Corner battle looms over July corn on Chicago Board of Trade
Traders Patten and Armour prepare for a head to head struggle in July corn as they both seek cash corn for July delivery. The big deal closed Friday shifts attention to the market’s next move with expectations of wild scenes anew on the board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Patis
Board of “Tach
Chicago Board of Trade
Gence Nin Cpios
T Patten
Armour
Patten
Jully
Maud Allan to New York amid Salome dance offer
Irish tenor Joseph O'Mara has signed a five year US contract to star in a Irish musical comedy Peggy Mahree. Maud Allan the Canadian dancer weighs a Klaw and Erlanger offer to headline in New York after the Presidential election in a play built around her Salome routine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Klaw & Erlanger
New York
Salonie
How the Plan Spreads Across Cities Under Commission Rule
The Galveston origin commission plan gives five department heads near total control, abolishes ward lines, and requires citywide voter approval. Reports from Galveston, Houston, El Paso, Fort Worth, Dallas, and Des Moines show rapid debt reduction, improved services, and centralized administration since adoption between 1901 and 1908.
City Commission Plan Improves Leavenworth Finances and Growth
Leavenworth Kansas adopts a city commission plan since 1908, now in effect with streamlined accounts streets cleaned and municipal affairs run efficiently. Contractors claim annual savings of about $60 000 and a revival in business and real estate. In Chelsea Massachusetts a ten year city commission plan is enacted to centralize authority after a recent fire, with a vote to revert later.
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Galveston
Commission
Harmony
el Paso
Telewires
Des Moines
Leavenworth
Kansas Commission
Boston
Chelsea
Massachusetts
Winners named in school essay contest prizes
The judges of the science temperance essay contest awarded prizes to students from Central High Westport High and Sevix ta Grade wards schools. Prizes include $10 from Missouri Savings Bank to Edna Oakley and awards to Hazel Kirk Harries Jeanie Whitney and others for essays on abstinence and the harmful effects of alcohol. Awards will be distributed at Central High next Saturday and the open session Friday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scientific Temperance Department
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Central High School
P Meggo
Ernest Elliott
Aline Matlock
Charles James
Avis Waddell
Vernon Penny
Clement Clark
E. Harriett Howe
Mia
Laila Kidd
B. F. Simpson
Westport High School
George B. Peck
Hazel Kirk Harries
Ace
Jeanie M. Whitney
Margaret N. Jackson
Mark B. Hada
B. F. Stelter
G Fox
Mise
Anna D. White
WARD
Lelietta Danson
Humboldt Echeo
Henrietta Stevenson
Humboldt School
George Matteson
Janes Tivol
Hamilton
Ruth Lewin
Humboldt
Mackl Swinney
Peter Reuben
Anna Anderson
Duel Blevins
Manchester
Russell Black
Read Johns
Ashland
Mary Maddox
Earl Kelly
McCuy
Omas Phelan
Amerita Wesley
Kensington
Prise
Rachel Bryant
Samuel Bryant
Phillips School
O'R Miller
Breeve Davis
Imention
Lacile Murdock
Wilfred Bibbs
Sadie Allen
Emma Lee
Mamie Davis
Amanda Payne
Phillips
University of Kansas
University
Mathewson Wins Rocky Mountain Endurance Race
Mathewson won the Rocky Mountain stock car endurance event on the Sand Creek course north of Denves, completing 32 miles in 8 hours 25 minutes 58 seconds. A. B. Clow finished second and Albert DeGaston third after finishing two laps behind.
Final Appeal to Voters on Commission Government
A speech argues that adopting commission government will improve Leavenworth's city governance Absent reform the rottenness of municipalities continues The speaker notes the need for officials elected by residents and accountable to all wards Henry C Kn ipe recalls business leaders urging turnout for the polls with stores closing to ensure civic participation
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Leavenworth
Lazarus
Mr. Lambert
Henry C. Knipe
Commission plan praised at Kansas City air meeting
E S McAnany a former city counselor urged adoption of the commission form noting it can bypass a hostile minority on the council. He cited a 1902 street railway franchise vote and said referendum provisions prevent bad actions by city leaders.
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Commission
Galveston
Star
E. S. McAnany
Kansas City
Kas
Huron Park
McAnany
W. W. Rose
Rose
Mr. McAnany
Mr. Rose
P. Lambert
Leavenworth
W. B. Sutton
F. B. Dawes
Elks to stage repeat minstrel for boys camp fund
The Elks plan a repeat minstrel show at Willis Wood theater on June 10 to raise funds for the fresh air camp on Indian Creek. Arthur Jelly told a matinee the $2,000 needed for June 15 to September 1 must come from this performance, with new jokes and no cast changes. Percy Lorie entertained as imitator amid audience gibes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indian Creek
Elks
Willis Wood
Arthur Jelly
Kansas City
Percy Lorie
Mr. Lorie
People's Party Blocked From State Ballot
Jervenson City May 30 The Secretary of State refuses to file the People's party state ticket for the August primary. Swanger says the party did not cast one percent of the state vote in the last presidential election as required by the new primary law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jervenson City
People's Party
John E. Swanger
Ninth Street Car Jumped Track Blocks TrafficAt Midnight
A westbound Twelfth street car No. 258 derailed at the Ninth and Spruce street switch, blocking traffic for over 30 minutes. Park crowds walked home while riders headed to Independence avenue cars. no injuries were reported.
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Fairmount Park
Twelfth Street
Ninth and
Spruce Streets
Independence Avenue
Elm Ridge Golf Scores Reported Winners
W O Nevill won the eighteen hole handicap at Elm Ridge club yesterday morning. F M Britton and J A Kendall finished second and third. D M F Weeks topped the morning driving contest with A D Birdsall and E R Gentry following. The overseas driving contest saw F Gee win with second and third places for Kaeens Baby Drowns to Barrel Tatmace KAs May 30 The two year old son of William Pease fell into a water barrel today and was dead when discovered.
