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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1901
Page
7
Metropolitan company runs ten trolley cars for parcel delivery across city streets. The new trolley express is expected to transform collection and delivery of packages in New York, signaling a major shift in urban logistics.
A mix of August verse about summer's end and rustic life, with a humorous Irish servant tale and a comic court verdict. The excerpt evokes rural scenes, heat, and festivals, mentioning corn fields, harvests, and a playful misadventure at an Irish household. It also recalls a musician jailed playfully on the Midway for drunkenness.
A cartoonish exchange shows Brainy Bowers offering to mulch a potato pest in exchange for a wage, while Farmer Smallweed contemplates pay and threats. The quirky dialogue reveals a scam bid and a smug confidence game between the two men about money and the bug infestation.
A playful Louisville Times sketch contrasts a green youth awkwardly calling on a belle at a stylish party. He boasts of indifference to beauty while the hostess masks laughter with a fan as misfit banter and a Chicago News misprint add comic relief.
Detroit Free Press recounts Brown describing a backyard hammock night that turns comic and perilous. A storm soaks him as hollyhocks lash and branches swing, then he leaps, battles imaginary threats, and plunges to a sidewalk, injuring an ear and eye while vowing a lifelong moral about age and sleep.
A Boston Transcript remark on journalism shifts from trivial incidents to large methods. It argues that today’s press should expand coverage from minor events to broader topics, including legal gravity, sidewalk construction, local street history, and even the paper’s own enterprise, with attention to naming individuals.
The Naval Museum in Paris received the tent used by the Dowager Empress of China during her journey to Tong-Ling. Presented by the Mandarin of Ki-Chau to Colonel Laurent Cherlonchon, the yellow silk tent is embroidered with gold and silver and adorned with dragons and emblems. Also notes famed jewelry tastes of Mascagni and pension details for J. A. Fillmore as Pacific system manager. Captain Hugh Douglass Wise promoted for San Juan camera work. West Point graduate 1894.
A concise remark notes that a one legged man cannot arrive at a destination using both feet, implying limitations on effort and capability.
A senior vice president of the James Morgan Post, W R C, writes from The Landour in Minnesota praising Peruna as a cure for severe female ailments. The letter claims complete recovery from bearing down and backache, with renewed strength and health. Additional testimonials describe relief from heavy menstrual flows and disabling pain, urging others to seek Peruna via Dr. Hartman in Columbus Ohio with confidential, free initial treatment and no charges for the medical items.
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