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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1901
Page
7
A mosaic of comic vignettes and picaresque snippets from an old paper page. Tales of Klondike luck and rival miners share space with homey mischief about lovers, microbes, and a cook’s dilemma. Quips about pugilists, funerals, and a wary widow round out a collage of 19th century humor.
An old style advertisement touts a broad range of cures for rheumatism neuralgia baldness sore throat and blood diseases claiming internal and external relief. It urges buying a prepaid Red Cross Ball Boy large package and promises dramatic health improvements with minimal effort.
A newspaper-style solicits readers to write to Mrs Lydia E Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for advice on female illnesses. The ad claims Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound cures uterine and related symptoms and urges women to seek its use at local stores. It portrays a nervous, all-encompassing illness and highlights a testimonial from Mrs Williams of Englishtown New Jersey as cured by the product. The tone mirrors 19th century patent medicine advertising with strong emphasis on personal misery and guaranteed relief.
The item surveys etymology of Chicago from Chycagou tied to La Salle stories, notes on the Hamilton Burr Weehawken slab, a New York marble marker, and a 19th century railway. It also highlights a New York Baptist preacher who files resignations on entering new fields, and notes on x ray manuscript detection and a juror pie incident in Palrhaver. A Cape Nome to Chicago bread trader faces demand and wage issues.
King Edward favors a hymn he finds most touching and heartfelt. John W. Gregory, slated for a three year Antarctic expedition beginning in August, expects to reach the south pole first and claims all accepted earth shape ideas are wrong, proposing a pear shaped earth with the pear end south.
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