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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1900
Page
3
A lively Washington Star narrative parlor tale features a boastful story teller recounting a cold 1889 upper Canadian fishing expedition. A skillet of humorous asides and sharp retorts frame the teller as he recalls a huge catch weighed at about half a pound, with a straw-hatted heckler pressing for details.
A fragmentary dialogue shows Mary scolding her husband for neglect as she complains to her mother. The husband asserts he did hold the baby last night, prompting the mother’s surprised question about the duration. The exchange hints at domestic tension and parenting duties.
A brief dialogue highlights a suggestion to join a club promising the comforts of home and soaps, reflecting a homespun view from the Boston Transcript.
A garbled OCR fragment hints at alterations and hunting terms amid a Cleveland Plain Dealer page. The readable bits reference figures, high and low, suggesting a partial news or editorial snippet without a clear event, date, or named individuals.
A tense exchange unfolds as Jack's proposal sits on the table and the other party struggles with hesitation. The conversation reveals doubt and competing timelines, highlighting uncertainty about commitment and timing in a domestic drama.
A garbled OCR fragment recalls a shipwreck and a lone survivor. It contrasts wild disaster talk with a dubious note about businessmen finding relief in golf after work. The text includes stray phrases about Philadelphia Press and De Bait Journal.
A mosaic of overheard lines and captions spans light chatter about social visits in summer, a political drawing room scene, a missionary remark, a barber shop gag, and a family tale. It weaves metropolitan banter with brief references to theater, church, and home life.
A New York millionaire proposes to power his Riverside Drive residence with electricity for lighting heating cooking washing ironing drying ventilation phonographs and Kinencopes for amusement and charging automobile batteries as a single grand solution.
A peculiar belief surrounds Russian peasant weddings as the bride and groom dash to the church platform with the pulpit. The one whose foot touches the platform first is thought to live longer, and their children are believed to inherit health and beauty from that person.
The will of patent lawyer R. M. Holdy leaves 20000 dollars to R. H. E. Porter, son of General Porter, and 30000 dollars to the City of Portsmouth N H for an equestrian statue of the General. The bequest takes effect on Mrs Holdy’s death, which has just occurred.
Col John M Brooke, designer of the ram Merrimac, is described as still living in Lexington at 79, vigorous and walking daily from his outskirts residence to the post office each morning. He is a professor emeritus of physics at the Virginia Military Institute.
A Washington Star item notes Massachusetts has four towns without public libraries Marlaborough Gay Head Lakeville and Norwell all very small with populations around 2.8 million statewide. It also reports Boston High School girls outnumber boys by 1 000 in secondary, primary grades favor boys by nearly 2 500. It estimates naked eye star visibility around 6 000 to 8 000 with the largest telescope reaching beyond 50 000 000 stars.
Mr Whymper notes a Cotopaxi eruption beginning with steam and a short pause then a rapid, towering column of ash and vapor, reaching about 40 000 feet above crater level. Separately the British torpedo boat destroyer Havoc suffered a funnel and mast fire during trials after a reboilering and added forward funnel, with no major damage.
Brown county Indiana had no railway graph or telephone within its bowlers until recently. The area lacks modern amenities but telephone lines from Columbus have reached Nashville in an adjoining county.
A fragment from Marl borough house England recounts a pane of glass with a guarded history. The late duke of Clarence reportedly carved Addy in the sitting room, then the present emperor of Russia visited and inscribed Nicky beneath it, revealing a shared marking.
The New York Sun notes the latest French tad is the misshapen pearl seen in New York, mounted for cart plans or strung for necklaces. Such pearls are large and may have excellent color, sold in Paris as genuine but cheaper than perfect pearls. Goldwiches grow scarce as prices double in England, blamed on milliners.
Article recounts the Pullman designed open top Chililitl observation and dining car used by the American Tourist Association on steam routes. It details its origins from a Mexican traveler Beau Campbell’s canyon-view need, its evolution from a coal car with board seats to a topless rail car, and its use as a pavilion by the sea and dining car during meals with electric lighting and tropical decor.
A collier wandering on Earl D's land challenges the owner about land ownership. The Earl traces title to ancestors who took the land by fighting. The collier retorts that he works for others and invites the Earl to come for it, ending with a casual jab about ancestral conquest.
A fragmentary chat features a dealer in a thrift item and a customer bickering over a thin hat with holes for ears priced at 12. A joke contrasts heat prostration with Allen's Four-East, and a groom reveals Bardaley's wedding gift. The bride mutters about a poem and a small gift complaint ends with a jest about a salad rat or pickle fork.
A fragmentary Detroit Journal item blends domestic dialogue on tact and propriety with a stray note on ocean steamers. It presents a distraught wife pleading for restraint and a young woman at a doorstep, alongside a factual aside explaining economies of scale in coal consumption for ocean vessels.
A collage of jokes and quips on belief in illness like bay fever, wills, poker with income, and ancestors, cited with comic asides from newspapers The New York Sun and Cleveland Plain Dealer. It mixes social observations on tradition and family heritage with punchlines about Mayflower lineage and steam.
The boxer kneels before Li Hung Chang seeking mercy and explanation. He laments losing his head and blames his fervor for joining the uprising. Li Hung Chang cautions him and signals patience as events unfold.
A man borrowed a neighbor's hen under the pretense of settling her but instead induced laying and sold two dozen eggs weekly for 40 cents per dozen. He used the money, totaling 0 cents, to buy the hen. The incident raises whether the original owner was fooled.
G. 8. Smith, a missionary to Japan, seeks $33,000 from the Foreign Missionary Society in this country. A portion is due now and the rest expected as life expectancy influences the settlement. The work is described as a lifelong vocation.
Lehigh, LT. reports daily shipments of 45 carloads of coal and a season buy of 3000 bales of cotton. The town aims to install electric tights within thirty days as new coal mines begin opening.
Dante Osiris, a Greek millionaire of Paria, has set aside 100000 trance to be awarded yearly to the inventor, discoverer, or producer of the most noteworthy idea or object for the advancement of humanity. The grant aims to spur progress and recognize transformative contributions.
A blaze at Charlestown Navy Yard destroyed historic property including a cutter saved from the Alabama in its famed fight with the Kearny. The fire wiped out the vessel and other era artifacts, drawing attention to preservation losses from the blaze.
A historical notice extols Mrs. Pinkham and Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a trusted remedy for female troubles. It includes a portrait of Mrs. Grant Park TI and claims widespread success in the United States, inviting women to seek free guidance from Lydia E. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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