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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1900
Page
1
Subscriptions offered, rates listed, and an address in Garnett Kansas noted for a 1900 publication. The text references a local post office matter and a dated event in May with scattered abbreviations and names.
A garbled jumble notes reform movements in Kansas and Missouri zinc lands, Fenian unrest in Canada, a revived Blue Mound Searchlight, and a steamship plan San Francisco to Manila. It reports Wellington approving waterworks buy, soldier complaints against McKinley policies, and Ingalls’s nomination as assistant commissary. Also mentions British naval tensions, internal party feuds, and rising costs in pensions and wages, with mixed commentary on Carnegie and reform sentiment.
The letter laments high interest bearing national debt while praising noninterest debt and criticizes Wall Street and bankers. It notes bank reserves, a looming panic, and farmer wealth tied to local banks. It recounts tin plate industry shifts, employment offices, and urban charity efforts, ending with grain and fiber price fluctuations.
A fragment notes that Harrow seed supports a new crop and a benevolent deal. The text suggests Sunday school members will join a crowd for a one day outing, highlighting growing benevolence in the country.
The report notes Buffalo Jones urging Congress to act to prevent bison extinction, warning that without federal intervention soon none may remain. Other items include Bucyrus co op store monthly sales, a new Kansas cattle paper loan company with $50,000 pipe capital, and a Wichita buffalo meat price of $2.40 per pound for holiday banquets.
A jumble of items spans royal health concerns, clemency pleas, a prison case in Arkansas City, a plague in Honolulu, Roosevelt on trusts, brewer protests over war taxes, and internal revenue ruling on doctors selling liquor mixes as tax objects.
War renews in the 505 as the first Republican platform condemns the twin relics of barbarism slavery and polygamy. One relic faded under vil but will disappear by peaceful measures, rejecting Roberts. The relics reappear under the American flag in the Sala islands. A poor commissioner in Shawnee county waves away 200 tons of coal to the poor in December. That sounds like these prosperous times.
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