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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1901
Page
6
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a cryptic event titled The Four Childless. Names and clear details are obscured, but hints of a mystery surrounding a lost child and a family are present, with scattered phrases about a person named Unni and references to distant towns.
A railroad tale follows Dan Beard and Mollie as a crewman helps run No. 20. Dan avoids whisky, saves a life, and dies after a track accident at a culvert. Mollie mourns. the town remembers Dan as the worst man on the Division, now known as Dan Beard's Girl at Lamy.
The story centers on Mollie the Girl of Lamy a long standing figure at the food house near Lamy New Mexico Her influence grows from a trusted helper to an alluring presence for the railroad crews and miners as Dan Beard a hard drinking driver becomes obsessed with her Mollies appeal and the tension surrounding Dag Beard and the division shift the narrative toward a fateful event hinted by a dispatch about a special from the east.
A fragmented scene shows a girl moving through a tense air behind a counter and calming drunk patrons with a quiet word and a swift sleeve pull. The satirical tone hints at restraint amid disorder and a restrained, observant mood.
The New York Press decries fake pipe talk and snobbery about briars and pipes. It notes ordinary men cling to old, rancid pipes as a sign of economy and hospitality, ridiculing those who insist on costly brands.
In a Ladies Home Journal note Margaret E. Sangster counsels that a young girl traveling alone should seek information from train staff rather than companions, avoid sharing personal details, and not form confidants with strangers. She may help a mother with children and thank those who offer unobtrusive kindness.
The piece outlines a diverse conscript army in Austria-Hungary totaling 428000 Slavs 227000 Germans 120000 Magyars 48000 Romanians and 14000 Italians. It breaks down Slavic groups into Czechs Poles Ruthenians Croatians and Serbs and Slavonians.
A fragment discusses New York as a sunny city and cites a United States Weather Bureau chart showing sunny days from 1870 to 1895. It mentions Arizona reaching 80 percent and the West lagging behind New York's mean around 60 percent.
A historical meditation on the art of personal dress, linking female adornment to artistic expression, health, and social change. It frames dress as a reflection of temperament and culture, noting civilization expanding opportunities for women to express beauty and personality. Also includes cooking recipes for peas and potatoes, cream cake, and blueberry cake.
A silk gown with glacee fabric in beige and mauve is designed for a fashionable summer resort. The bodice and skirt feature shaped folds, cream embroidery on a yoke, and sleeves with an old style ruse at the elbow and wrist, finished with embroidered figures.
In the Wiener appears a description of Paris gowns with cerise foulard and mauve liberty satin. One gown features a cerise skirt with a corlve taffeta border and black velvet ribbon, a gold bordered black velvet girdle, and sleeves with a frill. The other gown is mauve satin with gulpure flounces and satin bands, opening over the garment.
A column ponders why girls giggle, noting the behavior begins around age twelve and fades after marriage. It cites group chatter, reactive mirth, and social embarrassment as possible causes, then shifts to a digression on English word growth from 7,000 to 60,000 under A as science and invention create new terms.
In Leslie's Monthly a dramatic scene describes a cow defending her calf from a bear. The cow charges with horn and claw, injuring the bear and driving it away, though she is left bloodied and one eye blinded. The desperate struggle ends with the cow returning to protect her young.
A series of historic missteps turned profitable. A wrong bet on Orme at Sandown yielded the prince a $50,000 win. A bungled land swap led to the Niersfontein mine in South Africa becoming a $60,000,000 success, while the Rennek farm failed, ruining the earlier buyers.
The article notes widespread use of telephones in broker offices with 600 telephones on the ear of the exchange. It describes brokers receiving orders by telephone from uptown offices and homes, and the rise of wire houses with private wires connecting to many eastern cities. No firm controls a private wire to the Pacific coast yet, but one may appear soon.
The piece notes rapid telephone growth abroad with Europe showing higher penetration. Stockholm has over 20,000 telephones for 271,000 people, one in fourteen residents. England lags with one phone per 136 people and Switzerland has one per 172. Stores act as public call offices with low rates. Only a fool forgets this folly.
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