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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1901
Page
7
A chaotic collage of comic vignettes and social quips. A man poses as a mind reader in court and jokes about fines. A romance joke turns to a failed proposal and a mosquito bite as punchlines. House hunting, job hunts, and family talk mix with wry reflections on truth and marriage.
Rowland grills Roxey over nearly killing the manager and a play request in Uncle Tom's Cabin as the bloodhound role. Edith teases Bertha about Fred, golf dates, and their perfect match despite quarrels. Jones jokes about Brown in marriage seeking escape from a boarding house, and Smith prompts remarks on Joyce and a wife supporting the family.
A man pleads for help as a physician warns that his heart enlargement is severe and any further strain could be fatally dangerous. The scene portrays a crisis of compassion and risk.
A collage of light jokes and quips from social life staged by characters like Maude Clara and Myer. Snappy dialogues touch on health recovery via an engagement ring, burglaries near a physician, flirtations with siblings, and playful insights into love money and bachelor clubs.
Antiquarians report a seven foot deep find in England of a fifty foot long ancient ship built mainly of oak with an elm keel. Ribs, floor boards, and metal fastenings suggest a timbered craft possibly from King Alfred era. The Jubilee Diamond is described as the world’s largest with a small balancing apex on a pyramid, cut from a crystal found in South Africa in 1893.
A collection of anecdotes on Russell Sage, detailing his eating habits and lunching companions in the Western Union building with Goulds and General Eckart, debunking the myth of a simple midday meal. It also recalls Booker T. Washington hosting President and Alabama governor in 1898 at Tuskegee, praised by the New Orleans Picayune for white hosts’ courtesy.
Northport Michigan physicians show keen interest as Byron O Seale, long plagued by kidney trouble, reports a lasting cure with Dodd's Kidney Pills. After months of improved health, he declares permanent recovery, sparking notable local attention.
The common cockroach has spread through the civilized world via ships. They move on ships as freely as rats and together dominate the holds of vessels carrying foodstuffs.
A short generic advertisement noting Hod Crom Ball Blue as a laundry additive that makes clothes clean and sweet, marketed to all grocers for sale.
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