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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1908
Page
10
The Kansas City Star lists delivery options for morning evening and Sunday editions with prices for weekly and mail subscriptions. It notes prepaid advance payments, annual rates, and average paid circulations for Morning Evening Sunday and Weekly editions. Postage and single copy charges are specified by page count.
The piece critiques tariff revision politics in Congress led by Payne allies and the Ways and Means plan. It contrasts German expert study with U.S. partisan deadlock, calls for government expert support, and urges a fresh House with new leadership to push true tariff reform. It also notes Sen Long of Kansas and the Bristow race shaping the senatorial contest.
Kansas City mayor Cornell replies to a suit alleging overspending by the mayor and council. He says the administration is economical, cites faulty government structure, and acknowledges creeping debt while urging relief through a commission plan. He denies dishonesty and appeals to taxpayers to accept the new governance approach.
Rev. Charles Stelzle urged a broader democracy and a clear social message in Kansas City, calling for an end to child labor sweat shops and starvation wages. He questioned church alignment with Jesus’ Precepts and urged a prayerful examination of church roles in aiding workingmen.
The speaker argues 25 million dollars is a minor sum for major rail investments and terminals in Kansas City and questions delays in funding. He likens the cost to improving rail infrastructure to serving public and shareholder needs and criticizes alleged excuses for postponement. The passage also cites Speaker Cannon and ponders church and labor influence.
The winter council approval of a clean milk ordinance urged by Dr. W P Cutler and the City club aims to register and grade dairies to prevent adulteration and disease risk. It requires energetic enforcement as summer nears and safeguards are urgent.
The Bostock arena at Coney Island promises a feat as Blondin the elephant, eight years old, will bow on May 23 as the season opens. After a year of training he walks eight feet above the stage, spanning twenty feet in length, a remarkable act given his size and lack of natural safeguards.
A poetic meditation contrasts grand ancient and modern monuments with a child building pyramids and blocks. The speaker playfully questions enduring fame versus a child’s simple construction, referencing intruding global landmarks and a critic’s gaze.
A critique of congressional cowardice driven by special interests and fear of money in politics. The piece cites Speaker Cannon and Panama canal issues, praising Roosevelt and predicting voters will overturn “rabbits” in the coming elections.
A Boston Herald note praises a conductor on the surface cars for using the phrase please leave by the nearer door at Boylston street station. The writer, a prominent Bostonian, recalls observing conductor number 9173 and is left pleased by the courteous wording over the usual phrase.
The New York Times reports Oscar Hammerstein secured Martha Leland, Melba's protege, for a fall appearance at a Manhattan opera house. Leland, nearly 20, traveled from Australia with Melba to Paris and has studied under the prima donna for six months. Melba praises her pupil's voice and stage potential.
The Memphis Commercial Appeal recalls river travel and lavish banquets of the mid 1800s. An old bill of fare from the Eclipse in 1858 lists soups, roasts, fish, game, vegetables, pies, pastries, fruits, wines, and coffee detailing luxuries aboard a Mississippi steamer.
A New York World report notes composers of fleeting hits earn large yearly incomes from short lived songs while enduring ballads yield modest sums. Separately the New York Herald item discusses hotel diners favoring meat as nourishment, with remarks on cooking, rare meat, and the flavor of vintage hams and Virginia ham.
In a NY Press feature Beecher strolls an orchard and extols a blooming apple tree. He compares it to God’s munificence, contrasting it with oaks pines elms, and declares the apple tree speaks of abundance and purity despite its brief hour of glory.
A fragmentary notice from Puck hints at a mariner advertising for aid or passage after a shipwreck, mentioning a sail and possible distress signals amid unclear captions. Entities are sparse due to garbled OCR.
The Campensia maxima, a tropical vine with white petals edged in gold, flowers for the first time in the United States. It grows atop tropical African trees, blooms in large hothouses, and may flower more in the U S due to warmer summers.
A Harper's Weekly caption features a judge quipping about a rogue exchange where an officer alleges a man called him a lobster and the judge notes the officer pinched him in response.
A collection of clipped items and quips from Kansas papers, noting editorials on disappearances, politics, and railroading. Jokes about tax officials, court talks, and renown editors appear amid remarks on Democrats, college names, garden seeds, and the precarious rail industry in Atchison and Garden City.
Washington reports T N Cook collector of revenues Panama Canal zone says eighteen months to reach home stretch. Goethals praised for leadership. goal is seven years but likely shorter. Kingston fire tale closes with a Canadian ruse about numbering a street.
The column surveys Missouri happenings from Trenton to Excelsior Springs with fraternal gatherings, a Rolla hog ordinance critique, a two minute convention session, political digs at Bryan, Folk and Stone, a prank gone wrong with a telephone joke, a tobacco lease near Forest Green, mining water woes, and Excelsior Springs hailed as a medical spring hub dubbed the Saratoga of the West.
A poem fragment depicts fishing boats under blood-red waves with sails lifted. Nets half-filled, fishers watch a purple cloud as ships head home, while a blazing rocket lights the night and boats gather at the deep sea’s yield.
In a mosaic of 1910s political quips and local color, Cicero cites prudence over folly while notes on Missouri resource concerns, Appalachian forest lobbying, Cleveland street riots, and a cane harvester patent mingle with social scenes. Benbow City, Ill. is highlighted as a wettest and wealthiest town due to a refinery, licenses, and saloons. A Rome Messaggero dispute on music yields anecdotes about Rossini and a Carnegie Hall encounter with a German visitor during a racetrack gambling address.
Advert explains piano rental options at Jenkins 1018 Walnut with monthly rates of 3.69, 4.00, and 3.08 dollars. Notes light local talk about cattle rustling and headlines on "monkey" blamed news.
The Jenkins plan offers a single bedrock price with no commissions, backed by decades of piano expertise. They promise top standards, back every instrument, and invite customers to see a line including Steinway and other brands, with contact through Walnut Street, Kansas City, Missouri.
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