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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1896
Page
3
A Chicago Times-Herald note quotes an elderly man and a boy discussing how habit governs behavior. The elder asserts that everything depends on habit, while the boy agrees and explains his own reluctance to change routines like waking early and work habits.
In an Allerheny room two young maidens struggled to converse until one joked My feet are bigger than yours. The exchange broke the ice, as reported by the Pittsburg Chronicle.
Advertisement touts Byrup of Figs as pleasant remedy for kidneys and liver and fever relief. Sold in 60 cent and 1 dollar bottles by leading druggists. California Syrup Company claims patents and quality. Interleaved, unrelated text includes a humorous Newlywed dialogue fragment about choosing a wish.
The piece highlights mining camps in Cripple Creek Cole and Mercur Utah and regions in Wyoming Idaho and Mt reached via The Overland Route. Includes a dubious ad style inquiry for information from a fictitious agent and ends with an 1886 sworn statement and advertisement for Hall's Catarrh Cure by I J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio.
Excerpted chatter on engagements and travel news mentions Miss Bellefield How and Willie Vun camio with the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul railway pushing a through car service from Grand Central to St Paul Union Station. George H Herfford and H Veitch advertise rail tickets and routes to Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis, Ottumwa, Cedar Rapids.
A weathered bellringer Micheleh toils in a moonlit Russian village tower on Easter Eve. He recalls sorrow and loss, then rings with a joy that lifts the church and graveyard below as the Easter service begins and a sense of divine justice and renewal fills the old man.
Fragmentary list identifies alloy formulas including British Britannia ware from copper with bismuth and antimony, standard and white copper from copper with zinc or tin, standard gold from gold with copper, solder from tin and lead, and various metals formed from copper, tin, lead, zinc, and antimony.
A fragmentary note highlights Cripple Creek Colorado as a booming gold district drawing hundreds of people. It mentions a direct Santa Fe route with Palmet sleepers and chair cars to the camp, and a ticket agent named Nicholson. The text also contains dietary reminiscences and social snatches about extravagance.
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