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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1902
Page
2
A scrambled, humorous column notes wide ranging jests about public figures, royalty, sports, and politics. It jokes about Willing grasshoppers, Easter hats, Judge Stewart’s future, and a lionizing eye for Roosevelt. It also mentions Cuban sugar ships, Morgan, and a Chicago bank merger gifting $80,000 to workers.
A detailed look at spring ladieswear outlines shifting silhouettes and fabrics. Light gowns feature Peralan and oriental trims with tucks and appliques. skirts less elaborate, triple layers return on sides. Sleeves dominate design with many styles from elbow to Marin Antoinette. New gowns emphasize perfect cutting, light flare, and varied trims in blue, cream, and white palettes.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger notes a shift from the desire for a tiny waist to a neatly defined waist as essential to a perfect silhouette. Belts appear as persuasive solutions, with satin, silk crepe de chine, chiffon, and net textures highlighted as popular options.
A clever woman created a decorative wall display in her bedroom by outlining irregular sprays and roses on a plain deeper toned paper beneath the molding and a cretonne canopy of trailing roses above. The glued paper flowers formed a delicate, charming effect.
The article notes a new trimming trend for lightweight funnel blouses using embroidered linen bands replacing coarse lace or taffeta. It also describes pretty striped wash flannels for shirt waists trimmed with a few tucks or left plain and mentions a latest shirt water model with yoke back resembling a waist worn several sea pons MEO.
Dr Irma Klausner and Miss Elva von der Loyen the first women to earn degrees and pass the German state medical examination have settled in Berlin and plan to practice. With the new allowances many women are flocking to Berlin to study medicine.
A mixed page of verse and digest from Pearson's Weekly recounts the aging girl of yesterday dreaming of spring while labor unrest brews. It covers a proposed free steel workers national union, the South Chicago and Milwaukee lodges, and a Wheeling convention, plus the Chinese exclusion stir in Colorado mining towns and a Copenhagen servants union led by Marie Christensen demanding a nine hour day and better conditions.
A favorable House judiciary committee report supports the Grosvenor bill to redefine conspiracy in labor disputes. It would shield single or group actions in strikes from criminal charges and bar restraining orders against such activities, boosting organized labor and curbing injunction abuse.
The Chicago Federation of Labor advances several reform ideas including ending age limits on workers, shifting corporate interests to the government, tightening child labor to sixteen, banning pension schemes, outlawing pace setters in hiring, repealing civil service rules, and broadening reforms to abolish age limits.
Odd blouses remain useful and fashionable with long lasting appeal. Theater blouses by Ince are key to a modern woman's wardrobe, with both real and imitation Inces in use. Wealthier buyers choose houiton, cluny or Irish crochet, while odd gold devices adorn the richest laces. The French knot decorates crepe de chine bodices.
The piece extols trimming with alk gold silver steel and mother of pearl beads bugles and palettes. It highlights hand work on satin with patterns showing advantages and claims improvements in both known and trimming techniques.
A movement seeks a national day of recreation and speech honoring John Mitchell for his leadership of the minors. meanwhile a committee plans to organize seven thousand Chicago freight hustlers under the Chicago Federation of Labor after wage disputes and a Boston strike. The proposed union will coordinate with the federation and address long hours and low pay ranging from 1.26 to 1.59 dollars daily.
The article describes modest Parisian and northern France homes for workers. It notes high rents, small two to four room poverty, tax on rents above 500 francs, and municipal limits. Philanthropic cottages imitate English and American models but remain poor, cold, and unsanitary. Paris and the countryside both suffer from almost total sanitation absence.
Jurisdiction extended as the March issue states that the organization will claim authority over boilermakers, iron shipbuilders, layers out, bridge and girder work, tanks, elevators, furnaces, smokestacks, steam connections, and all iron work contracted for by boilermaking and shipbuilding concerns.
Four thousand union machinists in Chicago plan a May 1 wage demand as current contracts expire. The district lodge executive board will organize a mass meeting to vote on a new state. Present maximum pay is 28 cents per hour with strong push toward 30 to 32 cents. About 120 machinery plants would be affected. Simon Humne re-elected. Window Glass Workers Association officers for L A 300 Knights of Labor named: President Simon Burns, Secretary Paul St Peter, Assistant Secretary Frank B Yourlson, Treasurer S Hunter.
A notable symposium gathers Grover Cleveland Samuel Gompers Senator Mark Hanna and fifteen other leading figures to express views on industrial peace and progress. The event highlights diverse stances and aims to chart national policy directions for labor relations and economic growth.
A Wisconsin Leader letter urges settlers to move to Canada’s prairie provinces, praising soil yields and low prices. It notes government agents across the Midwest and Great Lakes, sample crops shown at fairs, and several families planning to relocate to Saskatoon for farms, while lampooning patriotic rhetoric and money motives.
The New York Times story recalls President McKinley meeting Dr. Herman Mynter during his Buffalo visit. On the day of the assassination McKinter was among the first physicians to reach the president, who asked the doctor to save his life.
Davis of the Britlet Electric Traction Trust sails for America to recruit motormen for English street cars. The trust, now controlling lines in major British towns, struggles to staff due to a shortage of skilled English workers. American recruits will train in American methods to operate the lines.
Palmer Oregon resident J Tippendal details repeated back pain from lifting he calls a catch. After using four boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills he reports his back is strong and pain free, and his wife also uses them with success. He endorses the cure for back pains.
A fragment notes the first steamer on the Rhine, a Dutch vessel, sailing in 1822 fifteen years after Fulton launched steam on the Hudson. It also compares California industries, listing sugar and slaughtering at about 15 million dollars each, with lumber, flour and fruits around 13 million.
A fragmented OCR note lists the Phillips Brooks house in Cambridge and mentions contractors from the United States and multiple nations including England France Turkey Japan China and South America. The text is incomplete but implies international contractor involvement.
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