03 Jan 1902
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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1902
Page
1
A morning prayer urges small, kind deeds to ease the world’s sadness. It asks for thoughtful speech, defense of the needy, and acts that aid others. The verse invites self reflection at night, hoping a better world rests on one day’s good act.
Admiral Schley declined Roosevelt’s invitation to the White House on New Year’s day, saying he would spend the day with his sister in Baltimore. His counsel states the case is closed, but friends will urge Congress to retire him on full pay and reimburse trial expenses.
Washington dispatch dated December 26 states that Mark Hanna will be a candidate for president in 1904. The report predicts a strong contest between Hanna and Theodore Roosevelt, signaling a heated race.
A Populist convention will be held in Topeka on February first to determine future party policy. The event plans 435 delegates and assigns Anderson county five delegates.
Misses Mary and Marie MeFarland of Denver will sing at a royal audience in London by special request of King Edward after hearing them in Europe. They are twins born in Atchison Kansas. Their father works as a ticket agent for the Denver and Rio Grande railroad in Denver.
Tax wife of Admiral Sampson writes a friend that his brain is tired beyond the Tire tested. Sampson's brain has been in working order for months it is almost a blank and stories about what Sampson has said of the ley inquiry are mere fictions manufactured by Schley's enemies.
London editor William T Sean forecasts in January Cosmopolitan that England Scotland and Ireland will join with the United States to form a united Great Britain and America. The piece is deemed worth reading and available via newsdealer price in cents.
A garbled passage references Rockefeller earning thirty million dollars, mocking sympathy for his wealth while noting its impact on others. It mentions Tom Morcan buying the Ottawa Republican Times for Democratic direction, a forthcoming Fitz Hugh Lex lecture on Peace and War, and stray fragments about Kansas and Czar Paul from January 27.
A sweeping account of a labor and capitalist conference features Strauss of the Civic Federation and Gompers urging fair labor treatment, while Ponty Morgan and Archbishop Ireland mix with leaders including Hanna and Schwab. The piece warns that peace without justice may fail, urging a laboring man's party and warning of arbitration limits. It also questions government power and the role of capitalists, concluding with a note on new consumer devices and post office figures.
A report notes the newly appointed light master-general advocates soy ne Pulp ownership of telegraph lines. The idea would place telegraph assets under the postal department. The information appears in a brief, fragmentary OCR excerpt from the era.
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