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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1903
Page
2
A long, garbled assemblage of quotes and anecdotes touches on football, Castro, Mahommedan sultans, potatoes, marriages and elections. It mentions Prof Norton, Sunny Jim, Marconi, Venezuela, 206 English millionaires, and a New Jersey engineer, interspersed with crude jests about women candidates, gun factories, and a Chicago fat stock show. The piece blends social commentary with pop culture snippets and stray political asides.
In a fashion note the newest boas or atoles feature banded taffeta gowns with mousseline de sole overlays and a 90 shaped neckline. Another bus showcases a Marie Antoinette fichu of black spangled velvet with light chiffon trim. The season’s wraps are satin, brocade and lace with fur and beads, while Parisiennes favor narrow black leather English belts with exact center and side widths. A reseda green blouse with diagonal tucks, Persian embroidery, white silk plastron, and a silk cravat completes the ensemble. Sleeves echo the yoke’s embroidery and remain neatly tucked to match.
A vivid catalogue of seductive accoutrements describing how a refined woman enhances allure through delicate bodices, floral breath drops, tucked packages, and scented tins to pervade rooms. The text emphasizes feminine charm and atmosphere without broader context.
Paris fashion notes highlight Delft blue halos and white or pale capes for evening wear. White coque feather boas, pink silk petals, ornate brocades, lace hats, and flowered slippers define the season. Hair ornaments favor flowers and ribbons, with canaries in Hartz homes noted as a side interest.
A 19th century piece extols Geisha flower water as an Oriental toilet perfume, mild and refreshing for bath or weary eyes. Violet sachet tablets dissolve in bath or basin to perfume rooms, and perfumes are said to feed the soul and purify thoughts, making them less vulgar as floral lozenges worn close to the body scent the wearer.
A fur worn at the neck is claimed to affect skin whiteness and raise the risk of sore throat. Electrical face massage is recommended not only to improve complexion but also as a treatment for neuralgia attacks.
A portrait of Reed's work method shows a tendency to delay tasks for light literature. He postponed magazine pieces until the last moment, but still produced strong essays and orations. His college story habit and oratory interest shaped his career and published works.
A hotel clerk questions the phonetic spelling stunt of Turner who signs as E K Phtholognyrrh. Turner explains the obscure letters mimic English sounds explaining why the name appears so strange. The clerk notes most men do not register phonetically and moves on.
Henry Douglas an ice wagon driver of Paducah Kentucky learned that two years earlier he befriended a boy tramp known as Greasy Jim who later became James Holman a Philippine War soldier. Holman died in a Manila hospital and named Douglas as next friend and beneficiary to a five thousand dollar life insurance policy.
The French Academy is one of five academies forming the Institute of France. Founded in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu and reorganized in 1816, it has forty members who elect a new member for life. It meets at Mazarin Palace in Paris to oversee French language niceties, grammar, rhetoric, and the publication of French classics. The secretary holds life tenure, and attaining a chair is a major ambition for French literary figures.
A Hikuraki plan in New Zealand seeks to use Pelorus Sound tides to generate electricity by tunneling through a narrow neck of land. The tunnel would be eighty eight feet long and could affect fifty thousand acres of tidal water. Details on power generation are not stated.
A Lisbon Comet item notes locals mock moral training, moralizing about Henry Bushnell’s memory and his hens and roan era, while threatening to frighten. Oberlin College receives a secret New Englander donation of $60,000 for the endowment and equipment portion of a new half‑million fund, unallotted, with the donor already giving $60,000 to the prior fund.
Bir Liang Chen Tang the new Chinese minister to the United States was once the star pitcher for the Phillips Academy baseball team when it was regarded as the best organization of its kind in Massachusetts. This was twenty years ago.
The company based in Albany Maryland asserts it produced the first carriage entirely in the United States, with 1814 noted as a milestone in American enterprise. The article also mentions medical quackery and a brief prison history segment referencing the Chateau d’If and literary figure Edmond Dantes.
Several Scotch first fishing boats out of Yarmouth made extraordinary deliveries at the wharf after one night’s work. One boat earned $775 in a single trip, bringing its weekly total to about $1,500, while another boat brought in $725 for the period.
Bilas W. Bond of Iowa Falls has cast ballots for eighteen presidential candidates, a record held by few. His first vote was in Wayne County Indiana in 1832 for Henry Clay, illustrating a long voting life spanning different eras, with Bond recognized for his historic participation.
Maryland legislator Mr. Mudd is described as a legislative hustler with good reason. He introduced a bill to implement the president's recommendation to place anthracite coal on the free list twenty four hours before the president's message was read.
Mrs A M Ferguson, who moved from Winnipeg to Whatcom, recounts how Dodd’s Kidney Pills cured her Briggott’s Disease in Winnipeg and later relieved a relapse after moving west. She notes swelling legs and difficulty climbing stairs improving promptly after starting the pills as others in Whatcom also rely on them. The piece contrasts this health anecdote with talk of rapid three day Atlantic ship service and fast trains.
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