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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1899
Page
7
The California Fig Syrup Company markets Syrup or Figs a liquid laxative praised for mild kidney, liver, and bowel action without irritation. The ad claims this genuine remedy is unique, flavor pleasant, and backed by physicians while warning against imitations.
Mixed notices include seed corn pricing from Balzer Seed Co in Wisconsin, patent list for Missouri Kansas Nebraska inventors, a British steamship fuel anecdote, and long prose about an old yellow almanac with rural nostalgia. The fragmentary items show historical commerce, patents, and cultural verse.
A German authority reports a new tree in central India with highly sensitive, electric contact shocks and magnetic effects detectable up to 70 feet. The tree's power peaks at midday, fades at midnight, vanishes in wet weather, and its surroundings lack birds and insects.
In New South Wales women resist phone company power, using lengthy calls until authorities intervene. The postmaster general bans idle chatter over ten minutes at a time. Separate notes discuss life expectancy shifts for women at ages 20, 30, and 60, highlighting varying chances of reaching ages 40, 60, and beyond.
A Lau Sanne correspondent reports Lavaux between Lausanne and Vevey with 10,000 residents now able to say there are no prisoners in its bridons. White flags fly over all prisons signaling a praised state, as Virtue reigns in Vand canton.
A Cleveland Leader item notes a man says he learns from others mistakes while a woman laments George Brixton never knowing when to go home. He bids her good night in the exchange.
Presidential proclamation opens Ute Indian reservation in southern Colorado for settlement at noon May 4, 1899. The mesa lands, described as the most desirable in the state, span 00,000 acres. Pamphlets with full information are available from Hooper, General Passenger Agent, D&RG.
An eclectic, ad filled fragment notes how people perceive wealth and access to goods. It weaves social critique with stray product pitches and scattered lines about justice, footwear, and health, reflecting a late era newspaper page full of ads and vignettes.
A concise observation notes that the person who enters shallow water tends to attract the most attention or disturbance likened to stirring up trouble or attention from others. The remark reflects on behavior in social or public settings.
Letters from sufferers praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash for gynecological issues. A Pennsylvanian woman credits relief from ulceration of the womb after two years with top doctors, while a Minnesota reader endorses the remedies and work regained.
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