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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1901
Page
6
Fragmented lines reveal a learn toward global conflict and eventual renewal. The voice invokes Europe, liberty, and nations gathering on shores, warning of storms to come and a sun of victory after sacrifice. The text emphasizes freedom and a better future beyond war.
In Knott county two men plot murder over Tillie Adams. A pistol misfire triggers a duel at a revival. The crowd erupts but the preacher ends the scene by performing a double betrothal marrying Bill Garrison and George Peterson to Tillie Adams.
Professor Hilprecht of the University of Pennsylvania reports the discovery of the Great Temple library at Nippur. The untouched ruins, dating back about 5,000 years, yield 18,000 clay tablets in cuneiform covering dictionaries legal texts architecture and religious works. The find suggests a high ancient civilization predating Adam and links to early Babylonian culture.
An excerpt from the Chicago Record Herald recounts Jamestown Virginia's early Protestant church origins. It notes sails used as framing, a stump pulpit, unsewn logs for seating, and a log cabin built under Governor Sir Thomas Dale. A brick structure later arose, defined by size, tower, and endurance, partially burned in 1676, then restored until Williamsburg’s 1728 capital move.
The Highlands report severe conditions in many churchyards with overcrowding in Moralg and sanitary authorities halting burials in North Harris. Old parish cemeteries overflow as Highlanders favor family burial customs while newer facilities remain under government control to curb overcrowding.
The King of England holds ten maces kept in the Tower of London for the coronation. Lords guard their own mace and resist Commons access. Baroness Nathane Rothachild’s will transfers a Paris Conservatory collection of Chopin and Auber manuscripts to possession.
The son of Mintstor and Mme Wu Ting-Pang, Chou Chou, arrived in the U S three years ago unable to speak English. He joined a tutor then enrolled in the public school and now attends Western High School. His English work is reported to surpass that of many peers. At school he dresses as an American boy, but at public events he wears traditional costume. Mme Wu rarely speaks English and relies on her son as interpreter at social functions.
The Milan municipal government inaugurated a new people’s hotel with 1530 bedrooms and facilities. Built with funds from King Humbert, it follows Rowton houses in London and mirrors New York mills hotels. Engineers studied London models. Lord Rowton visited. officials from working associations attended. The building cost about $140,000.
Mist Chapman, an architect from Boston, is highlighted as a bright, persevering woman who has chosen an unusual profession. The piece praises her keen observation, judgment, grit, and artistic temperament, noting she works among fellow artists and finds an atmosphere suited to her craft.
A Lemarg Uber Land and Moor writer calls Carnegie Rockefeller and Armor gifts philanthropic not charitable. He argues their donations aid the strong and hopeful, not the truly needy, and warns against blind imitation without further study of this new American life feature.
The Sandy Hook Pilot Club is the most exclusive New York club not in social registers. Admission would take years with rigorous steps: two years before the mast, six years as a pilot trainee aboard a pilot boat, then one to two more years as a pilot, so about a dozen years before earning a full license.
F Wellington Ruckstuhl, renowned St Louis sculptor and secretary of the National Society of Sculptors, has been appointed a director of sculpture for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
Dr W B Leach of Wicker Park Methodist church Chicago laments men not walking heavenward. He notes Des Plaines camp meeting where men lounge under trees smoking cigars while women attend sermons and questions why men won’t join churches or become Christians. He adds Anto fide pays men eighty cents a day but a Christian cannot.
Press Mapatches report rising anxiety in New York and Pacific coast communities over a proposed act of Congress to exclude Japanese from the United States. San Francisco labor unions plan a large petition urging anti Japanese immigration, while a counter move is also under consideration.
A fourth century church of Santa Maria Antigua in Rome, buried by later buildings, is being uncovered as Santa Maria Liberatrice is demolished. Accessible through Caligula era vestibule, its well preserved frescoes depict Joseph with Pharaoh and Potiphar's wife and the life of Christ. The find is linked to Rome's Christianisation of the Caesars palace.
A Virginia constitutional convention debated sets for religion and forbearance. Rabbi E N Callech argued against sectarian wording, claiming it contradicted the section's terms. Proponents argued for nonsectarian meaning, and the clause was eliminated leaving only free exercise and conscience.
An automatic faucet described by Scientific American uses a scale beam device invented by David M. Bredin of Canada. The longer arm carries a counterpulse to trigger closure after a predetermined liquid quantity is drawn, with a platform on the shorter arm supporting the vessel to be filled.
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