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Newspaper
Mansfield Mirror
Location
Mansfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1913
Page
8
A timeworn tale from a small town follows Miss Tone who longs for romance by a brook. She finds a Western Union colonel ad with a plan, exchanges letters, and imagines a marriage. The twist reveals the colonel is a sham, and a cook helps a soldier named Tom Rogers who seeks her instead. Tone learns a bittersweet lesson about illusion and romance.
A vintage theater tale recalls Minnie Maddern as Miss Fiske and rival admirers David Belasco and Charles Frohman. Both men dash from a Park Theatre show with dates, Belasco buying a cabbage-shaped bouquet and Frohman hiding a left arm ailment as they plot to woo the star.
Missouri lawmakers examine a minimum wage bill creating a three member commission earning 2500 dollars yearly to investigate women workers by factory and store. A wage board may set wages if two thirds recommend. Other measures create a state warehouse commissioner and rework utilities and railway commissions. A road bond plan ties funding to surface area. The Gardiner telephone rate bill sets progressive charges. The Hull House motor car bill and two sentencing fines pass or are debated.
President Pro Tem Wilson appointed Senator Hawkins of Punkin Senator Casey of Kansas City and Senator Gardner of St Louis county to a special committee to study convict labor at the penitentiary and report by February 20. Senator Ford backs adoption of the Torrens system for recording deeds. Senator White seeks to create all incorporated cities as special road districts with his bill.
Senate actions include bills on state inspectors and coal oil laws, appoints new clerks in the motor car and hotel inspector offices, and broadens deputy inspector salaries. Other items cover rail travel restraints, capital building oversight, provisional divorces, and a broadened nine hour labor law for women with Kinney’s oleomargarine coloring prohibition.
Senator White introduces a bill mandating marriages be solemnized in the county or city where the license is issued and requiring officiants to report the ceremony within ten days. A committee of senators including Allee Whitledge Cates Cassidy Brogan Feaster and Welch is appointed to prepare memorial services for the late Senator Thomas K. Kinney of St. Louis.
Missouri fairs join a meeting in Mexico to plan racing circuits through North Missouri and address county fair legislation. Two circuits were organized the Short-Ship Cleceult and Grand Western Circuit with named officers and announced dates from July to August in multiple towns. Also the Missouri Park Bureau was formed with McComas president and Jackson secretary. In Nevada, Mrs Stockard gives Cottey College to a trustee board valued at about $200000. trustees plan an endowment while she remains president during life.
A commercial club in Linn Creek launched a movement to build a rock road to Lebanon. Col R J Scout elected president Asa Farmer secretary J M Vincent treasurer. Conference with Lebanon merchants planned to work out roadway details. The 33 mile highway will include auto truck service.
Washington reports that the sixteenth amendment has been ratified to allow direct taxes on incomes. Delaware Wyoming and New Mexico have endorsed the amendment, bringing approvals to thirty eight states, two beyond the three fourths required. Congress expects a tax law to be drafted after the extra session opens, likely exempting incomes under four to five thousand dollars and imposing about one percent on most personal incomes.
In Kansas City two women Mrs. David Hopking of Denver and Miss Mary Kitchen of Pawnee Okla burned themselves to death by setting fire to their bed clothing in room at Dr Grover Burnett’s sanitarium on Thirty first street and Euelid avenue. Doctors Royer and nurse Miss Elston found smoke as they arrived around 430 am and discovered the bed had been moved to block the door. Mrs Hopkins was dead and Miss Kitchen dying.
In Dunkirk a farmer found the body of Sam Reed of Pittsburg, an interpreter for the Republican Socialist hearings in Girard, shot six times. The murder occurred at night, Reed seen leaving a dance around midnight. Snow hid tracks and the killer. an inquest is expected in the morning.
Armed followers of General Zapata attacked a passenger train from the City of Mexico to Ozumba forty five miles south of the capital. Twenty soldiers in the escort were killed or wounded. Four men and many women passengers were killed or captured by the attackers.
Representative Garner of Texas filed a resolution ordering AG Wickersham to provide Congress with official correspondence about his stay of warrants issued by the Texas federal court against Henry C. Folger W. C. Tenagle and John J D Archbold. The measure was referred to the judiciary committee.
A massive blaze swept through an old six story brick structure in Kansas City’s West Bottoms, a remodeling project for the Kansas City Wholesale Grocery Company. Estimated total losses to the grocery firm and nearby firms exceed $128,000.
In Tulsa a meeting of oil producers opposed a regulation limiting holdings to 25,000 acres in Osage territory out of 780,000 acres set for lease, arguing against the clause in the Osage case rules.
A diplomatic indiscretion reveals a protocol recently signed in London between Rumania and Fulgaria near Bucharest. The document details a formal agreement affecting regional relations and potential future cooperation between the two nations.
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