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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1902
Page
6
A brief item notes an election context involving a person or group associated with Comyral, dated and reported by Daily Story Pub Co. Specific names, places, or dates are not fully legible in the fragment.
An elderly widower resists his daughter Gene's romance with Wilbur Jenkins, a Republican candidate, amid a county election. After a night of worry and a hard reckoning, he finally concedes, admitting changes in the town and his own stubborn stance as Gene's love endures and Wilbur arrives.
In Paris a toy exposition showcases varied novelties priced from one to sixty cents. Tourists and elites inspect lifelike miniature Paris with gens d armes and empress, plus mechanicals like hamburger-making butcher and marching guards. Crowds of adults, not children, delight in gadgets, aquariums, and toy scenes, revealing a playful yet unruly Parisian impulse.
A discussion of stamps a year converts to sixty per person in the United States and enough globally to provide postage for three letters per person. The figures illustrate Uncle Sam as a vast school teacher, with ribbons, sidewalks, and tall stacks of volumes demonstrating postal reach.
The article notes King Christian of Denmark as kindly and casually engaged with his subjects. It recounts his habit of chatting with workers in Copenhagen streets and inviting successful Danes to share his view of their lives.
Fashion notes describe bride attire and bridesmaids gowns with fur hats velvet and felt, long plumes, and heart locket tokens. Details cover gowns in Louis XVI style, white gowns with autumn foliage, bouquets of roses and heather, and elaborate embroidery on satin and chiffon garments. Modern coats include Persian lamb and minck cloth with chokers and cuffs trimmed in fur and jewel-like embroidery.
Trimmed with firming and many small capes and short jackets use the new silk fabrics. Velvet jackets lace and chiffon vie for fashion with purple Corticelli embroidery and floral motifs. Luxurious silks like Empire ruffles and Louisine pieces shine, offered at modest prices, with a white accordion chiffon evening bodice featuring black velvet trim and diamond accents as a center fashion example.
A new Keon duck eton jacket features a loch collar with five circular fabric layers, each baniered with a narrow attached band, edged by a black and gold braid. A white satin vest shows braid trim down the front in a V pattern, finished with small gold buttons.
An article from a Paris journal notes three ruby varieties oriental Siamese and spinel as the most beautiful colored gems. Rubies command vastly higher value weight for weight than diamonds and sources include Ceylon India and China. The Times warns of fake rubies and paste substitutes dominating markets with no bargains abroad.
The death of Miss Anna Catherine Draper, the first woman to sit for a photograph, recalled photography’s evolution from Daguerre’s invention. Dr. John W. Draper studied the process. her six minute exposure on the old university roof marked a milestone. Her sacrifice helped photography grow as science and art for education, culture, and industry.
In a Tit-Bits excerpt, McLean and Cormack debate missteps and blunders. They discuss the boundary between a mistake and a blunder using a playful umbrella analogy to illustrate the distinction.
The Mikado of Japan is described as energetic and enduring, a heavy cigarette smoker who enjoys outdoor sports. He supports football's introduction, hunts, fishes, is a good rifle shot, and shows marked devotion to lawn tennis and skill with a racket.
In MIL Japan thousands work in a spinning mill of 10 900 spindles, while in America about two hundred suffice for a factory of similar capacity. The note contrasts labor needs and efficiency between the two countries.
A historic note claims the English government never lost or harmed a single man among the 260000 sent to South Africa in modern steamship travel, marking a remarkable record in colonial transport.
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