Paris Gown Worn by Bertha Carlisle in Chicago Debut
Miss Bertha Carlisle, of the Joe Weber company, wears the directoire gown in State Street drawing attention from shoppers. Chicago society women react with disapproval while police are unlikely to intervene. A Chicago social leader says the new costume will soon be worn again.
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Chicago
Directoire
Bertha Carlisle
Joe Weber Company
State Street
Paris
London
Jas. S. Kirk & Co
N. Water Street
Isiiely Tokes Siler
Missing Coast Artillery Captain McAlister At Presidio
San Francisco May 21 Captain Samuel D McAlister of the Thirty Eighth Company Coast Artillery has disappeared from his Presidio station. Police and detectives search in vain as fellow officers comb the city. He is described as a popular efficient officer who may be in a temporary mental lapse rather than foul play and his wife cites possible temporary insanity.
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San Francisco
Samuel D. McAlister
Thirty-eighth Company of Coast Artillery
the Presidio
McAlister
Presidio
Deserter David Sentenced to Fifteen Years
San Francisco May 21. Fifteen years imprisonment in the U S military prison is the fate of Deserter David as he faced a court martial for abandoning duty and desertion. The case details a soldier who made a business of running away.
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San Francisco
United States Military Prison
David
A. T. Barnett
Main
Taylor's
Directoire fashion gains Chicago chatter among social leaders
Mrs. La Verne Noyes confirms Paris imported directoire gowns worn by Chicago society figures including Miss Carlisle. She notes many have ordered the style despite debate over its extremes, predicting future directoire gowns with tighter skirts but more modest seams. The report also covers Army deserter Sheehan, detailing his multiple enlistments and desertions across camps and times.
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Paris
Miss Carlisle
la Verne Noyes
Chicago
Mrs. Noyes
Charley's Aunt revived by Woodward Stock at Auditorium
Farce Charley's Aunt to be revived next week by the Woodward Stock company at the Auditorium. This week Salomy Jane draws capacity crowds. The Denver Express will return to the Gilliss theater next week.
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Woodward Stock Company
Salomy Jane
The
Denver Express
Gilliss
Kansas Knights of Pythias elect officers and drill results
The Kansas Knights of Pythias annual convention elected E. P. Ireland of Coffeyville as Colonel of the Second Regiment and Captain F. Brown of Kansas City as Second Battalion Captain. In the drill, Uniform Bank Girard took first in efficiency with Wichita second, Pitts third, and Kansas City fourth. The Independence Fair Association received a fish consignment from the state fish commission for Independence Lake.
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Knights of Pythias of
Kansas
E. P. Ireland
Coffeyville
FE R Brown
Girard
Wichita
Pitts
Kansas City
Kas
Independence Lake
Independence Fair Association
State Fish Commission
Bishop J L Nuelsen, Kansas City origin, becomes Baltimore bishop
The Rev J L Nuelsen of Berea Ohio, raised in Kansas City, was elected bishop of the Methodist church in Baltimore yesterday. He came from Germany in 1885, attended Central Wesleyan college, Warrenton Missouri, graduated 1888, and helped form the Indiana Avenue German Methodist church with Carl Skaer on Nineteenth Street. He later moved to Sedalia to pastor a German Methodist church.
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J. L. Nuelsen
Berea
Baltimore
Kansas City
Germany
Central Wesleyan College
Warrenton
Nielsen
Sedalia
Canal Power Lights Chicago Transformation of Plants
Chicago plans convert steam plants into transformer stations to distribute canal current for street lighting. In a month canal powered current will illuminate 5,203 city lights while 3,171 lights shift from city plants to canal distribution. The city will purchase canal horsepower at fifteen dollars and open transforming stations feeding from canal wires.
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Chicago
Negro Preacher Turned Away at Iowa Hotels
Rev. A. L. DeMood, a Congregational preacher from Buxton, was refused lodging at all hotels in Waterloo on arrival for a conference. He walked the streets overnight and was later cared for by a local committee. Damages suits may follow the discrimination.
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Warerloo
A. L. DeMood
Buxton
Railroads Face Higher Taxes On Full Property Valuation
Wyandotte county officials and railroad representatives clash over the new tax law that shifts levy to full valuation. Joseph Hoffman presents figures showing railroad property values rising far less than required, citing Chicago Rock Island Pacific and Union Pacific as examples while Home Telephone Co declines.
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Wyandotte County
Kansas State Tax Commission
Joseph Hoffman
Kansas
Hoffman
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company
Kaw River
Tekenane
Union Pacific
Union Pacific Railroad Company
State Board
Home Telephone Company
Kansas City
Walter Williams to Address Sons of Their Fathers
Walter Williams of Columbia Missouri will address the Sons of Their Fathers, members of the Commercial club, next Tuesday night. The talk centers on lineage and civic heritage within the business community.
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Walter Williama
Walter Williams
Columbia
Commercial Club
Missouri Pacific Official Clarke Visits St Louis
Charles S. Clarke vice president of the Missouri Pacific railway system arrives in St. Louis today, visiting the city as a Missouri Pacific official.
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Missouri Pacific
Charles S. Clarke
St. Louis
Missouri Pacific Railway System
City
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