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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1903
Page
6
Poetic, fragmentary lines describe sailors or lovers longing for home as the sea roars. Comrades' voices warn of the road ahead while voices of the drowned echo behind. Mother Carey and Teoda references imply sea birds and guidance on a voyage toward a distant horizon.
A Secret Service man recounts a bizarre Missouri case in which he tracked a mail fraud suspect to a small city. With help from the mayor and his wife, the agent burglarized the mayor’s home, found the suspect asleep, then fell asleep himself before discovering the man had vanished by dawn. The agent later learned the mayor had aided in concealment. Philadelphia Ledger.
A curious amateur recounts a secretive night in a lodging house parlor. Darkness, a risky escape, and a sudden latch snap echo a tense moment as the narrator tries to avoid detection and slip away unseen.
A child named Bobby is kept after school for a misdemeanor at kindergarten. The teacher asks if he is sorry, and Bobby replies that being kept after school lets him have the teacher to himself, a gentle humorous reversal from the Little Chronicle.
The American Window Glass Company plans to deploy blowing machines, potentially displacing thousands of skilled workers. A New Jersey charter for the American Window Glass Machine Company, capitalized at 20 million dollars, will manufacture and install the systems. Plants in Indiana already run machines and production will expand to 200 to 300 units to meet demand and possibly export.
The United Garment Makers of America board adopted a resolution to tighten label use for overall garments. It bans continued labeling for any item sold below 4.50 dollars after July 1, 1903 and seeks uniform labor conditions and fair competition across firms using the union label. The union emphasizes cooperation with its office to regulate both labor standards and business practices.
As spring nears Chicago labor unions rally for a ten hour day dropping from ten to shorter hours without wage cuts in many crafts. Makers, upholsterers, machinists, iron molders and others demand fewer hours while some seek a small wage rise to offset the change.
Minnesota shoe workers union leaders met with the governor and state prison board to protest convict labor in shoe making. Warden Walter said 1,200 pairs daily are produced and shipped out of state, claimed not competing with free labor. The union argues this production could create 250 to 390 jobs and about $4,000 weekly in wages for workers and families.
Daniel W. Richmond, business agent of the Chicago local union of railway clerks, organized sufficient unions by January 1 to form a national union. A convention to establish a governing body was issued by President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor and will meet in Chicago.
The United Garment Workers of America projects a growth to 60 000 members with 5 000 new members from amalgamated Chicago special order clothing makers. There are 228 local unions nine district councils and efforts in New York Baltimore Syracuse Utica Rochester and Buffalo to cut cutter hours from nine to eight. Philadelphia cutters reduced from 54 to 60 hours after a strike. they offered 50 hours at compromise. A Washington judge ruled union labor in contracts legal when used by contractors, a ruling welcomed by labor.
Postoffice clerks are organizing with branches formed at Aurora and in Dungile Normal and Cairo. President Rogers John T McCormick and Organizer L J White of the United National Association of Postoffice Clerks report enthusiastic response nationwide due to liberal Congressional appropriations for better pay promotions and extra staff.
The American Federation of Labor Haw issued a color poster showing facsimile labels of forty three and three union cards endorsed by the organization and used by affiliated unions. It also notes twenty four crafts and callings that lack their own label and use the parent body’s.
The Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of America launches a nationwide campaign to enroll all workers in the crafts as members. Even salaried organizers have been dispatched to various regions to push the effort.
The United Mine Workers Journal notes that coal operators in isolation districts employing 200000 miners maintain formal contracts with the miners union and find it financially advantageous to do so.
Trade with China shows a yearly surplus of about five million dollars as imports trail behind exports. Colorado reports higher silver output than Alaska’s gold, while New York’s transportation and lighting franchises bear a tax valuation of 285 142 845 dollars. A quartz mining claim spans six hundred by one thousand six hundred feet. The German Cable Company completes a second line to New York reaching the Avore Islands, 1 200 miles. Continental rail rates run fifteen dollars per ton, versus ten dollars a ton from London to Seattle. Canada’s rail mileage reaches eighteen thousand eight hundred sixty eight miles, up six hundred seventy four on last year, with sixty six miles of electric rail. The British weather service gathers shipping temperature data to chart the Gulf Stream. A metric-system controversy mocks Anglo-Saxon standards, noting the United States uses meter and kilogram as legal bases rather than yard and pound, with the yard defined as 2600 3937 parts of a meter.
A letter from Burling Alberta to M Pickrell describes excellent weather in Western Canada and reports extraordinary harvests. Farmers cite six foot oats yielding 80 bushels per acre and Alberta fields averaging high bushels, with strong prospects for homesteads near Edmonton Raymond and Lethbridge. The writer urges settlers to seek homes with the Canadian Government agents and notes growing beet sugar factory activity at Raymond.
The Rev Albert Stronbele, American missionary to St Andrews Inland off Nicaragua, arrives to observe the twenty fifth anniversary of his ordination as a priest.
A Brescia peasant found a large black pearl while eating salt pickled cot and took the stone to Milan where it sold for over 5000 dollars. The tale notes France has excess firewood with import bills around two million dollars annually, and England spends about fifty times that amount on wood.
Chanute residents debate a doctor’s “stork” label as the father of twins cites the bill’s size. The Kan City Star notes a local pair weighing in on the matter, presenting a community view on the unusual naming decision.
The article cites an annual outflow of wealthy Americans who become permanent residents abroad, estimating the loss at 30 million dollars each year to the United States economy. It highlights the tax and economic impact of citizens changing domicile.
A lamp lighter recovered a park attack containing $40,000 and promptly returned it, demonstrating rare honesty in Geneva. The discovery and restitution highlight public trust and civic virtue in the community.
Oranges to be plentiful with 22 000 to 23 000 carloads expected to ship from southern California this year. St Louis vegetarians plan to establish a cooperative vegetarian restaurant. Mother Gray's Beet Pills for Children used in New York Children's Home to relieve constipation feverishness and regulate bowels. Butter boarding house critique and tiny ad notes on a 9 cm package crow ball blue remedy and various casual observations on markets and cigars.
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