Quips and reflections from a Kansas agitator
A collage of satirical quotes and social commentaries covers politics, religion, taxation ideas from North Dakota to Spain, and a bridge to Pacific life. It recalls General Vara del Rey’s funeral in Santiago, cross cultural notes from the Fawalion Islands, and President Dole on cosmopolitan society.
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Santiago
Vara del Rey
el Coney
Valderrama
Spain
Uo Bes
Woorf
oMcer
Marka
Wood
Star
Yara del Rey
Fawalion Islands
Dole
Socialife
The Making of a Daily Paper Revealed in Verse
A satirical verse by Richard F. Steele exposes the bustling press room and the machinery of news. It traces scribes and printers racing through streets and stacks of freshly printed sheets, revealing the paper’s creation from copy to final edition.
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Risryetunly
Hateee
Jones
Ithinn
Brown
Lerne
Central
The Coat of Labor and American Wages
The article argues wages Russia or Britain. It says U S wages can be high yet productivity is higher due to machinery and skilled workers. Cites Philadelphia iron piping to Glasgow, British and German comparisons, and Massachusetts wheels. Claims U S expands economy by better pay and better machinery without cutting artisan wages.
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Europe
Philadelphia
Glasgow
Jeans
British Iron Trade
America
Great Britain
Massachusetts
Germany
Tabor
Time to Act on United States Industrial Organization
A call to strengthen existing unions and establish them where absent. The speaker argues that reduced hours or higher pay fail in a declining market, urging collective action now to secure concessions from employers before the next downturn. Wages rise and hours shorten in railroads and big plants, but coal remains an exception.
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United States
A Fragment from a 1899 Newspaper Page
The snippet shows letters and notices including Lucinda B. Chandler of Chicago praising Porina in a January 6 1899 letter to doctors and associations. It also mentions Doe Gully curves near Cumberland and Martinsburg with rail improvements, California excursion ads for the Atchison Topeka Santa Fe line, and a description of the Wabash Fast Mail service plus consumer ads for Allen's Foot-Ease and various social commentary snippets from the era.
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Chicago
Lucinda B. Chandler
Doe Gully
Cumberland
Martinsburg
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
German Female Labor Rise Reported by Imperial Office
A Frankfort Gazette note cites the imperial office on rising German female employment in industry and home crafts, with 1896 census showing over one million women in industrial work and 140,840 married. It notes Young girls in instrument manufacturing, infant labor cuts since 1891 law, and concerns over child labor in Saxony’s weight stitch trade earning about 24 cents hourly.
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Chi Aber
State Department
Sternrt Bamberg
Imperial Office
Wtitlation
Indwatrien
Frankfort Ganotte
Germany
Itwin
Jan Yeau
Mettm
Estuhiahmonty
Saxony
Stern
The Ascent of Woman in The Young Woman
February feature notes sweeping gains for women since prior censuses with 61,000 dress makers 70,000 in public houses 4 100 in mining 4 721 in printing and related crafts nearly 30 000 clerks telegraphists clerks and 160 head postmistresses and 5 250 sub postmistresses. Women’s share rises in tobacco home and jute industries teaching and government work.
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Kingdom
Ireland at Home and Abroad Prize Winner Mary O Shea
Miss Mary O Shea is named the most beautiful woman in Nebraska. Daughter of an Irishman linked to Kilmainham Gaol and notable figures of 1866 67, she is in her early twenties and one of thirteen children. Her great grandmother, famed as Party Molle Ireland, inspired the ballad The Maid of Kildare.
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Ireland
Mary O'Shea
Nebraska
Kilmainham
Luby
Charles J. Kickham
O'Donovan Ros#a
Fogarty O'Neill
Allen
Larkin
O'Brien
Manchester
Misa O'Shea
Kildare
What Thick Lips Mean Dr A Bloch Attack on Lip Theory
The French anthropologist Dr A Bloch disputes the idea that thick lips signal sensuality while thin lips reflect spirituality and character. He argues lip shape, size and color are race characteristics and that hybrid offspring can inherit lip forms that misrepresent a child’s true nature, noting anomalies in whites.
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A. Bloch
Selentiat
Europe
America
Bloch
Food Adulteration and Patent List Highlight 1899 Issue
A physician notes that public interest in meat and food adulteration is waning while boric acid and salicylic acids harm digestion. The England America inspection gap is mentioned. The issue lists patents granted in Missouri Kansas and Nebraska with numerous inventors and devices, alongside ads and literary snippets.
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Foor
Anapetitonn
England
America
Nigdon
Pisier and Korpa
Mination Mall
Daly Ware
Kansas City
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
Beny
Walter L. Caywood
Hume
Daniel W. Cole
Kansan City
Oscar N. Felts
Fultons
Alfred D. Farguson
Ollesum Grain
Leslie Hopkins
Ruglas Gly
Peter M. Kling
Sir Towia
St. Louis
Edward 8
Marshall St. Lucnis
George S. Marshall
St Pauls
John W. Pattisson
Rua
Henry Pullman
Harry B. Rogeh
Jesve G Smith
Shelbinn
Thomas J. Waleh
Salem
Wari N
Evidence of Prosperity and Rail Travel Advancements
An essay notes prosperity as a sign of travel demand with the Sale Shore Limited of the Vanderbilt system and the New York Central’s plan to add standard sleepers on trains from New York and Chicago, boosting comfort without higher fares. It urges travelers to experience improved rail service amid a broader economic upturn.
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Sale Shore
Vanderbilt Aystem
New York
Chicago
New York Central
Albany Journal
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Garnett
Trampe Tuey
Ajax
Cervera
Cristobal Colon
Maria ‘Theresa
Marshal Daun
North Dakota
Legislative Assembly
Labor and Industry
UNION
Wohkmen
Geethe Rocky
Jerry
Preston
Newales
Weil
Mh Newaly
Editto
Pat
Ahrready
Nule
API Eneh
Richard F. Bteele
Dte
Seford
Promien
Guoulder
Mars
Illinois
Olinoia Woman's Press Association
The
Society For the Promotion of Health
Margareth Fuller Society For the Study
Chicago Mural Educational Society
Chandler
Poe-ru-na
de, Hartwan
California
Pullman
Santa Fe
Geo
W. Traomnnacy
P&t, A
Santa Fe Ry
Wabash
New Wabash
Kansas City Union Depot
New York City
Jacksonville
Springfield
Detroit
Mich
Niagara Walls
Buffalo
Ninth and
Delaware Streets
Henry N. Garland
Western
Kaneas City
Allen, Olmsted
LeRoy
Eeent Bonar Ati Ramanan
Re Be Eren Mig
Ann Ats Pousdalotis
Winslow
Apeech
Lucinda B Chandler, ‘of
Chiouyo, Tl
Rover
Wheaton
Joel H. Canaday
Elamore
Presley Frazier
Great Bend
John W. Hart
and & BF
Fuocoast
Tiere Sicotte
Lansing
Stratton
Oxford
Robert A. Thompson
Muarper
John M. Wright
Oberlin
John A. Saltor Seed Co
la Crosse
Wis
Hhwager
Eternity
Australia
Tignimout
France
Aumone
Toy Guaranty
Cluematt Inquirer
ST. Jacobs
Mitia
William
Carrie
London Chronicle
Pluck
Bohemia
Hares
Hood
Rosy
Borlin
East Clair Street
Thollumpalls
Ind
Alvira
Jsowery
Aisi
Fowese Aston
Department of Tha Therior
Ottawa
Carter
Icarter's Ink CO
Boston
Masa
Nsion Martinson
Reineereie
Ne Cals
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