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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1908
Page
7
A visitor brings a broken umbrella to a dealer for sentimental repair excuses. The dealer retorts, and offers to fix a rib for twenty three cents. The man leaves in a huff as the shop displays many umbrella parts. The dealer quips that the customer shared sentimental reasons too.
A dealer and customers debate whether an umbrella left ten years in a damp cellar is sentimental or worthless. A broken rib joke sparks a shopper’s tale of daily use and mishaps while two buyers appraise a four dollar umbrella with a twenty five cent repair.
Police court session this morning heard the vagrancy charge against George Horter. Charles Winters, an electrical engineer from the Philippine Islands, testified Horter and an accomplice choked and robbed him of 14 dollars last night and identified Horter. The other man escaped. Judge Kyle warned Horter that a criminal court charge could bring penitentiary time and suggested a $500 bond.
A playful note from the New York Sun about Mary’s hat changing from tiny to large in a humorous evolution imagined as a poem.
A widow urges fair taxation and women’s suffrage arguing taxes on mortgages and personal property are misapplied. She questions why educated women with dependents pay taxes while lacking voting rights and calls for equal assessment, protection by law, and civic education for girls and boys.
The Presbyterians United States general assembly plans to ask car owners to lend their vehicles on Saturday May 23 to transport about 1000 delegates around the boulevard system. A circular letter will request participation as the ten day session begins May 21.
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