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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1903
Page
2
A sprawling, fragmentary column riffs on international diplomacy gossip and domestic satire. It touches on Dewey era finance, the fed up public mood, royalty, violence, and culture with joking quips about stamps, newspapers, and divorce. The tone blends wry humor with social commentary.
In Womens Interest describes zibeline as a seasonal fabric with metallic luster and long fibers, noting color effects and daily changes. The piece reviews gowns with large floral designs, assorted fabrics, and new hats, advising careful wear of striking chiffon swirls and wide gauze felts draped over the shoulders.
An exquisite petticoat designed to pair with a black evening gown features a closely stitting skirt of black and white striped taffeta and decorative bunches of cherries between the stripes. The design includes three deep graduated ruffles of white accor aeceara.
The piece describes brightening dull fabrics with machine effects and pistachio cloths, featuring black grounds with pistachio patches. It notes Brotch tweeds and subdued plaids, menswear cloths for street gowns, and practical tightly woven surfaces. It predicts a winter trend toward bracelets and revived old-fashioned jewels, with dainty, slender watches noted.
A fragmented household column offers odd culinary tips and sartorial descriptions. It warns against piercing meat during cooking and suggests salt, bicarbonate of soda, and careful cleaning routines. It details a reception gown with notes on fabric, trims, and decorative elements.
The text instructs that oil should coat salad before vinegar and advises rubbing the bowl with garlic. It describes layering vegetables, lettuce, and greens, then tossing gently with oil mixed with salt and pepper, followed by vinegar. The result is a light, crisp salad, with a caution that haste makes waste in salad making.
The article describes a white satin fitted with sterling trim and a wrist chain, embroidered in seed pearls in a small running pattern resembling lovers' knots, part of a wrist bag novelty. A black moire version with gold clasps and ball link chain is used for dress.
Exquisitely crafted evening slippers and boots feature rich brocade, white silk and satin with black lace and seed pearls. Hosiery matches gown shades, with opera and dancing slippers in silk and lace, lined with white fur, trimmed with beaver fur bands.
Fashion notes from Paris describe furry linings for conning lines, new open mesh hats with black corners, and lace veils. White looks suit pure blondes or brunettes, with colonial blue glass ornaments and silver. Velvet shades include claret. beaver and fur hats remain popular for day and afternoon wear. Brown dominates day and evening gowns, with a black velvet collar and white satin trim finishing a tailored waist. Belt buckles gleam in many colors, black metal settings with colored stones for an oriental flair.
A rambling verse opening gives way to news of Alfred Mosely and others sailing from the United States to Liverpool aboard an industrial commission. The piece covers labor issues, wages, union influence, and calls for fair pay, shorter hours, and better recognition of skilled work. It notes English employers’ trust gaps and union needs to raise wages and empower skilled workers.
The Georgia House faced roadblocks on a child labor bill. Appointed committee chair with the author as chair, the panel was accused of packing. The author asked to move the bill to the education committee. education favored it, but it was tabled amid limited attendance and postponed by the author. Jerome Jones, editor of Journal of Labor, Atlanta, condemns mill owner greed.
The nucleus of a broad employee organization for International Harvester workers formed in Chicago with the Deer ingharvester plant on the Northwest side as the seed. M. J. Deutach and J. J. Keppler said the group could include 1600 or more employees from the Deering and McCormick plants, plus workers from wood, machinist, metal, molders and pattern makers unions.
Andrew Furuseth, longtime AFL committee chairman, argues in Chicago that injunctions in labor disputes threaten workers as intangible property and erode rights. He advocates restricting courts to protecting tangible property only and stamping out injunctive power. Chicago veteran Thomas Neale elected national treasurer of United Carpenters and J ews. offices split at Atlanta convention. Neale to relocate headquarters to Indianapolis.
The chief labour correspondent of the British Board of Trade releases the 1901 report on trades unions. It states 1,286 separate unions with 1,922,780 members, a 6 percent rise from 1899. Unions declined by 16 in number but gained 12,186 members as the labor market improved.
In Harriburg Pa Judge Simonton struck down the store order law taxing store orders at 25 percent as unconstitutional. The Ohio Supreme Court also voided the eight hour law. An association circulated a circular listing 33 reasons why the eight hour bill, passed by the House, should not become law.
A debated union resolution at the New Orleans gathering proposed raising the president’s salary to 4000 dollars annually. Victor Berger of Milwaukee led the socialist forces backing the move, while Max Hayes offered an amendment that set it at 4000 plus a 900 annual increment, drawing contention from some unionists.
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