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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1899
Page
7
A fragmented ad style piece touts Allen's Foot Powder claiming women can wear smaller shoes, cures swollen hot aching feet and ingrown nails, with trial offers by mail from Le Roy New York. Also promotes various cosmetics and remedies with generic claims and money back notes.
A letter from Miss Susan Wymar of Chicago praises Peruna as a blessing for women in changing life and general female complaints. Mrs. Margaretha Dauben of Racine Wisconsin also commends Peruna for stabilizing health. Dr Hartman of Columbus offers a free booklet on summer catarrh and notes Peruna as a sole remedy for common summer digestive and female ailments.
The National Cycling Association broadens amateur eligibility allowing travel to meets, paid expenses, and paid trainers. Star amateurs like Kramer and Lake emerge, narrowing the gap with professionals and boosting North Atlantic and New England entries. Debates over federation control and professionalism persist as leaders weigh future directions. Major Taylor faces tougher schedules to defend world records, while European three cornered races draw 4500 spectators in Lille as Jacquelin, Meyers, and Courbe vie for supremacy.
The Ibera amateur rule shifts discourage local runners by favoring national reputations in pure class events. In Philadelphia, amateurs skip the Woodside Park meet on June 28 to avoid competing with Kramer, Jollett, and Hausman who are aligned with top professionals.
A historic review notes the Baltimore and Ohio receivership cost about 35 million over three years. Meats Cowen and Murray modernized the system by adding 16 850 box cars 6 751 wooden gondolas 6 000 steel cars and 216 locomotives. Steel rails bridges and terminal upgrades boosted value with $15 million funded by receivers certificates and car trusts. Prices for coal and locomotives rose since purchases, and Cowen forecasts another 10 million in future improvements.
The Patents Higdon Fischer & Thorpe report grants issued the week ending August 1 1809 to inventors in Missouri Kansas and Nebraska. Listings include hand brake for wagons range car truck side frame trieger Amechaniom for firearms vehicle running gear range finder and many other devices from St Louis St Joseph and nearby towns. The notice notes total issue and reissues and invites inquiries with price lists and catalog.
Harper's Bazar notes a plan to build a large hotel for working women in New York with capacity for one thousand guests. It would cater to artists teachers clerks and similar professions with modern conveniences including parlors reading rooms music rooms sewing rooms and tea rooms. Board would be about three dollars weekly and rooms from twenty dollars weekly. The project aims to provide shelter and protection for many while acknowledging that life on such a public scale may be impractical for thousands.
A collage of 1899 railroad and military snippets notes Commodore Dewey’s 1897 Pacific departure with two first class tickets via multiple lines, the later souvenir recovery by D B Martin, plus railcar tech gains, a Burlington car count, Chicago Great Western earnings, and assorted homeseeker, poultry, and cure advertisements from a period paper.
Testimonies from women in Texas and Louisiana praise Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills for resolving serious female troubles after doctors failed. One writer notes dramatic improvement after five bottles and urges others to try the remedy.
A fragmented Detroit Free Press passage shows a bride of three weeks greeting her husband with affectionate lines. The couple exchanges playful dialogue about his prior visit to a baseball game, highlighting a light domestic moment.
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