Missouri notes covers campaign hustling in Tarkio and Franklin County, humor about hats and trousers, a fatal gander attack near Wright City, a proposed Excelsior Springs watering trough, and curious city life quips from Nodaway and Columbia papers.
The passage contemplates being banished to isolated isles and seas of light, describing a journey from uncharted darkness to a return into vast night. It references divine mystery and the limits of human sight within a May Century publication context.
A collage of humorous lines and brief items references Shakespeare Samuel Johnson and King Solomon plus notes on Laporte Indiana exhumations and Kansas City rain. It alternates jokes on journalists clergymen and public figures with brief anecdotes including a detective, a porter in New York, and a piano ad.
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