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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1904
Page
7
Hundreds of dealers report Defiance Starch as superior to all rivals and winning shelf space. The ad notes 16 ounce packages at same price as 12 ounce rivals and urges shoppers to consider convenience for the World’s Fair travel.
This notice blends surreal marketing lines about Putnam Faceless Dyes and a man craving hair on bald spots with scattered catalog references. It mentions Hand Power Bay Pres 628.00, Defiance Starch, and seed company pitches while noting seeds and fruit like strawberries and prunes. The tone is frenetic, promotional, and nonsensical.
Dramatizes kidney weakness as cause of backache headaches and poor digestion. Patient Mia Radia Mottles of Columbus Ohio credits Donn's Kidney Pills with curing long standing kidney related pain and weakness. A free trial of this medicine is offered by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY with a 60 cent price per box.
The cash on delivery parcel post system has operated successfully in Germany for forty years. France Austria Switzerland Italy Holland and almost every country on the continent have adopted it, as most also have the United States.
A brief note claims Yucatan has 259 000 people and is wealthy per capita due to benequen and agave fiber. It asserts Yucatecos have high incomes versus others. A separate line notes few appendicitis cases in over 2 000 major Egyptian surgeries attributed to diet and conditions.
Ancient Egyptians used artificial eyes made of gold silver copper or ivory. In Sullivan Arkansas on April 11 Miss Fay Clover reports recovery after using Dodd's Kidney Pills. She describes long illness with backache and kidney issues and credits the pills with her permanent cure.
Dr. Ribera, a Spanish naturalist, proved fish can hear and distinguish sounds. He concealed himself behind a bush and taught carp in a pond to surface for food whenever he spoke a certain sentence, while ignoring unrelated words.
Fragmentary ad style passage touts Defiance Starch for cold or boiled use and claims women prefer it for quality and value. It warns against stimulants and lauds Dr Caldwell’s Syrup Purposin for liver and bowels, while mocking Sarssparilias and other purifiers as fake. It ends with jibe about good looks and millinery.
The Elmira Advertiser notes a municipal whistle system that governs work hours at eight per day, with blasts at 12 2 and 6 for the workday and 11 for weather reports. A 12 30 warning prompts clock syncing, and an 8 o clock evening blast signals curfew. Special reports alert residents to cold waves or snow, and a siren whistle indicates fire or flood with box numbers.
Fragmentary poem recalling the sea and homebound longing. A child, rover, and mother figure recur amid dreamy, lyric images of waves, beaches, and distant drums. The piece blends evocative nature imagery with nostalgia for home and maternal comfort.
Sen Joseph Katayama, famed Japanese sociologist, studied at Iowa College Grinnell and later led Kingsley Hall in Tokyo. He left with the class of 1892, noted for unusual mind and bold optimism, rising from peasant origins to world prominence.
The Philadelphia Record notes Prof. Berwerth of Vienna estimates about 900 meteorites strike Earth annually, not counting atmospheric disintegration. Only 350 documented falls exist since the fifteenth century, with 182 rong and 74 stones in the western hemisphere and 299 stones with 79 frons in the eastern hemisphere.
Africa’s iron sector gains speed as a blast furnace near Pretoria comes online along the railway line. With 600 tons weekly pig iron capacity, it signals a broader plan for rolling mills and a steel converting plant. Ore grades run 62 to 68 percent, and surface surveys suggest 62 million tons in sight.
The Brooklyn Lite recalls Henry Wiggins as a marble lover in his youth and mentions a paper story claiming he owns one of the finest Italian marble collections in the world. The note blends local nostalgia with a boast about rare marbles.
London Clearing House records show exchanges at the Lawten Hawkers’ Meaning house from January 1 to a test date, with totals around 7,019,245,000 and a recreation value of 172,820,000, indicating substantial activity and financial figures dated in the period.
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