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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1903
Page
3
A nostalgic verse reflects on aging and time. The speaker notes growing old with gratitude and peace, contrasting youth and later life. The piece contemplates life as a journey toward rest, with imagery of dawn, amaranth, and enduring friendship.
Fall River operatives accept wage cuts without strike while the Steel Corporation reduces nonunion sheet workers pay by 20 percent. Key unions report new members and shop reductions. numerous cities face eight hour shifts, layoffs, or factory shutdowns amid broad labor movement activity. Major topics include Philadelphia Reading Railway schedules, puddling rates, and organizer efforts across industries.
The article surveys hair fashion from primitive styles to modern women’s options, noting men’s dwindling coiffure variety and women’s range from high and puffed to smooth and low. It discusses influences of tribal and judicial styles, wigs, and the pompadour, and how different looks affect facial perception. It also highlights effects of hair on youthfulness, shape, and expression.
A London Men and Women reminiscence recounts Major General Plumer's polished manners during the Matabele and South African campaigns. It notes a hot corner in Matabele warfare when he advised an orderly to relay instructions to Captain Blank about repositioning machine guns, all while directing the battle calmly.
The piece argues that the nervous system should be our ally, urging automatic habits to reduce daily stress. It emphasizes capitalizing on acquired skills, living on the interest of a well-managed life, and guarding against detrimental routines to free higher mental powers.
Leo Dentsch, a Russian political exile, recounts in a newly published memoir Sixteen Years in Siberia that Siberian prison life included lenient discipline at times. He recalls wearing fetters only for show when governors avoided inspections and losing a bag containing essential chains, prompting comical yet stark moments.
A Mt Alry buyer brought in a silent parrot that only moved its feet, prompting a dealer to remark parrots are no longer in high demand. The buyer claimed the bird was a proven talker, but it never spoke, only strutted its toes. The seller recalled the bird had been raised in the desert and was dumb.
A discourse on habit and will contrasts indecisive behavior with steady routine. Representative Robinson rebukes belief in choosing every action, noting half a man's time is spent regretting decisions that should be automatic. Ruppert quotes provoke a counterpoint on poetic versus practical propositions.
A hostess introduces Mr. Jacob Rils to a charming young girl during a dinner encounter, hinting at a developing social mystery. The scene centers on identity and the social intrigue surrounding the host and guest.
A reporter notes the Duchess of Roxburghe praises American children and jokes about their influence. She recalls a juvenile party where a six year old quips that she has entertained children all her life, underscoring her long experience with youth.
A bachelor visits Mr Benedict’s home and hears about the real comforts of life after marriage. He notes tasks like tending the furnace, splitting wood, laying coal, and arranging the milk pitcher before they sit to enjoy a cozy domestic scene.
Germany imported 7.4 million marks from Ceylon valued at 1.781 million dollars, including copra eraphite oil cake cinnamon cocoa coffee and tea. Returns to Ceylon totaled 1.04 million marks 247620 dollars of assorted goods.
United States factories numbering about five hundred thousand add valued output and raw materials worth hundreds of millions. The report cites large scale production, with net output surpassing three billion dollars, highlighting a surge in manufacturing activity and economic impact.
William Jumea Cleman narrates a dramatic prairie scene where a tender courtship ends in tragedy as the Passion Flower blooms surround a doomed pairing. A masked male speaker proclaims possession as the girl faces a fatal, eerie power that swirls from the flower’s scent and the dying man’s desperate act.
The piece traces the 1663 Cambridge Massachusetts edition of the Bible and notes the 1603 English Bible printing monopoly in Massachusetts. It highlights Eliot's Indian Bible as a dead language relic and lauds its piety and learning, then cites Newman’s Concordance as a literary successor crafted in a frontier log cabin.
A cryptic, archaic verse passage muses on the enduring presence of virtue and honor. It contemplates how conscience, wealth, and reputation persist from birth through death, linking personal duty to national fate amid conflict and moral tests.
The late Stephen Crane, whose posthumous Irish tale soon to appear, spoke of aging with vivid imagination. In a New York studio he described an old man at eighty or forty years, imagining illness, friends gathering, and death seeming near yet life continuing despite weariness.
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