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Elm Ridge
W. O. Nevill
Elm Ridge Club
F. M. Britton
J. A. Kendall
D. M. F. Weeks
A. D. Birdsall
E. R. Gentry
F. G.ee
F. M. Thir
Kaeens
Tatmace
Kas
William Pease
Great social match maker dead in New York society obituary
Mrs. R T Wilson, famed matriarch whose five children married into wealth and power, dies after long illness. Her daughters wed Ogden Goelet, Caroline Astor, Michael Henry Herbert, and Cornelius Vanderbilt, while her son Richard T Wilson Jr linked with Boston elites. Wilson rose from poverty to prominence with husband in New York since the 1870s.
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Melissa Johnson
Georgia
South
New York
Fifth Avenue
Wilsons
Wilson
Nashville
Mary
Ogden Goelet
Marshall Orme Wilson
Caroline Astor
William Astor
Michael Henry Herbert
Grace Wilson
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt
Richard T. Wilson, Jr
Boston
Marion Mason
Rollins Morse
Woman Escapes City Prison After Liniment Suicide Attempt
Luella Porter, a Black woman, attempted suicide by drinking liniment to escape city prison. She was taken to the general hospital after the morning incident, but was missing from her ward when Dr. Ralph Shiras checked around 8 PM. police have not located her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luella Porter
General Hospital
Ralph Shiras
Luella
Danish King and Press Face Court News Boycott
King Frederick of Denmark and the Danish press are at a deadlock over full reporting of court affairs. The journalists' institute plans a meeting with the king upon his return from the south to demand restoration of old rights. If refused, Copenhagen papers may boycott coverage of the Swedish king's forthcoming visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corennacen
Frederick
Denmark
Christian
Institute of Journalists
Copenhagen
Sweden
Texas Volunteers Win Pension After Fifty Three Years
Washington May 30 The surviving officers and enlisted men of the Texas volunteers won their long fight for pensions as the House passed the Senate bill providing for it. The men served defending Texas frontier against Mexican marauders and Indian depredations from 1855 to 1860.
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Washtington
Congress
Texas Volunteers
House
Senate
Texas
Movements of Ocean Steamers Arrived and Sailed
A list of vessels arriving at and sailing from various ports includes Barbarossa from New York to Cherbourg and Bremen, Canopic from Boston via Ponta del Carlton and Moji, Etruria from New York to Liv, Kherson from New York to Libau, Victorian from Montreal to Liverpool, Campania from Liverpool to New York, and others heading to Southampton Glasgow Naples Marseilles Antwerp Genoa Bordeaux Dunkirk and more.
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Plymouth
New York
Cherbourg
Bremen
Canopic
Naples
Boston
Ponta del Carlton
Moji
San Francisco
Victoria
B. C. Etruria
Queenstown
Liv J. Kherson
Libau
Victorian
Liverpool
Montreal
Quebec
Campania
Caledonia
Glasgow
Peru
Marseilles
Graf Waldersee
Hamburg
Minnehaha
London
Kroonland
Antwe
Carmania
Koenigen Luise
Genoa
Louisiane
Bordeaux
Dunkirk
Southampton
Louisiana
Stettin
Chicago
Havre
Lorraine
New Y
Minneton
Furnessia
Sicily
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J. Ogden Armour
Maud Allan
Salome
Joseph O'Mara
Houston
Fort Worth
Leman
Elec- Sar We Workers’ Union
Dallas— Commission
Louise Brown
Hamilton School
Frances Harbordt
Irving Scheel
Fordarner
Earnest Cooper
Carl Kleeman
Emma Kleeman
Clara Atthews
Jacksonon Gillies
Effie Renne
Helen Butler
Anata W Willeepee Graceees
Hamijos Uglas
Bie Juncan
Maneee Oie
Pearl Maniey
Dora bin' Mechee
Spite Fire
Bae Cing
Pearl Wilellie
Margaret Thomas
Rearet Griff
Irving
Edward Hopkins
Jackson
Margaret Shackelford
Helen Sloan
Marjorie Spilman
Longfellow
Elwyn Schrack
Bertha Donneyer
Grace Pettit
Mary Redmond
Alexares Humbledt
Robert Zimmerman
Hasel Roberton
Hamilton ‘School
Alvan Zimmerman
Leon Fox
Vida Laskey
Mary Bell Jobling
Dorothene
Eva Loudon
Glen Clarence Anderson
Frazer Pusher
Kis Goodman
Lucille Corbett
McCoy
Ruth Paul
Irene Williams
Oli Thacher
Annie Frieschi
Mar Coy
John Barnes
Frances Oscar Guffy
Almeda Ernie
Wabater Miller
George Walker
Huadt
Weeny
Subject
van Harrison
Kensington School
Vierbert Koch
Chace
Cristelle Shugart
Pearl Downs
Edward Grumich
Maudeen Humboldt
Mary Frances House
Oscar Mueller
Jessie Carmen Mills
Mary Frances Sudduth
Ardean Money
Mnabeeetas Au Cooper
Gladys Black
Irene Schepp
Bessie Goodman
Cena Muschietty
Irginia Swain
Harry Someens
Cora Moore
Sc Ward
Luis Martin
Irving School
Esther Samuelson
Clara Viner
Bessie Works
Ans
Laurel Willie Smyth
Pearl On
E. 8. McAnany
Elka
Secretary of State
The
Davenport
Verona
Grand Avenue
R.T. Wilson
King and Press IN
Quarred
Philadelphia
Sun
A. T. Barnett
Der
Main Street
Taylor
Ned
Lawrence, Kansas
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