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Newspaper
Kansas City Sun
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1918
Page
6
Report from Avana Cuba describes a colossal 60 plus foot dinosaur like creature, possibly a diplodocid, emerging from the sea and rampaging across an island off Cuoha. Natives flee by boat as fences fall and crops are damaged. observers recall its glow eyed gaze and enormous teeth.
A prominent Methodist minister Dr Pinto Durham was robbed at gunpoint after returning from a state Sunday school convention in Traungham Alabama. The masked man demanded money but the minister offered to give most of his cash, keeping the larger five dollar bill, and the arrestee fled with the four one dollar bills. Durham, who later kept his word not to report the incident, avoided violence.
Governor Whitman at a National Union gathering in New York forgot his hat and tried to seize another. The derby owner yielded it after a light moment, while Whitman greeted Isidore Hershfield and resumed his address on war and Liberty.
The Kirghiz are divided into Kara Kirghiz upland dwellers and Kirghiz-Riders on the central Asiatic steppes. They are Turkic Mongoloid, about two million strong, with a nomadic, hospitable culture and rigid patriarchal bands. Their tents are white felt, richly furnished inside, and social life centers on hospitality, communal chatter, and horse kinship. Winters are brutal, seven months long with -50 to -60 F winds, while camels endure, and hunting with eagles sustains clothing needs.
On a Chicago winter party backdrop, Avis Kenmore quips about Agatha Kenmore’s thrift. Agatha, living with brother James and sister-in-law Avis, learns of Avis’s stingy pride and a plan to shop anew for Agatha. The sisters’ wardrobe clash leads to confession of Agatha’s past near-marriage to Professor Caldwell, now rekindled as a fiancé.
In Washington the yeoette uniform catches eyes but serves a vital role supporting Secretary Daniels. As a first class stenographer and office secretary, she frees sailors for sea service and strengthens the Navy’s war effort.
A man buys darning cotton and explains a four-man housekeeping scheme where each rents two rooms, has a designated task, and shares cooking and cleaning. He insists he will not marry for a home, preferring to stay with the friends, even as he acknowledges the lure of love. The scene ends with a cryptic tease about Indy’s reaction.
Kirk Miller, an angular man, questioned parcel post rates as bargain day began. At morning window he faced 90 cents, then 48, then 41 cents after several clerks weighed the same package. He finally agreed to mail it for 41 cents.
Two boys, Jimmy and Leo, steal a boss's dog using a company car in the early morning. They chase the animal through streets, yard, and a vestibule. A resident accuses them of theft before the boss arrives, revealing the dog belongs to Mrs on Sixteenth Street and that she alerted the office.
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