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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1902
Page
3
A humorous look at college life and Harvard traditions. Dean talk and student quirks illustrate campus wit. A student seeks a degree with seventeen and a half courses and a summer plan, while the dean recalls summer courses and Cambridge humor.
A train full of veterans from the Dallas reunion sees a humorous yet pathetic mishap as a nonuniformed old man searches for his shoes. A fellow passenger helps identify the rightful owner, prompting reflections on fate and duty as the shoes swap owners amid the crowded coaches.
Boston Journal notes an ancient catalpa Raleigh reportedly brought from Virginia to Gray's Inn Gardens where Sir Francis Bacon planted it. The tree, aging and rotted, is shielded by barriers while gardens nearby recall Elizabeth I, Shakespeare and Cromwell figures. A barrel of water sits by the catalpa as a bench once placed for Bacon vanished years ago.
A Canadian editor alters a dispatch to correct a misworded election result and inflates the status of Nott Shadd as the first full-blooded negro elected to a Canadian legislative body. The Ottawa Journal heads the piece with bold claims about Shadd’s historic seat.
The present prosperity of Southern Minnesota stems from the many creameries that have earned Minnesota the butter state of the Union.
A brief verse note comments on neglecting appearances for practicality, depicting a thirst driven by simple needs over style. The line suggests high collars look out of place beside a drink, emphasizing function over form in a witty, period voice.
A collage of eclectic excerpts covers Oriole lore, a water spider nest with air-filled silk housing, a retold myth of Anacea, how to build rustic stairs from saplings, notes on Bengal tigers and landscape life. It blends poetry fragments, natural history, crafts guidance, and wonder at creatures and design.
A simple winter experiment with soap glue mixture creates instant frozen bubbles. Blow a moderate bubble and move it outdoors on a cold, clear, windy day to observe crystal formations that preserve the bubble’s shape.
An oddly phrased note jokes about a liver that attends to business and mocks monopolies. The text plays with language, hinting at a critique of giant trusts and corporate power through absurd imagery.
German portraitist Frank von Lenbach praises strawberry blondes as ethereal and unable to be happy without adoration. Patti, at sixty, remains young, served by a London shop assistant who calls her "Mine" in a nod to enduring beauty.
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