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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1904
Page
10
A New York contract for the Church of Saint John the Divine required columns to be forged in a single solid piece. Two shafts broke during forging, prompting owners to allow production in two locations. Quarrying costs stood at $200,000 while total project price reached about $20,000,000.
Boston earned Washingtons birthplace style labels as the City of Nations from Yankee notions, the Hub of the Universe per Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the Tri Mountain City from its three hills. The terms capture early pride in its central role and geography.
A Florida family advertised for a lost relative in a daily paper. That afternoon a dead alligator crawled onto their front step and, in its stomach, contained red hair, buttons, boot heels, glass, trousers, and a paper collar. The ad did it.
A French professor studies relative criminality across professions and reports convictions per 100,000 people. Lawyers lead with 100, artists 33, doctors 25, lay teachers 19, clerical teachers woven, and Catholic clergy 4.
A summary from Country Life in America notes that vegetable planting rose about 100 percent in the North and roughly 200 percent in the South over the decade before the last census. In the year prior to the census, 6,760,000 acres were devoted to vegetables with a total value near 240 million dollars.
The observation links every man’s character to his trade. Bricklayers are active and energetic, swine borderland morally lax, shoemakers seen as poor and ignorant, goldsmiths credited with cleverness and rogues, blacksmiths reputed as talkative.
An English writer on physical culture argues that Japanese women are as muscular and agile as their husbands. He suggests this domestic strength may boost Japanese courage in war, claiming war becomes less terrifying for men who resolve family matters with similarly fit partners.
Reports indicate the discovery of a human jeton in a cave at Cheddar within Mendip cavern deposits. Relics from various ages are entombed there and will be carefully scrutinized to determine the age of the remains.
Japanese postage stamps are rated the most artistic in the world and there is strong demand in London. The first stamps were issued in 1871. The highest price paid for one stamp is $50.
A California high school principal recounts 23 years of indigestion liver trouble and rheumatic pain, describing a dramatic two month turnaround after following a physician’s diet of Grape-Nuts milk and fruit. He credits renewed strength and longevity to the food and to Postum Co. for producing it.
The text explains automatic fire extinguishers using a fragile globe and powder dispersion triggered by heat, noting independent operation and the inventor William J. Fry of Chicago. It also defines the magnetic declination as the angle between geographic and magnetic meridians, varies by region, and can be measured with a declination compass, with west declination in Europe and Africa and east in Asia and the Americas.
The Electrical World notes European metallurgists who introduced electric furnace methods in iron and steel. It cites C A Keller of Paris with a March 16 patent, describing a double furnace system: upper reduction furnace and lower refining alloying furnace. The design allows continuous operation and high power and capacity utilization.
The text presents a garbled exchange about becoming a poet and making a name, with scattered names and phrases. It reads like a rough, incomplete literary fragment rather than a coherent article.
The mayor of Bt. Joseph Michigan Nelson Rice endorses Peruna Medicine Co Columbus Ohio. He claims it has earned public confidence by curing rheumatic and glandular difficulties and touts testimonials from county patients who have benefited above other medicines.
In a midwestern ad, the sun's northward drift and spring ailments like weak nerves, poor digestion, and impure blood are tied to catarrh. The Peruna tonic is promoted as a natural invigoration that stabilizes circulation and nerves. Readers are urged to write Dr. Hartman in Columbus, Ohio for advice.
A market note urges housewives to try Defiance Cold Water Starch, claiming it outperforms rivals with a 16 oz package for 10 cents versus 12 oz in other brands. It argues once a user is satisfied, she will not switch.
Fragmentary ad from a Chicago grocer promoting Winglé-Stick laundry product with a 10 cent price, claimed spill resistance, no free coat or spot removal, and a mail order offer to The Laundry Blue Co at 14 Mi street. The note references general pricing and availability for cleaning needs.
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