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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1904
Page
1
App KK mis es a piano valued at 350 to 400 dollars as a prize for the most popular lady in Anderson county. The notice urges readers to nominate a contestant, visit the location, or write to enter immediately. It emphasizes starting soon and appeals to win the handsome piano.
The 1904 Republican convention faced no anti polygamy plank despite calls from the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and some delegates. Senator Gal linger presented a letter urging a declaration against Mormonism, but few spoke in support. Several Utah Colorado Idaho women opposed hostile actions, noting Mormons as good citizens and stressing politics over policy.
A rustic poem reflects on sunrise on a quiet country farm. The speaker contrasts worldly travel with simple comfort learned from dawn chorus. Chanticleer’s crow signals morning from the barn as birds quarrel over first light.
William Randolph Hearst will host five hundred public school students from New York Boston Chicago San Francisco and Los Angeles for a free three day visit to the St Louis World’s Fair arriving July 4 and staying until July 6. The group travels in Pullman cars and will use them as hotels on site. A three day school athletics program in the Physical Culture department will include visiting schools and local athletes. Hearst has previously hosted New York high school boys for a national convention.
The Haskell Indian Band from Lawrence completed a two weeks engagement at the world’s fair and heads to a tour of principal East cities. This week the group performed Wednesday and Thursday at Jackson park in Richmond Indiana.
Milwaukee dispatch reports La Follette’s Wisconsin Republican central committee meeting in Madison to plot defeating the regular ticket. He called the modern GOP a political machine tied to criminal corporations and said leaders are aligned against the President seeking corporate ideas. He hinted at forming a new party or leading a national bid after ousting Spooner and other leaders.
In a provocative column the author imagines a city strike where rioters force officials to resign and install their own mob in power, then unleash a reign of terror. The piece contrasts this with Cripple Creek Colorado where capitalists and allies purportedly commit crimes against workers, arguing federal troops would not intervene.
Heavy rains swept much of Kansas on Thursday and Friday last week. The weather damaged corn and wheat, washed out railroad bridges, and disrupted traffic. Some areas experienced wind that unroofed houses and barns and caused further destruction. Speaker Cannon is ill and may travel to Europe for his health.
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