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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1904
Page
6
A fragmentary poem urging readers to avoid worry and debt by facing trouble with steadiness. It exhorts resilience, warns against lingering fear, and links future misery to current anxieties, ending with a wary call to protect tomorrow from debt and distress.
News notes labor activity across the U S including AF of L President Gompers slated as Utica labor day orator. unions in bricklayers and glassmaking growing. strikes and wage battles in Fall River textile mills and New York carpenters. debates on nonunion labor, arbitration, and worker benefits dominate reports from multiple states and industries.
A dinner party anecdote describes a callow youth seated between two merchant tailors. One tailor quips that in their current stage of the game they have only one goose between them, prompting a humorous exchange about their profession and luck.
A witness recounts a confrontation where a prisoner blocked the sidewalk and lunged at him. He claims he restrained the attacker with great effort and brought him to custody. The report notes the incident occurred on a street corner.
A New Yorker anecdote recalls a man asking a father for his daughter. The father reportedly declined with a sharp rebuke. The man later reflects, revealing he ultimately married the girl.
A strange dialogue scene features Weary Walker and Ragson Tatters arguing over locust wood used to make police clubs. The talk shifts to a poetic summer girl and a city man, and then to Mr. Snooks and a bird’s song. Additional lines reference an automatic perfume sprayer on Van Slick’s auto and a dentist engager.
A clipped exchange features a senator and a father as they spar over money and power. The dialogue includes taunts about status and authority, with interruptions from a weary spouse revealing domestic tensions amid political bluster.
An old Toledo advertisement promotes a "patent medicine" claiming to treat catarrh and related symptoms. It lists supposed ingredients and criticizes competitors while urging purchases. The tone is sales pitch with exaggerated health claims and dubious efficacy.
The passage extols a rare youth that transcends its years, embracing lessons that exalt and purify. It applauds those who preserve dawnlike splendor and the old unconquerable hope to the end, calling such individuals the salt of the earth, whether they write, dig, or sweep crossings.
A late Tudor era anecdote recalls curate Joseph urged by Swift to pick a thin text for a sermon before the viceroy the Duke of Ormond. The joke hinges on the name Butler and a remembered line that miscarries Joseph while Butler forgets him.
The text notes that simplifying Japanese will hinge on abandoning the old script. Ten years ago universities began reform, next year English letters will start in public schools and soon become general use.
Pennsylvania applications for state aid to build 106 miles of improved highway have been filed with Highway Commissioner Hunter from 52 locales. The record notes statewide demand and the possibility of insufficient funds to satisfy all requests in the coming year, alongside a German scientist Bernhard testing aluminum for sharpening cutting instruments.
The article notes Alaska spans 577,200 square miles, making it larger than Texas, California, and Montana combined, whose total area is 670,220 square miles. It highlights the vast expanse and implies the Immenity of the region.
Madrll asserts Maria Nieto born in 1781 is the world’s oldest woman. She has lived across three centuries, was married, and had nineteen children, all of whom survive her.
The article notes seaweed as a rich nitrogenous plant food when dried, surpassing oats or Indian corn in nutrition. It compares seaweed to breakfast staples and suggests its high nutritional value among vegetables.
An ancient stadium in Athens reopens in white marble after costing over £100,000. A humorous and flawed prayer opening is noted, and a testimonial extols Grape-Nuts and Postum as cures for dyspepsia, describing dramatic personal improvement after dietary changes.
A Country Life in America writer notes most new tomato forms are discovered, not produced. He says a form appears in a plant and propagation varies, with some new variants failing to self propagate from seed while others may spread more readily.
The text claims Russians possess remarkable linguistic aptitude, noting rapid language acquisition. It cites that nine Russians could learn Chinese in eight months and that English comes easily, with newcomers approaching learning like mastering a new card game.
In the Japanese army soldiers carried kettles made from ordinary thin paper invented by Daiju. The kettle is filled with water and placed under a heat source. in ten minutes the water boils. It can be reused eight or ten times and costs about two cents.
The article notes that Grecian and Roman wrestlers anointed bodies with oil and grease to hinder holds, contrasting with modern articles of agreement that ban oil and grease. It discusses the intent to prevent holds and the shift to explicit prohibitions in current rules.
The Academy of Sciences of Paris elects Prof. Parrots of Lille to fill the mineralogy vacancy created by the death of Fouque. The recognition honors one of the most distinguished geologists of the era and is welcomed in scientific circles. Also includes an advertisement by K F Henley touting Dodd's Kidney Pills as a cure claimed for rheumatism, with personal testimony of relief after long suffering.
A New York barber famed for wearing a size 12 shoe, and claims of a 17 shoe in Germany, buys wide leather and has a shoemaker tailor footwear at home. The tale notes many shagapoos are injurious to health and recommends frequent brushing and cleanliness.
The United States Fish Bureau at Leadville arranges the transfer of 60,000 eyed eggs from Colorado to stock streams in the Argentine Republic, South America, in a cooperative effort between nations to bolster fishing resources.
An old advertising snippet promotes Alien's Foot Fuse powder to ease tight shoes and foot discomfort. Claims relieve swollen hot sweaty feet corns and bunions. Sample seat offered free by Allen S in Winsted Lacy New-
Read that many orchids are not hard to cultivate, with Country Life In America noting only about fifty of ten thousand varieties thrive in a domestic greenhouse.
Ad touts De Nance Starch as the superior option for flawless starching with no cooking required. It claims better results and reduced cost compared to rivals, appealing to households seeking convenient laundry care.
The Montreal Etrot Railway Company has recently erected several waiting rooms across the city. One notable two story brick structure features a ticket office and seating for passengers awaiting trains.
In a Washington letter Senator M C Butler of South Carolina praises Peruna as a remedy for stomach trouble and catarrh. He claims relief after short use and invites others to seek Dr. Hartman’s advice for further guidance from The Hartman Sanitarian, Columbus Ohio.
A Country Life in America feature describes ostrich plucking with wedge restraints and selective feather removal. The Defiance Starch Co offers 25 ladies round trip tickets to the St Louis Exposition for the greatest number of Defiance starch trade marks mailed from five states by Sept 1 1904 and promotes Defiance starch as superior and non-sticking to irons.
A terse 1900 report notes the stark life expectancy divide in Italy with the poor living around 28 years while the wealthy reach about 33. It mentions a claimed cure for consumption and a medical ad from Trinity Springs Indiana dated February 18, 1900.
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