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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1897
Page
2
An 1890s Kansas agitator column rails at social ills and political greed. It highlights undertaker Louis A. Peltier’s 13 000 burials, a penny stock scheme, and a series of warnings about trusts, banks, and the Populist movement. It cites rail and export growth, looming currency fights, and calls for government ownership to curb corruption while critiquing Republicans and bankers.
The sermon notes how cheap domestic goods mask cruelty in industrial labor. A New York preacher argues shoppers indirectly sustain exploitation by buying heavily discounted items. He calls on purchasers to consider the human cost behind bargain prices and the suffering of workers.
Location is in the saddle and riding hard as elocutionists are slated for the programme though funerals, food, and entertainment mingle. A Topeka event features elocution and a mystery link to dining. A late cousin of Manmeniiselia is shown indicating more married men than married women in her population.
Rev. G. Ogieaby of Chicago Expresa argues money perverts labor's price and becomes a master over workers. He likens money to a yardstick that measures but does not alter value, condemns coin and gold standards, warns of debt and interest, and calls for monetary reform against Mammon worship.
The piece argues that Mississippi and South Carolina show drastic under representation due to disenfranchising laws. It cites 66,000 total votes as typical in past elections, and notes that if the Fourteenth Amendment's apportionment rule applied, representation would fall to two or three Mississippi seats, reflecting a call for fewer congressmen to match disfranchised voters.
A sharp critique of the coal industry decries a monopoly in anthracite and a lack of price relief after soft coal tax cuts. The author urges government action against monopolies, railroads, and big corporations to protect the public, noting mine wages fall while profits rise for owners. The piece laments worker hardship and a squeeze on the poor.
Ex-President Harrison argues in the Ladies Home Journal that judicial appointments should avoid short terms and political elections. He contends that a judge must remain independent, with tenure long enough to sustain high standards, making the office a true career rather than a political race.
In Bethlehem the daily trek of mechanicians masons and laborers ends at dusk with a six mile walk from Jerusalem. A Bethlehem family offers a spare second floor room with a charcoal stove, windowed walls, built in cupboards and a central circular dining table on special occasions.
Dr Babbage estimated that storing and converting twenty four hours of Atlantic tides could power all world machinery for 175000000 years. Professor J Sylvanus Thompson noted Bristol tidal forces yield twenty billion foot pounds annually, with a tenth of Avon energy lighting Bristol and Severn energy powering Britain’s mills and looms.
The article describes a nailsless horseshoe with outside clips that grip the hoof. A wedge keeps the shoe secure as it wears, allowing application anywhere by handy people. Tests by English firms and German army use are noted. It ends with a garbled report about a wrecked boat horn and an arrest for alleged arson.
A garbled excerpt recounts a man devoted to teaching a maid to skate, noting a rare break in his routine and a minor accident. It references Brandy, local figures, and a scattered testimony about purity and authority, with uncertain names and places interwoven.
Fragmentary lines from an old Boston Traveler page describe a wedding or marriage celebration with informal banter. The quoted voices discuss tying knots, memory, and a joking line about a rabbit, reflecting casual social chatter rather than a formal report.
A senator recalls a humorous family scene where a child won a wish by pulling a wishbone while adults reflect on life values. The piece shifts to an old advertisement from the Washington State, offering Salter seeds and garden catalogs, promoting variety seeds and small plant packages with a postage offer. It highlights John A. Salzer Seed Co of La Crosse, Wisconsin.
A garbled clip mentions a gossipy remark about the Bluvingtons and a grocer in Washington street. It shifts to home remedies and patent medicines promising cures for colds, a claim of affordable baths, and advice about sleep and diet, ending with a quip about Acetate of Jand and a Milwaukee Journal note.
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