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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1897
Page
2
A Kansas newspaper item surveys diverse topics from a Loganport arrest for multiple marriages to satirical quips about Chinese cat and dog meat signs. It mentions Rev Thomas Dixon Jr at Fairmount Park, Gilbert Parker's career, a Hoar Washington visit remark, New Haven street sprinkling taxes, and railroad electric propulsion versus steam locomotives with a future scrap-heap forecast.
The piece notes a satire about ancient China using bicycles and a ban on women riders to critique Western humor. It also cites a Liquor League Ohio meeting where an officer argues that early temperance habits among youth shape future liquor business prospects.
A government report on building and loan associations details gains across key metrics. The total associations rise from 4499 to 4617, reporting associations from 4448 to 4631, shares outstanding from 9 600 755 to 9 986 999, and installment dues and prepaid stock profits from 870 471 289 to 449 643 048. Asset total climbs from 403 475 395 to 489 659 734 with percent increases of 2 6, 3, 6 1 and 814 respectively.
An opinion warns against the new journalism's sensational methods influencing sermons. Clergy should modernize to meet times yet keep the pulpit elevating, never surrender to sensationalism that degrades church aims.
A European and American press snapshot discusses William Jennings Bryan, the Chicago platform, and rising Bryanism. It warns the United States rests on a dynamite-keg of danger, traces distrust of the ballot, and urges a patriotic Fourth of July revival to combat noble fraud and wealth influence.
A fragment from a press roundup discusses labor disputes, wage readjustment failures, and anti monopoly sentiment. It notes political parties’ relevance, the idea of savings banks, and the Labor Exchange’s role under a competitive system, with scattered references to Kansas anomalies and federal injunctions.
The piece argues wage cuts since year start reflect policy shifts toward low prices. It asserts tariffs affect farm prices, which in turn determine wages, insisting that wage earners suffer as farm product prices stay low in a nationwide debate on economic policy and labor.
Russell Sage asks about the labor issue while Senator Aanna Twentieth Century counters that redemption in wages depends on the goals. The exchange signals deeper tensions in economic policy debates.
Solon Chase argues that the talk of an elastic currency is meaningless while the gold standard grows firmer. He contends the current system benefits money lenders and bondholders, as rising dollars devalue producers and debtors, and asserts confidence in money only when future payments match inflated values. He warns that elastic currency cannot exist while gold-backed money keeps accumulating power and that recovery requires real confidence in timely debt repayment.
A fragmented editorial discusses trimming economic limbs to feed the roots of the currency. It argues that public interest and bond appetite may soften, while the value of the dollar could gain elasticity and potential gains or losses mirror future conditions.
A collection of sharp lines arguing that mortgage influence and falsehood harm truth, media power shapes editorials, reform benefits popularity over right, protection measures seem sweet, and lazy minds cloak indolence with moral talk. It condemns plutocracy, public officials dishonesty, and entrenched political lobbies.
A poem by J. W. Dutton laments unfulfilled promises of economic boom from Buckeye Billy and the single standard gold. The speaker details hardship, unemployment, depleted wardrobes, looming mortgage interest, and patience worn thin as hope awaits the promised wave across the nation.
Missouri World argues government funding to build a New York to San Francisco railroad, paying labor with new government paper money, would unleash employment and cheaper transport, noting widespread unemployment and public benefit, while money lenders oppose.
Poetic line extols freedom as the hour approaches with a trumpet of joy for people and warning for tyrants, urging courage as the world faces oppression and upheaval.
Fragmentary dialogue references a humorous take on Charge of the Light Brigade. Two speakers discuss a performer and a dramatic line, with casual remarks about the delivery and emotional impact. The scene appears to occur in a Nebraska setting with scattered OCR errors affecting clarity.
Fragmented OCR text mentions a strong man with pure blood and tobacco, a labyrinth of outside hearts, and a referenced presence site with Gail Hamilton. It also alludes to Peruvi and a free range cure offer, plus a discarded line about an Atlantic liner voyage and a 630,000 dollar figure between Liverpool and New York.
A Lowell testimonial claims Hood's Sarsaparilla reduced a swelling described as a semi transparent tumor under the tongue. The writer credits spring tonic with shrinking the mass and notes no return, praising Hood's Pills for headaches.
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