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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1900
Page
3
A critical view of stock market speculation compares gambling to price manipulation in wheat and calls for a secure credit system. It argues that buyers and sellers are harmed when a few win by forcing tight money, creating panics, and wrecking honest industry. The piece links recent Wall Street panic to such schemes and warns of widespread economic damage.
Io Trested and the village blacksmith speak under a chestnut tree about rising food costs and tough competition. The new parson questions the impact of a young man opening a forge at the village’s far end.
A fragmentary verse from Justice in Wilmington Del depicts Tam the man with the gun riding a perilous race against Latraddle, through heat and cold from dawn to dusk, to a death-dealing pace with no regard for friend or foe. The fragment emphasizes endurance and danger in a stark, rugged rhythm.
The Springfield News argues that the 1896 currency debate showed theoretical contrasts but little real effect. It contends the single gold standard is suffocating the economy, keeping prosperity out of reach and forcing painful experience to prove its inadequacy.
A Louisville Dispatch quote warns that credit rests on gold promises, not real wealth, and imagines a world where creditor power repossesses global wealth through state bonds. It notes Manchester plans electric traction at four million dollars and mentions a custom of brides giving wedding presents to parents in Japan.
A fragmented column blends labor and cooperative forms with a nostalgic poem about an old brass clock. The narrator recalls a New Year from youth, watching time pass and memories flood back as loved ones drift apart. The piece juxtaposes work life with personal reminiscence.
A reader from Augusta GA asks if cooperative stores and restaurants can be started here modeled after English enterprises. The writer cites legal hurdles and social reluctance as major barriers, noting limited acceptance of cooperative buying and selling despite potential cost savings. He mentions Elias of cooperative enterprise and building associations as exceptions gaining favor.
About half of Northwestern University students in Evanston are funding their classical educations through varied work. The new student employment bureau lists tasks from washing dishes to tutoring, clerking, and even law office work, with wages by the hour and a wide range of trades.
The text contrasts routine labor duties with education while arguing Americans support cooperative principles. It notes unions push for shorter hours and higher wages, and introduces a Federation of Labor proposal to organize farmers and farm workers into unions to insist on union-made goods, with a call for a union label on all purchases. It also critiques the Granger movement as insufficient for the poor.
James H Payne, president of the Chicago Trades' Union League and business agent of the Hexmakers and Lawyers union, praises labor progress from the 1870s to today. He notes unions are now united, widespread, and essential for emancipation from greed, urging workers to join their craft unions.
The piece argues that broad co operative trading could arise after labor groups in mining ironworking glassmaking and textile work unionize and secure higher wages. It notes many workers have built powerful unions but suggests trading ventures will grow only after millions more join unions, limiting immediate spread.
The reichstag passed a third reading repealing the workmen’s association ban. Toledo aldermen require union bricklayers for sewer work. Beloit Ironworks lands a $30,000 paper machines contract for a Chinese mill. Municipal Boston reaffirms eight hour day for city workers. Pittsburg railways near adoption of Chicago wage scale with 25 to 29 cents per hour.
An article notes two anglerfish in the Aquarium, their bizarre lure-like mouths and patient predation. It also reports new trout arrivals including Sunapee, Loch Leven, fingerlings, and a six-pound brook trout from Hancock County Maine, with a note that fresh-water trout struggle in Croton water and are pre-treated in brine to remove parasites.
A New Orleans-Plaisance Delightful snippet shows a citizen perusing a monthly health board catalogue full of arcane terms such as Haemotemesis and spina-bifidin. The piece mocks the array of rare disease names and praises medicine’s supposed progress while noting the catalogue resembles a grand sale advertisement.
Rev Charles A Davis pastor of Hirst Methodist Lynn argues church rules against dancing cards and theater are dead letters He condemns public balls and indiscriminate card playing while praising some actors and home dancing noting some plays improve youth. conference unlikely to endorse his views.
Two ounces of cheese sliced thin melt in a saucepan with one gill of ale until dissolved. Pour into a shallow dish and cool. Beat an egg yolk well and fold in. Place near the fire and drown it nicely for a warm, rustic toast idea.
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