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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1908
Page
4
Joplin Missouri readies for over 1000 bankers for the Missouri Bankers association session May 20–21. Headquarters at the Connor hotel, events at the Shubert theater, with speakers from Doniphan Carthage St Louis and Philadelphia.
In Leavenworth Kansas on May 16 three senior officers Lieut Colonel Nichols Lieut Colonel Taylor and Major Millar were ordered to Fort Des Moines to sit on a general court martial for an officer. The court consists of two colonels four lieutenant colonels six majors and a senior captain. No specifics of the case are disclosed. Ex Mayor Neff to Speak at Hyde Park M E Church Tomorrow Night on his novels in the Panama Canal Zone and Cuba.
Electric park opens at 10 am with improvements and fresh decorations, featuring the Band Annu and the Banda Rossa from New York. Concessions include The Tickler and skating rink, with a brass band for skaters. 30,000 square feet of floor space.
Meyer Wechsler, the peace commissioner and market master, ordered stall keepers at the city market to keep to their line and not crowd onto the sidewalk. The move curbed surreptitious pushing and led to improved stalls, though Italian protests arose. Wechsler warned that crossing the line would mean paying extra rent, resolving the dispute over space and enclosure.
Mrs James Clear aged 40 lies dying after her husband James Clear aged with a cut throat in jail following an attempted murder and his botched suicide attempt. He told guards he meant to die and take her with him.
In the last week residents of Fairmount park cottages held a fishing contest. Mrs Miles Zimmerman, an expert fly angler, won first honors by catching twenty five bass and crappie weighing three quarters to a pound and a half in an hour and a half. ert Young, park manager, won the cellar championship with one crappie and two bites.
Two unknown men smashed a large plate glass window at a Pittsburg hat shop about 6 this morning and stole eighty one dollar bills from eighty hats on display. Several witnesses saw the robbery but the pair fled before police were summoned.
A New York Times backed double trans continental endurance race proposal gains strong backing from motor car manufacturers. The route would run from New York to San Francisco and back with start likely near Times Square around August 15. A committee led by Jefferson Dement Thompson, A. R. Pardington, and Robert Lee Morrell will draft the contest terms for a second meeting.
The senate approved a memorial appropriation of 50 000 dollars for the Lincoln birth site in Kentucky Wasumotoy May 16. The bill dedicates the farm where Abraham Lincoln was born for a commemorative memorial.
A broad sampling of testimonials from Mrs. Nolan to Mrs. Lofton extols Peruna. They claim relief from throat trouble systemic catarrh and stomach issues and praise Dr Hartman and Peruna tablets. The letters emphasize family use and preventive benefits across households in Kansas Iowa and Kentucky.
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