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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1899
Page
3
Mrs Helen Kilkenny of New Portland Maine praises Hair Vigor after five years of use noting restored color to gray hair and soft smooth condition. She also credits it with relief for scalp discomfort and mentions her mother used the product for about twenty years. Jan 4 95.
An advertisement extols Ayer's Hair Vigor for fifty years of restoring color to gray hair and preventing hair loss. It claims the product keeps the scalp clean and healthy and promotes growth, noting its long history and trusted results.
Three Puerto Rico tours are scheduled to depart Chicago on December 27 January 28 and February 16. The party travels by special Pullman cars and dining service to New York then on the steamships Ponce and Ban Juub across inland rails, autos, carriages and boats. Tickets include all expenses and the tours are overseen by Walter Bold Townsend under The American Tourist Association with Beau Campbell as general manager.
Physicians contest the value of gargling as a throat remedy arguing the liquid does not reach the tonsils or pharynx after being spat out. A Washington housewife promotes cigarettes to control her husband’s habits. The piece also surveys centers in the United States for geography, population, wealth, debt, agriculture, manufacturing, education, and literacy, with numerous named places and figures.
An elderly Baltimore County man known as Captain Harry Green, a veteran B and O conductor, has served 60 years with a steady, courteous line. Born September 12, 18__, in Corkeysville, he joined the railroad in 1850 and has since worked as a freight brakeman, freight conductor, then passenger train conductor on Baltimore to Cumberland runs. His service is honored with a distinctive arm stripe signaling long faithful duty. Temperance has also reached the French army through canteen control replacing intoxicants with coffee tea and cocoa.
Reporters observed two carts of tin chippings carried into a major London hotel as a pest control measure for rats. The porter explains rats avoid tin strips and the hotel believes the new barrier will block tunnels, a solution stronger than traps or poison and designed to block cellar entry.
A stern father confronts a nervous young suitor in a comic scene from The Convinal Way as he tests the marriage proposal with a blunt exchange and a generous cigars gesture likely from a Chicago News feature.
A Tasmanian mother, aged twenty, arrives with her seventy two year old son at a benevolent asylum in Launceston to seek care and supervision for both.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe patterns in fanatic asylums noting brown or black eyes and related visual traits. The text mentions Lunmey and eyes in a speculative, observational tone without clear events or dates.
An old tale recalls Kilkenny garrison during 1803 Irish rebellion where Hearlan soldiers and their wives witnessed a strange event. A sentinel’s lapse led to a trooper drawing a sword and animals devouring each other after a chaotic scene in the barracks.
A Philadelphia Record note describes a 2000 year old coin from an ancient Philadelphia mint in the East, preserved in good condition with legible inscription. The obverse bears a liberty head resembling the US goddess, the word demos, and the reverse shows Diana with a bow. once minted in Lydia era Philadelphia. Joseph Mickley, a famed Philadelphia violin-maker, reportedly presented the prize to the mint.
F C Burnand, later Cardinal Manning’s quip about a novice priest shows a college incident where the voice master ordered him to clean windows. Burnand agreed for a lesson but was left outside the window after the master bolted the catch, prompting Manning’s sharp rebuke and humorous retort about sales.
Africa is home to about 700 languages, a diversity that complicates nationwide unity and makes educational and governmental outreach harder. Linguistic variety affects policy making, media, and public services across the continent.
Report from the Paris municipal council session notes concerns over baby show nutrition. Doctors warn that nurses overfeed infants to win prizes, risking digestion and health. ad copy promotes grain based products as safe alternatives for both children and adults.
Nearly all London’s progress is powered by horses, yet most travelers know little of their origins. Britain buys over 20,000 U S horses annually, mostly heavy head horses from America or Canada. After the poaching era, British farmers shifted from harness horses to faster gallopers and jumpers, neglecting the harness breed.
The page advertises 1000 guitars at 205 dollars from The John M Smyth Co and promises affordability for Christmas presents. It also mentions catalog availability, free dropship, and assorted items including cures, pigments, and whiskey references, reflecting a mixed noisy ad page from an early newspaper.
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