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May 21, 2025 ~ SEES "SPUDS" WITH CANTALOUPE FLAVOR.

May 21, 2025

SEES "SPUDS" WITH CANTALOUPE FLAVOR.

Speaker Before Horticultural Society Predicts Other "Wonders.".

The day is coming soon when potatoes dug from the ground will taste like cantaloupes; grapefruit will be plucked from trees like cherries and the Sahara desert will bloom like a rose garden. Such at least was the prediction made by Howard Dean, professor of chemistry at Park college, Parkville, Mo., speaking before the Missouri Valley Horticultural society yesterday on the lawn of the home of L. A. Goodman, Fortieth street and Warwick avenue.

Professor Dean said he already had succeeded in reducing the starch of a potato to sugar through chemical treatment. He asserted that be feeding certain plants on formaldehyde they can be made to develop sugar and starch.

He said that investigations now being made by chemists show that plants manufacture compounds that are not normal to them. These investigations, he said, are being continued and chemists are diligently searching the leaves of plants in an attempt to find the agent which converts the carbon dioxide in the air and the moisture into plant products.

when that secret is discovered -- and of its early discovery he is confident -- he said we would possess an unlimited source of energy. The point he brought out was that the possession of that secret would enable man to convert the sun's energy to his own use in any way he desires.

Then it would be possible, he asserted, to fill the Sahara desert with plant life; to grow any plant so that it would taste exactly as its grower wished. He also said, in answer to a question, that it would be possible to raise grapefruit with the bitterness removed. Fruits, he added, could be raised so they would taste just as the grower desired.

Dr. J. C. Whitten of the State university at Columbia, Mo., spoke on the spraying of trees. He declared that spraying is absolutely essential to successful orcharding and explained the best methods of spraying.

Other speakers were Miss Florence H. Russell of Kansas City who told of a visit to Luther Burbank, and Arthur H. Helder, a landscape architect of Kansas City. Prior to the meeting a luncheon was served on Mr.r Goodman's lawn

April 27, 2025 ~ CITY TO GET COSTLY COLLECTION OF ART.

April 27, 2025

CITY TO GET COSTLY COLLECTION OF ART.

Mrs. W. B. Thayer Tells of Intention to Form Museum Nucleus.

Pending the selection of an adequate fireproof storeroom or exhibition room for her valuable art collection, Mrs. W. B. Thayer has announced that it will be given to Kansas City, as a nucleus for an art museum to the contemplated Mary Adkins institute. For the present it will be considered a gift to the Fine Arts Institute, and has been accepted by President Samuel Moore. A meeting will be held by the directors within the next week to select a proper place of storage.

The collection is valued somewhere between $75,000 and $100,000 and includes paintings, textiles, potteries, precious art novelties of all sorts, prints, basketry and bits of sculpture.

"In a recent trip to San Francisco I tried to find some more to add to my collection," said Mrs. Thayer, "but anything on par with mine were absolutely prohibitive in price. There are articles especially, in the textile line in what I have assembled, that cannot be duplicated elsewhere. And such collections are steadily going up in value. All museums are attempting to assemble collections, especially private collections of them. I want mine to stay here in Kansas City."

Mrs. Thayer is planning a display of her fine collection of textiles in her residence, 4600 Warwick boulevard, next week, beginning Tuesday. The hours will be from 3 till 5 o'clock each day for the week, with a small admission fee charge.

Mrs. Thayer has just returned from Guatemala, where she "picked up" the best samples of embroidery and lace in ecclesiastic vestments. One robe, dating from the fifteenth century, was the property of a cardinal of the ancient Italian family, the Sagredo branch, well known in Venetian history. The reverend gentleman, who wore the robe, was cardinal of the Apostolic church in Venice. She also obtained the elaborate christening robe of a Spanish duke. One point lace robe to be shown is worth $2,500, and some Coptic embroideries she bought in Cairo, Egypt, and Constantinople are priceless. her list of quaint old samplers is also interesting.

April 18, 2025

THOUGHT BURGLARS IN HOUSE.

Servant Girl at Mrs. A. R. Meyer's

Home Causes a Fire Alarm.

All because the domestic in the home of Mrs. August R. Meyer, Forty-fourth street and Warwick avenue, thought there were burglars in the house, and commenced calling loudly for help and crawling out of windows, a fire alarm was turned in by a neighbor who supposed the house to be in flames. The department responded with the usual alacity, placed a ladder against the building and extracted a servant girl from vines on the roof, where she had become entangled in her efforts to escape.

After a reasonable length of time the absence of the supposed burglar was clearly established to the satisfaction of the domestics, who returned to bed. The fire department smiled and drove back to the station.