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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1895
Page
3
An advertising snippet from Matcomb’s & Bo Deng Stores touts affordable goods including jewelry, silverware, towels, and watches. The text emphasizes price competitiveness and urges readers to visit for “Wallet friendly” bargains, highlighting items like women’s rings and towels.
Obscure local notices mix with community ads and meeting hints. A Lincoln township resident Tim mans dies last Wednesday from morphine overdose amid financial strain. Community events and notices fill the page, including a teachers meeting at Garnott east-side schoolhouse and various local business and social notices from the era.
Readers are warned that the damaged text depicts a chaotic Washington social event. It describes reactions to Republican control, a celebratory feast, and controversial remarks by invited guests. The piece references social turmoil, political rhetoric, and tensions over race, democracy, and public virtue amid a charged era.
A fragmented OCR page mixes religious appeals urging charity and freedom from oppression with a political slate. It notes a Populist group forming, proposes bills on presidential terms and bonds, and lists local schoolhouse literary society officers and recent social visits.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions pain topics and the cost of items. It references a medical context with warnings about headaches and digestion and includes a numeric figure around 190. The text is highly unclear but suggests prices and health references without clear events or names.
Etta Whitt guest of Tone Whanks pivotal gathering leads a week of visits and social events. Edits mention Rev. Trout’s committee in Almigh weather, a successful supper, cattle shipments to Kansas City, and multiple local residents visiting kin. Protracted meetings and sickness noted. neighbors from Wellsville and Moran seen around.
Notice of sale by public auction of all right and title of John ik Wolken in described real estate in Anderson County Kansas Territory. Auction on Monday, 28th December 1895 at 4 PM at court house door in Garnett. Property in townships and ranges specified includes Potawatomi Creek area, boundaries described, land formerly owned by Moline, with tax and legal references. Attys for plaintiff listed. sheriff’s office Garnett, Kansas.
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