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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1904
Page
3
A collage of satirical notes and clipped opinions touching on crime headlines, royal attire, smokers, revolutions, stamp collecting, income taxes, and travel. It riffs on Edward Atkinson, King Edward, Vanderbilt, Diaz tax policy, Meptomania, and other topical curiosities with brisk, punchy observations.
French officer Charles Bernard promotes a drastic plan to cross the Arctic by a two-ship ice drift, guided by Nansen theory. The scheme seeks a route from Tromsø or Vardø across the Barents Sea into New Siberia, using two ships tied by wireless, to drift toward the North Pole over three to five years, with Peary and German expeditions as rivals.
A short anecdote from the Onlooker recalls Dr Gott, now bishop of Truro, traveling on the London underground. An eager religious passenger asks his destination and declares a personal heavenward aim, prompting Gott to reply about going to Victoria and the exchange ends with a witty twist on Victorian.
The originator of the genuine eau de cologne died at eighty and passed the secret to his nephew who inherits. Since 1709 only ten people have seen the recipe, kept in a box with triple locks. A guarded laboratory mixes the oils and essences then seals the barrels and completes the chemistry in two weeks.
The entire ivory carving trade in Delhi is controlled by a single family. The family’s head pays the carvers, with some receiving high wages. A minor mistake by a carver late in the process can ruin months of work. Prices can be very high, with £50 recorded for a small carved piece.
An opponent writes from a Torelen newspaper arguing that four Tartar thrones Moscow Constantinople Delhi and Pekin share a single spirit. He claims the Tartar adopts different religions in each seat while the menace remains constant and charges Russia with promoting a yellow peril. Japan is credited with repelling him.
The text explains courting in Spain where a young man called navio escorts the girl on walks. Courtship rarely leads to marriage. The lady is always accompanied by her mother or a maid and by the novie. The arrangement keeps the girl in a royal, obedient role.
The document lists the United States territorial acquisitions with costs for Hat, Tanisiana 15 million Florida 5 million Texas 18 million California and New Mexico 15 million Arizona 10 million Alaska 7.25 million Philippine Islands 20 million Panama Canal 40 001 000 Panama Canal Strip 10 million totaling 140 750 000. It notes an assumed debt of 4 million upon annexation of Hawaii.
The piece discusses the double eagle as a symbol on Russian and German standards and suggests it may arise from dimidiation, a medieval heraldic practice of splitting two coats of arms and pairing halves back to back. It notes how two-headed beasts like the double eagle could result from halving animals such as a lion and an eagle, and mentions the griffin as evolving from two lions by dimidiation.
A curious observer lies beside an ant hill to study its tiny world. The scene shows social organization and industry at work in beings scarcely half an inch long, impressionable through a simple fifty cent lens and a summer day.
H. OH. Vreeland, president of the New York Street Railway, often pays his fare though he carries a free pass on his line. If a conductor fails to notice him during peak hours, he would hear from the president’s office the next day.
A broad survey traces labor issues and union activity in 1903 1904 with data on strike benefits sick and death claims. It notes the English royal commission on labor disputes and the International Brotherhoods push for conventions in Kansas City and Milwaukee area. gesprekken reference J Curran and J W Johnson on union affiliation and the 1904 vote results. The piece highlights Gompers views, Harvester layoffs, teachers union debates, and the general goal of improving economic and social conditions with minimal friction.
Workers face wage rates in various trades, strikes, and union actions nationwide. Locomotive firemen meet in Buffalo in September 1904. Steel, meat, and street railway unions report strikes and negotiations in St Louis, Bloomington, and Boston. Pitfalls include wage cuts, check weighmen disputes, and consolidation talks among central labor groups near Pittsburgh.
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