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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1903
Page
2
A digest of contrarian quips and social curiosities, lampooning war nerves, poetry debates, love and marriage quirks, and curiosities from press and public life. It notes train robberies in South Africa, Kimberley diamonds, and a wave of witty remarks on women, lovers, and the era’s literary scene.
An article from the New York Sun surveys nouveau art jewelry influenced by the arts and crafts movement. It notes oddity and beauty in metal enamel and semi precious stones, with Celtic motifs and butterfly pendants featuring dull gold tones and delicate green enamel.
The piece discusses Celtic forms in faience and semi precious stone jewelry, noting large barbaric pendants, enamel color harmonies, and affordable designs beyond gold or silver. It also covers a remarkable skin grafting case, a pig preparation for grafts, an echidna egg feature, and a telephone based music lesson with a Utica instructor.
Members of a club draw for a marriage duty each year. The chosen man must marry within a year or cover the wedding expenses of the next victim. W. F. Kerstin was selected, vanished days later, and news arrives of his upcoming wedding in Madison, New York.
Penobscot county claims the oldest horse in Maine and perhaps the country. The animal is named Tommy Foskett and is said to be 42 years old, with no question about his age.
A New York Sun poem ponders aging and winter’s approach as distant winds bring cold and shadows. Images of fading nests and roving birds convey a prelude to approaching hardship and distance. The verse laments fading warmth and hints at an epic journey ahead.
Wages rise for Pittsburg Traction workers while Edwards Mills in Augusta Maine cut pay effective November 30 affecting about 1300 employees. Bridgemen strike near Kansas City settled with Chicago workers returning to duties. Union leaders report large wage debates across steel, tin plate, and coke sectors, plus legal and organizing moves in New York Boston and Birmingham.
An altered OCR fragment advertises Defiance Starch and JUNE TINT Butter Color amid a jumble of lines about cures for consumption and jewelry catalogues. It mentions Trinity Springs Indiana and a sensational claim about confection and patent statistics, with references to Mer and Jaccard’s and U S patent counts.
A North Missouri paper asks who is happier the man with $100000 or the man with seven daughters. A reply says the latter is happier since money cannot satisfy but a full quiver of children brings satisfaction and contentment.
A report notes Greenland ice loss outpacing formation with the Jacobshaven glacier retreating eight miles since 1850 and its edge thinning by twenty to thirty feet, reflecting accelerating melt.
In sixty years per person whisky intake fell from two and a half to one and a quarter gallons. Over forty years beer consumption rose from under two to more than seventeen gallons per person.
A Connecticut woman credits Grape Nuts with curing long standing digestion and heart issues and constant fear of death. She reports weight loss improved energy and endurance after a year of using the cereal and avoiding other foods. She praises Postum Co for the product and the little book in each package.
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