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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1900
Page
7
In a brisk mess scene officers banter about the advent of the Automobile contrasting it with military life. A cheerful officer jokes about today’s fare while a dyspeptic major imagines the impact if the automobile had arrived earlier.
A collage of humorous exchanges from several papers features a painter’s quarrel over supposedly applying paint, a profane parrot needing an interpreter, a minister blamed for buckshot in a plate, and quips about votes and drinking. The jokes mix regional dialects and daily-life mishaps with newspaper-brief wit.
A sweeping view of the Canadian West shows intense activity across Manitoba and the territories. Builders, farmers, and settlers expand towns and farms as railways reach Rockies to prairie. Winnipeg stands as a commercial hub with rising bank clearings and duties. over 12,000 US settlers arrived last year, signaling booming development and rising regional prospects.
Fragmented sale notice describes vast tracts in Tong and Khor Leet Pine and Cal Hands with prices per acre and totals in euros and local terms. Mentions vast acreage, hardwoods, and timber value, alongside cryptic location notes and a closing remark about humanity.
An eminent authority on cooking argues the potato is over rated and urges replacing it with cheaper palatable vegetables. He notes domestic use has become a superstition with many households forcing children to eat potatoes despite indifference to their taste.
A garbled trade page lists numerous patent medicines and tonics with high weekly salaries offered, advertising feet powders, sore throat cures, cough syrups, and other elixirs. It pretends endorsements from doctors and aims to lure readers with free samples and claims of cures.
A Nebraska contractor Carl T Roberts lauds Peruna medicine in a long testimonial. He claims his family used nineteen bottles saving $500 in doctors bills while reporting cures for croup pneumonia pleurisy stomach trouble and malarial liver issues. The letter cites endorsements from officials and citizens praising Peruna as the greatest medicine and household safeguard.
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