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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1908
Page
8
A dialog at a fishing tackle shop shows a young man in baggy trousers pressing the salesman for gear to become a real angler. The exchange hints at an era shift as lures and hooks shape sport fishing and the experience frightens wary trout.
A salesman showcases wooden minnow lures and metal baits among rods and fishing tackle. The visitor jokes that fishing is worse than the car craze, noting a painted wood lure with propellers and hooks, describing it as a bass lure with wide reach.
Montana’s gift from its mines becomes a silver service for the armored cruiser named for the state. Governor Toole leads a committee to present the display as the ship prepares for commission, highlighting Montana’s mining legacy and naval honor.
In Los Angeles at the county hospital Mrs Beulah Hawkins again opened her eyes for a moment but did not see. Doctors and psychologists believe she will never awaken, continuing a long mysterious slumber that began fifty eight days ago.
A man shows a casé of shiny aluminum and hooks calling them revolutionary fishing gear with whirlwinds and props. The passage shifts to medical notes about Mrs. Hawkins in a coma, with doctors saying awakening is unlikely and death may occur if she remains unconscious.
A salesman showcases rubber fishing lures that imitate real worms and creatures. He claims rubber crawfish, frogs, minnows, insects, and more swim to attract fish and outlast traditional gear, promising durable, affordable options from ten cents up.
A humorous catalog of fishing tackle costs outlines a full sport outfit priced around 345 dollars or more. It lists rods reels spoons lines gloves minnow gear and a leather tackle box along with miscellaneous items like buck tail and flies. The text notes many readers will stay in the amateur class.
The public school meet program for the playground fund on Friday night May 15 runs long with many events. Judges may reduce entries to avoid crowding as the arena fills with boys and girls from local schools in heats and finals across sprint, distance, jumping and relay events.
Story traces the Wyckliffe brothers in old Indian territory, their clashes with federal marshals, pursuit across Cherokee lands, and a killing that may have ended one of Oklahoma’s most infamous feuds. It notes bloodhounds, a 1906 ambush that killed Deputy Gilstrap, and newspaper interviews that exposed the outlaws.
In Cowley county speculation swirls about Colonel W. P. Hackney running for state senator from the Twenty seventh district. A fiery orator, he supports Senator Long and opposes Stubbs. If entered, Hackney plans a schoolhouse campaign that could trigger strong battles. W C Robinson is also a candidate backed by the Ed Greer faction, while Stubbs may nominate W L Cunningham.
Arthur J. Tubbs of St. Louis announces his bid for lieutenant governorship on the Democratic ticket. He says friends urged him to run and that he supports reform and law enforcement under Governor Folk, including a referendum on the prohibitory constitutional amendment.
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