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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1899
Page
6
A wartime or pioneer era voice recalls Thanksgiving as railroads and time steal family gatherings. The speaker laments changes and loss as children scatter, while hopeful notes promise a brighter future with all the family together again for four grand Thanksgiving feasts.
In a backstage reveal at the theater Merriam the star collapses after Nellie Moore’s Thanksgiving dinner. The mandolin fades as Merriam, once Romeo, sinks into a diminished career. Jenks recalls their rise and the old man’s final note. The piece closes with a wartime benediction and reflections on peace and progress.
A California observer reports that prosperity is illusory across the state. Wages are depressed in harvests and canneries, with workers in Sacramento valley fields earning as little as a dollar fifty per day and cannery workers facing long hours without seats. Farm prices and land speculation falter as banks write off debts, painting prosperity as a counterfeit, with land sales stagnant and workers enduring harsh conditions.
The passage notes plans to force measures through Congress with Republican and some New York Democrats votes voters urged to write to representatives. It critiques the justice of harsh penalties and calls for reform while lampooning political corruption and legal practice. The fragment cites National Watchman Farm Stock and Home Puck and Henry George remarks.
A Nebraska farmer trades wheat for 600 pounds of barb wire. In spring 1920 the dealer quotes 27.6 bushels per 100 pounds of wire, but a week later wire rises to 3.70 per hundred while wheat stays flat, revealing the purchasing power squeeze as costs rise faster than farm staples.
The piece argues that heaven would reflect earthly social distinctions and fashions. It imagines St Peter in livery, angels saluting, and the impracticality of money and status in heaven. The author concludes true justice requires rejecting pomp and vanity for a just society.
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